The Carousel Newsletter is a monthly resource for industry news, trends and the latest offerings from Carousel Industries and our Technology Partners.
This month’s focus is on trends in consumption of technology.

10 Key Predictions for CX Success in 2018

New year. New goals. New CX. 40% of executives recently polled by Avaya rate their company’s customer experience as “poor” or “average,” and 93% say they’ll be focusing on improving customer experience in 2018. But how do they know where to start? To gain a better understanding, we must take a look at the past.

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Contributor: Avaya

Voicemail 2.0

We live in an instant gratification, real-time communication world. Nobody likes to feel defeated when they reach someone’s voicemail, some might think the message goes into a black hole; unacknowledged and ignored. Not all calls can be answered. Fortunately, voicemail technology has evolved.

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Contributor: AVST

Disrupt or Be Disrupted with Digital Transformation

“Digital disruption will displace nearly 40% incumbents by industry over the next five years. Digital companies are 26% more profitable and achieve 12% higher market valuation than their competitors. Are you ready for Digital Transformation?

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Contributor: Cisco

Insider perspective and predictions on where IT innovations will lead us next

The IT market is a quick-changing, innovation-driven market when
it comes to new concepts, designs, platforms and products. What
drives vendors and consequently the innovations themselves is the
IT professional’s need to save time, save money and reduce risk.

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Contributor: Eaton

The Internet of Things Is Soaring

We asked CIOs and IT managers from all industries around the world to find out they are embracing the Internet of Things. They told us about their plans, concerns, benefits, and the issues they’ve encountered.

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Contributor: Extreme Networks

What’s on your network?

With the massive proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT), visibility into what is on your network and the ability to apply a broad range of policy-based access controls are critical to your cybersecurity strategy. Learn how a healthcare organization leveraged security solutions to reduce the threat of cyber attacks.

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Contributor: ForeScout

Break Down Barriers to Transform the Employee Experience

Companies are anchored by years, or even decades of technology investments and the existing processes that govern and support them today. To compete, a digital workstyle is essential to encompass all the technologies people use to get work done in today’s workplace – both the ones in operation and the ones yet to be implemented.

Gartner recently positioned HPE (Aruba), a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, as a leader in their 2017 Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure Magic Quadrant Report and gave highest scores in Wired and WLAN Access infrastructure use cases.

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Contributor: HPE (Aruba)

Trends in Technology: How Are Customers Engaging?

Businesses and consumers communicate with companies almost anywhere, at any time, and with any device. Yet more options don’t always indicate the customer’s expectations are being met.

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Contributor: InContact

Digesting the Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams Capabilities Roadmap

After more than a decade of Microsoft “replacing and re-branding” its communications solutions, from LCS and OCS through to Lync and Skype for Business; we are now looking to a future with Microsoft Teams. This latest announcement may have sent a thorough shock wave throughout the industry but in most cases it will not have phased the enterprise, since it is well used to deploying Microsoft solutions within an ever-changing landscape. Any enterprise currently moving to Skype for Business will now be busy planning for Microsoft Teams and looking to dig into the details in the recently announced roadmap.

Want to learn more? View our webcast on-demand, The Impact of Microsoft Teams on your business.

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Contributor: StarLeaf

Real-Time Communications Trends for 2018 and Beyond

Patrick Joggerst, CMO & Executive Vice President, Business Development at Ribbon Communications highlights some trends that are driving real-time communications innovation.

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Contributor: Ribbon