Enterprises banking on UCC

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	Enterprises banking on UCC Webtorials has released another excellent research and analysis piece; the report is titled "Unified Communications & Collaboration Potential: Goals, Obstacles & Savings." Based on research sponsored by Avaya with analysis provided by Steven Taylor, Joanie Wexler, and Leslie Barteaux, the report discusses the state of Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) in the enterprise and IT's expectations with it -- particularly in the increasingly mobile workforce. There is special focus on SIP and a section that calculates sample savings scenarios using UCC in various-sized organizations. Read More WHITE PAPER: Avaya Avaya: Creating Fit for Purpose Data Center Networking Simplified and optimized service orchestration maximizes the return from a virtualized computing environment. Click to read the White Paper. In this Issue 15 Free Apps for Personalizing Your Android Phone How to Provide People-Friendly Tech Unified Communications Success Depends on Changing Habits Convergence - The "Final Frontier" Six factors slowing adoption of converged I/O WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel IDC: Ways to Improve the Branch Office Well-targeted technology upgrades, coupled with a rigorous program to standardize and improve IT practices at a company's remote locations and headquarters, can deliver substantial business value and could reduce total annual IT costs in the branches by over 30%. Read now 15 Free Apps for Personalizing Your Android Phone Change the look of everything on your phone--from the browser to the home screen--with these useful Android apps. They won't cost you a cent. Read More WHITE PAPER: Sybase Sybase® IQ Accelerates Advanced Analytics The market-leading column-based analytics server, Sybase® IQ offers accurate answers, scalability and speed for your advanced analytics environments. No platform is better suited to help your business analyse, compete and deliver above the competition. Read now How to Provide People-Friendly Tech The Oct. 1 issue of CIO magazine features three stories that deal with the people issues behind IT's biggest potential game-changers: BYOT, unified communications and social media. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Trends in Business Analytics In his presentation "Trends in Business Analytics", Colin White (Founder, BI Research) will explore the impact that trends such as analytic RDBMSes, Hadoop and MapReduce, the NoSQL movement, smarter and real-time analytics, and self-service business intelligence will have on businesses. Read Now Unified Communications Success Depends on Changing Habits CIOs offer tips for getting employees to change their most ingrained habits and adopt new unified communications tools. Read More Convergence - The "Final Frontier" So here we are. After more than 13 years and considerably more than 1,300 semi-weekly newsletters, it's time to move on to alternate assignments and alternate communications modes. And if pressed to single out a trend that, more than anything else, has been the hallmark of change over the duration of this newsletter, we would have to say it's "convergence." (Of course, the non-specific and ever-changing meaning of the term makes that a bit easier.) Read More Six factors slowing adoption of converged I/O So if converging the I/O infrastructure in data centers is all the rage, what's taking IT shops so long to do it? Read More
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