Categories: Corporate, Future Lab Radio, Intel, Intel Free Press, Intel Labs, Research@Intel Tags: context aware, Future Lab, Henry Bruce, Intel, Intel Free Press, Intel Labs, IntelFreePress, John Cross Neumann, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Research, SENS, Socially ENabled Services
![Billing Transformation Means Leaner, Cleaner Bills for Verizon Business Customers](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Verizon Business has undertaken an extensive billing transformation project focused on providing a world-class customer experience for its large-business and government customers. By reducing the number of billing systems, enhancing self-service options and offering a single billing platform across virtually [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: billing transformation, Dave Landry, Verizon Business
![Where is Unified Communications Going?](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
As a concept, “unified communications” has been around for awhile. It can mean anything from bringing all business communications into a single, seamless user experience to bringing global collaboration and conferencing technologies onto the same basic platform as traditional voice [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Siemens Enterprise Communications Tags: conferencing, CRM, ERP, global collaboration, Mark Straton, mobility, Siemens, sustainable business, Unified Communications
![With New Advanced Web Platform, Verizon Business Helps Welsh Assembly Government Keep Citizens Informed](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Learn how Verizon Business’ application content management service is helping customers, such as the Welsh Assembly Government, quickly, securely and easily update online content through a simple and intuitive Web interface. In this podcast, Arjan Van Proosdij, senior product marketing [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: Application Management Service, Arjan Van Proosdij, Stuart Fitzgerald, Verizon Business, Wales, Welsh Assembly Government
![Exploring Global Collaboration with Verizon Business](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Collaborative technologies ranging from conferencing, voice-over-Internet protocol and mobility offer large-business and government customers around the globe the opportunity to reduce costs, enhance employee productivity, streamline business processes and decision making and strengthen eco-friendly initiatives. Featuring comments from Verizon’s Denny [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: collaboration, Denny Strigl, Global, Nancy Gofus, Unified Communications, Verizon Business
![Unified Communications: Helping SMBs Respond Quickly, Anywhere](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Unified communications options all compete to lower costs, increase productivity and improve customer service. When it comes to customers – improving response times and quality – businesses all have to earn customer loyalty. In this podcast, Siemens’ Martin Northend discusses [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Siemens Enterprise Communications Tags: HiPath OpenOffice, Martin Northend, Siemens, Unified Communications
![Democratization of HD Video Conferencing](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
As high definition video conferencing takes hold in the enterprise, it improves communication in clear ways, as well as in some subtle ones. The impact on the boardroom is one thing: groups and executives now come together for effective virtual [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Siemens Enterprise Communications Tags: collaboration, conferencing technology, democratization, enterprise mobility, HD Video, high definition video, OpenScape Video, Siemens, video conferencing, Wayne Seifried
![University of Pittsburgh Helps Keep Campus Safe with Verizon Notification Services](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Facing the daunting challenge of keeping 31,000 students and 12,000 faculty and staff informed during events that potentially threaten campus safety, the University of Pittsburgh turned to Verizon Business to deploy an automated notification service. Jinx Walton, director of computing [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: Jinx Walton, Managed Services, Verizon Business, Verizon Notification Services
![Unified Communications: Greater Productivity, Lower Costs (German language)](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
MobileUC means bringing unified communications applications to mobile workers with the same quality and reliability as we have at the desks in our offices. In this German language podcast, Marcus Birkl, vice president with Siemens Enterprise Communications, discusses the impacts [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Siemens Enterprise Communications Tags: enterprise mobility, HiPath MobileConnect, HiPath Wireless, Marcus Birkl, mobile UC, MobileUC, mobility, OpenScape, Siemens, Siemens Enterprise Communications, SIP-enabled
![Unified Communications: Greater Productivity, Lower Costs](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
MobileUC means bringing unified communications applications to mobile workers with the same quality and reliability as we have at the desks in our offices. In this podcast, Luc Roy, vice president with Siemens Enterprise Communications, discusses the impacts and challenges [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Siemens Enterprise Communications Tags: enterprise mobility, HiPath MobileConnect, HiPath Wireless, Luc Royl, mobile UC, MobileUC, mobility, OpenScape, Siemens, Siemens Enterprise Communications, SIP-enabled
![Verizon Business Helps Companies Speed Applications to Users Around the Globe](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Verizon Business is expanding its Managed WAN Optimization Services portfolio to help improve the performance of widely used business applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and collaboration tools to users around the globe. Verizon Managed WAN Optimization [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: Cisco, Juniper Networks, Managed Services, Michelle Roos, Verizon Business, WAN Optimization
![Verizon Business Helps Enterprises Work Smarter Via Unified Communications and Collaboration](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) – the integration of business telephony and information technology (IT) applications – enables corporate users to communicate more effectively and collaborate more easily. Yet, many global enterprises are challenged by the complexities of moving to [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: collaboration, IT, Mike Marcellin, UC&C, Unified Communications, Verizon Business
![Verizon Business Empowers Network Convergence for K-12](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
School districts across the nation are upgrading legacy networks to converged Internet protocol (IP) networks, paving the way for the introduction of new advanced capabilities, such as voice-over-IP and distance learning. Designed to enhance the learning experience and access to [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: Alex Coleman, education markets, information technology trends, IP networks, K-12, Verizon Business
![Verizon Business Transforms State Government Networks](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
The 2008 Digital States Survey, conducted by the Center for Digital Government and sponsored by Verizon Business, highlights how state governments across the United States use technology to serve constituents and streamline operations. Based on responses from state officials, the [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Connected Social Media, Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: Alex Coleman, Center for Digital Government, Digital States Survey, state information technology, Verizon Business
![Thing5 Leverages Verizon Business IP Networking to Power SaaS](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Thing5, a leading provider of software-based messaging services to the hospitality industry, is leveraging Verizon Business’ IP networking to offer cost-effective and reliable services via software-as-a-service (SaaS) to hospitality chains such as Extended Stay Hotels, La Quinta and LXR Luxury [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: B.E.S.T, Burstable Enterprise Shared Trunks, David Thor, Healthcare IT, SAAS, Thing5, Verizon Business
![Living La Vida Wireless](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
So you’ve gone wireless. Now think about where you can go, and what you can do, now that you’re not tethered to the wall. We ventured out to hot spots in San Francisco, to check out mobility in action, and [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Intel, Intel Digital Life, Intel Mobility Tags: Inside Scoop, Intel, wireless
![TANDBERG Deploys Verizon Private IP to Power Global Collaboration](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Few enterprises understand the benefits and challenges of global collaboration better than TANDBERG, a leading provider of telepresence, high-definition video conferencing and mobile video products. In this podcast, Rick Snyder, president of TANDBERG Americas, discusses his firm’s decision to deploy [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: corporate communications, global collaboration, mobile video, Private IP, Rick Snyder, TANDBERG, telepresence, Verizon
![What’s Your Biggest IT Challenge?](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
CIOs are faced with a wide range of opportunities and challenges. Verizon Business recently interviewed several information technology (IT) professionals about the most-pressing IT challenges facing their organizations and this podcast features highlights of their responses. Representing a broad mix [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: CIO, IT, Verizon Business
![Study Links Carbon Management with Shareholder Value](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
A recent Verizon Business and IR Magazine study shows that 87 percent of investor relations professionals believe that companies can improve long-term shareholder value through better carbon management, and that communications technologies can help achieve overall corporate social responsibility goals. [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: carbon management, environmental concerns, investor relations, IR Magazine, Jill Taylor, social responsibility, Verizon Business
![Global Managed Wireless LAN Service Available Around the World](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Effective collaboration is critical to the success of large businesses and a key challenge for information technology executives. A new managed service now available from Verizon Business – Verizon Managed Wireless LAN Service – enables business and government entities to [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: Chip Freund, LAN, Verizon, Verizon Business, wireless
![Intel IDF Brain Bowl Matched Media and Intel Execs at Opening Night Soiree](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco’s Moscone Center, “Brain Bowl” was an opening night celebration where local and international media got to meet Intel execs and compete in the game of hi-tech trivia hosted by KPIX-TV San Francisco [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Intel, Intel Developer Forum, Intel Mobility Tags: Anand Chandrasekher, Brain Bowl, David "Dadi" Perlmutter, IDF08, IDF2008, IDFSF08, Intel, Intel Developer Forum, John Kessler, Justin Rattner, Mobility Group, Ultra Mobility Group
![Verizon Business Packages Internet Access And Vulnerability Management](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
With sophisticated hackers at large worldwide, and volumes of mission-critical data riding on corporate networks, Internet security threats pose more of a risk than ever before for large business and government customers. This podcast discusses how enterprises can protect networks [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: Cindy Bellefeuille, hackers, Internet Dedicated Access, Internet security threats, Paula Rhea, Verizon Business, Vulnerability Management
![Verizon Business Leverages IP to Link First Responders During Times of Crisis](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Emergency management personnel require seamless communications during times of crisis to rapidly coordinate assessment of and response to natural disasters and man-made events. Up until now, direct communications between federal, state and local first responders has been challenging due to [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: Chuck Vick, Cisco IP Interoperability and Communications System, Emergency management personnel, first responders, IPICS, natural disasters, Verizon Business, Verizon Communications Interoperability Solution
![Verizon Business Adds Open Hosted Speech Services to Contact Center Portfolio](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Through the addition of Open Hosted Speech Services (OHSS) to its portfolio of contact center solutions, Verizon Business is offering enterprise and government customers a new level of control and flexibility over speech applications, while still enjoying the reliability and [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: OHSS, Open Hosted Speech Services, Tom Smith, Verizon Business
![Outsourcing IT Solutions to Meet Business Objectives](https://connectedsocialmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-fastest-cache-premium/pro/images/blank.gif) |
Learn how three diverse organizations – Plateau Systems, EquiLend, COOP Systems – outsource their IT needs to meet critical business objectives, including driving revenue, expanding globally, and better serving their customers. This video podcast features Shelly Heiden, executive vice [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Corporate, Verizon Business Tags: Benjamin Glicher, Christopher Alvord, COOP Systems, EquiLend, Plateau Systems, Shelly Heiden, Verizon Business