Executive Insights (What's This?)

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Talbot Harty Discusses NET UC Strategy, Smart SIP, and Partnerships

Talbot Harty, Chief Development Officer and Chief Information Officer for NET, joins Jim Burton for a conversation about recent acquisitions, partnerships, and how NET is adding value to facilitate the migration to unified communications.

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Bill Durr Talks about Workforce Optimization for the Enterprise

Bill Durr, Principal Global Solutions Consultant, Verint Systems, and Jim Burton of UCStrategies discuss adapting contact center workforce optimization tools and management concepts to other parts of the enterprise.

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David Price Discusses the Meridian IT IBM UC and Collaboration Practice

Helping customers receive great business value from IBM Sametime software, VoIP and a unified communications and collaboration environment.

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Paul Segre Discusses the ALU Enterprise Application Group and Transformation

Paul Segre, President of the Alcatel-Lucent Application Software Group and CEO of Genesys, joins Jim Burton and Blair Pleasant for a conversation about the changes at Alcatel-Lucent and Genesys.

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Jason Andersson Talks About Aastra UC Offerings

Jason Andersson, Aastra’s Head of Center of Excellence for Applications, talks about unified communications and the next generation of workers.

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Larry Levenberg Talks About NEC’s UC Portfolio

Larry Levenberg, Vice President and General Manager of National Channels for NEC Corporation of America, joins Jim Burton to discuss the NEC’s unified communications initiatives, including the Sphericall/IBM Foundations integration, and the company’s unique partnership programs. 

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Steve Hardy Discusses the Avaya-Nortel Roadmap

Steve Hardy, Avaya’s Director of Global Product Marketing for the Unified Communications Solutions Group, talks with Jim Burton about Avaya’s vision and the migration path for Nortel customers.

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Seamus Hourihan Introduces Acme Packet and the Role of Session Border Controllers

Seamus Hourihan, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management for Acme Packet, talks about the company and session border controller (SBCs), which enables the delivery of trusted first-class interactive communications—voice, video, multimedia, and data services—across IP network borders.  

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Jeff Kane Discusses NEC’s New Organizational Strategy and the Benefit to Customers

Jeff Kane, Senior Vice President, NEC Corporation of America, talks to Jim Burton about NEC’s recent organizational news and what it means for its own North America operations and end customers. The company recently announced the merger of NEC Unified

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Bruce Morse Discusses the UC Market and Gives a Preview of IBM's Upcoming Announcements at VoiceCon

Bruce Morse, Vice President of IBM’s Unified Communications Software Group, has a conversation with Jim Burton about what's new with IBM in the unified communications market and research that showed many are CEOs thinking about UC.

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Joe Staples Introduces the Interaction SIP Station

Joe Staples, CMO, Interactive Intelligence,  has a conversation with Jim Burton about their new Interaction SIP Station, a new communications endpoint device designed as an affordable, reliable and simple alternative to IP desk phones. 

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Mark Straton On His Keynote at VoiceCon San Francisco 2009

Mark Straton, Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Siemens Enterprise Communications has a chat with Jim Burton in a crowded (noisy) room after Mark's keynote address at VoiceCon San Francisco 2009.

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Tim Whittington Talks About Aastra’s Extensive History of Innovation and Impressive Product Portfolio

Tim Whittington, Sr. Vice-President and General Manager of Aastra USA talks with Jim Burton about Aastra’s extensive history of innovation and impressive product portfolio. 

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Kevin Schwartz Talks About Aspect's Global Professional Services

Kevin Schwartz, Executive Vice President, Global Professional Services at Aspect talks to Jim Burton about the Microsoft/Aspect relationship and how Aspect is helping customers. 

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Joe Staples Talks About ININ’s Ability to Extend Business Automation Process Beyond Just Adding Communication Process

Joe Staples, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing talks to Jim Burton about Interactive Intelligence’s approach to business process automation. Expanding business automation beyond just adding communication process to the business automation process and creating an end to end process automation

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Mike Sheridan, Aspect’s Senior VP Strategy and Marketing, Talks About The Year After Aspect's Microsoft Alliance.

Mike Sheridan, Aspect's Senior VP of Strategy and Marketing, talks with Jim Burton about the benefits of Aspect’s ability to deploy Microsoft OCS into all business platforms.

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Joe Staples on Business Process Automation - Interactive Intelligence's Approach to Unified Communications

Joe Staples, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing talks to Jim Burton about Business Process Automation - Interactive Intelligence's Approach to Unified Communications. 

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Talbot Harty Discusses NET’s Development of an Intelligent Gateway

Talbot Hary, Chief Development Officer for NET discusses NET’s development of an intelligent gateway product, which is a versatile, enterprise class product that provides the ability for a seamless, planned migration to new technology and platform infrastructure

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Mitel's Don Smith on unified communications in these troubled economic times

Don Smith gives advice on how to evaluate unified communications in these troubled economic times.