The Seamless Enterprise

This is the last segment in a six part series highlighting Sprint’s deployment of unified communications. To read the previous segments click on the appropriate links: How We Got Started, Planning the Move, Successful First Phase, Where We Are Today, and Lessons Learned. (more…)

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. (more…)

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 (more…)

Rolling out UC to a company with 50,000 employees and contractors isn’t something you do overnight. Currently, we are almost 50% complete and it has been a very successful first year. (more…)

The initial phase of Sprint’s migration to UC leveraged what we learned from the early adopters, which we talked about in my last post. These people provided excellent feedback as to the quality of the communications tools and their ease of adoption. We learned a lot from our pilot group, everything from which headsets worked the best, to  optimal laptop settings and the best setup for home-based workers. This information helped us clean up our deployment processes and fill platform gaps.
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