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Everyone is excited about artificial intelligence. But right now its benefits are seen only by the very largest organisations. The good news is that off-the-shelf tools are coming…In the 1984 film The Terminator, James Cameron imagined a world in which intelligent machines ruled the world....

Right now, within a mile of where you’re sitting, a consultant is selling someone a ‘digital transformation’ project. In many ways it’s an easy sell. Digital’s good - no one wants to be analogue. And change is always positive. Right…?Unfortunately, like most snake-oil selling, it’s...

Henry Ford said: “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” He could have been talking about smart working. Today’s UC tools make it easy to reinvent your workplace – but only if you have the courage to...

How do you go from ‘all the channels all the time’ to ‘right channel, right time’? In the final post of a three-part series, we look at the technologies and business models you need to make optichannel a reality.Customers have multiple options for ‘talking’ to...

I’m one of those sad Technology Journalists that gets excited when a new term pops up in the industry. So, when Mike Wheadon, Business Development Director at Formation Tech, suggested we had a chat around OptiChannel contact centres, I bit his hand off. My first question...

Is anything in tech sexier than blockchain right now? Probably not. Everyone’s interested in distributed ledgers and their potential to reinvent money, share ownership and tuna fishing (seriously, Google it). In fact, at the end of last year, analyst Gartner said blockchain had been the most searched-for...

Formation Tech is a relatively new provider in the communication space, dedicated to delivering “flexible” cloud communication solutions to the mid-market. This disruptive business aims to carve a competitive area for themselves in the mid-market space, by offering Avaya-based cloud solutions that suit the individual...

A strange thing is happening to offices run by Silicon Valley companies. The big tech players are re-thinking their work environments. How? By concealing the very tech that made them so successful. Look at Dropbox’s recently-opened Austin HQ. It’s all leather sofas, swirly carpets and bookshelves. It...

Listen to our podcast where we get an update from Formation Tech about their work in the cloud communications world   UC Today - Out Loud Out Loud: UC Awards 2018 - The Foundation of Formation Tech November 05, 2018 Patrick Watson As part of the submissions for the inaugural UC...