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Gartner Hype Cycle: When a trend is really a trend
Read moreFor more than 20 years the analysts at Gartner have been using their “Hype Cycle” to throw light on the development of technological trends. But what do Gartner’s experts say about cloud fax services? Have they already arrived at the “Plateau of Productivity” or is the “Trough of Disillusionment” just around the corner?
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Retail sales success: The means of communication makes all the difference
Read moreIn order to keep all staff up to date regarding sales and marketing campaigns, retailers must rely on communication channels that function effectively. But which channel is most suitable for this task? How can the company ensure that all branch offices are informed simultaneously and dependably? Multi-channel messaging platform Retarus WebExpress is able to cover…
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Large E-Mail Handling: What spam and large file attachments have in common
Read moreEmail users are seldom pleased to suddenly discover email attachments of several megabytes on their smartphones, while providers and companies justifiably fear that their internal email architecture will be overloaded by “mega mails” – a drawback that large file attachments share with spam messages. This means that a solution is required which fulfills the needs…
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Spam or no Spam: That is the question!
Read moreThe definition of spam is actually unambiguous: But in everyday life it often happens that users also feel bothered by the mass of newsletters or notification emails in their in-boxes, despite the fact that they may have consciously subscribed to them at some point in the past. How should IT administrators respond to this situation?…
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Personally via all channels: trends in customer communication
Read moreCompanies wishing to inform customers or employees in an up-to-date manner nowadays rely on more than one means of communication: the keywords in this regard are multi- or omnichannel. In order to not only reach recipients reliably, but also to gain their attention, a personalized form of address is essential.
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Email: Business communication with a future
Read moreIn 1971 Ray Tomlinson sent the first email. Today, email has become the most important business communication channel of all – despite the growth of social media and new collaboration tools.
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Precise to the millisecond: NTP services in the “Internet of Things”
Read moreThe “Internet of Things” is growing at an astounding rate: Therefore, an increasing number of applications which require precise and synchronized time information in order to perform their tasks reliably. Retarus now offers reliable, fail-safe and future-proof NTP services, which allow businesses to control and monitor the time synchronization of client devices flexibly via the…
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Machine to machine and person to person: This is how Industry 4.0 can succeed
Read moreDigitalization is making its way into factory halls. Keywords such as “the digital factory” and “industry 4.0” are heralding the implementation of an increasing number of “smart” machines. In order to encourage the necessary acceptance of automated systems, it is, however, important to integrate them as seamlessly as possible into the human work processes.
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Simplified contact management with dynamic distribution lists
Read moreManaging distribution lists can take a huge amount of time and effort. Web-based message distribution tools simplify this task considerably. A remedy is provided by the dynamic lists function: This filter function allows users to easily adapt a general distribution list which has been previously uploaded, so that it can be customized individually for each…
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How “funky” is the fax actually these days?
Read moreThe Financial Times recently investigated this question in an article on the future of business communication. Pointing to numerous research examples, the newspaper shows impressively that there continue to be compelling use cases for fax as a communication medium. From the medical sector right through to the internet economy, companies around the globe are set…
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Banks in flux: Digital transformation requires new sales channels
Read moreBanks and finance companies increasingly have to face the challenges of digital transformation. The way in which clients communicate with their banks has undergone a radical change. The institutes are taking up the trend and are in the process of becoming multichannel banks.
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Up and away into the cloud?
Read moreIt’s hardly news that a growing number of companies are turning to cloud services. That this also largely applies to corporate email communication is less well known. After all, the issue here is the exchange of sensitive information, such as business-critical figures or personal details. This trend has now been highlighted by a recent study…
