Dave Smith

David Mario Smith is founder and principal analyst at Inflow Analysis. Mr. Smith is a Gartner veteran of over 16 years and an IT industry professional with 20 years of experience in the collaboration and workplace technology markets, having helped thousands of enterprises with their collaboration and workplace strategies. Mr. Smith’s career spans from being a senior analyst at Gartner to research director and lead analyst at Aragon Research.
Collaboration Apps
November 2019
The Top Collaboration Solutions That Should Be on Your Radar
BY Dave Smith
Nov. 19 2019
As a collaboration analyst, one of the most frequently asked questions I get from organizations is, "What apps or tools should we be evaluating?" I always respond with a follow-up question, "Well, what...
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Spring Digital Issue 2019
To Become a Successful Digital Business, You Need to Manage Your Information
BY Dave Smith
April 30 2019
At the very heart of all the buzz surrounding “big data” and artificial intelligence (AI) lies a universal truth: Information is the critical asset of every organization. Information flows...
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Fall Digital Issue 2018
What Is Intelligent Orchestration?
BY Dave Smith
Nov. 1 2018
Increasingly, business strategies across many industries are shifting to become more customer-centric than ever. At the same, there is tremendous market consolidation between customer relationship management...
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April 2017
Slack, Facebook, and Google Are Disrupting the Collaboration Market
BY Dave Smith
April 3 2018
There is a new crop of collaboration providers who are challenging and disrupting the status quo. Incumbent vendors have had to shift their focus and address the emerging trends of APIs, artificial intelligence...
Top Collaboration and Communication Tools
December 2017
Top Collaboration and Communication Tools for the Digital Workplace
BY Dave Smith
Dec. 20 2017
As enterprises are faced with a plethora of choices for digital workplace technologies, it is important to focus on improving people’s experiences and leveraging tools to help get their work done....
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Fall Digital Issue 2017
Why Employee Culture Is Important to Your Customer Experiences
BY Dave Smith
Oct. 16 2017
Even after all these years, organizations still lack a consistent focus on improving employee experiences and engagement. Given that this is directly tied to customer experiences, it should be a no brainer...
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August 2017
In Customer Experience, Who's Journey Is It?
BY Dave Smith
Aug. 3 2017
In light of the recent focus on customer experience (CX) and customer journey mapping, enterprise leaders in sales and marketing have to refocus their strategies around multiple customer journeys and across...
Integration
May 2017
Why Integration Is the Key Word in Seamless Customer Experiences
BY Dave Smith
May 30 2017
I’ve been doing a lot of research lately on the shift to conversational experiences as a way to enhance customer and employee engagement. We are witnessing enterprise communications and collaboration...
The Enterprise Chatbot - DOCUMENT Strategy
February 2017
The Enterprise Chatbot: Conversation Is More Than an Interface
BY Dave Smith
Feb. 23 2017
There is a crisis in enterprise communications and collaboration—due in large part to the overwhelming technology and application silos that cause a lot of user complexity and confusion. Enterprise...
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November 2016
Move Beyond Tech Jargon: Focus on Outcome-Based Collaboration
BY Dave Smith
Nov. 21 2016
In the collaboration space, and specifically in the unified communications and collaboration (UCC) market, we get so caught up on our own jargon, technical terms, naming conventions, and identifying categories...
Information enabling
October 2016
Enabling Information Is the Future of Work
BY Dave Smith
Oct. 6 2016
Information is indeed the lifeblood of every organization, along with the people who retain and transmit that information. We have established that information is an asset and should be managed as such...
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August 2016
Information Management Is Critical to Digital Transformation
BY Dave Smith
Aug. 17 2016
Every organization is now a digital business. Its information is an asset and its digital currency. Business leaders responsible for managing enterprise information have to focus on its life cycle, which...
mobile video
July 2016
Leverage Mobile Video to Support Digital Workplace Processes
BY Dave Smith
July 25 2016
The digital workplace encompasses many technologies that require enterprises to focus on a sound, holistic strategy, which should include synergy between the technologies required to support key business...
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June 2016
The Digital Workplace Is an Experience, Not a Destination
BY Dave Smith
June 23 2016
We hear so much discussion about the digital workplace and digital transformation that we’ve made it into some sort of business destination. However, we forget about the bridge called "experience"...
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May 2016
The Pivotal Shift to Intelligent Collaboration
BY Dave Smith
May 23 2016
I’m currently working on an upcoming report on the impact of artificial intelligence on collaboration, and we’re seeing a growing trend toward what I’m calling "intelligent collaboration."...
workplace
April 2016
Developing Employee Resilience in the Face of Workplace Disruption
BY Dave Smith
April 28 2016
As a technology industry analyst, I cut my teeth and traditionally wrote on technology issues. I’ve covered workplace collaboration for years and can geek out with the best of them. However, the...
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January 2016
The Power of We: Why People Should Be at the Center of Your Collaboration Strategy
BY Dave Smith
Jan. 21 2016
The state of collaboration has forever been changed—no longer is the technology provider determining what capabilities people need. People are determining this for themselves, dictating what capabilities...
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December 2015
The Accelerating Push Toward Collaboration PaaS
BY Dave Smith
Dec. 8 2015
As we enter the final stages of 2015, I reflect upon what has been happening in the collaboration space. We’ve seen the emergence of mobile collaboration and its impact on how people work. The workforce...
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FEATURES
Leverage Video Collaboration for a Connected Workplace
BY Dave Smith
Oct. 14 2015
The world we live in is becoming richer and more interactive, and the workplace is no exception. Partly because consumer devices include video and mobile networks that do a better job of transmitting...
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August 2015
The Importance of Building Collaborative Ecosystems
BY Dave Smith
Aug. 18 2015
I’ve covered collaboration technology for many years now and have also been focusing on the people aspect of collaboration as well. After all, collaboration is between people. One thing many enterprises...
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