Moving from the boardroom to the browser

Employee demands for personal video are fuelling a new wave of market growth

Lena-Alice Ackermann, head of group unified communications, Damovo

Our personal and professional lives are converging, driven by more sophisticated smartphone technologies and ever-increasing clamours to communicate whenever and wherever we wish.

Employees are using a variety of personal communication applications, such as Skype and WhatsApp, that integrate computer, phone and smartphone functions equally, according to Lena-Alice Ackermann, head of group unified communications at Damovo, a global provider of enterprise communications solutions.

“The ensuing mass movement towards bring-your-own-device poses new challenges for ...