CoreObjects, a new product development service provider, earns its bread bringing commercially deployable products to market from both emerging and established technology companies in a smorgasbord of verticals.
Headquartered in Los Angeles with centers in Bangalore and Pune, India, as well as offices in the United Kingdom, CoreObjects was, as you might guess, looking for a telecommunication conferencing partner.
Group communication among employees is largely restricted to e-mail and online chat as these are cost-effective channels. Telephone conversations and face-to-face meetings are doled out grudgingly, with the bean counters, arms crossed over their chests, tapping their feet and glowering at the phenomenally higher cost.
And as TMC wrote recently, "beyond the traditional benefits that conference calls offer, such as instantaneous meetings, video conferencing gives users the ability to have face-to-face meetings without the need to be in the same office," officials from Eagle Conferencing said.
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Companies such as FaxCore see this kind of thing all the time: A Cisco reseller, say, needs to provide legacy fax products to customers who won't be implementing their Cisco systems for at least six months, probably a year.
Offering not-too-expensive products for situations like this, FaxCore officials say they're good with FoIP, sure, but also with analog, digital, integration with legacy PBXs, whatever situation you need them to walk into.
Surprised that in these days of FoIP there's a vendor who still does a lot of business with analog lines, PRI and T1 digital?
You shouldn't be. FoIP is growing fast, sure, but some customers aren't fully VoIP and UC capable. Plus many customers will be implementing VoIP in the near future but need to have analog now, and need a vendor who can work with them on that.
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Baton Rouge's TraceSecurity, which sells cloud-based IT security compliance and risk management software, was using a mishmash of QuickBooks, ACT! and Excel and found them unsuitable.
The company noted a lack of visibility between sales, delivery, and back-office personnel, its off-the-shelf software proved limiting and restrictive for a growing company and that their basic sales automation was not up to the requirements of a nationwide sales force.
With over 1,000 mid-market customers just five years after opening its doors, TraceSecurity is a fast-growing provider of enterprise risk management and IT security software. Like many start-ups, TraceSecurity launched with familiar, entry-level business software -- that quickly showed its limitations.
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They say timing is everything, and when 911 Enable, a division of Connexon Telecom, announced an E911 offering for Microsoft Communications Server "14" earlier this week, the truth of that statement was evident.
Working together with Microsoft, 911 Enable officials say, the company adapted its Emergency Routing Service for E911 capabilities for Communications Server "14" deployments.
Given the rise of E911 legislation across more and more states - Utah, Massachusetts and Virginia have enacted laws in the past year - it's worthwhile looking at what the Congressional E-911 Caucus is doing about the issue.
TMC recently reported how Virginia's new enhanced 911 law "is a comprehensive, sweeping measure that affects all multi-line telephony systems providers and includes no grandfather clause, an expert and public official who help craft the legislation said this week."
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Enhanced 911, or "E911," a form of 911 service that uses location-based technology to pinpoint the whereabouts of distressed callers, is one of several technologies that's riding the rising tide of location-based services. Researchers predict the U.S. LBS market will grow at an annual rate of 43.1 percent through 2010.
There is new E911 legislation coming before Congress - without the wrenching debates as socialized health care occasioned, don't worry.
GPS apps such as Google Maps Navigation are proliferating on smartphones, and the left-for-dead TomTom, gutpunched when smartphone makers and SPs started horning in on its turf, is itself now targeting the smartphone app market.
Even Facebook's getting in on the action: Location-based services are big business, and they're giving quite a boost to E911.
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