Time to Reflect : unified communications

We’re Really Sorry, Says Apple, Really We Are

Koen Daems — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:19:37 GMT

By John Markoff UPDATED 7/28/08 1:55 a.m. On Sunday evening Apple posted a short update to the MobileMe situation. According to a post from an Apple employee who identified himself as “David G.,” e-mail to the 1 percent of MobileMe...(read more)

Microsoft RoundTable

Koen Daems — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:31:07 GMT

As we move into the New World of World (literally as well, as we move to our new building next week), we enter an era of virtual team work and virtual presence. Unified Communications is what makes it all happen. But software alone is not enough. ...(read more)

New Partner competencies available now

Koen Daems — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:45:00 GMT

The New Business Intelligence and Unified Communications Competencies Have Launched!

Announcing the launch of the new Business Intelligence Competency and the new Unified Communications Solutions Competency! The Partner Portal went live last week in 15 languages, on 63 portals worldwide.

This was a significant, customer demand-driven launch. It improved alignment of the Partner Program with these key strategic growth areas of the business, and will accelerate our growth into these highly competitive markets. We can now better align, segment and enable our partners to deliver industry-leading BI and UC solutions to our customers.

The BI Compentency has been split into the platform specialization, and the performance management specialization.

For UC you can find the following specializations:

If you're a (potential) Microsoft partner with interest in BI or UC, go and have a look!

Unified Communications

Koen Daems — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:54:00 GMT

Today I had a great quote from a colleague of mine, saying "Have you noticed that the more people have mobile phones, the less you can reach them?".

You should do the test for yourself and count the number of times you actually reach someone when calling him/her - or end up on the voicemail system. This is such a waste of effort and money.

This can be avoided however!

Have a look at how to communicate in the unified way, with Microsoft Unified Communications. Check out www.microsoft.com/uc

Or if you want to take it more lightly, have a look here http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=043a4b5a-1156-4d3c-90e8-07a6e064c5c8

Enjoy!