Today’s IT investments require bottom-line, quantifiable truths and Unified communications (UC) is no exception. This whitepaper covers best practice tips on building a comprehensive business case for UC systems
This white paper discusses the four stages of a unified communications (UC) journey: 1) individual productivity, 2) workgroup productivity, 3) communications-enabled business processes, and 4) enterprise transformation. It notes that UC can significantly improve productivity, reduce costs, and transform business processes and customer engagement. The paper provides examples of cost savings and productivity gains achieved at each stage. It argues that companies should view UC as an evolutionary journey that delivers ongoing benefits, and that now is the time to begin planning their UC strategy and implementation.
The document discusses Cisco's strategy of partnering with other companies to deliver collaboration solutions to customers. It provides three case studies highlighting partnerships with Accenture, IBM, and Microsoft. The partnerships allow Cisco to offer customers complete solutions, industry-specific expertise, global reach, and interoperability between Cisco and partner technologies. The partnerships provide benefits such as reduced risk, end-to-end solutions, and access to new markets for both Cisco and its partners.
This white paper compares the unified communications solutions of Cisco and ShoreTel. It finds that ShoreTel offers numerous advantages over Cisco solutions, including more streamlined deployment and management from a single interface, easier scalability to support growth, and significantly lower total cost of ownership. Customer satisfaction metrics also show higher ratings for ShoreTel. While Cisco solutions require complex, multi-server architectures, expensive training, and high costs of management and upgrades over time, ShoreTel provides an integrated, easy-to-use solution that allows organizations to realize the benefits of unified communications without the high costs and complexity of Cisco's offerings.
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The document discusses how the Microsoft-Polycom unified communications solution can maximize ROI by helping organizations reduce costs, optimize their communications infrastructure, simplify IT management, and improve productivity. Specifically, it outlines how the solution can lower travel expenses, conferencing costs, and real estate needs while streamlining communications systems and making them easier to manage. The solution provides a fully interoperable platform for presence, instant messaging, voice, video, and conferencing capabilities.
How can you open up your enterprise to the vast array of consumer devices available without opening it up to risk?
The recent Olympic and Paralympic Games were a perfect microcosm for a BYOD, or ‘Bring-Your-Own-Device’ strategy. The advantages of such a policy for your enterprise are clear: continuous renewal of technology, increased personal productivity and less reliance on support desk functions, to name just a few.
http://bit.ly/M9emb7
[CompTIA] 4th Annual Trends in Cloud Computing - Full ReportAssespro Nacional
This document summarizes key findings from CompTIA's 4th Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study. The study surveyed 501 IT professionals and 400 IT firms to assess cloud adoption trends. It found that cloud computing is becoming mainstream, with most companies now relying on cloud services for storage, disaster recovery, and security. However, some confusion remains regarding cloud models and terminology. While adoption is high, only 46% of IT firms described their cloud business as fully mature. The impact of cloud computing continues to drive both end users and IT firms to better understand cloud and move toward more strategic cloud integration.
Based on, and including, interviews with a global panel of experts from world-leading institutions, Capitalising on the Digital Age outlines future revenue models and strategies that media and telecoms firms should consider adopting in order to prosper in a world where the value of traditional business models is slowly being eroded.
Today’s IT investments require bottom-line, quantifiable truths and Unified communications (UC) is no exception. This whitepaper covers best practice tips on building a comprehensive business case for UC systems
This white paper discusses the four stages of a unified communications (UC) journey: 1) individual productivity, 2) workgroup productivity, 3) communications-enabled business processes, and 4) enterprise transformation. It notes that UC can significantly improve productivity, reduce costs, and transform business processes and customer engagement. The paper provides examples of cost savings and productivity gains achieved at each stage. It argues that companies should view UC as an evolutionary journey that delivers ongoing benefits, and that now is the time to begin planning their UC strategy and implementation.
The document discusses Cisco's strategy of partnering with other companies to deliver collaboration solutions to customers. It provides three case studies highlighting partnerships with Accenture, IBM, and Microsoft. The partnerships allow Cisco to offer customers complete solutions, industry-specific expertise, global reach, and interoperability between Cisco and partner technologies. The partnerships provide benefits such as reduced risk, end-to-end solutions, and access to new markets for both Cisco and its partners.
This white paper compares the unified communications solutions of Cisco and ShoreTel. It finds that ShoreTel offers numerous advantages over Cisco solutions, including more streamlined deployment and management from a single interface, easier scalability to support growth, and significantly lower total cost of ownership. Customer satisfaction metrics also show higher ratings for ShoreTel. While Cisco solutions require complex, multi-server architectures, expensive training, and high costs of management and upgrades over time, ShoreTel provides an integrated, easy-to-use solution that allows organizations to realize the benefits of unified communications without the high costs and complexity of Cisco's offerings.
Maximising roi with msoft polycom englisharatulevu
The document discusses how the Microsoft-Polycom unified communications solution can maximize ROI by helping organizations reduce costs, optimize their communications infrastructure, simplify IT management, and improve productivity. Specifically, it outlines how the solution can lower travel expenses, conferencing costs, and real estate needs while streamlining communications systems and making them easier to manage. The solution provides a fully interoperable platform for presence, instant messaging, voice, video, and conferencing capabilities.
How can you open up your enterprise to the vast array of consumer devices available without opening it up to risk?
The recent Olympic and Paralympic Games were a perfect microcosm for a BYOD, or ‘Bring-Your-Own-Device’ strategy. The advantages of such a policy for your enterprise are clear: continuous renewal of technology, increased personal productivity and less reliance on support desk functions, to name just a few.
http://bit.ly/M9emb7
[CompTIA] 4th Annual Trends in Cloud Computing - Full ReportAssespro Nacional
This document summarizes key findings from CompTIA's 4th Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study. The study surveyed 501 IT professionals and 400 IT firms to assess cloud adoption trends. It found that cloud computing is becoming mainstream, with most companies now relying on cloud services for storage, disaster recovery, and security. However, some confusion remains regarding cloud models and terminology. While adoption is high, only 46% of IT firms described their cloud business as fully mature. The impact of cloud computing continues to drive both end users and IT firms to better understand cloud and move toward more strategic cloud integration.
Based on, and including, interviews with a global panel of experts from world-leading institutions, Capitalising on the Digital Age outlines future revenue models and strategies that media and telecoms firms should consider adopting in order to prosper in a world where the value of traditional business models is slowly being eroded.
Unified Communications:
Comparing Cisco and
ShoreTel Solutions
Side-by-side comparison is conclusive: unlike Cisco, ShoreTel’s
all-in-one UC solution is designed to deliver lower total cost
of ownership (TCO).
Making a Pain-free Migration to Unified CommunicationsReadWrite
Every firm, company or enterprise with distributed data and voice networks is looking for ways to control costs and increase efficiency. To achieve these goals, businesses need to integrate both voice and data onto a single, converged network to reduce costs and improve productivity. A converged voice and data network is the foundation for Unified Communications (UC), which fosters productivity through mobility and collaboration. Mobile technology allows users to work smarter with simple, end-to-end solutions that combine time-saving communication tools that boost user performance, such as virtual private networks and wireless applications. UC also promotes effective collaboration by connecting people with the right resources the first time, thereby increasing productivity. This paper examines the value of UC applications, tools and technologies to provide guidance for pain-free migration to a more efficient and high-performance business environment.
Insights Success is a platform that focuses distinctively on emerging as well as leading IT companies, their confrontational style of doing business and way of delivering effective and collaborative solutions to strengthen market share.Our magazine talks about leaders and orators from the world of technology, which includes CEO’s, CIO’s, VP’s, Managers and other professionals who had set a benchmark in the revolution of IT industry.
The document discusses the disruption of traditional media and communications business models by the emergence of the "Anywhere Network". The Anywhere Network is described as a seamless and accessible infrastructure that provides a connection for everyone to everything from anywhere. This is liberating consumers and disrupting existing business models. The summary discusses how business models are evolving from ones with total control over networks and users, to displaced control models provided by companies like Google and eBay, to emerging community-driven and user-centric models. It also discusses how revenue models are shifting from subscription-based to advertising-based models due to these changes.
The State of UC: Future Adopters Poised to Reap Benefits via CloudMari Hansen
Companies like yours are successfully addressing communications and collaboration challenges with UC. Learn what holds others back - and how to overcome those obstacles.
‘Communications & Collaboration Technologies’ as Strategic Imperative for Ent...IJERA Editor
With an aim to increase productivity and satisfaction, CIOs across the globe are scaling up their investments in advanced communications & collaboration technologies. The need to communicate with customers and employees irrespective of time and place is further driving the development of disruptive communications & collaboration technologies. The evolution of new and affordable communications & collaboration solutions such as IP PBX and web conferencing has led to a decline in the adoption of traditional audio and video conferencing solutions. Enterprises are opting for flexible solutions that also offer additional features at lower prices compared to traditional conferencing solutions
This document provides an overview of unified conferencing, which allows for voice, video, and web collaboration on a single platform. Unified conferencing provides a single conference experience for participants regardless of media type. The benefits include more flexible and productive meetings that improve return on investment. Polycom unified conferencing addresses these challenges with a single platform that supports multiple networks and provides rich features and management interfaces.
This document provides an overview of unified conferencing, which allows for voice, video, and web collaboration on a single platform. Unified conferencing provides a single conference experience for participants regardless of media type. The benefits include more flexible and productive meetings that improve return on investment. Polycom unified conferencing uses a single management platform to support multiple networks and provides rich features and deployment options.
Unified Conferencing provides voice, video, and web conferencing on a single platform with a common set of features and interfaces. It allows flexible conferencing options regardless of participant location or device. Benefits include more robust and productive meetings, easier conference support, and superior return on investment from eliminating duplicate voice and video systems. Polycom provides a unified conferencing solution built on its Multipoint Gateway Controller technology that seamlessly bridges different network and device types.
The document discusses implementing a unified communications (UC) strategy at a law firm. It describes how the firm researched UC technologies over eight months before implementing an Avaya VoIP phone system in 2006. The implementation included VoIP phones for all offices, standardized models for different user groups, and redundancy features. The author notes that while technology choices are important, proper integration with existing networks is essential for a UC system to succeed.
An Exploratory Study of Usability Practice from User-Centered Design View: M...Ruby Kuo
The document summarizes an exploratory study on usability practice from a user-centered design perspective in Taiwan's internet industry. Through in-depth interviews with 14 professionals, the study found:
1) Usability knowledge and skills were generally lacking, with most learning through experience rather than formal training.
2) Design methods were typically linear rather than iterative as recommended by user-centered design. Deadlines often took priority over usability.
3) While usability testing and prototyping were acknowledged as helpful, they were seldom used due to schedule and budget constraints. Users tended to be involved primarily to satisfy business goals rather than design goals.
Siemens established ShareNet in 1998 as a knowledge management system to facilitate knowledge sharing among its employees globally. ShareNet allowed employees to connect, share expertise, and find solutions to problems. It helped Siemens win contracts and saved millions. However, as the telecom industry declined, Siemens faced cost pressures and had to justify ShareNet's value. While usage grew, only a small percentage contributed actively. The document analyzes ShareNet's costs and benefits, finding that the revenues from new projects outweigh costs, and recommends alternatives like rewarding contributions to encourage more active participation and justify ongoing costs.
1. The document provides a history of Dell and its business strategies from 1996 to present. It discusses Dell's transition to a build-to-order model and virtual company structure to outsource non-core activities.
2. It also summarizes Bharti Airtel's strategy to partner with other companies to manage its IT infrastructure and contact centers in order to focus on customer service and rapid growth in India.
3. Both companies emphasize flexibility and using technology/outsourcing to efficiently adapt to customer needs and market changes while maintaining low costs.
The document summarizes a presentation on the top 10 critical issues facing the European connected home marketplace. It lists the panelists and moderator discussing these issues. The issues include how to combat cord-cutting, leveraging growth in connected devices, generating higher use of smart TVs, standardizing app platforms, managing costs of new connections and services, measuring cross-device consumption, determining target customers, decisions around in-home vs out-of-home cloud services, search and recommendations, and building holistic customer relationships.
Mr. Sohan David has over 20 years of experience in business operations, management, and customer service roles. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and a Master's in Business Administration. His career includes positions as Operations Manager for a digital media company, Call Centre Manager for a business services firm he co-founded, and roles in client services and back office operations for an asset management company and insurance companies. He has a strong background in sales strategy, business process improvement, systems management, and leading customer service teams.
Raport ilustruje liczbę fanów na największych fan page'ach polskich blogów. Powstał w oparciu o dane analityczne www.napoleoncat.com i www.blogerstar.pl.
Liczba fanów oddaje stan na 6 maja 2014.
The document describes the process of creating an advertisement plug for a newspaper. It discusses selecting a conventional size for the plug and inserting a picture of a rugby player. Blue was used as the background color due to its association with rugby. Text with competition details and the sponsor was added in white. The Six Nations symbol and a caption directing readers to more information were also included. Finally, a website address was placed in the corner to provide further details about competitions.
Allison Rojas presenta su proyecto de vida, en el cual detalla que su familia espera que se supere y sea una gran profesional, sus valores más importantes son ser emprendedora, positiva, respetuosa, tolerante, paciente, amable y luchadora, y que sus mejores habilidades son el razonamiento verbal, la memoria y la creatividad. Lo que más la motiva es su familia y las ganas de superarse.
INFORME SEGUNDO DEBATE PROYECTO DE LEY DE RECURSOS HIDRICOS, USO Y APROVECHAM...Jaime Abril Abril
# Trámite 31435
Tipo de documento MEMORANDO INTERNO
Fecha recepción 11-may-2010 11:15
Fecha vencimiento
Numeración documento AN-CE7-P-247
Fecha oficio 11-may-2010
Dirigido a ARQ. FERNANDO CORDERO
Remitente ABRIL JAIME
Unified Communications:
Comparing Cisco and
ShoreTel Solutions
Side-by-side comparison is conclusive: unlike Cisco, ShoreTel’s
all-in-one UC solution is designed to deliver lower total cost
of ownership (TCO).
Making a Pain-free Migration to Unified CommunicationsReadWrite
Every firm, company or enterprise with distributed data and voice networks is looking for ways to control costs and increase efficiency. To achieve these goals, businesses need to integrate both voice and data onto a single, converged network to reduce costs and improve productivity. A converged voice and data network is the foundation for Unified Communications (UC), which fosters productivity through mobility and collaboration. Mobile technology allows users to work smarter with simple, end-to-end solutions that combine time-saving communication tools that boost user performance, such as virtual private networks and wireless applications. UC also promotes effective collaboration by connecting people with the right resources the first time, thereby increasing productivity. This paper examines the value of UC applications, tools and technologies to provide guidance for pain-free migration to a more efficient and high-performance business environment.
Insights Success is a platform that focuses distinctively on emerging as well as leading IT companies, their confrontational style of doing business and way of delivering effective and collaborative solutions to strengthen market share.Our magazine talks about leaders and orators from the world of technology, which includes CEO’s, CIO’s, VP’s, Managers and other professionals who had set a benchmark in the revolution of IT industry.
The document discusses the disruption of traditional media and communications business models by the emergence of the "Anywhere Network". The Anywhere Network is described as a seamless and accessible infrastructure that provides a connection for everyone to everything from anywhere. This is liberating consumers and disrupting existing business models. The summary discusses how business models are evolving from ones with total control over networks and users, to displaced control models provided by companies like Google and eBay, to emerging community-driven and user-centric models. It also discusses how revenue models are shifting from subscription-based to advertising-based models due to these changes.
The State of UC: Future Adopters Poised to Reap Benefits via CloudMari Hansen
Companies like yours are successfully addressing communications and collaboration challenges with UC. Learn what holds others back - and how to overcome those obstacles.
‘Communications & Collaboration Technologies’ as Strategic Imperative for Ent...IJERA Editor
With an aim to increase productivity and satisfaction, CIOs across the globe are scaling up their investments in advanced communications & collaboration technologies. The need to communicate with customers and employees irrespective of time and place is further driving the development of disruptive communications & collaboration technologies. The evolution of new and affordable communications & collaboration solutions such as IP PBX and web conferencing has led to a decline in the adoption of traditional audio and video conferencing solutions. Enterprises are opting for flexible solutions that also offer additional features at lower prices compared to traditional conferencing solutions
This document provides an overview of unified conferencing, which allows for voice, video, and web collaboration on a single platform. Unified conferencing provides a single conference experience for participants regardless of media type. The benefits include more flexible and productive meetings that improve return on investment. Polycom unified conferencing addresses these challenges with a single platform that supports multiple networks and provides rich features and management interfaces.
This document provides an overview of unified conferencing, which allows for voice, video, and web collaboration on a single platform. Unified conferencing provides a single conference experience for participants regardless of media type. The benefits include more flexible and productive meetings that improve return on investment. Polycom unified conferencing uses a single management platform to support multiple networks and provides rich features and deployment options.
Unified Conferencing provides voice, video, and web conferencing on a single platform with a common set of features and interfaces. It allows flexible conferencing options regardless of participant location or device. Benefits include more robust and productive meetings, easier conference support, and superior return on investment from eliminating duplicate voice and video systems. Polycom provides a unified conferencing solution built on its Multipoint Gateway Controller technology that seamlessly bridges different network and device types.
The document discusses implementing a unified communications (UC) strategy at a law firm. It describes how the firm researched UC technologies over eight months before implementing an Avaya VoIP phone system in 2006. The implementation included VoIP phones for all offices, standardized models for different user groups, and redundancy features. The author notes that while technology choices are important, proper integration with existing networks is essential for a UC system to succeed.
An Exploratory Study of Usability Practice from User-Centered Design View: M...Ruby Kuo
The document summarizes an exploratory study on usability practice from a user-centered design perspective in Taiwan's internet industry. Through in-depth interviews with 14 professionals, the study found:
1) Usability knowledge and skills were generally lacking, with most learning through experience rather than formal training.
2) Design methods were typically linear rather than iterative as recommended by user-centered design. Deadlines often took priority over usability.
3) While usability testing and prototyping were acknowledged as helpful, they were seldom used due to schedule and budget constraints. Users tended to be involved primarily to satisfy business goals rather than design goals.
Siemens established ShareNet in 1998 as a knowledge management system to facilitate knowledge sharing among its employees globally. ShareNet allowed employees to connect, share expertise, and find solutions to problems. It helped Siemens win contracts and saved millions. However, as the telecom industry declined, Siemens faced cost pressures and had to justify ShareNet's value. While usage grew, only a small percentage contributed actively. The document analyzes ShareNet's costs and benefits, finding that the revenues from new projects outweigh costs, and recommends alternatives like rewarding contributions to encourage more active participation and justify ongoing costs.
1. The document provides a history of Dell and its business strategies from 1996 to present. It discusses Dell's transition to a build-to-order model and virtual company structure to outsource non-core activities.
2. It also summarizes Bharti Airtel's strategy to partner with other companies to manage its IT infrastructure and contact centers in order to focus on customer service and rapid growth in India.
3. Both companies emphasize flexibility and using technology/outsourcing to efficiently adapt to customer needs and market changes while maintaining low costs.
The document summarizes a presentation on the top 10 critical issues facing the European connected home marketplace. It lists the panelists and moderator discussing these issues. The issues include how to combat cord-cutting, leveraging growth in connected devices, generating higher use of smart TVs, standardizing app platforms, managing costs of new connections and services, measuring cross-device consumption, determining target customers, decisions around in-home vs out-of-home cloud services, search and recommendations, and building holistic customer relationships.
Mr. Sohan David has over 20 years of experience in business operations, management, and customer service roles. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and a Master's in Business Administration. His career includes positions as Operations Manager for a digital media company, Call Centre Manager for a business services firm he co-founded, and roles in client services and back office operations for an asset management company and insurance companies. He has a strong background in sales strategy, business process improvement, systems management, and leading customer service teams.
Raport ilustruje liczbę fanów na największych fan page'ach polskich blogów. Powstał w oparciu o dane analityczne www.napoleoncat.com i www.blogerstar.pl.
Liczba fanów oddaje stan na 6 maja 2014.
The document describes the process of creating an advertisement plug for a newspaper. It discusses selecting a conventional size for the plug and inserting a picture of a rugby player. Blue was used as the background color due to its association with rugby. Text with competition details and the sponsor was added in white. The Six Nations symbol and a caption directing readers to more information were also included. Finally, a website address was placed in the corner to provide further details about competitions.
Allison Rojas presenta su proyecto de vida, en el cual detalla que su familia espera que se supere y sea una gran profesional, sus valores más importantes son ser emprendedora, positiva, respetuosa, tolerante, paciente, amable y luchadora, y que sus mejores habilidades son el razonamiento verbal, la memoria y la creatividad. Lo que más la motiva es su familia y las ganas de superarse.
INFORME SEGUNDO DEBATE PROYECTO DE LEY DE RECURSOS HIDRICOS, USO Y APROVECHAM...Jaime Abril Abril
# Trámite 31435
Tipo de documento MEMORANDO INTERNO
Fecha recepción 11-may-2010 11:15
Fecha vencimiento
Numeración documento AN-CE7-P-247
Fecha oficio 11-may-2010
Dirigido a ARQ. FERNANDO CORDERO
Remitente ABRIL JAIME
Radar fundamentals introduces key concepts of radar remote sensing. Radar transmits and receives microwave signals to image the Earth's surface. There are two main types of radar systems - Real Aperture Radar (RAR) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). SAR uses antenna movement to synthesize a larger antenna and achieve higher resolution. Radar backscatter is influenced by system parameters like wavelength, polarization, and incident angle as well as target characteristics such as surface roughness and electrical properties. SAR images provide unique views of the Earth's surface and are important tools for environmental and military applications.
This document discusses key elements in constructing effective advertisements. It explains that advertisements aim to promote products and grab viewers' attention to increase sales. Important aspects of ads include mise-en-scene elements like costumes, lighting, acting and props to make products visually appealing. Ads also use techniques like bold text, music and celebrities to catch viewers' attention. The AIDA principle outlines how ads work to first attract attention, then interest viewers in learning more about the product, make them desire it and finally take action to purchase it.
The document provides a history of meteorology, beginning with Aristotle coining the term "meteorology" for one of his research books. It discusses how ancient cultures practiced rudimentary weather forecasting based on observations of the sky, wind, and animals. Scientific breakthroughs in the 17th century, like the invention of the barometer, helped establish meteorology as a science. Modern meteorology utilizes improved tools and technology like satellites, radars, and telecommunications to provide accurate, timely weather forecasts.
- The author posted a music video on Facebook and YouTube to get feedback from the target audience, who provided both positive and negative feedback.
- Positive feedback included that the target audience enjoyed the narrative and use of women in non-conventional punk music roles. They felt the lip syncing was convincing.
- Negative feedback criticized the unclear narrative and said the video portrayed women behaving inappropriately and influenced youth negatively with things like stealing, smoking, and littering.
- YouTube analytics showed 26 views of the video, allowing the creators to track viewership over time.
There are over 100 types of cancers that can affect any part of the body. In 2007, cancer caused over 7 million deaths worldwide, with over 70% occurring in low and middle income countries. The top cancers that kill men are lung, stomach, liver, colorectal, and esophageal, while the top cancers that kill women are breast, lung, stomach, colorectal, and cervical. Tobacco use is a leading preventable cause of cancer. Early detection and treatment can cure a third of cancers.
1) The document discusses designing a magazine cover and style for a heavy metal magazine.
2) The writer chose a bold font for the masthead that they felt suited the genre.
3) Images on the cover were to depict the attitude of bands in a field with parks to represent their childish nature beyond their serious performances.
This document contains summaries of Anna Dugard's portfolio, including projects for the Formula Student team at the University of Sussex, exhibition designs for trade shows, a concept for an innovative cycling jacket, and interior design work for the re-fit of a company head office.
1) WAYF is a Danish identity federation that facilitates identity information exchange between users and services nationally and internationally. It has over 4.5 million vetted users.
2) SWAMID is a Swedish identity federation started in 2005/2006 by universities to enable single sign-on. It has seen growth through services like the national admissions system and video conferencing.
3) Kalmar2 defines common standards for identity management between the Nordic identity federations of HAKA, FEIDE, and SWAMID to enable cross-border collaboration.
The document discusses the nature and objectives of financial accounting, which includes collecting and recording business transactions through double-entry bookkeeping, communicating results through final accounts, and meeting various user needs such as owners, creditors, and government. Financial accounting aims to present an accurate account of a business's financial performance and position through recording transactions, preparing annual reports, and providing other analyses to facilitate decision making and resource allocation. The objectives of company annual reports are to provide profitability and financial information to shareholders and creditors, though views have shifted to see businesses as benefitting the wider community.
The music video is for Nicki Minaj's song "Your Love" released in 2010. It explores themes of gender representation, showing Nicki as a geisha competing for the affection of her samurai teacher with another jealous female student. The video uses Japanese cultural elements like costumes and swords to illustrate the song's lyrics about a forbidden love between student and teacher. Nicki creates a stylish star image through her persona that many fans aspire to.
Este documento proporciona una introducción a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, describiendo sus funciones principales como una herramienta para crear presentaciones y diapositivas. Explica cómo iniciar PowerPoint, insertar y diseñar diapositivas nuevas, agregar texto e imágenes, y realizar mejoras de formato.
Five Essential Benefits Driving UC Adoption by SMBsDigium
The document discusses 5 key benefits of adopting a Unified Communications (UC) solution for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). These include: 1) Doing more with less by having an easily managed solution, 2) Incorporating mobility to connect remote workers, 3) Achieving substantial savings on operating costs, 4) Providing significant improvements to customer service capabilities, and 5) Moving beyond basic functionality as the business grows. The document provides examples and considerations for SMBs evaluating UC solutions.
Unified communications (UC) integrates various communication systems and devices to allow users to easily collaborate in real-time. It streamlines communications, cuts costs by leveraging existing infrastructure, and ties together people, devices, and information. Key components of UC include unified messaging, instant messaging, presence/identity, integration with existing infrastructure like PBX systems, video conferencing, and linking UC with business processes. Companies realize value from UC by replacing insecure apps, automating workflows, reducing travel costs through virtual meetings, and providing a single identity for presence and communication across channels. When planning a UC strategy, companies should target objectives, take a phased approach, and partner with experts.
1) Unified Communications (UC) integrates various communication methods like voice, video, instant messaging, and collaboration tools to improve how knowledge workers share information and collaborate both inside and outside an organization.
2) While UC can provide substantial benefits like increased productivity and competitive advantage, its implementation also faces challenges such as complex deployment, user adoption, and ensuring the solution meets an organization's specific business needs.
3) Most enterprises are either currently deploying or plan to deploy UC solutions within the next two years in order to improve collaboration and keep up with competitors that are leveraging UC's benefits.
Unified communications (UC) integrate real-time and non real-time communication methods to improve productivity. It allows users to easily communicate via methods like instant messaging, video conferencing, and file sharing across multiple devices. UC provides benefits to small and medium-sized businesses such as reduced costs, increased mobility and flexibility for remote workers, and improved customer service. Popular UC features include fixed/mobile integration, video conferencing, access to directories from any device, and mobile applications. UC also aims to strengthen security through features such as disaster recovery and protecting network, voice, and data.
This Wainhouse Research Ebook investigates Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) as an enabler of Digital Transformation. We’re focusing on the broad, enterprise-wide impact that a well deployed, integrated, and expanded UC&C experience delivers, and its ability to enable a larger Digital Transformation strategy.
This eBook provides an objective, unbiased, and detailed overview of UC&C Transformation, covering the following topics:
Digital Transformation - key concepts, terms, and definitions
Enterprise Drivers - primary drivers leading the enterprise to a digital transformation strategy
Transformation Reality - common enterprise barriers to digital transformation
Key Steps & Best Practices - to making your transformation journey successful
Transformation Use Cases & Opportunities - transformation targets and benefits
This eBook includes expert analyst insight backed by the following research:
In-Dept Interviews – with product teams, IT Decision Makers (ITDMs), and executives with experience transforming their enterprises with the use of UC&C tools and solutions.
Wainhouse Research Data – we reference data points from end-user and ITDM surveys, briefings with technology vendors, and insight gained from enterprise consulting engagements.
This newsletter provides an 8-step approach to developing a strategic roadmap for unified communications (UC). It recommends defining an organizational vision and requirements, evaluating current systems, identifying viable solutions, developing a transformation roadmap, and performing ongoing improvements. The newsletter includes an analysis from Gartner recommending a project-focused rather than technology-focused approach to UC planning to better match requirements with solutions.
In making the case for Unified Communications, it’s important to dispel misconceptions and understand your needs well before taking the plunge. In this presentation we'll help you to better assess how your organization can benefit from digital collaboration technology.
The document discusses how IT managers are navigating increasing demands for mobile and visual collaboration tools from users. It provides insights into IT priorities and plans for unified communications (UC) investments. Key points include:
1) Improving collaboration is a top priority, but reducing costs is also important. The best practice is to design UC projects that drive both hard and soft cost savings.
2) Over half of IT buyers have plans to adopt UC, showing it is taking hold. Vendors now integrate voice, video, messaging and conferencing into consolidated suites.
3) Support for mobility is linked to simplifying and consolidating UC infrastructure to accommodate a range of endpoints. Most enterprises plan mobile UC applications to leverage
Putting Unified Communications to Work for YouFonality
Unified communications (UC) uses an integrated platform to support voice, video, data and other communication functions through a single system accessible from various devices. It aims to improve work efficiency by enabling seamless collaboration and information sharing. A study found knowledge workers spend nearly half their time on non-core tasks that could be eliminated through UC. It allows transferring calls, screen sharing, messaging and accessing applications regardless of location. UC provides phone system functionality as well as collaboration tools to improve productivity. Companies implementing UC have seen cost savings from reduced downtime and more efficient use of IT resources.
Small Business Guide to Unified CommunicationsShoreTel
This document provides an overview of unified communications and how it can benefit small businesses. It discusses what unified communications is, how it can help with key business challenges around expenses, customer service, competition and attracting employees. It also provides best practices for evaluating a unified communications system, including considering both hard quantifiable benefits and softer benefits around productivity. The document is intended to help small businesses understand how unified communications can provide business value.
Microsoft Unified Communications in Manufacturing - Accelerating Decisions Wh...Microsoft Private Cloud
Unified communications (UC) broadly defines a highly integrated
communications environment that combines, or unifies, email, voice,
video, and data communications in innovative ways to provide process
and productivity improvement. Given that the competitive effectiveness of global manufacturing firms will be largely dictated by their ability to get the greatest performance out of their business
networks, UC technology represents an important enabling technology
platform. UC represents both immediate business benefit in the form of reduced travel and telecommunication costs and long-term returns through higher levels of information use, better decision making, and shortened process cycles.
Unified communications aims to improve how organizations interact and perform by integrating various communication and collaboration technologies. While increased productivity is often a goal, enterprises should focus on enabling customer-facing processes to fully leverage its value. Contact centers provide inspiration as they have developed disciplines around routing, reporting, queuing, etc. that can be applied across customer-facing employees. This keeps the customer as part of the unified communications strategy and can improve both productivity and customer satisfaction.
A Unified Communication Solution refers to a phone system that unifies several communication methods within a business. It combines all the ways of communication, including video conferencing, phone calls, SMS, email, instant messaging, and fax. UcaaS Solution provides a single communication platform for enterprises to improve collaboration and communication between the internal staff and clients.
Enterprise Unified Communications A Checklistbryanmck
This document provides a checklist for enterprises to consider before implementing a unified communications (UC) solution. It discusses the advantages such as improved productivity and collaboration. Potential disadvantages include that UC is still immature and lacks experience and best practices. It outlines key questions to ask regarding network readiness, user needs, and vendor integration and support. Basic features that all UC solutions should provide are listed, along with additional desirable features. The document concludes by recommending next steps to contact an expert for consultation.
This document discusses how Esnatech provides unified communication solutions to help "Hybrid" enterprises that have both on-premise and cloud-based systems. It outlines challenges large organizations face with managing multiple legacy voice systems and applications across different locations. Esnatech helps by providing a centralized voice messaging system, unified messaging, mobility features, and the ability to integrate these core voice applications with a company's private cloud infrastructure and other cloud investments. This simplifies management, provides consistent functionality, and helps eliminate costs while improving collaboration for organizations with complex, multi-generational IT environments.
Unified Communications & Collaboration: Connecting people and informationComputacenter UK LTD
Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) aims to connect people and information across disparate locations to improve productivity. UCC brings together technologies like IP telephony, video conferencing, instant messaging and collaboration tools on a single platform. Implementing UCC requires establishing an IP-based communications infrastructure and adopting visual collaboration tools to replace travel with virtual meetings and training sessions. Computacenter can help organizations implement and support UCC solutions to realize benefits like reduced costs, improved flexibility and collaboration, and faster decision making.
The document summarizes an interview with a UCC expert about unified communications and collaboration (UCC) solutions. Some key points:
- UCC combines voice, video, messaging and other technologies to allow collaboration from any device from any location.
- Benefits include cost savings from using existing IT infrastructure and faster, more accessible remote collaboration.
- Selecting the right solution requires understanding a company's objectives, communication needs, and technology opportunities. An experienced consultant can help identify the best options.
- Designing a UCC solution involves understanding current and desired use cases, piloting technology, training users, and coordinating with IT on network and security requirements.
A cloud-based unified communications (UC) solution provides organizations with several benefits, including improved collaboration, employee satisfaction, and productivity. It allows flexible working and scalability. Cost savings come from reduced infrastructure costs, lower call costs, and simplified management. Business continuity is enhanced through automatic failover and call routing regardless of user location.
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This document summarizes key details about AstriCon, including that it had the largest number of speakers, talks, and tracks compared to previous years. Over 130 speakers registered interest, over 70 talks were submitted, and nearly 60 talks were scheduled across 5 tracks. There was also more open source projects showcased on the expo floor than ever before, with nine projects represented. A new panel session brought together leaders of various open source communication projects to discuss challenges. Key sessions were live streamed, allowing more people to engage beyond those physically at the event.
The Becker School District realized their aging phone system was inefficient and expensive to maintain, costing them $300 per service call. They upgraded to Digium's Switchvox VoIP system to unify communications across their 5 buildings. The Switchvox system provided significant savings by eliminating expensive service calls and allowing the school to easily manage phone extensions themselves. It was quickly installed before the start of the school year to replace their failed legacy system. The Switchvox system met all of the school's needs and has proven to be a wise investment.
Danny Windham, Digium CEO, Keynote address - ITEXPO East 2015, MiamiiDigium
The document discusses the evolutionary steps in communications technology. It begins by noting how communications has moved from big iron phone systems to hardware products becoming software products and everything moving over IP. It then discusses how communications is moving to the cloud and web. The next sections provide more details on specific steps like everything moving over IP, hardware becoming software/virtualization, and communications moving to the cloud. It discusses business and market drivers for change as well as assessing where you are today. It provides recommendations for different levels of progressiveness from buying current products to building your own solutions using web APIs and services. The conclusion is that communications will change quickly in the future and disrupt existing status quos.
The keynote discusses how cloud computing infrastructure will power future communications, highlighting three main points. First, cloud is the future for both public and private computing. Second, openness continues to be important for platforms like OpenStack and Asterisk. Third, applications need to be designed to take advantage of cloud capabilities like horizontal scaling and failure tolerance. The keynote promotes OpenStack as an open source cloud platform seeing widespread adoption and encourages trying it out.
Distribution, redundancy and high availability using OpenSIPSDigium
This document discusses using OpenSIPS, an open source SIP proxy server, to provide distribution, redundancy, and high availability for VoIP networks. It begins with an outline and brief history of VoIP. It then covers proxy servers and highlights advantages like improved performance, security, flexibility, and most importantly redundancy and high availability through failure detection and rerouting. The document focuses on OpenSIPS, describing its features such as load balancing, signaling manipulation, and over 120 modules. It also addresses using OpenSIPS for distribution across redundant servers to ensure continuity of VoIP services.
This document discusses best practices for deploying WebRTC to replace or augment existing SIP-based phone systems. It covers choosing appropriate codecs to balance bandwidth usage and call quality for different use cases. It also addresses WebRTC-specific considerations like ICE, DTLS, and asymmetric call patterns. Performance metrics are provided from test calls using different codecs on an Asterisk server. The presentation includes diagrams of common WebRTC deployment architectures and links to live demos.
Automatic Configuration Management for Kamailio and Asterisk in the era of Pu...Digium
This document discusses using configuration management tools like Puppet to automate the deployment and configuration of VoIP applications like Kamailio and Asterisk. It describes how the author's company implemented Puppet to build and configure new VMs faster. It also shares two Puppet modules the company developed - one for Kamailio and one for Asterisk - that can install and configure these applications from scratch. The document advocates for using infrastructure as code and configuration management for VoIP deployments.
This document discusses how to make an Asterisk system more secure. It begins by explaining that PBX systems are targets for hackers and how they can find unsecured systems. It then provides recommendations for securing the physical device, operating system, network, Asterisk configuration, SIP, and dialplan. Resources discussed include taking Asterisk security courses, reviewing the Asterisk wiki for security articles, keeping systems updated, and using dedicated VoIP security products to monitor for attacks.
A presentation about combining the powers of the Go language and Asterisk in order to provide fast, reliable and hugely scalable voice applications. A brief introduction about why Go presents a big opportunity for the asterisk community, a primer into developing FastAGI applications, demonstration of the AGI package [1] and a walk through the idioms and challenges of developing in Go. The talk is focused mainly on our experience of porting existing code into Go with the aim to scale our services to larger numbers accompanied with benchmarks and an introduction to some tools [2] we developed to help us test, debug and benchmark AGI applications.
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The document discusses WebRTC, a technology that enables real-time communication via video chat and file sharing directly in web browsers. It provides an overview of WebRTC's history and key features, discusses popular use cases and production applications using WebRTC like Amazon Mayday and Comcast X1. The presentation encourages attendees to build solutions with WebRTC rather than debate its technical aspects and details recent acquisitions by companies wanting to integrate WebRTC into their products.
Connecting a SIP-enabled ip camera to Asterisk is easy.
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This document traces the evolution of voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technology from 1996 to 2014. It notes the key developments including the rise of open source PBX software in 1999, improvements in quality and features during the 2000s, the growth of internet usage and broadband penetration, and major acquisitions and launches of services by Yahoo, Google, and others. While traditional landline usage has declined significantly, the document argues that voice communication remains important and VoIP continues to be driven by advances in hardware, software, APIs and integration with other communication technologies and platforms.
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The document discusses developing an interactive voice response (IVR) payment system using Asterisk. It provides an overview of using IVR for payments in Africa, where internet access is limited. The speaker then outlines the architectural considerations and development process for an IVR payment system. An example production system for tax payments via phone is presented. Security best practices and future directions with integrating IVR payments into new devices are also covered.
Discover the power of UC for your business by reading how SMB owners and IT pros transformed their business phone system from average to extraordinary with Switchvox.
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This document discusses how businesses can use Unified Communications (UC) systems like Switchvox to build and protect their brand. It defines branding and explains why it is important for creating differentiation and value. UC systems allow businesses to enhance their branding through features like interactive voice responses, call queues, reporting, mobile integration, and training tools. The document warns about potential branding blunders and emphasizes the importance of consistency across all brand touchpoints.
1. The document discusses security strategies for unified communications (UC) systems. It covers common threats like toll fraud, denial of service attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, and social engineering.
2. The document provides a history of security issues with telephone networks and explains how UC systems are now more vulnerable since they operate over the internet.
3. It emphasizes the importance of security for UC given its importance for business communications and operations. Basic security practices like strong passwords, firewalls, VPNs, updating software, and disabling unused services are recommended.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
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5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
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Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
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Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
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