The Seamless Enterprise

On my Twitter feed this morning, Om Malik commented about a company called Yottaa. Suggesting Yottaa is abusing the phrase cloud computing, Om said, “seriously folks. you do web analytics. So get real!” It shows how a term, when overused, loses meaning.  (more…)

Trend stories are often pretty predictable, but we were impressed with a recent post on Unified Communications by Irwin Lazar of Nemertes Research over at No Jitter and FierceVoIP. (more…)

We’ve been talking a lot about SIP lately, and on that topic, what SIP and SIP Trunking enable was summed up very nicely in a recent post over at No Jitter. Sorell Slaymaker, a regular contributor, summarized “The Promise of SIP” by making several well-placed points.
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As both a cost-saving method and a foundation-laying step toward Unified Communications, SIP Trunking is a winning strategy. Because SIP Trunking is available from many service providers (some reluctantly, if they’re afraid of losing revenue by cannibalizing their more lucrative local trunks), we want to talk about the Sprint approach. (more…)

As I explore cloud computing more and more, I am surprised by the number of companies that do not see mobility as being integral to cloud solutions. According to McGuire’s Law, the value of a product increases with its mobility. It makes no sense, for instance, to build a next-generation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application in the cloud without rich mobile functions. Ideally, the SaaS platform is open enough that even new phones, with no specific SaaS application written for them, still work well. (more…)