Frankly Speaking - The Perspective of a Healthcare CIO

January 27th, 2010

I am so pleased to report on part I of a recent interview with William Compton, CIO and VP-Information Management for ConvaTec, a leader and marketer of medical technologies worldwide.

With Americans focusing on the universal healthcare debate in the United States, what an incredible opportunity to talk frankly with a CIO in the healthcare industry. Not only did we talk about William’s perspective on the impact of universal healthcare on IT, we addressed topics such as green IT, unified communications, and cloud computing impacting enterprises in all vertical industries.

As you read William’s point of view, I invite you to comment on the business challenges and IT concerns you deem most relevant to your enterprise in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Sprint UC Story: Lessons Learned

January 25th, 2010

Months of planning and deploying Unified Communications within a company the size of Sprint continually pushes us to examine what we have learned. We have learned many important lessons and by sharing them, hope to make things easier for others embarking on UC initiatives. Read the rest of this entry »

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The top ten blog posts for the entire year of 2009

January 20th, 2010

With the new year upon us, we thought it would be a good time to look back…so we could look ahead.

By that, I mean 2009 was the year of predictions for Seamless Enterprise. Several of our bloggers took a crack at predicting emerging trends and created forward-looking visions of the future. Three of these articles stood out in my mind:

Steve Parrot had six predictions about Unified Communication in 2014: he feels the term UC will become Read the rest of this entry »

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The Coming Tidal Wave of Video

January 18th, 2010

With the popularity of YouTube and the ability to watch video on mobile devices, video phones are no longer something from science fiction. The video phone concept was actually introduced five years before the Internet, by AT&T at the 1964 World’s Fair. We’ve come a long way since that visionary day when the Picturephone was unveiled. The following blog was originally published on Pulver.com as a guest blog. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Power of Virtualization

January 15th, 2010

Recently I attended the VoiceCon Virtual Event powered by ON24 from my home office. What I find remarkable is how far virtualization has come in transforming how enterprises do business. Read the rest of this entry »

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