It used to be that web videos were short. Many believed that was because of shorter attention spans. But we are finding that just isn't true. The truth is that short videos were just a technology and financial limitation. I personally no longer have a TV and my kids watch only web-based video content (a TV dial would be as foreign to them as a rotary dial telephone). All this has implications for the enterprise network. More...

We’re always interested in business case advice, especially as it relates to Unified Communications. So a recent Webtorials white paper that purported to offer advice about building a comprehensive UC business case, caught our eye.

Turns out that the white paper (free registration required) was less about a business case than it was about a strategic approach to bringing UC into the enterprise. But that’s OK, because it has some good and thoughtful material about how the author – veteran consultant Don Van Doren – segments UC into a couple of sub-categories. 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...

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...

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...

In a recent webinar, Nancee Ruzicka with Stratecast and I talked about the Seven Benefits of deploying UC. Unfortunately, time prohibited us from being able to answer all of the great questions we received during the session.More...

A few weeks ago I offered responses to questions that were raised during a recent webinar – Seven Ways to Deliver Value of UC – in which me and Nancee Ruzicka with Stratecast hosted. I wasn’t able to address all of the questions in my last post, so here’s my response to another group of questions. More...

We’ve written before on Seamless Enterprise about Sprint’s own success as a user of UC. It’s a good story in addition to validating our belief in the technology. Industry analyst Nancee Ruzicka with Stratecast confers with our findings that UC offers a number of tangible benefits for the enterprise.More...