Oracle Gets (Back) Into UCOracle Gets (Back) Into UC

The BrainYard - Where collaborative minds congregate.

Irwin Lazar, Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

September 23, 2008

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When you think of UC vendors, Oracle isn't normally top of mind. However that's poised to change thanks to Oracle's re-introduction this week of Beehive. The goal of Beehive is to wrap collaboration capabilities around Oracle's application and database services.

Oracle's push into UC creates further potential for disconnected UC/collaboration efforts for those organizations that haven't integrated collaboration planning among various IT disciplines. Make sure your voice, messaging, AND application teams are all working toward a common goal rather than each group operating on its own.

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About the Author

Irwin Lazar

Vice President & Service Director, Nemertes Research

Irwin Lazar is the Vice President and Service Director at Nemertes Research, where he manages research operations, develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises numerous enterprise and vendor clients. Irwin is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in areas including VOIP, UC, video conferencing, social computing, collaboration, contact center and customer engagement.

A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Irwin is a blogger for No Jitter and frequent author for SearchUnifiedCommunications.com. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press and is regular speaker at events such as Enterprise Connect and Interop. Irwin's earlier background was in IP network architecture, design and engineering.

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