Industry Innovators will Gather at EVUA’s Unified Communications Conference

Sept. 10, 2009 - PRLog -- Unified Communications, the theme for this year's EVUA October conference, is certain to spark new ideas and perspectives among those attending. Expected to drive the buzz is the agenda of notable industry experts who will discuss the future of Unified Communications in the enterprise. The conference will also discuss how enterprises can reduce their costs now that TCO is more important to CFOs than ROI.

The two-day event will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal on October 21st & 22nd 2009. Highlights include fascinating presentations from end-users, suppliers, and industry analysts, Ovum. There will be a number of lively panel discussions together with opportunities to network with colleagues from the ICT industry. Ovum will also share the trends from this year’s Unified Communications survey.

Some of the presentations scheduled for this year's UC Conference include:

Unified Communications

• Jose Antonio Cesfranjo will talk about what Unified Communications means to the Telefonica group.
• Jon Neville, EVUA’s General Manager, will look at why the void between what UC suppliers are offering and what enterprises are adopting is growing wider, with his presentation entitled “So you’ve chosen to go UC; what’s next?”.
   
Enterprise Cost Savings

• Cees van Duijn from KPN International will talk about practical ways enterprises can reduce costs and boost employee productivity.
• Laurent Bouchoucha from Alcatel-Lucent will discuss ways of implementing new sourcing strategies to save money and deploy new services.  
• Orange Business Services will present on how Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) can manage the efficiency and flexibility of your IT infrastructure.

   
Telecom Expense Management

• With enterprises become ever more cost conscious in this economic downturn, EVUA suppliers EZWIM, Tactem, Tangoe and Spendvision will update us on how their particular services can help reduce TCO.
   
For more information including a detailed agenda and speaker bios, please visit the website at http://www.evua.com . Those interested in attending, whether suppliers, end-users or media, should contact Sue Thody directly at sue.thody@aceconferences.com  or +44 1442 234999.

About EVUA:

The EVUA (www.evua.org) is an independent, non-profit, global ICT network user group for multinational companies. User membership is exclusively Fortune 1000 global companies. It was formed in 1992 and has evolved into an effective ICT industry platform for global users and global suppliers. The EVUA has excellent working relations with leading ICT network service and technology providers. The EVUA industry network includes independent industry partners, working links with regulatory organisations and links with other user groups.

About Ovum:

Ovum is a global advisory and consulting firm. Its primary activity is providing value-added advisory services and consulting to retained and project clients. The company acts as a well-respected and trusted source of industry data, knowledge and expertise on the commercial impact of technology, regulatory and market changes. Ovum engages in continuous research and industry analysis to determine market dynamics in its specialist sectors.
Ovum has developed long-standing relationships with many of its corporate clients, which include major international blue-chip companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, BT, Cable & Wireless, Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Telstra and Vodafone.
Ovum is part of the Datamonitor Group.
For more information about the EVUA, please contact:
Sue Thody,
EVUA Administrator
+44 1442 234999 or admin@evua.org.uk

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The EVUA is an independent, non-profit, global ICT user group for multinational companies. User membership is exclusively F1000 global companies. It was formed in 1992 and has evolved into an effective ICT industry platform for global users suppliers.