在拉霍亚,精致的大庄园度假胜地举行加州在一些最美丽的景观我妻子和我看过,统一通信峰会本周发生的4月26日是一个很好的计划和战略业务事件由加州大学策略和由亚美亚、思科、IBM、网,和其他人。与VoiceCon事件每年举行三次(在美国)两次大规模技术示范,交换的技术数据表,和设备提供的概述,加州大学峰会呼吸新鲜空气在其关注实际的战略讨论统一通信市场的领先供应商。Richard McLeod以一场主题演讲拉开了会议的序幕，主题演讲涉及思科的统一通信战略，重点讨论了收购Tandberg、与思科WebEx的进展，以及某种通信支持业务流程(CEBP)战略。接下来上场的是IBM的Bruce Morse，他实际上提供了一个非常鼓舞人心的概述，关于IBM对统一通信技术的承诺，特别是在CEBP和集成解决方案方面，他的幻灯片可以与我之前做过的微软演讲相媲美。看到我多年前的预测，以及在我出版的两本书中所预测的IBM将成为与微软争夺UC桂冠的领先者，我感觉很好。通过概述对Sametime平台的改进、会议技术的进步以及对应用程序和与WebSphere集成的关注，IBM提供了大量的工具。由于微软的大规模重组，Eric Swift无法参加这次活动，微软也没有提供备用扬声器，这对他们的活动造成了损害，但当然不会影响他们的策略。每个人都意识到，微软是这个领域的竞争对手，这是他们的第二个“半缺席事件”，可以理解的是，这甚至可能是另一场竞争，以现有的电信供应商在这个市场的感觉隐藏的议程。尽管如此，微软UC频道主管Laura Neidel还是发表了关于微软对UC市场投资的专题演讲，并表示将在今年秋季推出Wave 14/UC 2010。老实说，最令人惊讶和振奋人心的演讲是由Avaya和Brett Shockley发表的。 Even with the financial hurdles, changes in technological direction, and the recent acquisition of Nortel, Avaya has certainly surprised me as the Apple iPad, iPhone, and Mac platform has surprised me as a viable enterprise solution. To me, a truly successful Unified Communications platform must be CEBP focused. The solution must have the 5 9’s that the industry demands and the bullet list of telecommunications features that corporations are used to seeing, but Unified Communications in my mind is another label for Enhanced Telephony if the solution does not contain a focus, a strategy, and a development ecosystem surrounding it. To that measure, Brett provided a very eloquent and fresh presentation focusing on CEBP, application integration with Avaya Aura, and Apple and Windows applications. Avaya’s best bet will be to align with a Visual Studio.NET, Java, Open Source SIP, Apple Developer ecosystem to truly execute on this vision. It will be very interesting to see what Avaya does in this area by way of integration and possible acquisition to fulfill this vision. I also sat on a panel to speak at the event as well representing the only area of Unified Communications actually providing a (ROI) Return on Investment. I spoke about the value of a CEBP platform, the components of a successful Unified Communications strategy and what the channel, reseller market, providers, and customers can do now to take advantage of these solutions. The main point of my speech which was actually re-iterated and referenced in Microsoft’s and my colleague’s Bill Vollerthum of Enabling Technologies and Talbot Harty of NET, was that in order to see ROI in a Unified Communications solution, the solution has to have a CEBP strategy from the foundation through to line of business and utility application integration. If it doesn’t, there is no need for a customer to upgrade away from their current PBX. CEBP applications provide ROI for a UC upgrade almost instantaneously by replacing exising lines of business applications for communications and collaboration processes that are unique to the customer, what sets that customer apart from its competitors. I will blog about this subject next, but wanted to touch lightly on it.
感谢加州大学战略团队举办这个活动我觉得这是一个比另一个更好的投资事件我真的参加和事件提供了一个业务重点和我鼓励所有公司的高管是谁想要了解更多关于统一通信技术和业务战略参加下一个事件或至少通过http://www.ucstrategies.com在线查看内容。再次感谢吉姆和帕姆!拉霍亚简直不可思议!