by Bill Pray | August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment
Catalyst Conference in San Diego last week hit high water marks for attendance and participation. I kept busy: 2 workshops, 2 presentations, 3 panels, a roundtable and the MC for the Unified Communications track. Add to that numerous great conversations with a lot of very smart people. Overall, two topics rose to the surface very [...]
Category: Cloud unified communications Tags: Business, Cloud computing, email, San Diego, Software as a service, unified communications
by Bill Pray | February 4, 2011 | 1 Comment
IBM’s theme for Lotusphere 2011 was “Get Social. Do Business.” A few of my observations: The audience had a very international flavor – more so than in years past, it seemed. It was not unusual to stand in the crowd and hear numerous languages. Not knowing the numbers for comparison, one can only speculate. Is [...]
Category: Communication unified communications Tags: IBM, IBM Lotus Sametime, Lotus, Lotus Notes, LotusLive, Lotusphere, Social business, unified communications
by Bill Pray | September 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
When evaluating or discussing unified communications (UC), one of the first marriages of communications and collaboration technology that resonates with IT and users alike is that of e-mail, instant messaging (IM), and web conferencing. However, there are issues that an enterprise needs to consider when choosing to implement this integration. So, I thought I would [...]
Category: unified communications Tags: e-mail, instant messaging, unified communications, web conferencing
by Bill Pray | August 26, 2010 | Comments Off
Welcome to the three Ps of unified communications technologies: The Pitch “consistent unified user interface and user experience across multiple devices and media types” “to simplify and integrate all forms of communications in view” Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_communications “provides a seamless flow between the work your employees do and the people they need to connect with [...]
Comments Off
Category: unified communications Tags: Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, unified communications
