The Seamless Enterprise

Let’s add one more entry to the list of really good reasons to embrace Unified Communications. It’s a great way to help make your company greener, helping the environment and saving money at the same time. (more…)

We typically focus on the positives connected with Unified Communications, but there are still a lot of negative perceptions about UC out there, and an article in InformationWeek looks at some of those negatives, from a survey regarding business drivers for UC. (more…)

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an instance where interoperability is a bad thing. Maybe if you wanted to create a network that existed only within your company, and that no one else could touch from outside (or you couldn’t touch them from inside), maybe that would be a good argument. There’s not a lot of demand for that sort of thing, though. (more…)

One of the flashiest aspects of Unified Communications (UC) is telepresence, for a variety of reasons. And it’s a good sign that at least one industry analyst group is predicting that telepresence-specific sales should reach $2.7 billion annually within five years. (more…)

Besides all of the cool technology and clever folks, HIMSS was quite an eye-opening event as the country’s healthcare discussion drags on ad infinitum. For those of you who think you know all the facts around the healthcare debate, check out the opening remarks of Barry Chaiken, MD, one of the head guys at HIMSS – scary! Interestingly, most of the problems and inefficiencies we continuously hear about had solutions on display at HIMSS. It would appear that integrated, ubiquitous solutions can in fact cure many of our major health care ills. (more…)