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Analytics-driven Workforce Optimization: An Essential Approach to Enterprise Customer Service

When deployed as part of a workforce optimization (WFO) solution, analytics can extend the reach of WFO beyond the contact center, into other areas of the enterprise — including branch, remote, and back-office operations — to enhance the customer experience, drive down costs, and improve competitive advantage.

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Toshiba and Smart Choice Communications Certify Interoperability of Strata CIX VoIP Systems and Smart Choice SIP Trunking

Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division and Smart Choice Communications (SCC) today announced the certification of interoperability of Smart Choice SIP Trunking services with Toshiba’s family of Strata® CIX™ IP business communication systems.

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Beyond the Customer Satisfaction Horizon - Fostering Loyalty through Customer Service

The contact center industry can reference decades of success in automating customer interactions using IVR. In the early years, the use of IVR was focused primarily on cost savings for the contact center and after-hours availability for the caller. Back then, customers were simply happy to have access to their information at night or over the weekend when agents weren’t available. And, regardless of the awkward touch-tone interface, IVR became a required component of every contact center strategy and one of the most annoying yet ubiquitous customer service tools. Thankfully, we’ve come a long way from those early years.

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Acme Packet Session Border Controllers in the Contact Center

Session border controllers (SBCs) are being deployed by contact centers to enable the delivery of secure, high-quality, real-time interactive communications, including VoIP and UC. Similarly, service providers are using SBCs in their new offerings for their hosted and outsourced contact center solutions.

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Acme Packet Session Border Controllers in the Enterprise

Large enterprises have been expanding their deployments of IP telephony (IPT) for several years now. Planning has already begun to extend the benefits of interactive communications over IP beyond voice services to include real-time presence-based voice, videoconferencing, chat/instant messaging, multimedia collaboration, telepresence, and more. 

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Avaya Completes Acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions

Avaya announced completion of its acquisition of the Nortel Enterprise Solutions business. Now things get interesting.

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Accelerating Your Workflow with Unified Conferencing

White Paper on the value and applications for unified conferencing as a UC application.

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Unified Communications Resellers and Consultants the Focus of UC Summit 2010

Industry Leaders Gather for Education and Networking Event Highlighting the Role of the UC Channel

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Texas A&M University Plans for the Future with Clearspan®

Opened in 1876 as Texas' first public institution of higher learning, Texas A&M University (TAMU) today boasts 46,000 plus undergraduate and 8,500 graduate students studying in over 250 degree programs in 10 colleges. It is among the top U.S. universities

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NET Branches Out in its Gateways and Mobility

Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NET) announced general availability of its VXe software release that will deliver extended unified communications features on NET’s VX Series voice switches.

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Benefits of Using a Demarcation Device When Integrating Legacy Voice, SIP Trunks and Microsoft OCS R2

The term “trunking” has been used in the telecom industry for a very long time. The term “SIP Trunking” is a VoIP-related term with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) being used for initiating and tearing down calls. The SIP Trunking market has seen growing interest over the past two years and has now come into the mainstream

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Your Voice is Your Key

Personal security and privacy, while always an issue in people’s minds, took a huge leap in focus just after 9 11, from both a physical and intellectual property perspective. In the almost decade since that horrific event other events have

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End User Insights: The REAL Value of Unified Messaging

Customers, partners, colleagues, just about everyone, expect – and demand - instant responsiveness. To enable this instant response, employees need to have access to the latest communications and personal productivity tools. One of these productivity tools is Unified Messaging (UM). Unified messaging is the integration of voice, fax, and email messages into a single universal inbox. The message notification in UM, allows users to access any of these, anywhere, anytime, from any device or terminal, whether a telephone, smart phone, or PC. These UM solutions also provides a range of features such as, message management, screening/filtering, consolidated message notification, desktop/browser fax & voice mail retrieval, web-based messaging, and cross-media message response.

UC Summit 2010 La Jolla, CA

   The 2nd Annual UC Summit!  The need for such an event has become ever more apparent this year as UCStrategies channel experts continue to work with the reseller channel and end-user consultants.  The many complexities of Unified Communications are creating a variety of challenges as well as opportunities for the channels – and vendors will find that the channel evolution affects them in a variety of ways.   The UC Summit brings together vendors, executives from key and new UC integrators and end-user consultants in a unique format that offers opportunities to each of the constituencies.

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Unified Communication Journey--Setting the Itinerary

UC provides an opportunity to introduce productivity benefits, to transform business processes, and even create new and innovative ways of engaging the external marketplace.Four main steps comprise the UC journey, each defined by progressively greater capabilities and benefits:

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The US Market for Fixed Mobile Convergence and Mobile Unified Communications

The enterprise telecommunicationsmarket is in the midst of a fundamental restructuring in terms of technology,applications, and market participants. The technology shift has come about fromthe migration to IP based solutions for voice and video in combination with themerger of previously

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Voice and Video Application Performance Management in UC Deployments

Psytechnics has released the white paper "Voice and Video Application Performance Management in UC Deployments". Within the paper, Psytechnics addresses a key unified communication concern,

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UCStrategies.com to Offer “Where’s the ROI in Unified Communications?” Webinar

Free Webinar to Show How Enterprises and Contact Centers Can Get a Hard Return on Unified Communications Investments Through a Unique Process Automation Approach

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Enabling Resilient, Secure, and High Availability Voice Services in Microsoft OCS Deployments

Organizations are moving towards a centralized call processing model by leveraging the converged IP networks to save costs. But planning to consolidate infrastructure at the headquarters and extending the enterprise to include branch offices and remote sites,

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Orange Business Services releases Why More is Less white paper

What is the biggest bottleneck in your business? What is the greatest time cost for your company’s employees? If asked, probably few people would say “the network,” but we’re willing to bet that it is in the