Filled with the most up-to-date information on unified communications, this session will focus on the UC market, the players, the challenges, and the future. Setting the tone and providing a foundation for the UC Track, this session will clear up many of the misunderstandings about unified communications, describe the several types of UC solutions visible in the market, provide market forecasts and an overview of the various vendor offerings, and discuss what’s in store for the near future.
Presented by:
 | Blair Pleasant (Moderator)
President & Principal Analyst
COMMfusion LLC & UCStrategies.com |
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State of the UC Market – The UCStrategies Perspective(UC-02)
02/03/11, 1:00-1:45pmIn the session, several leading analysts and consultant from UCStrategies will provide their objective perspectives on the UC industry, including market trends, near-term and long-term product evolution, vendor positioning, buying considerations, and much more, covering the broad range of UC products and vendors. This will be an interactive session, and attendees should come with questions.
Presented by:
| Blair Pleasant (Moderator)
President & Principal Analyst
COMMfusion LLC & UCStrategies.com |  | Jon Arnold (Moderator)
Principal
J Arnold & Associates |  | Michael Finneran
Principal
dBrn Associates, Inc. |  | Dave Michels
Principal
Pin Drop Soup | | Michael Lauricella
Consultant
State Four |
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UC Interoperability(UC-03)
02/03/11, 2:00-2:45pmMultivendor interoperability is a must if UC is going to take off; few if any enterprises will get all of their UC infrastructure and applications from a single vendor. But the vendors, to date, have been busy defending their turf and trying to grab others’ territory, so they are lagging in interoperation standards and testing. This session will explore two aspects of multi-vendor UC interoperability – Interoperability by Design and Interoperability for Installed Systems. Both of these approaches require providers to cooperate or risk being left out of the customer’s future solution architecture.
Presented by:
 | David H. Yedwab (Moderator)
Partner
Market Strategy & Analytics Partners |  | Allen Mendelshon
Senior Marketing Manager, Unified Communications Strategy
Avaya |  | Stefan Karapetkov
Emerging Technologies Director
Polycom |  | Alan Percy
Senior Director of Strategic Marketing for North America
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Integrating Mobility and UC(UC-04)
02/03/11, 3:00-3:45pmOne of the major capabilities in UC solutions is the ability to extend that rich communications environment to mobile devices. However, mobile UC comes in many varieties including dual-mode, cellular mobile UC clients, and Web-based solutions. This session will examine the major options for integrating mobility into a UC configuration and discuss the major factors that will argue for each of the various approaches.
Presented by:
| Dean Moore
ShoreTel | | Michael Finneran (Moderator)
Principal
dBrn Associates, Inc. |
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