The Seamless Enterprise

I attended my last VoiceCon event this week. Good riddance – the whole concept of a voice-centric, telephony show was so last decade. They actually had a general session titled “How many phones does your enterprise need?” With no disrespect to the panelists, they should have put a sign up on the stage that said “NONE” in big letters and saved everyone an hour. Of course, Eric Krapf and the VoiceCon gang will be back next year with the newly renamed Enterprise Connect event – and I’ll be there. Let’s hope that in the next year a whole bunch of other things, terms and traditions follow a similar path and disappear.
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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. (more…)

It was interesting to see the questions from the “attendees” at our Virtual VoiceCon session last week, in which Sprint’s Dan Dooley, Michael Browne, and I talked about how Sprint enables Unified Communications solutions and our company’s own experiences as a UC user. (more…)

If your company is scaling back on the trade show circuit this year, there are lots of ways to stay in the know. Take the Virtual VoiceCon show for example. On June 10, you can experience a great tradeshow without leaving your office. (more…)

Sprint’s Dan Jacobson, Manager, Fixed Mobile Convergence, discusses Mobile Integration benefits with customer Michael Higgins (Harris Corporation)

Sprint spent three days at VoiceCon Orlando this week (March 30-April 1) demonstrating the value of its converged solutions technology to hundreds of users.

The conference was geared to helping IT managers make the best decisions possible about IP Telephony, converged networks and unified communications, (more…)