In case you missed them the first time around, a pair of Stratecast-Frost & Sullivan white papers focused on convergence are resurfacing for a second life.

The papers – Technology Convergence and Information Velocity: the Engines for Business Agility and Workforce Productivity and Simplification through Convergence: Reducing Cost and Complexities – were both sponsored by Sprint, which gave us the opportunity to highlight them before they were made available to the general public. More...

In case you missed them the first time around, a pair of Stratecast-Frost & Sullivan white papers focused on convergence are resurfacing for a second life.

The papers – Technology Convergence and Information Velocity: the Engines for Business Agility and Workforce Productivity and Simplification through Convergence: Reducing Cost and Complexities – were both sponsored by Sprint, which gave us the opportunity to highlight them before they were made available to the general public. More...

How much could an enterprise save by implementing a SIP-based Unified Communications system? How about tens of millions of dollars? Sound enticing?

That kind of savings is not only possible, but likely, according to a new Webtorials paper titled Enterprises Stand to Recoup Millions Using UC. The same people behind this paper did a similar report a year ago, but where the original report focused on smaller businesses and projected savings for enterprises based on that, this one is targeted strictly at larger enterprises. More...

Convergence, says Michael Suby of Frost & Sullivan, is about transformation and possibilities. A number of current technology trends leverage the power of convergence and point the way toward further possibilities in the future.

In the fourth in a series of Sprint-sponsored convergence white papers, Suby addresses three of those trends: Device proliferation and personalization, cloud computing, and social networking. More...

Bad things are going to happen to your network. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but sometime. How you prepare for them will help determine just how much damage they do to the network, to your business, and to the way your organization is perceived in the market.

In the third in a series of convergence white papers, available here, Michael Suby of Frost & Sullivan looks at the role of convergence in terms of network reliability, security, and creation of an environment that he says is "designed to minimize operational risk."More...

Have you ever worked for someone who couldn't quite grasp the concept of "investment?" I know I have. I won't name names, but this guy, the owner of the company, looked at everything as a cost

Despite the fact that his salespeople could close sales and bring in revenue when they hit the road, he didn't see their travel as an investment that yielded more revenue. Couldn't they just stay in the office and make phone calls? More...

Before you can make an informed decision about return on investment (ROI) for a Unified Communications implementation, it is essential to know the scope of that investment. Obviously, it is more than just the up-front cost of the equipment you buy for a premises-based solution, or the ongoing cost of a hosted solution. More...

Whatever the root cause of our fascination with “Top 10” lists, we can’t seem to get away from them these days. Frankly, we’ve come to ignore most of them … until, that is, we saw one about the “Top 10 Reasons Why Unified Communications Implementations Fail.”

Well, you can imagine that one caught our attention. The “list” is somewhat more than a list, frankly. It’s in the form of a white paper that tops 2,000 words, and you can go here (registration required) if you want to read the whole thing. The white paper is produced by a maker of enterprise UC equipment, and is probably worth your time to read end-to-end. More...

Part of our job here at Seamless Enterprise is to be always on the lookout for the freshest insight into convergence and Unified Communications. Sometimes that involves wading through sludge masquerading as insight; we do the dirty work and then can give you nice short summaries and save you vast amounts of time you don’t have anyway

Think of us as movie reviewers, who see movies so that they can warn you away from wasting $12 (not counting refreshments) and an evening of your time on some of them. More...

Having just wrapped up the last post in my series on selling technology to executives, I took one last look at what I wrote and realized that the proper cost accounting treatment I described in one passing sentence needed to be corrected. Checking in with my truly wonderful editor, Kristine, I learned that my final post had already gone to press. Rather than adding the insight to the original article, I decided it was the perfect opportunity to prove a key point in my series: when it comes to cost accounting, nothing is ever black and white and even “us finance guys” miss a digit once in a while (especially when  trying to offer a simple explanation for what is truly a mathematically complex concept.) More...