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Business Mobiles: Increasing Productivity & Efficiency

As technology continues to advance, business mobiles have become a fundamental aspect of modern business operations. The implementation of mobile devices within a company can provide a variety of benefits that can give a business a competitive edge in today’s marketplace. These benefits include increased productivity and flexibility, improved customer service, and enhanced communication. Flexibility is essential in today’s business environment and mobile technology enables it. By allowing employees to access data and complete work …

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3 Ways to help CSRs deliver great customer service

The way we do business has changed. There’s been a shift from providing in-person service to a greater reliance on call centres. Customer service representatives (CSRs) are now working in a hybrid capacity, manning phones in the office as well as from home. Transitioning to this new normal has been difficult for many organisations, but there are also opportunities for you to improve your service, strengthen customer relationships, boost your competitive advantage — and provide …

What's new in Microsoft Teams - January 2023

What’s New In Microsoft Teams – January 2023

Our regular monthly Microsoft Teams update for the month of January. Last month’s release includes updates to the Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android, Microsoft Whiteboard, new certified devices, and platform and chat feature updates. Devices Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android—new touch and collaboration experiences The newly released Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android Update 3 includes many touch-enabled experiences to enhance the meeting and collaboration experience on touch-enabled devices. Continue reading for more information on these new …

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The Top 3 Things Keeping Your IT Team Up At Night

In the world of hybrid working, organisations need to manage increasingly diversified IT ecosystems. IT support teams often rely on multiple tools to identify and resolve problems. But to be effective, they need a new approach — and a consolidated toolkit.   Everyone understands the benefits of hybrid working. But the sudden introduction of hybrid working has made life much more complicated for IT support. Global research* by IDG commissioned by our solution partner GoTo reveals …

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Zoom Phone: A unified platform for Voice and Video Communications

Zoom Phone expands your seamless Zoom experience by replacing your existing phone system with native Zoom Phone, for a fully integrated video, phone, and chat experience in one single application. Minimise disruption and Improve Workflows with Zoom Phone Just like Zoom’s world-class video conferencing solution, Zoom Phone is easy to use and can be enabled whenever you need it — it’s available as an add-on to your existing plan.  Zoom Phone is a modern cloud …

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Marlin Communications Partners With Faster Britain

Marlin Communications has partnered with Faster Britain to support existing and prospective clients with full-fibre connectivity to enable better connectivity, collaboration and business growth. Why do we need a Faster Britain? The UK government has committed to investing £5 billion into the UK’s broadband network to ‘level up’ the UK so that businesses are prepared for the 2025 BT ISDN switch-off as well as ensuring that the UK can compete within the European economy.  What …

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What’s New In Microsoft Teams – October 2022

A special Microsoft Teams update for Microsoft Teams Rooms, Teams devices and intelligent cameras from Ignite 2022. This special release includes news about devices for home offices, IntelliFrame, a new Cisco partnership and the latest change to Teams Rooms licensing. Ignite 2022 – Microsoft Teams Rooms updates This year at Ignite, Microsoft announced the latest innovations in Microsoft Teams Rooms, Teams devices, and a host of intelligent devices that further improve the ability for everyone …

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Marlin Communications Partners With Neat

We’re proud to announce our partnership with Neat. Neat and Marlin Communications share a vision for making video collaboration the best it can be, and so we are thrilled to offer Neat devices to our customers to help improve meeting experiences in the office. A Little about Neat Neat designs simple, elegant and pioneering video devices for Microsoft and Zoom, helping make the meeting space experience the best it can be. Continuously pushing boundaries, Neat …

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What’s New In Microsoft Teams – August 2022

Our regular monthly Microsoft Teams update for the month of August. Last month’s release includes updates to meetings, calling, devices, chat, collaboration & management and the latest devices certified for Teams. Calls Call recording announcement played in default language Call recording announcements will now be played in your default language for Teams calls to or from a phone number. Both parties will hear the announcement in the same language, at the same time, for both standard and …

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Yealink Meeting Room Solutions from Marlin Communications

Yealink is one of the worlds leading manufacturers of video conferencing technology. Their video conferencing solutions combine intelligent technology with affordability and is the perfect solution for SME businesses looking to improve meeting rooms within the physical office space. Our solutions from Yealink are designed to make teamwork more efficient and collaborative for everyone, cover small to large meeting rooms and are fully integrated with Microsoft Teams & Zoom. Small Spaces and Huddle Rooms Introducing …

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Marlin Communications Partners With LastPass

We’re proud to announce our partnership with LastPass. This means we can now offer our clients the LastPass password-management platform to help protect them from cyber-threats and enhance productivity. With LastPass, single sign-on and multi-factor authentication gives employees easy, secure access to all applications, while administrators have complete visibility and control – protecting every access point to a business. LastPass Business Businesses are using more devices, networks, and applications than ever, so it’s increasingly challenging …

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What’s New In Microsoft Teams – July 2022

Our regular monthly Microsoft Teams update for the month of July. Last month’s release includes updates to meetings, calling, management and the latest devices certified for Teams. Meetings Find a meeting recording based on what was said with Microsoft Search You can now find meeting recordings in Microsoft Search based on the meeting transcript. This feature is available to all users by default and makes it easier to find videos in Microsoft 365. You can access this …

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Marlin Communications Partners With DisplayNote

We’re proud to announce our partnership with DisplayNote. This means we can now offer our clients DisplayNote solutions including Launcher, Montage & Broadcast, helping our clients to improve meeting experiences in the office.  Simplify Your Meeting Rooms with Launcher With DisplayNote Launcher, users have secure, easy access to apps, video calls and calendars on the meeting room screen. Launcher acts as an intelligent interface, removing the pain of meeting room set-up for IT administrators and …

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What is Zoom One?

Zoom One is a brand new offering that brings together persistent chat, phone, meetings, whiteboard and more into a single, secure, scalable and easy-to-use package. Zoom One bundles everything needed to communicate and collaborate with internal and external teams. Have face-to-face interactions over video, place a call from your mobile device, brainstorm on a whiteboard, and send files over chat – all from a single solution. The intuitive user experience makes it easy to get …

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What’s New In Microsoft Teams – June 2022

Our regular monthly Microsoft Teams update for the month of June. This month’s release includes updates to mobile, the latest devices certified for Teams, approvals functionality, transcriptions and much more. Meetings Multi-language meeting invite control The multi-language Teams meeting invite control enables administrators to display the join information in meeting invitations in up to two languages across all email platforms. With this feature, you can customise meeting invites to include the most appropriate languages for …

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Marlin Communications Partners With Zoom

We’re proud to announce our partnership with Zoom Video Communications Inc. This means we can now offer our clients Zoom’s video-first unified communication platform including Zoom One, Zoom Meetings, Zoom Rooms, Zoom Webinars and Zoom Chat as well as a host of other solutions. What is Zoom? Zoom is the platform that became synonymous with video chats during the pandemic but it offers much more than just a platform for family quizzes and a catch-up …

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Marlin Communications Partners With GoTo

We’re very proud to announce our partnership with GoTo. This means we can now offer our clients the full portfolio of GoTo communication solutions including GoTo Connect GoTo Meeting GoTo Training GoTo Webinar as well as a host of other GoTo solutions. What is GoTo? GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) provides a range of flexible tools that help people and businesses do their best work, simply, securely – from anywhere. “GoTo is about empowering you and your …

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What’s New In Microsoft Teams – May 2022

This month Microsoft releases new features to enhance the way you work with meeting invites. The new release includes updates to Direct Guest join, VDI performance, Teams Rooms, Video Filters, Approvals App and Presenter Mode. Teams Meeting Rooms Direct Guest Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android Zoom meetings can now be joined directly through Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) using Android devices. In order to use this feature, schedule a new meeting via Zoom or …

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Welcome To Marlin Communications

On 31st May 2022, Datasharp Integrated Communications left the Datasharp Group, after 22 successful years. From 1st June onwards, we are now a fully independent company with a new name and identity: Marlin Communications. Rest-assured though, we’re the same team, same location, same phone number, providing the same industry-leading levels of service.   We’re very excited to be starting this new journey as Marlin Communications and we look forward to being able to offer you: More …

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How To Support Video Equality In Meeting Rooms

Many businesses are re-evaluating the equipment purchased to support remote working and are now deciding how best to equip their meeting rooms with technology that supports video meeting equality for the hybrid/flexible workforce. With the help of our strategic partner Poly, we’ve put together this guide to help you understand what to consider when investing in your Meeting Rooms. Video Equality in the Hybrid Workplace While the office remains important, the true future of the …