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SimulScribe, TMCnet Join Forces to Launch Visual Voicemail Community Web Resource
TMCnet (www.tmcnet.com) has teamed with SimulScribe, a leading provider of voicemail-to-text services and visual voicemail applications, to launch the Visual Voicemail Community at http://visualvoicemail.tmcnet.com/.
SimulScribe’s Visual Voicemail Community contains news, feature stories, case studies, and white papers covering unified communications, speech and voicemail technologies, enterprise mobility, and more. The community is designed to serve as a hub for information on the emerging Voicemail-to-Text and Visual Voicemail market, helping enterprises and consumers sort through the choices available to them.
In today’s increasingly mobile world, staying in touch with clients and partners is paramount to staying ahead of the game. Even with all the gadgets and cutting-edge communication devices and find-me/follow-me services, your best prospects and customers still can end up trapped in voicemail jail. The Visual Voicemail Community was created to act as an information resource for enterprises and consumers looking to break free from inefficiency in communications.
TMCnet's Global Online Communities are robust editorial platforms, built with layer upon layer of content in multiple media formats. Each GOC focuses on a specific area of the market, and is populated and designed in conjunction with the community's sponsor. GOCs are vibrant communities that, over time, achieve very high rankings on leading search engines. Based on the extreme focus of their content and resources, GOCs are bookmarked by decision-makers who join these communities seeking news, product information, and partnership opportunities. All GOCs are highlighted on TMCnet's, appearing in the top tabs on each page of the site - including the TMCnet home page.
We encourage you to bookmark this Community, and return often to keep up to date with the fast-paced industry.
The launch of Microsoft OCS
It goes without saying that unified communications was one of the most exciting growth areas in the communications market this past quarter. Microsoft continues to be a major driver of this technology with its Office Communications Server (OCS) product. In fact, not only has Steve Ballmer been on stage to promote UC and OCS, but recently Bill Gates was brought out to tout the technology as well.
The launch of OCS represents a watershed event in telecom; never in the history of telecom has there been a new product roll-out supported by more than 50 other companies.
To be sure, Microsoft OCS is THE communications product of 2007. Whether you plan on installing OCS in your organization or not, you should be aware that the marketing push Microsoft is putting behind this product has showed no signs of slowing down. As the onslaught continues, we can expect something unusual to happen.
Corporate management will start asking technical implementers numerous questions about OCS. Until today, the company with the largest marketing spend focused on voice communications targeted at CXOs (CEOS, CFOs, CTOs, etc) was Avaya. Now Microsoft seems to have taken the top spot.
So if you haven’t heard about OCS from your top management yet, you likely will in the very near future. You really should be ahead of this curve.
As this segment has gained in popularity, more and more TMC readers and attendees have been asking for more education on the unified communications space – especially OCS.
In response, TMC has announced that TMC University will be offering a Microsoft OCS course at INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO in Miami, FL January 23, 2008.
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New Strategic Partnership Offers Strengthened Webinars
TMC has partnered with IntelliCom Analytics, a leading professional services and business research firm to provide enhanced content for a series of webinars. These educational webinars offer in-depth information on selected topics and are free to pre-registered attendees.
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Editorial Highlights
Presence and Context-Aware Services
In the future, a UC presence manager will be the most important component of the whole system. Allied with GPS, it will make possible services far more sophisticated than the simplest of presence-aware services, such as instant messaging. With context-aware communications, once can modify when, where, how one can be reached. (People can set caller and called preferences and filtering; machines can perform context-dependent call routing). A look at this cutting edge of Unified Communications.
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Industry Research
VoIP and Beyond: The Evolution of IP-based Subscriber Services
Market demand for Voice over IP (VoIP) services has skyrocketed in recent years, as residential subscribers seek ways to lower their communications costs and enterprises are compelled to simplify network management while controlling expenses. Recent improvements in security and reliability coupled with mass-market advertising have propelled sales of VoIP services to tremendous heights, a trend that is expected to continue unabated for several years. ABI Research projects a seven-fold increase in the number of residential VoIP subscribers worldwide between 2006 and 20121, while Frost & Sullivan forecasts enterprise VoIP services revenues to surge to $3.3 billion in 2010 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31.4%.
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