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Wednesday 09 April 2008

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Selecting a VoIP provider - key considerations

VoIP for Business Theatre

Glenn Tookey, InTechnology

The cost savings, increased functionality, improved productivity and mobility offered by VoIP is fast making it a business priority. But what are key factors to consider when evaluating and choosing a VoIP provider, and how can you be sure that the vendor you select will be flexible enough to meet the growing needs of your company?

 

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11:10 AM - 11:40 AM

Keeping the Lid On: Managing the risk, cost and power consumption of technology

VoIP for Business Theatre

Russell Parr, Mitel Networks

It's getting tougher out there. Many IT managers want to invest in new technology, but are struggling to make the case. Spiralling energy costs have eclipsed savings on cheap hardware, while users don't seem to be able keep corporate data secure. The risk grows with every new mobile device added to the mix. Help is at hand. New, low energy technology that minimises the risk to data integrity could be the answer. This session explores the new innovations in thin client converged communications.

 

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11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Managing VoIP as a First Step to Unified Communications

VoIP for Business Theatre

Carl Lloyd, CA

Whilst many enterprises have seen both cost and operational benefits in the deployment of VoIP, it is the further migration to unified communications that promises true business transformation. But, with so many VoIP implementations running into difficulties, management tools and management operations also need to be unified through each stage of the project. This session discusses how to ensure availability and performance of key network, system and application services on the road from VoIP to unified communications.

 

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12:30 PM - 13:00 PM

Unified communications – a utopian communications model?

Unified Communications & Messaging Theatre

Bruce Everest, Avaya UK

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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13:10 PM - 13:40 PM

The Roadmap to Unified Communications

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Adam Collins, BT Lynx

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.

 
 

13:50 PM - 14:20 PM

The challenges of delivering and enabling VoIP for business solutions

Unified Communications Technical Theatre

Richard Donkin, Amdocs

Service providers face increasingly complex challenges in turning an 'empty network' into one that is efficiently delivering VoIP services, without a slow and complex process of manual service provisioning - these challenges are particularly acute when serving enterprise customers. In response, service providers are investing in more integrated and automated VoIP delivery processes that provide a coherent model of subscribers and services. These integrated systems also help to meet the customer demand for more sophisticated self-service portals that provide a complete view of services and users, including automated service activation.

 

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14:30 PM - 15:00 PM

Mobilising VoIP - the essentials

VoIP for Business Theatre

Graham Gilbert, Siemens Enterprise Communications

VoIP is not limited to the fixed space and is equally at home in wireless networks. This session looks at best practice, practical illustrations and case studies to show how VoIP can be exploited to provide extended reach and mobility allowing your company to get more out of its IP telephony investments

 

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15:10 PM - 15:40 PM

Integrating VoIP with business processes and applications

VoIP for Business Theatre

Chris Wortt, Polycom

Once VoIP has been deployed across the enterprise the challenge is how you combine it into applications such as ERP and CRM to create a presence-enabled and communications-enabled business. This session will take a close look at the fundamentals of integrating business processes and applications.

 

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15:50 PM - 16:20 PM

Making VoIP as simple as email - the magic of ENUM

VoIP for Business Theatre

Jay Daley, Nominet

You can send an email to anyone you want by entering their address. Your mail server finds theirs and delivers the message across the Internet with no fuss. If only VoIP were as simple. If only you could dial someone's number, have your VoIP server find their VoIP server and make the call across the Internet, no call charges, no telco, just like email. Well you can, all you need is ENUM...

 

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Thursday 10 April 2008

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Exploiting hosted and managed VoIP services

VoIP for Business Theatre

Jason Curtis, Azzurri

VoIP is now accepted as the way forward for voice infrastructure so whenever new systems are required, enterprises will consider both in-house and hosted VoIP solutions. This session looks at case studies of outsourced VoIP solutions for medium and large businesses, the problems the solutions had to address, and how the offerings available succeeded in providing answers

 

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11:10 AM - 11:40 AM

How VoIP is evolving through Unified Communications

VoIP for Business Theatre

Paul Rowe, Nortel

Today, VoIP is much less a disruptive influence and much more a mainstream technology. This session looks at how the unified communications evolution will continue to keep VoIP in the headlines and what that means for your business.

 

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11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Staying Flexible and Agile in the Changing Landscape

VoIP for Business Theatre

Stephen Owen, OPEX Hosting

Telephony applications are evolving quicker than ever before with development driven by changing regulations, varying business demands, budgetary issues and Disaster Recovery considerations. This session looks at how hosted and managed services such as landline and VoIP call centre applications, voice recording and mobile recording addresses these challenges, assisting organisations to both leverage and reduce their risk.

 

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12:30 PM - 13:00 PM

Flexible Working at HP - A case study

Teleworking and Mobility Theatre

Brian Fenix, Hewlett-Packard, UK

13,000 HP employees worldwide work exclusively from home offices. In 2007 HP's teleworking program saved almost 2.5 million round trip commutes, saving approximately 65 million miles of road travel and almost 28,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. This presentation will look at the implementation of flexible working practices within HP both in the UK and worldwide. It will examine the challenges which were encountered from both a technological and cultural perspective, look at the tools which HP employees use to communicate with each other, and explore the benefits that have accrued to the organisation.

 

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13:10 PM - 13:40 PM

Unified Communications, Empowering Your Best Assets

Unified Communications & Messaging Theatre

Alan MacArthur, IBM Global Technology Services

Unified Communications is a culture change. The old command and control structure is being replaced by a more collaborative way of working. Is your organisation threatened by this, or embracing new ways of working? Your people are your best assets and Unified Communications changes the rules. Others are ready, are you?

 

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13:50 PM - 14:20 PM

Managing VoIP as a First Step to Unified Communications

VoIP for Business Theatre

Carl Lloyd, CA

Whilst many enterprises have seen both cost and operational benefits in the deployment of VoIP, it is the further migration to unified communications that promises true business transformation. But, with so many VoIP implementations running into difficulties, management tools and management operations also need to be unified through each stage of the project. This session discusses how to ensure availability and performance of key network, system and application services on the road from VoIP to unified communications.

 

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14:30 PM - 15:00 PM

Managing VoIP - is it really more demanding than any other application?

VoIP for Business Theatre

Mark Burton, Ipanema

VoIP flows differ from many other application flows because they are real-time and peer-to-peer. For traditional applications, a lack of resources can result in deterioration of application performance, but for VoIP, these results in the service being unavailable. What steps should an organisation take to ensure that the deployment of VoIP applications does not make overall WAN performance unpredictable, endangering both the VoIP rollout and existing application performance.

 

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15:10 PM - 15:40 PM

Blueprint for Successful VoIP Rollouts

VoIP for Business Theatre

Susan Andersen, Empirix

As the world moves from dedicated voice systems to voice applications and unified communication, techniques for testing and verification of all components and services becomes not only essential but critical for successful implementations. This session will explore testing and monitoring strategies for ensuring that this new generation of technology meets customer, employee, and call centre agent expectations while providing the bottom-line benefits originally intended.

 

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