Your workforce is becoming increasingly dispersed as individuals and teams fan out across multiple locations and time zones to get the job done. But collaboration – between your people, your partners and your customers – continues to be a key driver of innovation and organizational success. You have to know where your people are at all times – and you need the ability to quickly bring them together to make decisions, craft initiatives and work with partners on joint projects.

Allstream’s Collaboration Suite leverages your IP infrastructure to give people the tools they need to simplify and enhance collaboration wherever business takes them. Supported by our real-time audio, web and videoconferencing capabilities – along with integrated presence and messaging applications – your far-flung teams can hold secure virtual meetings, share files and applications, simultaneously browse web sites and instantly locate one another while everyone is on the move.

Empowering your people with the Collaboration Suite enhances productivity and strengthens business partnerships. And it brings added benefits across the board, from lower travel expenses and real estate needs to a welcome

Boost productivity across your organization.
With the powerful tools of Allstream’s Collaboration Suite, your people can:

• work together on important projects via their computers – from desk to desk or between distant offices
• share files and documents in real time across the network
• quickly connect with remote co-workers as well as decision makers who are on the move
• attend meetings via conferencing instead of travelling between multiple locations.
• The result is improved productivity across your organization:
• Shorter commute times to meetings and work sites, freeing up valuable hours to focus on core tasks.
• Faster response times among team members.
• Improved access to information and expertise.
• Quicker decision-making at all levels and across departments.
• Accelerated product and program development cycles.
• Enhanced exchange of information and ideas among key project partners.

Strengthen working relationships and partnerships.
By making it easier for people to bridge geographical distances, you strengthen the human and organizational relationships that drive business forward. Allstream’s collaboration tools help to build deeper connections among colleagues, clients, partners and suppliers. They also ensure that virtual meetings unfold in a completely secure environment without disruption.

Improve customer service.
When your people communicate and collaborate more efficiently, they are better able to respond to customers’ needs. By improving satisfaction levels and reducing product development and delivery times, you boost long-term loyalty and increase market share.

Reduce your organization’s carbon footprint.
Cutting down on commute times, making travel less necessary, reducing office space by supporting teleworkers – Allstream’s Collaboration Suite helps make your organization greener while lowering costs. You can also improve employee retention and work-life balance by offering more flexible approaches to communications.

Ensure business continuity in a crisis.
Your people need to stay connected and focused on core tasks, even during a business interruption or an event that keeps them from reaching the workplace. With Allstream’s Collaboration Suite, you can enhance business continuity and risk mitigation by enabling people to work from remote sites using instant messaging, desktop file sharing and virtual meetings.

Keep pace with changing needs and technologies.
Allstream’s expertise and industry-leading technologies ensure that your collaboration capabilities evolve to match the needs of your organization. We help your IT team protect your investment as you:

• upgrade your communications infrastructure
• deploy or remove collaboration applications
• add new employees and offices
• streamline your business
• move to a new location
• regroup after a disaster.

Reduce travel, operating and real estate costs.
Travelling to meetings and training sessions eats up valuable work hours. Maintaining dedicated meeting areas inside your organization requires ongoing investments that can be better allocated elsewhere.

Allstream’s Collaboration Suite helps you lower overall operational costs by:

• minimizing the number of dedicated meeting areas across your organization
• reducing travel expenses with real-time audio, web and videoconferencing
• enabling remote staff to share desks and computers when they’re in the office
• increasing videoconferencing and collaboration capabilities while optimizing network bandwidth requirements.

Increase your network ROI.
Building on the capabilities of your IP network infrastructure, Allstream’s collaboration tools are scalable and easy to use. Our experts can help you integrate and enhance your existing collaboration applications to improve network efficiency, reduce the risks of obsolescence and protect the video technology investments you’ve already made.