| Recent Vendor Reports on Communications Systems |
Extend the Value of IBM Lotus Applications to Increase Productivity with Avaya Unified Communications: Sponsored by Avaya and IBM
| sponsored by Avaya
WHITE PAPER:
Good communications are key to any company's success. The most successful enterprises strive for anywhere, anytime communications to best serve employees and clients who are increasingly mobile and geographically diverse. By unifying communications, a company can deliver communications anywhere, anytime and any way.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009
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Managing your communications overload
| sponsored by Orange Business Services
WHITE PAPER:
In recent years, there has been a communications explosion. The sound of a busy signal is obsolete and can no longer be tolerated in the fast-paced business world. Employees, partners, suppliers and customers need immediate access to the people who make their businesses go, and delays cost time and money. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 16 Jun 2009
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Business Network Transformation: Rethinking Relationships in a Global Economy
| sponsored by SAP America Inc
ANALYST REPORT:
The ability to operate effectively in business networks, be they coordinated or collaborative, is critical to sustaining competitive advantage in a commoditizing global economy. By focusing on their unique core capabilities, business network participants spend less on duplication and more on innovation, resulting in higher degrees of..
Posted: 07 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
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HP Technology Services - Unified Communications Survey
| sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
ASSESSMENT TOOL:
Take this online survey to find out the most appropriate solution to help you start your journey and streamline your communications and collaboration challenges.
Posted: 03 Jun 2009 | Published: 03 Jun 2009
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E-Guide: Building a solid business case for unified communications in a challenging economy
| sponsored by Orange Business Services
EGUIDE:
Unified Communication applications boost productivity in many ways, but quantifying and correlating improvements to productivity with UC can be tricky. This E-Guide explains how UC is saving companies money in some very real, but not necessarily obvious, ways. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 29 May 2009 | Published: 29 May 2009
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Video-Ready - Campus Network
| sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
Why should your network be "Video-Ready"? Video applications have enabled enterprises to significantly increase worker productivity, improve collaboration, reduce costs, and streamline and optimize business operations. This paper dicusses the factors that will accelerate adoption of video solutions over the next few years.
Posted: 22 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2008
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Unified Communications Pocket Guide
| sponsored by ShoreTel
EGUIDE:
This guide is intended for both IT staff, voice system managers, as well as CIOs. It describes the issues decision makers need to understand as they set out to build a winning unified communication strategy.
Posted: 20 May 2009 | Published: 19 May 2009
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IP Telephony from A-Z - The Complete IP Telephony eBook
| sponsored by ShoreTel
EBOOK:
Check out this comprehensive eBook to discover the ins and outs of IP telephony system selection, deployment, and management.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2007
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IP Unified Communications Systems Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Whitepaper
| sponsored by ShoreTel
WHITE PAPER:
The purpose of this white paper is to present and discuss the ShoreTel TCO Tool, an analytical method that informs and accelerates the technology evaluation process by calculating and comparing the TCO of available IP-based UC systems.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 19 May 2009
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IP Telephony: Reliability You Can Count On
| sponsored by ShoreTel
WHITE PAPER:
This paper examines the effects of three different architectures on the ability to deliver IP-based telephony systems that are both highly available and cost effective.
Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 19 May 2009
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Social Computing in the Enterprise
| sponsored by NewsGator Technologies
WHITE PAPER:
An April 2008 Forrester report predicts that the Enterprise Web 2.0 and social computing market will grow from $455M in 2007 to $4.6B in 2013. This paper summarizes: 1) Why Companies Are Pursuing Social Computing 2) What Enterprise Social Computing Really Is 3) How To Implement Social Computing Successfully
Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2008
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Microsoft SharePoint Server: A look under the hood
| sponsored by Singularity
VIDEO:
In this webcast, Microsoft SharePoint MVP Paul Galvin delves into the SharePoint ecosystem and reviews the strengths and weaknesses of this platform. Also, learn steps to take to avoid missteps during the implementation process.
Posted: 06 May 2009 | Premiered: 06 May 2009
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The Compelling Case for Unified Messaging: Changes in unified communications make UM the right choice for most enterprises
| sponsored by Microsoft
ANALYST REPORT:
A Unified Messaging (UM) solution that answers telephone calls and stores the voice recordings in the users' e-mail inboxes is also the best business process option for most enterprises, providing improved business outcomes. This paper will describe the major business value gains that are possible with the new UM solutions.
Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009
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Case Study: MTV Networks International (MTV)
| sponsored by Microsoft
CASE STUDY:
MTV's Information Services and Technology (IS&T) department wanted to reduce the time that was wasted on manual processes. It chose Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. IS&T used the out-of-the-box workflow capabilities of SharePoint Server 2007 to improve departmental efficiencies by automating a paper-based process for new employees.
Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Feb 2007
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Exchange Server 2007 Brings Value to Your Messaging Environment
| sponsored by Microsoft
WHITE PAPER:
Find out why many businesses are upgrading to Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007. This paper follows Emory University's upgrade. Storage costs, security requirements, and Exchange's beneficial messaging and calendaring features attracted Emory. Exchange Server 2007 has given Emory a new approach to high availability messaging.
Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2006
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Unified Communications Business Process Consulting Service
| sponsored by Microsoft
DATA SHEET:
Unified Communications (UC) can enhance communications and collaboration throughout the enterprise using email, instant messaging (IM), voice, data, and video. UC Business Consulting Services from Aspect will help you identify and quantify such opportunities and redesign and optimize your business processes to leverage unified communications.
Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008
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Unified Communications Strategy and Business Case Services by Aspect
| sponsored by Microsoft
DATA SHEET:
Unified Communications (UC) is a powerful set of tools and capabilities which can be leveraged to unlock benefits for your enterprise. Download this paper to find out how Aspect Professional Services will work closely with your key business and IT stakeholders to learn about your environment and develop a strategy and business case.
Posted: 02 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008
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Best Practices for Communications Transformation: Transportation, Energy, and the Public Sector
| sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
WHITE PAPER:
This whitepaper will provide insight into: a- the communications requirements of three specific industry segments (transportation, energy and the public sector), b- best practices to deliver the services and manage the projects efficiently, and c- innovative solutions and strategies deployed by these industry segments.
Posted: 26 Mar 2009 | Published: 26 Mar 2009
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Preparing for Cloud Computing: The Managed Services Revolution
| sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER:
This paper explores the drivers for cloud computing, especially for communications service providers, and looks at the challenges that cloud computing infrastructures must address and key management components providers need to put in place.
Posted: 17 Nov 2008 | Published: 17 Nov 2008
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How Can I More Effectively Address the Needs of My Business Customers?
| sponsored by CA
PRODUCT LITERATURE:
CA IP-based service management solutions help you protect and grow your customer base, extend competitive advantage and reduce risk by enabling you to deliver new managed services.
Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 04 Oct 2008
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Road Map for Delivering XMLP Documents from Oracle EBS: A Guide to the Automated Delivery of Oracle E-Business Suite Documents via Email and Fax
| sponsored by STR Software
WHITE PAPER:
This document is designed to be a guide to the Oracle E-Business Suite. It is intended to educate users, developers, managers, and executives of companies using Oracle E-Business Suite to automate and maintain the distribution of business documents
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 09 Sep 2008
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Blackberry Enterprise Server v4.1 Service Pack 6
| sponsored by BlackBerry
WEBCAST:
The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution provides push-based access to email; calendar, contacts, tasks and notes; instant messaging; web-based applications and services and enterprise applications.
Posted: 25 Aug 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Analyst Paper: Preparing for Convergence: Network and IT Come Together
| sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper discusses the convergence of IT and networking in the telecommunications industry.
Posted: 05 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Guidelines for Selecting the Right Services Partner to Bridge Business and Technology Innovation
| sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
WHITE PAPER:
This paper is meant to help executive decision-makers at carrier and enterprise organizations understand the importance of business-, service- and network-level transformation.
Posted: 05 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Revitalizing Healthcare Delivery with Mobile Communications (Part 1)
| sponsored by BlackBerry
WHITE PAPER:
This paper is the first in a four-part series that offers an overview of the current healthcare situation and suggests ways in which wireless technology solutions address healthcare challenges.
Posted: 08 Nov 2007 | Published: 08 Nov 2007
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