Does it surprise you as much as it does us that nearly one-fifth of enterprises are not even considering Unified Communications and collaboration technology now, or planning to in the next three years?

That data point leaped out at us in a piece that Melanie Turek of Frost & Sullivan wrote over at NoJitter, based on a survey that her organization did of 200 top executives. Nineteen percent of the respondents said they aren’t considering UC at all and have no plans to deploy it in the next three years. More...

Here at Seamless Enterprise, we don’t usually bother with following the “markets” for various goods and services and solutions. For the most part, we know that isn’t your biggest concern.

If you’ve found a UC solution that really works for you, it isn’t important whether the vendor you bought it from has a 10 percent share of the particular market or a 40 percent share. As long as you can be sure the vendor will be around for a while to provide service and support – and we presume you vetted that pretty well before making the purchase – the details of who sells how much to whom this year or next year are secondary. More...

If you’re lucky, the frenzied pace of business finally starts to drop off about this time of year, and it gives you a rare opportunity to think. Maybe you can finally read that book/e-book you bought/downloaded months ago. Or do some planning for 2012 without as many interruptions. More...

If SIP Trunking looks so good on paper – and it does – as you run the numbers on it for cost savings and productivity gains, why do many enterprises seem so half-hearted about it?

Sorell Slaymaker, writing at NoJitter, has some thoughts on that, with some interesting insight into why it is that, as he says, some 70 percent of organizations have SIP trunks in their network environment, but only five percent have fully migrated. More...

Polls can be useful, or they can be irritating. The useful polls help us determine trends that really have an impact on how we conduct business or conduct our lives. The irritating polls are those that ask people to offer opinions about things that they simply don’t have sufficient information to judge. More...