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Convergence White Papers Redux

on April 02, 2013 by Editor

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...


Convergence White Papers Redux

on April 02, 2013 by Sprint

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...


Convergence: It's Transformational

on June 11, 2012 by Editor

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...


Dealing with Business Disruptors

on May 29, 2012 by Editor

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...


The Cost of Convergence vs. Non-Convergence

on May 18, 2012 by Editor

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...


The Three Sides of Convergence

on May 07, 2012 by Editor

If you hear the word "convergence," the odds are you will think of network convergence. So would most people, certainly the average Seamless Enterprise reader. But that's only one aspect of convergence, particularly when you're talking about today's communications.

In a new white paper, Michael Suby of Frost & Sullivan denotes three types of convergence, and says it takes all three coming together to get the desired result. That result is a high degree of "information velocity," (watch the video) or information that is moving fast enough to get you what you need, when you need it, wherever you are. More...