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More 5 Minutes With »Unified Communications is featured in the second of an ongoing podcast series looking at how communications 
between IT and the other departments impacts deployment of platforms and applications. Charles Thompson, the Manager of Systems Engineering for Network Instruments says that, among other things, successful rollouts depend on careful planning, reasonable expectations and a robust underlying infrastructure. CIOs and their staffs must have a deep understanding of the business in order to make the best recommendations.
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IT in the SpotlightUna O’Neill, the Executive VP and General Manager of CA Services, says that growing pressure on CIOs should make them manage what they have more efficiently, manage change, measure results and practice governance.
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What’s Bothering Small Business?The top problems facing small business owners are difficult to control business costs, energy costs and inflation, according to the National Federation of Independent Business.
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Data Management: Finding Common Ground between Business and IT
Nothing is more important than a company’s data. It’s ironic, then, that it is scattered throughout most organizations, fully the responsibility of neither the IT or finance departments. Tony Fisher, the president and general manager of DataFlux, says that a data steward will end this haphazard treatment and turn data into a potent and tactical corporate asset.
Podcast: IT Can Help the CEO and CFO Get to Yes
The advantages of VoIP over traditional phone services are growing as the technology becomes more sophisticated. Optimum Lightpath’s Glenn Calafati and David Strauss–Director of Product Development and Vice President of Marketing, respectively–say that IT can play a vital role in ensuring financial folks truly understand these benefits.
Mobilizing the workforce is more a business than technical challenge, says Shane Yu, Avaya’s Director of Unified Communications Consulting. Extensive cooperation and communications between the CIO and CFO, CEO and others is vital at every step – from the strategic decision about how much mobility is really needed through tactical issues such as security and device management and control.
Whether to switch to VoIP is a major—perhaps make or break—choice for an organization. If the CIO, CFO and CEO don’t share a deep understanding of the benefits, risks and operational impact, big problems are guaranteed.
Security best practices are great, but they can’t provide comprehensive protection. Gordon Burnes, the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for OpenPages, says risk management is a more expansive endeavor in which organizations prioritize by assessing the potential of an event occurring and the damage it will result if it does.
