VoiceCon Feature Articles
When I asked Marjorie Tenzer, vice president, Marketing and Channels, Lotus Software at IBM, last week to describe IBM's place in the Unified Communications space, the first thing I noticed was the confidence with which she said, "Our software platform is real, people are using it, it's happening."
3/25/2008
Aside from a number of major announcements by enterprise telephony providers that they were moving forward with UC and "open" software applications, the biggest announcements seemed to come from Microsoft and IBM, separately and together.
3/24/2008
RADVISION, a provider of video network infrastructure and developer tools for unified visual communications over IP, 3G and emerging next-generation IMS networks, has announced that it has teamed up with Alcatel-Lucent.
3/20/2008
Aastra Telecom, a provider of standards-based corded and wireless SIP telephones in North America, announced the launch of AastraLink ProModel 160, an IP PBX created specifically for the small business market.
3/20/2008
TANDBERG, a provider of telepresence, high-definition videoconferencing, mobile video solutions, and Microsoft Gold Partner, have announced a development initiative to deliver the "first high-definition webcam camera" for integration with Microsoft's unified communications platform.
3/20/2008
What is Unified Communications? It's a question that effectively was the base for a panel discussion that included IBM vice president of Integrated Communications Services Laurence Guihard-Joly, along with representatives from Avaya, Cisco, and Microsoft.
3/19/2008
IBM and Forterra have entered into an agreement under which Forterra will integrate its On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment (OLIVE) 3D platform with the IBM Lotus Sametime software and the IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC2) platform.
3/19/2008
IBM has predicted five future trends that will increase demand for the fast-growing unified communications market and reshape the way businesses and workers communicate and collaborate worldwide.
3/19/2008
Mike Rhodin, General Manager of IBM Lotus software predicted five future trends that he believes will "increase demand for the fast-growing unified communications (UC) market and reshape the way businesses and workers communicate and collaborate worldwide."
3/19/2008
Intervoice has announced the release of Version 4 of its IP Contact Center solution (IPCC).
3/18/2008
Applied Voice & Speech Technologies (AVST) has unveiled a new version of its flagship Unified Communications solution, CallXpress 7.91.
3/18/2008
Integrated Research, developers of PROGNOSIS performance monitoring and management solutions, has announced the official launch of support for Nortel IP communications technology.
3/18/2008
Digium today announced the official call for entries for the second annual Digium Innovation Awards, designed to recognize Asterisk developers, customers and partners for outstanding achievements that are improving business processes, overcoming technology challenges and delivering record return on investment.
3/18/2008
Asterisk company Digium today released Switchvox SMB 3.5 and the AA60 Switchvox Appliance for small to mid-sized businesses.
3/18/2008
Asterisk outfit Asterisk and Westcon Group, a specialty distributor in networking, convergence, security and mobility, today announced Westcon is now offering Digium's complete line of Asterisk-based telephony solutions to its worldwide community of reseller customers.
3/18/2008
Westcon Group is now offering Digium's complete line of Asterisk-based telephony solutions to its global community of reseller customers.
3/18/2008
As more and more companies deploy Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS), they are asking videoconferencing vendors to help interconnect their products with this shiny new unified communications system.
3/18/2008
KANA Software and IBM announced a significant expansion of their global strategic alliance agreement.
3/18/2008
As the industry gets ready for the VoiceCon show in Orlando this week, the telecommunications industry has been sharpening its promotional weapons to position themselves for the next phases of UC evolution.
3/17/2008
Unified Communications has entered into the silly season. After massive re-branding and promotional efforts by major communications and IT infrastructure providers, the term has lost all meaning. The UC landscape today is more like one of those multilevel, Plexiglass chess boards.
3/17/2008
I had a chance to touch base with IBM's Adam Gartenberg, offering manager for the company's unified communications and collaboration solutions, who shared some insight into what IBM has planned for their participation at VoiceCon next week.
3/14/2008
IBM recently unveiled a set of collaboration and social networking services designed to help organizations get the most performance out of their employees.
3/13/2008
Zeacom, which offers unified communications solutions for the SMB market, will be demonstrating the new capabilities of its Communications Center 5.0 platform during VoiceCon Orlando 2008.
3/13/2008
NEC expanded upon its UNIVERSGE360 initiative Wednesday, unveiling a new set of solutions for enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) based on the concept of "role-enabled communications."
3/12/2008
BlueNote Networks SOA Solutions Enable Real-World Uses for Communications-Enabled Business Processes
BlueNote's software, based on the concepts of service oriented architecture (SOA) makes possible something called Communications-Enabled Business Processes (CEBPs)
3/12/2008
Looking to prove just how easy and fast it is for enterprise customers to start taking advantage of VoIP technologies, Aculab is offering a tasty challenge for those installing the ApplianX Gateway.
3/12/2008
Speech recognition software innovator, LumenVox, has announced that its Speech Engine is compliant with Interactive Response (IR) and Voice Portal solutions from Avaya, a global provider of business communications applications, systems and services.
3/11/2008
Continuing our research focus on Unified Communications (UC), our latest decision maker survey conducted in partnership with IntelliCom Analytics took a closer look at enterprise preferences for Web conferencing solutions.
3/11/2008
IBM will be participating at this year's VoiceCon conference and exhibition. The company will have several high-level speakers at the event as well as a booth presence. IBM encourages people to stop by their booth, #1309 at the upcoming event in Orlando, March 17–20.
3/11/2008
Weichert realtors should expect to have better capability within their systems as the franchise arm of Weichert Realtors has added HyperOffice to the tools, systems and services qualified for use by nearly 7,500 sales associates at roughly 350 sales offices in 35 states.
3/11/2008
Microsoft and Nortel today announced the availability of four new joint unified communications solutions as part of their ongoing Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA) partnership.
3/11/2008
IBM will invest $1 billion over the next three years to fulfill its unified communications and collaboration vision. The investment will fund product and technology advances as well as an increase in the development of new services.
3/11/2008
If you have been reading all the blogs and commentaries put out by industry analysts and pundits, you know that everyone has been trying to define what UC really is all about and, more importantly, how to get there from here.
3/3/2008