Personal mobile devices are making in-office technology integration easier and allowing for a backbone to partner with audiovisual systems—two of the biggest trends in office technology today. We sat down with Eric Lockwood, business development executive at Tangram Technology, for an exclusive interview to talk about how offices can use employee's personal mobile devices to boost office technology and simplify the systems.

GlobeSt.com: What are some of the top trends in-office technology today?

Eric Lockwood: On of the core technology trends is the increasing importance of simplification through programming as individual pieces of equipment become ever more complex, flexible and feature rich. Another is the migration of the audiovisual system “backbone,” communications and signal distribution infrastructure, to the data network, whether it be wired, wireless or both.