Unified Communications Gets Practical: An Educational Webinar from AVST
Leading Provider of Unified Communications Teams with Business Communications Review to Offer Educational Program in Conjunction with VoiceCon Spring 2007
Foothill Ranch, Calif., February 13, 2007 – Continuing its mission to educate end users on the benefits of unifying communications, Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) has teamed with Business Communications Review to launch a webinar in conjunction with VoiceCon Spring 2007. The webinar, titled “A VoiceCon Webinar: A Practical Approach to Unified Communications,” will take place at 2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT on February 21, 2007.
According to AVST, a leading provider of advanced unified communications (UC) solutions, the current and evolving state of an organization’s telephony and groupware infrastructure plays a critical part in the UC evaluation process. Many organizations have multiple and potentially conflicting priorities for their infrastructure investments. Given that most enterprises will not be fully IP-enabled, have not migrated their legacy telephony infrastructure, and are dealing with multiple and disparate communications infrastructure (PBX, voice mail, and e-mail) this webinar will provide enterprise customers with a strategy that enables them to deliver productivity enhancing UC applications today.
“As IT administrators consider upgrading or replacing their legacy systems, it is important that they are presented with all of the facts and are aware of all of the different options that are available to them. By adopting unified communications, companies will realize a tremendous advantage, including increased staff mobility and productivity, and lower costs,” said AVST’s Vice President of Marketing, Denny Michael. “AVST’s series of webinars in cooperation with BCR have proven to be a successful and effective tool to reach end users with all of the information that they require as they strive to bring the promise and benefits of unified communication to fruition.”
This latest AVST-sponsored webinar will be moderated by Eric Krapf, Co-Chair of VoiceCon and an Editor at Business Communications Review. Panelists include Hardy Myers, President and CEO of AVST, Blair Pleasant, President and Principal Analyst of COMMfusion LLC. The webinar will cover the following critical issues:
- An understanding of Unified Communications and Unified Messaging: what they are, what are the benefits and what the pitfalls are.
- The replacement of legacy telephony infrastructure, such as Octel® Aria and Serenade®(VMX) , Avaya® INTUITY™ AUDIX®, and Mitel® NuPoint with Centigram interface voice messaging systems.
- How to enable companies to transition to IP telephony and the applications typically associated with IP telephony.
- How to implement Unified Communications with your current telephony & data infrastructure.
Additionally, AVST will be on hand at VoiceCon Spring 2007, located at Booth #535, from March 5-8, 2007 in
About AVST
The typical enterprise communications infrastructure is made up of a collection of technologies from multiple vendors, acquired over time and never intended to work together. To maximize user and business productivity, while leveraging existing IT investments, interoperability is a must.
AVST delivers the industry's most interoperable Unified Communications (UC) platform that brings best-of-breed voice, mobility and business process solutions to the enterprise. Unlike virtually every other UC vendor, AVST does not constrain customers with a single vendor lock-in approach. In fact, it's the very opposite. By connecting new and existing technologies, AVST frees organizations from the constraints of a closed, single-source UC solution, unlocking the full potential of their communications infrastructure.
With over 15 million users worldwide and three decades of innovation excellence, AVST is unifying communications®.
Headquartered in Orange County, California, AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Washington, Victoria B.C., Canada and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's UC solutions are sold and supported worldwide by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. To learn more about AVST, our products and partners, please visit www.avst.com or you can follow us at Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
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