Printable Agenda - Cloud Coummincations Summit

Exactly what is cloud communications? This session is an introduction to cloud communications and covers basic terminology, architectures and business case drivers. This session is appropriate for both business and technologists.

Small and medium businesses have the most to gain from cloud communications service offerings. This session reviews this fast growing market and identifies which segments will enjoy outsized success, and which segments are living up to early expectations. This session is appropriate for analysts, business leaders and product managers.

The excitement around cloud communications comes straight from the bottom line. This session is an overview of the best and most effective ways that cloud communications increases profits for both providers and customers. This session is appropriate for service providers, end customers and analysts.

In a sense, trusting the network to deliver communications services is as old as the PSTN. In today’s market, mobile applications and mobile workforces have additional cloud communications requirements. This session identifies which mobile feature sets are important for cloud communications offerings, and will address topics such as mobile extensions for PBXs, location based cloud flavors and mobile client development. This session is appropriate for service providers and analysts.

In this new market, challenges to success are not well understood, never mind the solutions. This session is an open conversation with leading businessmen about how cloud communications looks from the trenches. This session is appropriate for analysts, business leaders and product managers.

There’s a general consensus that Cloud Communications improves the bottom line while reducing both financial and technology risks. What about from a security perspective? This session identifies the differences between premise based and cloud based offerings from a security perspective, and provides the audience with a checklist of what to worry about as they move into the cloud. This session is appropriate for both business and technologists.

The integration between traditional VARs and PBX sales is under attack by online cloud communications offerings. This session talks about the evolving business models for VARs and service providers, provides a glimpse into updated business models and identifies the changes that the channel needs to make now to maximize future business opportunities. This session is targeted towards solution providers, VARs and service providers.

What’s next in cloud communications? Friday 02/04/11 • 12:0012:45pm This session invites a panel of thought leaders to look into their crystal balls and make predictions about what our near term future looks like. This session is appropriate for investors, analysts and business leaders.