Workforce mobility is an essential component of today’s enterprise. Seamless and integrated solutions for workforce mobility allows organisations to extend the reach of their communications network, improve customer service and enhance overall team effectiveness. Peter Neville will be talking about how mobile solutions available today on the BlackBerry platform can help your business, whatever the size of your organisation, and how they can be seamlessly integrated into your business processes and systems.

Presentation:

Audio:

Calls for a work/life balance are being made as workers are spending an increasing amount of time at work. Senior management, while resistant to this idea, are slowly realising that in order to retain and recruit staff, they must begin to provide alternatives. However, before adopting homeworking, it is critical to understand both the challenges and opportunities homeworking present. This session explores homeworking and demonstrates that supporting home workers doesn't have to be a burden for the IT manager.

Presentation:

Audio:

Branch office architectures are evolving, inheriting more applications, services, features and functions usually contained at corporate headquarters sites while LAN architectures are also undergoing a fundamental change. This session looks at the impact of so-called ubiquitous computing on the next generation remote office, discusses the benefits and potential pitfalls, and reviews the technologies involved.

Presentation:

Audio:

Many vertical industries see VoIP as a cost-effective solution yielding many benefits. This session describes the fundamentals of the business case for enabling VoIP covering productivity, collaboration and cost efficiency.

Presentation:

Audio:

This session will provide valuable insight into how Hosted IP Telephony and Mobile VoIP has been used to deploy simple, scalable and secure remote solutions for teleworkers both in the UK and abroad. In these scenarios combining Hosted IP Telephony with Mobile VoIP ensures the teleworker is simply seen as an extension of your main system with features such as Call Recording, Call Reporting and Unified Messaging available as standard to users whether they are located in small remote offices, home based workers or even teleworkers constantly on the move.

Presentation:

Audio:

From desktop to mobile: realising the end-to-end unified communications solution.
The service provider opportunity: delivering differentiated unified communications and mobile services to SMEs
Mobile presence and location-aware context: intelligence and semantic priority in the mobile environment

Audio:

Continued mobilisation of the work force has consistently thrown new challenges at Enterprise Managers. How to deliver features transparently? How to Control Rising Mobile Costs? How do I manage my mobile users? Every now and then a new technology appears that has a lasting effect on the way people work - e-mail and the internet being two prime examples. Fixed mobile Convergence has been seen by many as having the same potential to change the way we communicate; this presentation looks at the key deliverables of FMC and the role the technology will play in communications of the future.

Presentation:

Audio:

With the rise in teleworking, organisations are seeking ways to implementing VOIP for remote user in a secure and reliable way. Microsoft’s Office Communications Server integrates IM, Presence, Conferencing and Voice all of which the remote user can access. This talk looks at the security issues in providing Voice and focuses on key security aspects.

Presentation:

Audio:

Calls for a work/life balance are being made as workers are spending an increasing amount of time at work. Senior management, while resistant to this idea, are slowly realising that in order to retain and recruit staff, they must begin to provide alternatives. However, before adopting homeworking, it is critical to understand both the challenges and opportunities homeworking present. This session explores homeworking and demonstrates that supporting home workers doesn't have to be a burden for the IT manager.

Presentation:

Audio: