Integrated Professional Skills in the Digital Age

This report analyzes the significance of integrated professional skills in the digital age, focusing on communication and collaboration tools, cloud storage and computing, and the positive and negative aspects of online and offline services and products. It explores the use of tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing. The report also discusses the positive aspects of online services, such as better prices and more variety, and the negative aspects, such as the risk of fraud and complicated returns.

Integrated Professional Skills
In The Digital Age

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
Communication and collaboration tools used in shaping businesses to survive current
pandemic.................................................................................................................................4
Cloud storage and computing significance.............................................................................6
Positive and negative aspects of services and products being sold online and offline...........8
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................10
RFERENCES...........................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Integrated professional skills in digital age holds high significance in today’s
dynamic business world for strengthening functional innovation, wider scale competent

productivity and efficiency standards for expanding new scale varied goals informatively.
The report will be analysing latest digital tools and platforms, which has enhanced
strengthened keen productivity aspects within covid-19 pandemic period. Report will explain
communication and collaboration tools, used in shaping businesses within recent time to
survive current pandemic crisis for creating informative diversity standards. Study will also
further explain significance of cloud computing and cloud storage among companies, for
gaining new commercial expansion goals informatively. The research will further examine
focus on advantages and disadvantages within offline, online markets for synchronising new
strengthened scope competitively.
Communication and collaboration tools used in shaping businesses to survive current
pandemic
The communication and collaboration tools have come up as widely essential aspect
for modern times significantly during the current pandemic, for fastening up communication
levels through technology. Businesses and companies globally are using digital technology
for fastening up commercial work, reducing blockages in communication and challenges
which fastens up technical usage within digital platforms. Covid-19, global pandemic has
enhanced usage of fastened technology networks, video web conferencing and internet
development, which enhances remote working experience. It can be further also analysed that
communication and collaboration tools used, enhances shaping business ideologies and
informative framework for competent productivity goals for surviving current pandemic.
Tools should be easy, immediate and designed to appeal effectively, with high accuracy and
specific time appealing both for people at top management, for employees working at
departments (Williamson, 2021). Globally business environment is effectively growing
among competent innovation, higher synergy transformation yielding rapid technology
structure move for competitive productivity. Below are online communication and
collaboration tools, currently most used by businesses to shape work framework in current
pandemic
 Zoom : The remote video conferencing company Zoom has been found as one of the
real success stories amid global pandemic, where cloud based services combines
video conferencing and online work collaborations. Its prime quality factors such as
high quality audio and video, can be also recorded for future reviews, screen can be
shared with ease and events can be scheduled have made it 2nd most downloaded app
of 2020. The work can be exported to calendars and guests invited, so no one within

team among company ever misses a call. Zoom further has also found to be widely
effective on usage within video conference meetings, collaborations and for stringent
functional work expansion rapidly among companies. Participants on video call share
their views within team instantly, also for specific connectivity to strengthen
ideologies and business framework ideologies within digital technology parameters.
 Microsoft teams: The second communication digital tool with technology heavy
weight is Microsoft teams worthy of highest competitive usage among recent time
periods, which is used by big corporate teams and leads for managing workforce
engagement. For collaborations, cloud based solution offers all advanced processing,
spreadsheet and slide show capabilities (Smotrova, Narolina and Nekrasova, 2020).
Microsoft teams also further aims to streamline communications among teams, to
manage work flow with high quality consistency and effective time management
parameters for stronger work gaols. The Microsoft team meet app, further avails focus
on providing people high quality virtual meeting rooms for employees which not only
fastens work effectively but also creates accountability standards. Maintaining
employee productivity with innovation and high rise on creative working aspects
further , by usage of digital communication tool Microsoft team among companies
operators for dynamic growth. Microsoft teams offer hassle free easy online
communications, where technology parameters are further evolved to keep up new
informative connectivity for determinants gaining high scale vivid expansion rapidly
to harness creativity standards.
 Google meet: This video conference communication tool provides secure video
meetings for teams and businesses in companies, for conference built up efficacy
scenarios for robust and safe secured globally dynamic infrastructure. It can be
analysed that Google meet includes workplace, essentials for workspace in education
for effective collaborations and dynamic competent productive work goals or new
functional space. Trusted by global level entrepreneurs, Google meet offers
frictionless virtual meetings with best quality of audio and video presentations,
meetings on the go facilities for company members. Google meet further
competitively has been found to be most used corporate video conferencing app,
which leverages profound rise on stronger clarity within communication flow. It also
creates engagement among employees remotely, for synchronised new specific
innovative business ideologies to keep up networks stated actively. It enables leaders

for success along with planning for business continuity parameters, for stringent
connective goals informatively among long working goals (Kiesling, 2021).
From the above analysed aspects within communication and collaboration digital
tools, it can be analysed specifically that within current time period of global pandemic
technology communications have been informatively expanding. Furthermore corporate
MNCs, and various businesses are further using digital technology communications for
fastening up corporate culture and to bring on enhanced rapid functional parameters. It can be
analysed functional impact of best digital expertise and skills, further enhance competitive
diversity standards, fuelling up strengthened business standards creating engagement among
employees.
Cloud storage and computing significance
Cloud storage and computing significance can be analysed to be widely essential
aspect within digital technology usage in recent time periods, where model stores data on
internet providing demand with just in time capacity and costs. It is also known to eliminate
buying and managing own data storage infrastructure, with high grade infrastructure
atomization functionally for enhanced work competencies within new arenas. Fundamental
concepts behind computing and cloud storage further adds to new specific rise functionally,
for constant new specific functional rise. Within recent time periods, cloud computing further
enhances new strengths of company marketing strategies fundamentally, for gaining
customers goodwill and new engagement benchmarks worked on strategically. Significance
of cloud computing, storage digitally can be further also analysed to be widely crucial for
gaining new rise towards new advanced platforms. Digitally transmission of data bring in
reduced physical operations, where it further adds to new profound working rise for gaining
functional rise for stronger new specific benchmarks (Cloud Computing Advantages And
Disadvantages, 2021). There are advantages as well as disadvantages of cloud storage and
computing significance, where it can be further analysed as specific competent aspect for
gaining practical implementation:
Advantages:
 Cost and accessibility factor: Physical cost of operating hardware is costly and much
complicated for gaining new rise towards stringent innovation, which further
enhances stronger cost effective standards. This further enhances stringent
connectivity benchmarks, for businesses to frame cost effective new standards of

innovation goals functionally. Cloud computing creates fundamental engagement
among audience, towards new benchmarks of quality rise for new innovation goals
and towards attaining work goals advancement. By cost effective usage, all work are
expanded through online platforms for keeping up new scale work goal rise worked
on for new functional rise productively.
 Higher security: Cloud computing and storage also holds strong security parameters,
for gaining new fundamental rise for stronger digital technology goals and best
competent productivity aspects. It can be further analysed that online computing
enhances storage of data with high security concerns, new specific management for
dynamic working benchmarks for fastening up work significantly. This further
significantly brings on rise among commercial aspects, to yield competitive diversity
standards, for fastening up data records significantly among new business goals. With
best premium data safety standards, high rise on security aspects further leverages
new advancement factors among digital technologies rise for stronger new expansion
rapidly.
 Syncing and updating: When working with cloud computing, data syncing and
updating records are done on automation aspects for bringing specific connective new
goals and to keep up informative paradigms. These further enables companies to keep
data storage synced, also to primitively bring on corporate expansion rapidly among
new ideologies for larger technical periods. Thus, it creates engagement with
audience and marketing innovations to be done specifically worked on for technical
expansion rapidly and towards untapped new technical standards (Jovanovic, Sjödin
and Parida, 2021).
Disadvantages of cloud computing can be analysed as follows:
 Privacy issue: Cloud computing has come up with privacy issue among users, where
privacy among digital platforms also is challenging parameter where companies face
practical long term implications issues. It becomes complicated to maintain competent
productivity with maintained high privacy aspects, where technologies innovations
are also fastening up platforms complications for keeping up with all time data safety.
This further also signifies focus on bringing reliability and trust factor, where privacy
of users are at risk often among companies business scale goals.
 Internet connection: Robust rise in technology within multi platforms internet
connectivity is further all time required for companies to fasten up usage performance

based enhancement on cloud computing, which requires best internet connections.
This further also synchronises new specific scale functional rise among new strategic
data investments done by operations, for stringent specific scale expansion rapidly.
This further also synchronises new specific competent leveraged scope for functional
varied goals, where cloud computing comes with specific need of best internet
connection.
From the above analysed aspects among cloud computing, digital technology usage within
cloud storage also functionally comes up with varied scale expanded new digital efficacy
parameters, wider scope for constant growth goals. It further can be also analysed within
recent time periods, companies are evolving on online services networks for fastening up
new demands and specific scale business synergies. Cloud computing, keenly engages
customers to be specifically interested among company digital operations, where services are
fast delivered for constant new specific efficacy goals. The advantages of cloud computing
enables businesses to diversely expand, functionally bring on elaborated new technical
standards for competitive diversity within industry (Joseph and Thomas, 2020).
Positive and negative aspects of services and products being sold online and offline
Offline and online market holds wide aspects of positive as well as negative factors
within businesses which enhances functional scale diversity parameters for connective new
benchmarks, for gaining new specific connectivity goals for competent productivity
standards. In today’s dynamic evolving business world, products and services are fast being
promoted on online networks for fastening customer target market reach and to gain best
revenue goals. Digital technology and networks for stringent growth used on online platforms
can be further analysed based on specific advantages, and disadvantages factors for
competent goals productivity parameters to strengthen ideologies (Top 10 Benefits and
Disadvantages of Online Shopping, 2020)
Positive aspects of online services and comparison with offline markets: The online
networks have positive aspects, which further enhance competitive market reach for gaining
new larger scale technically parameters where positive factors can be analysed as follows:
 Better prices for customers: Online products offers better prices for customers which
further enable stronger innovative new market scale functional platforms, for gaining
effective new market reach. Better prices for customers further enhance market
expansion, where it further synchronises varied options among digital markets with

high effective functional benchmarks. Offline markets have less options based on
specific parameters for customers, where competent productivity is further also
lacking (Chen, Pereira and Patel, 2021).
 More variety within online platform: Online digital platforms have more variety for
customers within industry, where it further can be analysed to be effectively
competent aspect. 0nline market have large variety among products and services, as
compared to offline market where . can enjoy shopping form digital platforms based
on their specific preferences. Online shopping and digital technology usage fastens up
competent scope for expanded new variety, higher informative keen productivity
parameters Faster business services for customers: Online market within digital platforms have
faster business services for customers where rapid connectivity can be established
among transactions. The accuracy of digital platforms enhances customers shopping
experience within longer strategic run, whereas offline market is less innovative
among business services for customers. With fast completion of transactions, online
markets hold wider range of productive diversity aspects as compared to offline
networks where business services are less functional.
Negative aspects of online services and comparison with offline networks:
The negative factors of online services further can be analysed as follows, where it is
critically different form offline market also where several points can be analysed as follows:
 Risk of fraud: Online market and shopping networks hold risk of fraud, where there
is risk of fraud among digital transactions which further lowers goodwill and
customers confidence to use new business goals. Risk of fraud is one of the most
negative aspect, where it further signifies some people do not opt for online shopping
and reliability among transparency factor is also low. Whereas, within transactions
among offline networks there is less risk of fraud as people can communicate face o
face as compared to online networks.
 Returns can be complicated: The online shopping platforms makes returns to be
complicated for customers, as practically transactions are time taken and also
complications arise. Furthermore, returns are easy within offline markets where
within this factors returns take time and also integrally the scope for transactional
efficacy parameter is effective. Online markets make procedures bit complicated, as

data safety is also another critical factor where consumers fear to share all private
details within online shopping portals (Bryndin, 2020).
 Risk of private information: The risk of privacy theft is also essential factor within
risk of private information on digital platforms, where customers feel hesitant to share
private data. This further also signifies focus towards risk of private information theft,
new technical advancement brings on risk also further. On the other hand however,
offline markets lack this factor as privacy of customers is specifically taken under
focus and for stringent informative expansion into varied parameters. Risk of private
information further adds to negative aspect, which lowers significantly confidence
among customers for using online services further.
Digital technology within online markets further brings on specific rise
towards connective aspects, leveraging specific diversity and convience of vast
variety and effective transactions which are positive factors. However, online market
also comes with risk of fraud, risk of private information theft and returns to be
complicated procedures for customers within business scenarios. Offline markets have
some merits and demerits also where there is flexibility and face to face transactions,
among customers which enhances transparency factors encompassing safety
standards. But there is less variety for customers, also it is widely lacks variety for
customers and also price strategies are less effective and less comparative among
companies within global industry (Bonina, Koskinen and Gawer, 2021).
CONCLUSION
From the analysed aspects within report it can be concluded that current pandemic
situation has specifically evolved on gaining new rise on further usage of digital platforms by
companies. The report concluded Zoom app, Microsoft teams and google meets as some of
the most specific used communication digital tools used by companies for creating
engagement among people at work. Study further also concluded cloud computing
advantages and disadvantages, specifically gaining productive analysis towards digital
marketing usage among companies for wider scale productivity parameters. Report also
further concluded online and offline markets comparison, where online shopping offers
people with various options, effective cost pricing and also varied transactions options.

Offline market has limited reach for further marketing, which hinders functional growth
goals.
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