This year at VoiceCon Orlando, I had the opportunity to host two sessions, one on hosted/managed UC and the other on the use of social media in the enterprise. I made both of them discussion-only (realizing my dream of a PowerPoint-free confab), and I think the format worked. We had vigorous discussions about the...
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Archive for March, 2010
Key Take-Aways from My VoiceCon Panels
VoIP Goes Stale at Tesco in the UK
Tesco, a leading grocery/supermarket chain in the UK and elsewhere are canning VoIP, so reported the Register. The move is designed to bolster their value priced MVNO play in the mobile space that offers low cost, UK calling and is designed to be a cost cutting option for the cord cutters. The move to...
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Siemens Owner Seeking Polycom Merger?
The Financial Times reports that the Gores Group, which owns 51% of Siemens Enterprise Communications, has approached Polycom about a possible acquisition and merger of Polycom with SEN.
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Virtualization is the Key To OCS Success
In making yet another splash at VoiceCon, Microsoft focused a great deal of attention on its efforts to close the gap between Office Communications Server and enterprise IP-PBX platforms from competitors including Avaya, Cisco, Mitel, NEC, ShoreTel and Siemens, to name a few. As Brian Riggs noted, Microsoft's new features are leading a...
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Standards and Interoperability and Open, Oh My!
VoiceCon 2010, the last VoiceCon (the shows been re-named Enterprise Connect), is now behind us and the themes of interoperability, standards and openness was a theme in many of the sessions as well as a point of concern from many of the attendees I spoke with (users not vendors). It has been a big...
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