As the following pages will demonstrate, the evidence is that improving Business Transaction Assurance presents a real bottom-line opportunity and is moving high up the business agenda. However, companies' current systems are not equipped with the necessary tools to manage and control such transactions. 

Frequently, organizations that operate contact centers are faced with the challenge of working with inadequate telephony equipment. Frustrations range from having to get a few more years out of telephone equipment to having disparate systems. Read this white paper to learn about how contact centers can resolve these telecommunications complexities. 

About a billion people worldwide do not have access to telecommunications services, mostly from lack of a power grid that can support network infrastructure. Traditional wireless networks for remote locations rely on costly generators that are hard on the environment. Read this whitepaper to learn about cost effective and eco-friendly alternatives. 

With spending on cost-saving technologies such as virtualization rising, and the maintenance of networking and enterprise Microsoft software keeping IT professionals constantly in demand, here's our top 10 hot skills that will take us from a down economy and beyond. 

Learn how they used the nworks Management Pack (MP) to centralize monitoring of physical and VMware virtual infrastructures, reduce costs of implementing VMware monitoring, and give them the ability to receive performance metrics specific to the VMware virtual infrastructure. 

This video demonstrates how our Multi-screen Experience enables the seamless movement of content and services across devices. It shows how with its unique ability to bring consumers more freedom and simplified consumption, multi-screen will create growth through a constructive intersection of content, advertising and communication industries. 

This release explains RIM's new Lotus collaboration features and developer tools on the BlackBerry® platform that will enable greater access to live expertise and collective intelligence through BlackBerry® smartphones. 

Join our guest speaker Krystal Sautter, of Moving Beyond the Bricks, as she outlines what it takes to get moving. Watch this webcast to learn how to use virtual infrastructure, staff for at-home positions and manage, train and coach home agents and evaluate your results. 

Because employees on the move require consistent access to people and data, enterprises have invested heavily in communications. HP and Ericsson have combined their strengths to provide an innovative, standards-based framework to unify and consolidate all the elements of an enterprise communications infrastructure. 

Read this report to learn the research findings of this study, which examined the challenges of managing Test/Dev environments and the opportunity for server virtualization and cloud computing to address them. This paper includes several graphs and an in-depth discussion of the advantages of private cloud computing. 

As services shift to IP protocols and bandwidth demands grow, Wireline Telcos and Cable MSOs alike must evolve their infrastructures to become IP centric. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the two paths service providers are taking to get to this new infrastructure and how they both end up in the same place. 

This Trend Advisory guide features a series of articles on Unified Communications. Each piece covers a different aspect of the subject. Learn how convergence communications is changing everything in the business world as more and more companies are taking voice and video to the data network.