{"id":5568,"date":"2007-06-04T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T12:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/unified-communications-for-the-trading-floor.html"},"modified":"2007-06-04T12:39:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T12:39:18","slug":"unified-communications-for-the-trading-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/unified-communications\/unified-communications-for-the-trading-floor.html","title":{"rendered":"Unified Communications for the Trading Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Please join me as I will be participating as a speaker at the following event fairly soon:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Unified Communications for the Trading Floor Roundtable<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Location &amp; timing:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">* New York City<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">* Monday, June 18th, 5.30 <\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">&ndash;<\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"> 8.30pm<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">* The Audi Forum, 250 Park Avenue at 47th Street, near Grand Central Station (Audi&rsquo;s corporate flagship location<\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">&mdash;<\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"> very high tech, with latest line of high performance cars on display)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Agenda:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<ul style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">5.30pm &#8211; 6pm Welcome cocktails<\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">6.00pm <\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">&ndash;<\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\"> 7.00pm Roundtable discussion<\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">7.00pm &#8211; 8:30pm Closing reception (cocktails and canap&eacute;s)<\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Panelists:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<ul style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">\n<div><font size=\"2\">Saul Rozinsky, VP Network Engineering, <\/font><font size=\"2\">Lehman Brothers<\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">\n<div><font size=\"2\">Jason Scott, VP CIB Technology, <\/font><font size=\"2\">Wachovia CIB Capital Markets<\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">\n<div><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Michael Payne, Business Development Manager, Financial Services, Cisco<\/span> <\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Tony Kleckner, Director &amp; Practice Leader for Financial Services, Avaya<\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Ed McDonnell, SVP Sales, IM Trader\/Pivor Solutions<\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Theme &amp; Discussion Topics<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Unified Communications: Communications integrated to optimize business processes on the trading floor<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Basic description:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Today&#8217;s organizations must contend with increasingly complex communications environments featuring a wide array of communications methods. Employees, business partners, and customers communicate with one another through infinite combinations of wired, wireless, and mobile phones; voice messaging; e-mail; fax; mobile clients; and rich-media conferencing. Too often, however, these tools are not used as effectively as they could be. The result is information overload, lack of agility, and misdirected communications that delay decisions, slow down processes, drive customers away, and reduce productivity. Ineffective communications also result in missed revenue opportunities because businesses are not prepared to quickly react to market changes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">IP communications solutions have proven their ability to help organizations, especially trading organizations, solve such problems, enabling them to streamline business processes and reduce costs. For years, companies of all sizes have been realizing the benefits that carrying voice, data, and video communications across a common, IP infrastructure can bring.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Unified communications ultimately simplifies and enhances collaboration, improves productivity, and enhances customer service, all of which are increasingly key requirements for the trading environment.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Issues to be discussed:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<ul style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">What elements of UC are creating the most impact on trading floor (voice, IM, video, web conferencing, etc.)? Specifically, what impact are they having in the pre-trade, trade or post-trade process?<\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">What technology options must be considered when deploying UC on the trading floor? What role do standards play (e.g. SIP\/SIMPLE)?<\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">What relationship does UC on the trading floor have with the rest of enterprise?<\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">What are the pros and cons of single vendor implementation vs. integrated, individual best-of-breed solutions on the trading floor?<\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">What are the key challenges to implementation and deployment?<\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font size=\"1\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">Update<\/font>: <em><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt\">If you are a practitioner at a financial services institution or a member of the press and are interested in attending the event, please contact <a title=\"mailto:erica@intermarket.com\" href=\"mailto:erica@intermarket.com\"><span style=\"COLOR: windowtext\"><span title=\"mailto:erica@intermarket.com\"><span title=\"mailto:erica@intermarket.com\">erica@intermarket.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><strong><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">About IPC<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">IPC is a leading provider of mission-critical communications solutions to global enterprises. With more than 30 years of expertise, IPC provides its systems and services to the world&rsquo;s largest financial services firms, as well as to public safety; government; power, energy and utility; and transportation organizations. IPC offers its customers a suite of products and enhanced services that includes advanced Voice over IP technology, and integrated network and management services to over 40 countries. Based in New York, IPC has over 1200 employees throughout the Americas, Europe and the Asia Pacific regions. For more information visit <a title=\"http:\/\/www.ipc.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipc.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ipc.com<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Please join me as I will be participating as a speaker at the following event fairly soon: &nbsp; Unified Communications for the Trading Floor Roundtable Location &amp; timing: &nbsp; &nbsp; * New York City * Monday, June 18th, 5.30 &ndash; 8.30pm * The Audi Forum, 250 Park Avenue at 47th Street, near Grand Central<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,199,189,177,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}