Proposed Agenda 

1830 

Registrations and light refreshment

1855

Welcome address 

1900

Accelerating Your Competitiveness In An Economically-Challenging Marketplace

Shalini Verma, Research Manager of Asia/Pacific Communications Research, IDC Asia/Pacific

In an uncertain business environment, enterprises not only want to tide over difficult times, but also ensure the pace of growth continues unabated. Enterprise communication is witnessing revolutionary changes as unified communications brings in possibilities of integrating telephony with a wide variety of communication and business applications to deliver a cohesive and intuitive user experience, along with improved employee collaboration. While the industry has transcended the debate about the need for an integrated communication infrastructure, it is now turning its sights on reducing UC solution complexities and focusing on efficient deployment models to suit the particular needs and challenges of an enterprise organization.

Distributed enterprises require empowerment to ensure productivity and efficiency. Yet, datacenter or resource consolidation imposes challenges to branch productivity. Hence IT organizations today need ways to either determine the impact of consolidation on application response times or to improve application performance after resource consolidation. We will explore how performance acceleration could offer competitive advantages to enterprises, regardless of the economic environment, and also discuss why extracting the most out of application performance optimization could help maximize your investments - an approach that has immense significance during times of business uncertainty. 

1930

Accelerating Your Competitiveness through Unified Communications and Project Management

Saurabh Sanghoee, Head - Consulting & Solutions Integration, Orange Business Services, India

Implementing UC correctly within your enterprise has immense significance during times of business uncertainty. Organizations need assurance that UC solutions can be implemented on time with high quality, and within their budget. Business want to see visible processes to mitigate risks and/or have contingency plans in place, and want all issues quickly resolved in an orderly process with escalations, and avoid delays to their applications during the UC project implementation. Learn from real-life case studies and experiences of customer UC projects.

2000 

Accelerating Your Competitiveness through Business Acceleration 

Ian Brice, Regional Managing Consultant, Orange Business Services

Customers desire to have a comprehensive suite of services providing an end-to-end solution from analysis, consulting, design, deployment, maintenance and management of an infrastructure that will provide optimized applications performance. Discover how our customers have gained “live” business intelligence to accelerate their organization’s WAN, LAN, servers and applications through integrated approach encompassing global reach, experience, flexibility and the appropriate use of technology.

2030 

Panel Q&A Discussion
Moderated by Shalini Verma, Research Manager of Asia/Pacific Communications Research, IDC Asia/Pacific

2045 

Vote of thanks followed by Networking Cocktails and Dinner

Note: Agenda details subject to change, as deemed necessary, at the discretion of IDC.