Wednesday 09 April 2008
Supercharge your business by unifying infrastructure, simplifying systems and focusing on security
Unified Communications Technical Theatre
Rajesh Sinha, Bailey Teswaine
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This session describes the business benefits that can be achieved by unifying infrastructure, bringing life and intelligence to buildings through simplifying systems, making sure security is at the forefront of business operations, reducing the carbon footprint and cutting the energy bill and reducing costs and increasing your productivity. The session will also describe proven solutions in these areas by referencing a number of case studies. |
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Securing Unified Communications - the infrastructure view
Unified Communications Technical Theatre
Simon Wilson, Nortel
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Unified communications infrastructures must systematically incorporate security features and use well-known security techniques. This session discusses the security that should be foremost in your mind when evaluating or implementing a UC product or solution in your company |
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How to pro-actively manage your Unified Communications environment
Unified Communications Technical Theatre
Martin Anwyll, NetIQ UK Ltd
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All the leading vendors recommend that customers actively ensure their networks are ready for unified communications deployments. Additionally, experience shows that post-deployment a unified communications environment should be pro-actively monitored in terms of availability, capacity and call quality to ensure continued success. In this session you will learn how to successfully deploy, monitor and troubleshoot unified communications deployments. |
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Unified communications – a utopian communications model?
Unified Communications & Messaging Theatre
Bruce Everest, Avaya UK
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Unified communications has the potential to create a new breed of knowledge workers, if a clear, organisation-wide implementation strategy and plan are laid out. For the enterprise, UC will deliver a more efficient, anytime, anywhere business environment. This in turn will lead to faster decision-making, better acceptance and use of collaborative tools, work-life balance improvement and an outstanding customer experience. So, is this communications utopia? |
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The Roadmap to Unified Communications
Unified Communications Technical Theatre
Adam Collins, BT Lynx
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The presentation is aimed at a business audience and looks at what exactly we mean by Unified Communications, the business needs it fulfils, the hurdles you jump to deliver an enterprise UC solution and how you should overcome them. |
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Integrating Unified Communications with legacy systems & applications
Unified Communications Technical Theatre
Andrew Penn, Siemens Enterprise Communications
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Andrew Penn will discuss and investigate ways in which Unified Communications software products can be integrated with legacy platforms including Siebel and Salesforce.Com. In particular, this session will highlight the business benefits of such integration and what users can expect. It will also confirm how important it is to have an open architecture with open interfaces so that application integration is made simple. |
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The role of SIP in Unified Communications
Unified Communications Technical Theatre
Chris Majer, Interactive Intelligence
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With open standards-based SIP, businesses can drive greater cost-efficiencies in the deployment of enterprise communications, and help improve productivity among an increasingly-mobile workforce. This session discusses the evolving role of SIP in unified communications solutions |
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Maintaining the integrity of collaborative applications on a busy network
Unified Communications Technical Theatre
Mark Burton, Ipanema
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Guaranteeing the performance of critical applications over the network while preserving the performance of all other applications and controlling telecom costs is a fundamental goal for all organisations. This session demonstrates how implementing and maintaining the integrity of high priority and critical collaboration, conferencing and VoIP applications can be guaranteed and protected during times of high network traffic |
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The greener shade of Unified Communications
Unified Communications Technical Theatre
Jeremy Sneller, NEC Philips
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Organisations are increasingly challenged with juggling environmental obligations and forthcoming regulations, with the pressures of running an efficient, cost effective and competitive business. This session will look at the key environmental issues and how a Unified Communications strategy can work in harmony with the green agenda, rather than in conflict. |
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