It’s no secret that Microsoft is placing a huge bet on Unified Communications. To that end, Microsoft has a number of platform components available to developers today, and a lot of updates and new components will be made available to developers as part of the company’s next release, including the addition of VoIP functionality that will be available for developers.
This special two-part session will offer developers a taste of what Microsoft is up to with regard to developing Unified Communications applications with an eye towards developing applications for Live Communications Server/Office Communications Server as well as a look at Office Communicator, with a possible sneak peek at some new tools that are soon scheduled for release.
Presented by:
Kyle Marsh Principal Program Manager, Unified Communications Microsoft
Value of VoIP & Unified Communications Standardization (UC-03)
Wednesday - 05/16/07, 2:00-2:45pm
In this presentation, attendees will learn about the various facets of VoIP standardization and the speaker will relate the impact of open standards-based VoIP and Unified Communications (UC) solutions on key IT and business success metrics — especially, around VoIP and UC migration, business process and office apps integration, open standards ecosystem, user experience, etc. He will exemplify open standards discussions with commercially available open standards enterprise communications solutions and associated deployment / use-case scenarios. The presentation will conclude with a discussion around the future of open standards-based VoIP and UC solutions — from both an equipment vendor and enterprise adoption perspective.
Presented by:
Vijay Bhagavath Senior Strategist in the Office of the CTO Siemens
Rapid Application Development for Unified Communications (UC-04)
Wednesday - 05/16/07, 3:00-3:45pm
This session will define a set of requirements for a rapid application development environment for unified communications and present an overview of one possible solution. In addition, a large portion of this session will be centered on a live demonstration to include rapidly developing, deploying, and running a full fledged unified communications application.
Creating a unique service offering that combines the latest and most popular unified communications applications is a challenge that every service provider faces. Competitive pressures continue to drive prices downward as products and services mature and eventually commoditize. VoIP and video services are likely to maintain their premium price, but customers will expect to receive more value-added services on top of these services to justify the cost. For this reason, it is imperative that hosted providers have an easy, economical way to create and launch new complex services at higher price points or find ways to continually differentiate their offering by bringing new value-added services to the market and extend the life cycle of that offering. Those that are able to quickly respond to customer demands and have the ability to create and deploy new services rapidly will have the upper hand in attracting new customers, while retaining existing ones. This presentation will address time to market and extensibility: two key factors to surviving in a rapidly changing IP-driven world.
Presented by:
David J. Wippich Chief Executive Officer Ensim Corporation
