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Avaya Spaces collaboration app enables better video conferencing experiences with NVIDIA AI
Avaya , a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration , is integrating powerful cloud AI solutions from NVIDIA to increase the impact and value of visual , audible and collaborative experiences through the Avaya Spaces app .
University of Sydney selects Tribal Group to transform student management
Avaya Spaces is an all-in-one video collaboration app for the digital workplace that changes the way work gets done . Avaya Spaces is used by businesses , schools , governments and organizations in nearly 100 countries to bring together distributed groups of people instantly with immersive work spaces where they can message , meet , share content , manage tasks and collaborate in the cloud .
Announced separately by NVIDIA , the NVIDIA Maxine cloud-native streaming video AI platform features a broad collection of cloud-based audio video and conversational AI software that enhances the video conferencing user experience .
“ Millions of users around the world rely on Avaya ’ s award-winning unified communications and collaboration solutions to deliver exceptional customer and employee experiences ,” said Anthony Bartolo , Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer , Avaya . “ With NVIDIA ’ s leadership in Artificial Intelligence and Avaya ’ s 20 years of innovation , we ’ re able to deliver AI from the cloud and cost-effectively scale to help address the rapid growth in meetings and collaboration in a work-fromanywhere world .”
Tribal Group , a leading provider of software and services to the international education market , has announced that it has signed a contract with the University of Sydney to migrate Tribal ’ s Student Management System ( SMS ), SITS : Vision , to the Tribal SITS : Cloud on a five year subscription .
SITS : Vision was initially selected by the University of Sydney in 2009 and is designed by and for higher education providers . It enables educational institutions to support and improve the entire student lifecycle from recruitment and admissions , through student support and retention to outcomes and alumni management .
The university now wants to deliver a high quality , secure service , with less fragility and to mitigate risks for one of its most critical services . In addition , the university is also looking to achieve cost efficiencies by contracting to Tribal Group for the maintenance of infrastructure and the sourcing of skilled resources to maintain the service .
Following a review , Tribal Group will now provide SITS : Vision as an application in the cloud to deliver efficiencies for the institution . The SITS : Cloud Service provides end-to-end services with Tribal Group taking full stack responsibility and clear accountability .
Tribal Group will manage and be accountable for systems , application , infrastructure and component upgrades , patching and backups , databases and service availability . Historically , these systems were hosted and managed in-house by university staff with support provided by Tribal .
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