Collaboration via Unified Communications- the Time is Now - Unified Communications (UC) Strategies

Collaboration via Unified Communications- the Time is Now

By Scott Willard November 10, 2008 Leave a Comment
We have seen the topic of Collaboration a frequent subject on the UCStrategies Web Site.  In today’s worldwide economic environment- the Drivers for Collaboration to be a strategic piece for the Enterprise Unified Communication Strategies has never been more urgent.   Today’s environment sees the following contributing to the sense of urgency and making the time right to implement a coherent Collaboration strategy for the Enterprise:
 
  • Increased Enterprise Productivity
    • Collaboration in a Dynamic Fashion to drive teaming functions
    • Streamlining Timelines on Decision Making
    • Allowing Disparate personnel  to meet quickly and effectively
  • Reducing Costs (Both Hard Dollar and Soft Dollar Costs)
  • The Enterprise is seeing “Pain” in numerous areas
    • Waiting for Information
    • Users do not have the tools to communicate quickly and efficiently
  • Other Issues
    • Bandwidth Costs have dropped dramatically in recent years- accelerating customer ROI Models on Solution Investment
    • Environmental Issues “The Green Movement” is driving change in communication

With these “Drivers” for Collaboration in mind- here is the good news.  Bandwidth Costs to deliver collaboration (including Video Conferencing/Telepresence) is making the solutions more affordable.  We all remember the days where PBX technology to connect multiple offices required costly point to point dedicated T1 Pipes.  Video Conferencing required costly ISDN circuits.  Today, High Definition Video Conferencing and Telepresence is being delivered at much lower costs.

When I am in the marketplace helping customer deliver and implement UC/ Collaboration Solutions- I am amazed at the truly sensational solutions available to the Enterprise today.  The key is helping to sort out these solutions in each of the varied categories:

  • Presence
  • Mobile Communications
  • Basic Conferencing
    • Audio
    • Web Collaboration
  • Advanced Conferencing
    • Video Conferencing
    • Telepresence
  • Instant Messaging

I will be focusing and “drilling down” on some specifics with respect to both categories and vendors in this area over the next few weeks- drawing from my personal experience in the areas of VOIP, Audio and Video Conferencing and other areas of collaboration.

The additional good news is that World class vendors realize that these solutions need to be made available to all users- not just the “chosen few” see Blair Pleasant's article, "Power of Unified Communications to the People" 

We will look to discussing these solutions in more detail in the next several weeks.

 



 

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