It’s fair to say demand for Unified Communications is growing in every industry. In all sectors when teams need to align their communications and collaborate more effectively, UC just makes sense. In the transportation space, for instance, a unified communications strategy can maintain a strong flow of knowledge and keep businesses productive.
While many UC brands can offer solutions well-suited to the transportation space, some are achieving better outcomes than others. Today, we’re going to be looking at some of the most exciting vendors majoring in transportation for 2022.
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Microsoft
Offering access to one of the most flexible, scalable, and popular tools for communication and collaboration in the world today, Microsoft is changing the world with Microsoft Teams. With direct routing, Microsoft’s Business Phone system, or Operator connect, companies can align state-of-the-art collaboration features with high-quality communications for transportation professionals.
Microsoft Teams allows business leaders in transportation to create entire channels for specific segments of their organization, and even implement AI bots to improve workplace productivity. There are even mobile apps for people on the field.
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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Offering a wide range of solutions from UCaaS to CPaaS, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is one of the major brands behind the transformation of the “smart transportation” landscape. ALE makes it easier for business leaders to connect people, devices, and processes, in an end-to-end environment.
With ALE Rainbow and other leading tools, Alcatel-Lucent customers can build environments for innovation in the transportation space. ALE is even helping companies to unlock the opportunities of smart cities with access to IoT and 5G technology. Alcatel Lucent even partners with RingCentral, for an “Office” style collaboration environment.
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Zoom
For companies with a video-first approach to business communications, Zoom offers a fantastic opportunity to evolve. Already the company behind leading transportation brands like Uber, Zoom paves the way for quick, convenient, and intuitive interactions in teams. With the right Zoom technology, you can build entire meeting rooms, or simplify meetings and video conferences when out on the field.
The Zoom UCaaS environment even includes access to business phone solutions, so you can access state-of-the-art voice communications from the same provider responsible for your video and chat technology. Zoom’s system is also open enough to integrate and align with a wide selection of other popular tools and apps.
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Avaya
Promising reliable communication connections for businesses of all sizes in the transportation sector, Avaya is one of the market leaders in global UCaaS functionality. The company has already worked with a number of leading transportation brands on both their customer service and collaboration strategies. The comprehensive Avaya landscape even comes with access to Avaya Spaces, for quick and convenient meetings.
Avaya’s easy-to-use, reliable, and performance-focused ecosystem of tools is ideal for companies who want to put communication first in a plan for global growth. Avaya can even align your UCaaS and CCaaS strategies for you.
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Poly
For companies in transportation embracing a future of digital transformation, it’s important to have more than just the right innovative software. Poly ensures distributed teams responsible for building the future of transit and transport in our modern world, can communicate more effectively. With powerful conferencing tools and speaker systems, Poly makes sure every message gets through loud and clear.
Poly technology integrates perfectly with some of the leading software solutions in the transportation environment, from Microsoft Teams to RingCentral and Zoom Rooms. With Poly hardware and the right software, business leaders can ensure all kinds of hybrid and distributed teams stay on track.
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Cisco
Widely regarded as one of the most reliable and popular companies for communication technology in the world, Cisco has a host of fantastic tools to offer for the modern transportation space. Cisco’s end-to-end systems can integrate with everything from IoT tools to video and audio conferencing technology, to ensure employees stay connected on the move.
Cisco even has its own fantastic collaboration environment in the form of Cisco Webex Teams, where employees can share ideas and knowledge, stream video to their colleagues, or even take part in immersive brainstorming sessions.
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Slack
In an industry where speed is essential to success, Slack ensures employees can communicate as quickly and effectively as possible. Whether you’re coming up with new ideas as a team for how you can improve the public transport system in a specific area, or you’re inspiring collaboration on complex projects, Slack can help.
Part of what makes Slack so effective as a tool for the transportation industry, is its flexibility. Unlike many of the other collaboration and communication tools on the market, Slack is ready to integrate with almost any tool you can think of. Thousands of integrations pave the way to a single-pane-of-glass environment for the workforce.
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Workplace from Facebook
A leader in the collaboration sector of the UCaaS world, Workplace from Facebook (now Meta), is one of the most exciting options on the market for the transportation sector. Since launch, Workplace has concentrated on ensuring every member of staff in a distributed environment can stay updated and informed on what’s going on within the business.
The flexible social-media style environment offered by Workplace from Facebook makes it an ideal pick for companies with a lot of field-based staff members distributed in different time zones. It’s easy to keep track of important announcements, and keep teams aligned wherever they are.
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RingCentral
RingCentral’s versatile, flexible, and scalable approach to UCaaS makes it a popular pick for all kinds of companies investing in a future of digital transformation. As one of the leaders in cloud communications technology, RingCentral is an expert in keeping workforces aligned, regardless of where their daily tasks and projects might take them.
The RingCentral MVP technology for business phone, messaging, and video is ideal for transportation companies who need to keep their employees communicating on multiple levels. The solutions also integrate perfectly with a host of tools and hardware options your employees might be using already.
