The Seamless Enterprise

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…)

Paget L. Alves is the President of the Business Markets Group (BMG) for Sprint Nextel and responsible for Sprint’s sales and marketing to enterprise, general business and public sector customers, and oversees the development of strategic alliances for Sprint. The BMG’s portfolio of services includes IP, international wireless and wireline and domestic 3G and 4G wireless. With more than 20 years of experience with technology companies, he has experienced a fair share of business cycles.

In the first of a Q&A series, he discusses some of Sprint’s challenges and (more…)