How can today's collaboration and unified communications tools help your customers? A lot has been happening in that space recently such as Windstream's pending acquisition of Broadview Networks to up its game in the UC market. Also, new research released in April showed Cisco is pulling further ahead of Microsoft for leadership supremacy in the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market.

Here are four recent posts that can help you keep up with what the channel is thinking.

CDW: Microsoft and Cisco – when collaboration worlds collide

Since many companies have collaboration products from both vendors, how can you best make them work together? Patrick Nowicki answers this question in how the products function within the most important collaboration features.

MARCONET: 6 issues unified communications can solve

What can UCaaS do for your clients? Matt Kanaskie outlines some of the toughest business communication issues that the technology can help ease.

MARCONET: 3 ways UCaaS can strengthen organizational communication

In this March post, Kanaskie addresses such issues as system resiliency and reduction in capital expenditures.

LOGICALIS: Sparking a new way to conduct collaborative meetings

Cory Rehfeldt addresses five reasons a business should explore a next-generation meeting solution.