In case you missed it – hey, you're busy people and you can't get around to reading everything – Sprint's own Mike Fitz sat down for an in-depth interview with the good folks at Business Solutions magazine. The topic was Unified Communications, and Mike, our wireline VP, had interesting things to say, as always.

You can check out the entire article, but to summarize, Mike pointed to three significant trends, all converging in such a way as to drive interest and investment in UC. More...

There are three major trends currently shaping Unified Communications, according to our own Mike Fitz. Mike recently shared these trends with Brian Albright, editor of Business Solutions Magazine.

These trends are user demands for more mobility and portability, CIOs becoming more focused on finding ways to support line of business activities (not just tech enablement), and the expansion and improvement of UC technology. More...

How will Unified Communications evolve? Now that we're at a point where more and more organizations are embracing UC, it's worth looking at its future. What will UC look like next year? In five years? Will we even recognize it in 10 years?

Michael Finneran, writing at Webtorials, offers an interesting point of view on the future of UC. In his view, basically it gets absorbed into the social media vortex and disappears. Its functionalities and purpose will remain, but UC won't be recognizable as a technological or operational entity. We're not fully convinced, although there's no doubt the advancements in social media will have a tremendous effect on UC.More...

We talked the other day about how we disagreed with an analyst’s blog headline that suggested Unified Communications was “failing.” Now we offer Exhibit B, a survey of enterprise IT organizations that reveals some pretty ambitious plans to implement various UC applications not only on desktop and notebook computers, but on mobile devices as well. More...

There are some interesting findings in a new “Benchmark Report” on Unified Communications from Nemertes Research, especially relative to return on investment and mobility. The report (registration required) is based on interviews with 240 IT leaders, so this is front-line intelligence. More...

A new survey declares that the rate of Unified Communications implementations doubled in the past year, with 16 percent of organizations – one in six – considering themselves fully implemented.

This survey, conducted by a well-known technology reseller, was conducted in February among 900 IT professionals in business, government, healthcare, and education. More...