The remote working toolkit: Top tech tools helping enterprises to drive operations in the post-pandemic age
In the post-2020 landscape, work from home has become the rule. Against this backdrop, advanced SaaS solutions providers are stepping up to help businesses not only sustain but also augment their operations. Here’s looking at some of the critical digital tools that enterprises are increasingly using to provide their remote workforce with a work environment conducive to seamless collaboration and growth.
GoToMeeting
In the post-2020 landscape, remote workers are logging into enterprise networks using multiple digital devices including desktops and mobile phones. Tools such as GoToMeeting step in here to offer a seamless videoconferencing experience across all devices through relevant upgrades that best meet all post-pandemic requirements. For instance, its advanced sharing feature allows the meeting hosts to appoint new hosts during the meeting while annotation tools provide the simulated experience of in-person collaboration to the participants.
The solution also enables remote workers to communicate quickly and casually. Besides a screen sharing option, it offers unlimited cloud storage to record and share the meetings to enhance the digital meeting experience. The upgrades also include augmented audio quality to compensate for poor network conditions that professionals working from remote or rural regions regularly face. Advanced background noise filtering further improves the meeting experience for remote workers living with children and pets.
Moreover, in light of the spike in cybercriminal activities in the post-pandemic era, cutting-edge videoconferencing solutions such as GoToMeeting are equipped with security features to ensure the cybersecurity of both remote workers and their organizations.
GoToWebinar
GoToWebinar is a digital seminar and conference enabler that offers seamless event-hosting and event-going experience to organizers and attendees respectively. The platform empowers organizers and planners to seamlessly carry out the entire range of operations from creating and managing to promoting their events in a hassle-free manner. The flexible scheduling feature allows them to create a one-time event or a series, or provide the participants with an on-demand event experience.
The software retains the settings and templates of past events, thereby accelerating the process of event creation as users no longer need to set up an event from scratch. Such advanced webinar platforms also empower organizers to personalize the events for brands, be it sponsors or exhibitors, by fine-tuning the visuals with brand-specific colours, logo, images, etc. either during specific sessions or throughout the event.
GoToWebiner enhances the appeal of virtual seminars by enabling the organizers to customize the registration process to collect only the relevant information during the registration process. Its engagement dashboard feature further empowers the users to track and improve participants’ attentiveness and engagement levels by conducting real-time polls and surveys.
LogMeIn Rescue
In an in-office setting, sysadmins had the advantage of troubleshooting problems with an employee’s system by physically tinkering with the device. This is no longer possible in the age of remote work. This is exactly where tools such as LogMeIn Rescue enter the picture to help sysadmins to remotely access, manage, and control the devices of end-users working from home.
This solution enables sysadmins to deliver real-time, interruption-free support to remote workers and that too at scale. It allows users to remotely run diagnostic checks, repair applications, and service the systems. Further, it provides a quick summary of processes, services, and applications to enable swifter identification and resolution of the problems.
LastPass
A key challenge with managing multiple digital identities is remembering the passwords to log into different platforms. Using a simple or the same password across all platforms renders a user prone to becoming a target of cybercriminal activities. However, a strong, unguessable password is also difficult to remember and recall. This is the reason behind the rising adoption of password management solutions such as LastPass by LogMeIn.
In the post-pandemic landscape where data security and privacy have become crucial requirements, LastPass provides a comprehensive solution that helps the users rest assured about their online experience. Instead of remembering different passwords to log into different platforms, users only need to remember one master password. Its robust algorithms ensure that encrypting and decrypting of the user’s data takes place at the device level, thus keeping the private information secure and hidden from all, including the service provider.
Its multi-factor authentication feature enables users to access the vault where they can add the sites and platforms they regularly use. The solution also uses a built-in password generator to create long, randomized passwords to ensure enhanced security against hackers and raises alerts if it detects any malicious activities. Besides this, LastPass simplifies the online shopping experience of users by remembering their payment and shipping details. It also stores digital records such as insurance cards, memberships, WiFi passwords, etc., not only ensuring that a user’s notes are safe and easily accessible but also enabling the safe sharing of such media with anyone.
