We live in a world of talking digital helpers, from Siri, to the Google Assistant, to Amazon Alexa, and Microsoft's version, Cortana. While Amazon and Microsoft announced back in August of last year that the two companies would be collaborating to make their two virtual assistants work together, today we saw a version of that in action. If you're imagining Alexa and Cortana freely talking to each other like two robotic hosts in Westworld, you are out of luck. However, what they showed was still interesting. Meghan Saunders, general manager for Cortana at Microsoft, and Tom Taylor, a senior vice president for Alexa at Amazon, joined each other on stage for a demonstration.

This finding, which is the result of Polycom's The Changing World of Work research, shows that this percentage is going to increase exponentially over the next 12-18 months. Following on from the survey, Polycom has released their top five drivers that are set to impact business collaboration in the year ahead. The cloud space has transformed, not just our office and workspaces but the way we work. If we look at the next generation of technology – it's modular, it's adaptive, it's solutions based and it is cloud based. As cloud continues to move into the mainstream, the conversation is no longer about that sub 50 office space, the one-to-three user space is back on the table.