At Last! VoiceCon Changes its Name!
Ever since the “UC” concept started to gain traction in business communications, I had been bugging Fred Knight to let go of the emphasis on voice telephony reflected in the name of their very successful “VoiceCon” conference. I also was suggesting that enterprise text messaging technology providers like Microsoft and IBM bring their customers to this show to start delivering a common technology message of convergence, flexibility, and UC interoperability to the market place.
Well, today, on the 20th anniversary of VoiceCon, they announced a name change at the show to “Enterprise Connect.” To learn more, go to www.voicecon.com/is-enterpriseconnect.
This simple name change will help open business communication doors wider to include more than a flexible choice of person-to-person voice/video or messaging connections, but to also include “application process-to-person” and “person-to-application process” contacts that exploit the efficiencies of automated (self-service) business processes across all forms of communication interfaces.
Maybe we will see the next name change take us from the real-time traffic-centric label of VoiceCon’s popular blog site, “No Jitter,” to something more pertinent to the UC vision of flexible, interoperable, multimodal user interfaces.
Congratulations on the name change!
Art,
Agree that it was time for a name change. The one chosen is hardly original; the inverse “connected enterprise” is used by IBM, NEC and others, and even is part of the masthead of the NetworkWorld publication. But at least UC (the ultimate in ill-defined fuzziness) was not selected as part of the new handle.
Jay
Jay,
I am beginning to think that the best technical descriptor for everything that “UC” encompasses is “Integrated Communications.” But that doesn’t tell you much about the flexibility the user sees through multimodal interfaces either!