The series will be held in New Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Colombo on 25 November, 26 November, 27 November and 10 December 2008, respectively. The discussion will focus on adoption of UC across verticals like BFSI, manufacturing, government and service sectors.
Topics of discussions will include Harnessing the Potential of a Converged Communications Infrastructure, Understanding and Measuring the True Business Benefits of Unified Communications, Enabling Business Process Innovation through Next Generation Enterprise Communications, Intelligent Mobility within the Enterprise, How Managed Services can Enable a Smoother Transition to a Next Generation Communications Platform and more.
According to Girish Trivedi, deputy director, telecom practice, Frost & Sullivan, South Asia and Middle East, "Given the current state of the economy, enterprises are placing increasing emphasis on optimising costs; Unified Communications could be one of the means to significantly reduce long-term costs on travel, achieve faster turn-around in terms of ROI as well as improve overall productivity and efficiency in the workplace. UC has for long been exclusively driven by large enterprises. However, this trend is slowly, yet surely, changing, as several vendors look to cater to the largely untapped SMB segment by formulating innovative models like hosted UC service. Key UC applications such as IP telephony, e-mail, conferencing etc, are being packaged as a hosted service with attractive pricing, in order to lure the SMBs."
Microsoft is partnering the India series as Platinum Partner. Aspect Software is associating with the Mumbai chapter as an Associate Partner. For the Colombo chapter, Cisco will be partnering as the Platinum Partner, Suntel the Gold Partner; Aspect Software is the Associate Partner. |
