Richard Tworek VP, Enterprise Communication Servers 2006 Technology Focus Enhancing the Human Experience with Enterprise Real-Time and Secure Converged Communications
Today’s Business Imperatives Optimize Investments Take full advantage of current resources: infrastructure and people Save Time and Money Save/Protect Company Assets High demand on customer responsiveness, accessibility and fast decision making Network infrastructure and information/content must be reliable, resilient and secure
Fundamental Disruptions Are Transforming Today’s Telecom Industry New World, Rules, Players, Opportunities
Lower TCO New access to multimodal communications Collaboration – one of top biz priority Impacts on Telecom and IT Employee Virtualization Mobility: almost 50% of companies will use some sort of mobile apps 87% of all Enterprise workers are temporally or permanently remote Consumerization of IT Consumer penetration of mobility driving business adoption Worldwide PDA shipments increased 20.7 percent in 2005 IP Convergence
Who Are The Customers? IT Manager End-User Customer’s Customer Simple Anywhere Anytime Resilient Secure Reliable Mobile Investment Protection Open Integrated
Top 3 Technology Initiatives Security Open – SIP Real-Time Personal Communications Enhancing the User Experience…
Security Trends More mixed media on networks Distributed workforce and B-to-B communications needs Technology Readiness Security part of the DNA (User/Network/OS/Applications) Media Security (application) - 75% of hacks at application layer Embedded in IP Clients Enterprise Value/ROI A balanced Value Proposition Risk mitigation: loss of information, system recovery, lost productivity “By 2009, 80 percent of companies will have suffered an application security incident” (Gartner, Dec.2005)
Open - SIP Trends User & enterprise diversity – flexible choice The potential to be a disruptive technology Technology Readiness Web Services API, standard interfaces, interoperability Integration: IP Telephony, Collaboration, Desktop, Back-office, vertical apps, etc. Enterprise Value/ROI Adaptive client & application choice Streamlined business process, improved customer responsiveness, productivity
Personal Communications Trends Technology consumerization Virtual and mobile workforce Increase # of com. channels Technology Readiness Personal Agent Presence (location, device, application) Speech to text, text to speech RFID WiFi, Fixed, Cellular, Dual Mode Enterprise Value/ROI Simplicity Time to decision making Business without boundaries
The Big Surprise ? Over Hyped? Velocity at which Presence and Mobility Intersect Surprise Hype VoIP for the sake of VoIP
Innovation “Innovation is executing on creativity.” Richard Tworek