Collaboration is an emerging technology, one that uses enterprise communications and business processes to allow end users to work together over any devices, media, and distances that they desire. But making collaboration work for enterprises will require, among other things, getting back to Interop?s roots?interoperability.
Because enterprises must integrate so many different platforms, systems, and networks to enable collaboration, the need for interoperability has never been greater. Legacy PBX systems, advanced Unified Communications applications, video and web conferencing, business process and office productivity applications?all of these must work together if enterprises are going to take collaboration to the next level. And so one of our main goals in the Interop New York Collaboration Track is to present you with the most current information and most useful recommendations for how to get this array of diverse systems working together.
We?re kicking off the track with a ?UC Interoperability? session led by two consultants who have done extensive work in cataloguing the degree to which interoperability is a reality today?and where it?s lacking. Marty Parker of UniComm Consulting and UCStrategies.com is a veteran of dozens of enterprise implementations who?s done hands-on work integrating and making interoperability work. His co-presenter, Russell Bennett of UC Insights has not only studied UC interoperability, he has developed new techniques for measuring how widely UC interoperation has been deployed in the real world. Together they?ll give you a reality check that will help you set expectations and goals for your own integration work.
?Marty will also present our session on ?Integrating Communications with Business Apps,? which will help you uncover opportunities for quick wins with major ROI benefits that come when you open up business processes to communications. By speeding up time to sale, time to market, and other key business metrics, you can get beyond ?soft? gains in end user productivity, into the big-money returns that come from fundamentally transforming your business with communications.??
Of course, interoperability isn?t an end in itself?it?s a means of achieving the end of truly ubiquitous multimedia business communications. Toward that end, we?ve also got a couple of sessions on video. If you?re worried about whether video traffic is going to seriously impact your enterprise network?and you should be?then don?t miss our session on ?Video?s Impact on the Network Infrastructure.? Network management guru Terry Slattery of Chesapeake NetCraftsmen will bring his encyclopedic knowledge of IP networking to bear in helping you understand how to protect your other mission-critical apps from bandwidth-hogging video?while also protecting the delay-sensitive video (and voice) traffic from the other applications.
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Our other video session features Zeus Kerravala of ZK Research explaining the latest trend in video conferencing systems: ?Moving Video from Hardware to Software.? Zeus will explain exactly how this trend is playing out, what the leading vendors are doing to foster it, and what its implications are for your legacy gear and future plans. Zeus will be joined by a representative of the Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC), who will return us to the topic of interoperability by describing the exciting progress that OVCC has been making toward this goal.??
We?ve also got sessions on communications in the cloud, and on the effect of social business on Collaboration.
All of our sessions are being led by top independent experts in the Enterprise Collaboration field, offering a wealth of data as well as real-world experience to share with you. If your end users need ever-better means of collaborating, then Interop New York?s Collaboration track is the place to jump-start your technology leadership in this area.
Register with priority code TCBLOG by 8/14 and save $300 on the onsite price of Flex or Conference Passes by taking advantage of the early brid pricing offer.
Source: http://blog.interop.com/blog/2012/07/31/collaboration-at-interop-new-york/
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