The Seamless Enterprise

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…)

Today the enterprise office space is at most sort of a “home base” for employees. The days of a permanent cubicle, with a desktop computer and POTS phone, seem archaic. It is a very dynamic situation, and as the IDC 2009-2013 forecast points out, a remarkable 72 percent of employees are mobile today, some even working out of their homes and on the road entirely.  (more…)

The following blog is by guest blogger, Lisa Pierce. Pierce is president of Strategic Networks Group, an independent analyst firm specializing in emerging business-class network services.

Catalyst

In reading August 12th’s UC Communications News article on mobility and UC, I was struck by how some architectures are better suited to certain types of calling patterns (vs. others).  The article begins by discussing a business whose FMC functionality depends on employees to update their presence status and preferred connectivity profile on an ongoing basis. The article then goes on to provide several examples of recent improvements in FMC solutions like the Blackberry MVS and Agito’s Roam Anywhere UC client to use GPS triangulation to improve automating location-based rules. (more…)

Brad Reed at Network World describes how the new BlackBerry Torch could sink or swim based on its new operating system. I don’t often write about mobile devices, but the thing that interests me about any converged device is how the operating system is stacked. In operating systems of old, the device was king and the user was but a knave. (more…)

It’s hard to find a bigger 4G supporter than Carlson, the Minneapolis-based hospitality company. Carlson’s IT manager for telecom, Phil McDonald actually jumped at the chance to start using 4G well before it was even rolled out at his company.  (more…)