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    1. AT&T’s Mobile Unified Messaging Cloud Service

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Apr 22 2012) Applications , Mobility , Unified communications

      By Art Rosenberg, The Unified-View/ UC Strategies Expert While business organizations are still struggling to understand how best to migrate mobility and UC-enabled, cloud-based capabilities into their legacy telephony and email environments, AT&T is offering cloud-based, multi-modal unified text and voice messaging services to their mobile consumer subscribers. This is being done via their Encore platform, [...] (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   AT&T   Art Rosenberg

    2. Cloud Services and Analytics Will Change Management Views of Uc Tco

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Mar 28 2012) Applications , Mobility

      New UC implementation options through cloud-based services will significantly change the metrics for technology costs. This will be particularly true as voice and video communications join automated business applications in becoming more software rather than hardware dependent. The software approach will also facilitate the interoperability and integration of the communication and the business computer applications [...] (Read Full Article)

    3. Is Mobility Competing With UC?

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Feb 21 2012) Applications , Mobility , Unified communications

      UBM TechWeb, the producers of a leading conference for enterprise UC deployment, Enterprise Connect, have just announced another enterprise-oriented conference that focuses on mobility, Mobile Connect 2012. http://www.mobileconnectevent.com/?itc=footer I have always viewed mobility as one of the biggest drivers for UC, so it is puzzling that they would try to separate the two. In particular, the Mobile [...] (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   UBM TechWeb   Enterprise Connect

    4. IBM Practicing What We Preach - Mobile BYOD For UC

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Nov 1 2011) Applications , Mobility

      The big news in business communications is that IBM is supporting its employees use of their own mobile devices (smartphones, tablets), while focusing on secure access to internal information. By the end of the this year, 100,000 IBM employees will be able to securely access IBM internal networks with their own devices and network services [...] (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   IBM   Cebp

    5. Mobile Uc - Smartphones,Tablets, or Both?

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Oct 22 2011) Applications , Mobility , Unified communications

      Copyright (C) Unified-View, All Rights Reserved October 22, 2011 Personalized UC - Mobility vs. Portability By Art Rosenberg, The Unified-View While telephony struggles to find its new role in UC-based business communications, the real driver for UC is going to come from individual end users and the endpoint communication devices they will carry with them for both [...] (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Art Rosenberg

    6. CenturyLink-Qwest Merger: Implications for UC

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Apr 25 2011) Marketing

      CenturyLink-Qwest Merger: Implications for UCUCStrategies (blog)Additionally, since both companies use different IP centrex platforms, I think Broadsoft will be the likely going-forward vendor. A related opportunity the company should address is fixed mobile convergence (FMC). When combined with the resale of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Qwest   BroadSoft   AT&T

    7. Mobile World Congress 2011 – the gadgets and the trends so far…

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Feb 15 2011) Marketing

      The saying “All roads lead to Rome”, could for this week be changed to “All communication roads lead to Barcelona.” The big names in mobility are there; Ericsson, Nokia, Microsoft, RIM, Motorola, Broadcom, Alcatel-Lucent, ZTE Corporation and Huawei and more, but also IT heavy weights such as Google’s Eric Schmidt, Paul Otellini from Intel and Cisco’s John Chanmbers. The line between IT and mobility feels like they are officially gone. More and more ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Google   Cisco

    8. iPhone 4 Arrives at Verizon Wireless: Who Will be the Biggest Winners?

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Jan 11 2011) Marketing

      On February 10, we’ll begin to find out how much the Verizon Wireless +iPhone4 combination impacts competitors’ market shares.  I completed a project a year ago that included conducting a primary survey on mobile service and device customer satisfaction, and brand preference.  Results showed an  overwhelming interest in the above – the most desirable service [...] (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   LTE   AT&T

    9. Will Multimodal Tablets Join Smartphones In Replacing Desktops?

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Dec 17 2010) Applications , Marketing

      In the early days of UC, “softphones” (screen-based PC telephony), offered UC flexibility where traditional desktop “hardphones” were lacking.  It is still a viable alternative for wired, location-based telephony. However, mobile smartphones are making a huge dent in the consumer and business user markets for multimodal UC applications.  That is, until the larger screen size [...] (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Cebp

    10. UC and the Mobile Future: No Optimal Management Solutions Yet

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Nov 26 2010) Marketing

      Even more than 3G, 4G will present companies with many important device management challenges. These can impact the deployment of mobile UC, so companies should undertand the issues and begin identifying interim solutions, because no optimal solutions are available yet. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Verizon Wireless

    11. Say It Isn’t So.. Is IT Slowing the Adoption of UC?

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Nov 22 2010) Applications

      Someone posed an interesting question the other day that got me thinking (and that’s a painful process).  Is it possible, or even probable, that the trusty IT department is slowing down the adoption of unified communications in the enterprise?  Market forecasts for unified communications have generally not been met.  The enterprise is still working with [...] (Read Full Article)

    12. Multimodal UC Collaboration - Now Includes Video for Desktop Conferencing

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Sep 16 2010) Applications

      Technology headlines have been announcing new software products and services that support UC, using short, descriptive names that will appeal to individual end users and make UC’s person-to-person connectivity understandable. Most  recently, there was Microsoft’s big announcement in changing the name of it’s enterprise OCS (Office Communications Server) software to “Lync“  to symbolize easy, flexible, [...] (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   IVR   Interactive Voice Response

    13. Short Message Service (sms) winning the mobility battle?

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (Jul 5 2010) Marketing

      A new report from mobility expert, Tomi Ahonen,  shows that SMS has already become the most widely used text messaging application by all users in the world (53%), and even more by mobile users (78%). This reflects a shift from “real-time” voice calls that may run into “unavailability” problems and go to “voicemail jail”, to [...] (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   SMS

    14. AT&T Plans Its UC Future

      Explore Unified Communications Strategies Blog (May 20 2010) Applications , Unified communications

      At this week’s event for industry analysts, AT&T emphasized that after a prolonged absence, innovation is back (and I’d add, hopefully here to stay). But this isn’t the mode of innovation that propelled AT&T into the business voice and data services leadership position between 1985-1995. it’s clearly a (1) more focused, (2) significantly more modest, [...] (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Cisco   AT&T