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What are challenges when adopting new collaboration tools?
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According to TrustRadius reviews, businesses adopting new collaboration tools face several common challenges. A primary hurdle is encouraging employee adoption of new workflows, which sometimes requires specialized technical support for implementation. Reviewers also highlight the importance of addressing technology and infrastructure gaps, such as ensuring employees have the necessary hardware, software, and internet connectivity for a hybrid environment. Other challenges mentioned include maintaining effective communication between remote and on-site teams, managing increased data security complexities, and overcoming technical issues like difficult third-party integrations or performance latency.
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Employee Adoption and Training
3 mentions▼Reviewers report that getting employees to adopt new tools and workflows is a significant challenge, sometimes resultin…
Reviewers report that getting employees to adopt new tools and workflows is a significant challenge, sometimes resulting in slow adoption rates. Successful first-time implementation may also require trained support engineers to install and support the new applications.
“Getting employees to adopt new tools and workflows.”
“Slow adoption is a problem among attendees.”
“First time implementation of cisco applications requires trained support engineers in order to install and support them.”
Technology and Infrastructure Gaps
4 mentions▼Organizations encounter challenges with technology and infrastructure when implementing collaboration tools for hybrid…
Organizations encounter challenges with technology and infrastructure when implementing collaboration tools for hybrid work. Reviewers mention the need to ensure employees have the right hardware, software, and internet connectivity. Specific issues include setting up individual computers correctly and discovering that older office laptops do not support newer application versions.
“I would have to say technology and infrastructure gaps hit the organization during the implementation of hybrid and remote work.”
“We wanted to ensure that employees have necessary hardware and software to implement hybrid worflow. In order to support remote connectivity, we needed to ensure that customers have good internet connectivity at home.”
“Getting everything ready for full virtual then moved to hybrid. Webex played a big part in this. Some of the challenges we faced were getting the individual computers/laptops set up, then making sure that they were set up correctly so that phones could be answered, meetings could be held and work could be completed, especially the team projects.”
“First time implementation of cisco applications requires trained support engineers in order to install and support them. Some of the office laptops does not supported newer versions of cisco applications.”
Maintaining Effective Communication
2 mentions▼A key challenge noted by reviewers is avoiding communication breakdowns between remote and on-site teams. Another diffi…
A key challenge noted by reviewers is avoiding communication breakdowns between remote and on-site teams. Another difficulty is enabling effective information sharing across internal and external sources, especially when team members are geographically dispersed and using a wide variety of devices.
“Avoiding communications breakdowns between remote and on site teams.”
“The main challenge we faced was the ability to share effectively across internal & external sources when users are dispersed, using a wide variety of devices and platforms.”
Security in Hybrid Work Environments
1 mention▼According to reviewers, the transition to hybrid work can make data security more complex. This necessitates implementi…
According to reviewers, the transition to hybrid work can make data security more complex. This necessitates implementing stricter security protocols and educating employees on best practices to safeguard sensitive information while working remotely.
“Transitioning to hybrid work required a significant cultural shift. Employees had to adjust to new ways of collaborating, including relying more on virtual communication. Also, with employees working remotely, ensuring data security became more complex. We had to implement stricter security protocols and educate employees on best practices to safeguard sensitive information during remote work.”
Performance and Integration Issues
2 mentions▼Users report technical challenges, including difficulties configuring integrations with certain third-party tools. Othe…
Users report technical challenges, including difficulties configuring integrations with certain third-party tools. Other issues cited are related to performance, such as problems with video call quality and message latency, particularly on mobile devices.
“While Webex offers integrations with many platforms but some third party tool integrations can be difficult to configure”
“The little issues came with video call performance and message latency mainly on mobiles.”
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