I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an instance where interoperability is a bad thing. Maybe if you wanted to create a network that existed only within your company, and that no one else could touch from outside (or you couldn’t touch them from inside), maybe that would be a good argument. There’s not a lot of demand for that sort of thing, though. More...

Admittedly there may be some reluctance on behalf of employees to take advantage of unified communications (UC) after an enterprise deployment. To ensure an enterprise realizes the benefits of UC, it takes the partnership of IT, business unit leaders, and enterprise employees. More...

Did you know that only two percent of Fortune 1000 (F1000) companies are not considering Unified Communications (UC)?  You could say unified communications has indeed arrived. More...

The cool thing about living in the blogosphere and the Twittersphere is how you stumble across new people with new ideas. I recently went to Pam Broviak's blog to read an entry entitled "Cloud Computing and Virtualization Aren't What you Think" and her entry made me realize that the trend toward virtualization is gaining momentum for the same reason that Web 2.0 tagging is. More...

Is your enterprise ready for unified communications (UC)?

There’s no better time. Between a recession and natural disasters like the Gulf oil spill and the volcano eruption affecting air travel, people are not communicating any less. In fact today, with unified communications, enterprises can communicate more for less. More...

One of the flashiest aspects of Unified Communications (UC) is telepresence, for a variety of reasons. And it’s a good sign that at least one industry analyst group is predicting that telepresence-specific sales should reach $2.7 billion annually within five years. More...

Lots of activity in Sprint's Interop booth #2419. Check out this video to get a sense of it (and why Unified Communications is so hot). More...

Interop Las Vegas is coming up in a few days, and Sprint's featuring a full-lineup of must-see technology. More...

Let’s be blunt. “Unified Communications (UC) continues as vague, overused, marketing hype.” Just search UC and you can’t miss comments such as these in the UC blogosphere. What is the truth about UC? More...

With our focus on networks and technology here at seamlessenterprise.com, we talk a lot about UC applications, but we don’t often peel the onion back one more layer to talk about business processes. More...