BYOD and Mobile Device Management: The Beginning of Opportunity - Communications Solutions

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Featured Articles Cyprus-Based PrimeTel Taps Sonus Networks for New VoIP Platform Virtual Office: VoIP, Terrorism and the FCC VoIP Startup KeKu Will Soon Offer Landline, VoIP Calling to International Users Potter Voice Technologies Files Suit against Mobile Manufacturers and Tech Majors   Sponsored By: Customer Inter@ction Solutions TMC Labs Innovation Award The TMC Labs Innovation Award honors products that help carve a new market niche or start a new trend in technologies. This award also recognizes products that stand apart from their competitors due to one or more unique and innovative features. Don't miss the opportunity to be evaluated and to possibly earn the industry's most coveted award - a Customer Interaction Solutions TMC Labs Innovation Award. Apply Now.   Top Stories » Intelisys and SimpleSignal Inc. Join Hands to Provide Unified Communications Training for Partners » Wi-Fi Parent Available Now on Android, Google Play and Amazon Markets » ILD Corp. Announces Brand Makeover for Its US-Based Outsourced Services Division » Cyara Expands Hosted IVR and Contact Center Testing   From The Expert Corner May 14, 2012 BYOD and Mobile Device Management: The Beginning of Opportunity By Julie Griffin Contributing Writer The bring your own device (BYOD) story that will stay with me forever is about the “Mobilizing Your Business: Challenge or Opportunity” conference, hosted by executives from mobile device management provider MobileIron, Apperian (News - Alert), Good Technology and Tangoe earlier this year. As the lights in the conference room dimmed, you could hear the crescendo of a howling primate and that was when across a wide screen a video clip played of an ape shooting an AK47 at Somali insurgents. A keynote speaker dramatically turned to the audience and warned, “This is what can happen when BYOD gets out of control.” But alas, BYOD continues to prevail, and the Info-Tech Research Group predicts that 35 percent of the workforce will be using their own devices for work-related matters by the middle of 2013. But what this means to forward-thinking Unified Communications (News - Alert) (UC) vendors— is market opportunities. InfoTech’s Vendor Landscape reports that Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft, Siemens Enterprise (News - Alert) Communications and IBM are the burgeoning market’s “champions.” Avaya’s Aura platform has an IP telephony system with unbeatable UC solutions. Cisco is commended for having “the most comprehensible strategy for enterprise communications” with their operation of combining UC, IP telephony, video conferencing, desktop solutions, etc. with real-time abilities. Microsoft’s (News - Alert) solution is perhaps the most “well-rounded.” With Microsoft Lync, companies with few mobile needs can benefit from the flexibility afforded by “cloud and on-premise systems... Read More   Featured Video Communications Continuity Roundtable   TMCnet Free Premium Content » System Integrator NACR Explores SIP Communications Benefits » Empower Your Contact Center and Your Customers through Multi-Channel Communications » The Benefits of Unified Communications in Small and Medium Businesses (SMB)   Featured Channels » Fax » Business VoIP » Hosted PBX   Webinars Download One of Our Webinars Today to learn about new opportunities to enhance your business. http://www.tmcnet.com/webinar/   Become a TMCnet Columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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