There is no more frustrating a market to watch than mobile devices. The phenomena success of the iPhone demonstrated that customers would plunk down several hundred dollars for a compelling (or at least “eye-appealing”) mobile device; however,
Posted by Michael Finneran, on July 01, 2008
My UCStrategies colleagues have agreed on a definition for UC “Communications Integrated to Optimize Business Processes” that appears to be consistent with and being adopted my many of the industry’s players – both providers and users. Also,
Posted by David Yedwab, on June 26, 2008
The introduction of the more functional iPhone 3G has raised the intriguing question of whether Apple now has a mobile device that will get them into the enterprise market in a big way. While the second coming
Posted by Michael Finneran, on June 20, 2008
At long last the Unified Communications market study I’ve been working on for months is now complete. This study, Unified Communications Market 2007 2012, has been a massive undertaking, and covers not just premise based market forecasts,
Posted by Blair Pleasant, on June 15, 2008
WebMessenger Mobile for Microsoft OCS lets enterprises access Microsoft OCS on BlackBerry and other mobile devices.
Posted by Blair Pleasant, on June 12, 2008
Nortel is thinking along the same lines as ucstrategies.com, and explains that there are two types of UC - UCc and UC-B.
Posted by Blair Pleasant, on June 12, 2008
In order to better understand the benefits of Unified Communications, I’ve started collecting customer examples and case studies.Here are a few examples of Nortel customers and how they are using UC.
Posted by Blair Pleasant, on June 12, 2008
The benefits of UC to end users are hard to describe unless there is actual usage and productivity metrics. Those benefits are not only important for usage adoption, but also key to business process ROI. The new UC Strategies study digs into the experience of end users who have actually used new UC capabilities in order to get qualitative feedback about the value of UC functions to different types of business users.
Posted by Art Rosenberg, on June 09, 2008
Since their commercial debut in 1999, wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11 or “Wi-Fi” standards have been one of the major success stories in wireless. Freeing users from their network tethers increased the productivity of office workers, and allowed mobile unified communications solutions to take root. Along the way it also revolutionized home networking and launched the market for commercial Hot Spots.
Posted by Michael Finneran, on June 09, 2008
Beginning this month, UCStrategies offers a special portal for resellers only – with channel views, reseller success stories, resellers in the spotlight, product information, “partners wanted” ads from those vendors looking for a select group of partners, white papers, organization resources, forums, etc.
Posted by Pam Avila, on June 09, 2008