RTM’d today: Programming for Unified Communications

jkruse — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:41:00 GMT

Unified Communications is about much more than what you get out-of-the-box – it is a platform that you can use to build, extend and enhance your own applications & business processes. Looking at UC as a platform is about more than cost-savings, it's about competitive advantage.

As a software & platform company this is one Microsoft’s key strengths versus our UC competitors who still think very much inside-the-box – in fact this is why Gartner has had Microsoft as the leader in its UC Magic Quadrant for the last few years.

Microsoft Press have just RTMed a new book titled Programming for Unified Communications that explains how to use OCS R2 as a development platform, and to fully realise the benefits of UC.

More details at http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/04/30/rtm-d-today-programming-for-unified-communications.aspx

Gartner's top 10 Strategic technologies for 2008

jkruse — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:08:00 GMT

1. Green IT
2. Unified Communications
3. Business Process Management
4. Metadata management
5. Virtualization
6. Mashups
7. The Web Platform
8. Computing fabric
9. Real World Web
10. Social Software

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RTM’d today: Programming for Unified Communications

Gartner's top 10 Strategic technologies for 2008