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Held: 5-Dec-2007

Where: Novartis AG Basel Switzerland

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Unified Communications gets P9's full attention


Our host, Christophe Ritzler, shares Novartis' UC projects and activities


Siemens explains how their UC solution set can help meet the enterprises' UC challenges


A full day was enjoyed by all !

Agenda

Start	Tuesday, 4-December-2007	Location
7:30 PM	Free Dinner Reception Please join us for this relaxing and informal evening of fine food and drink. This is a great opportunity to meet the Point Nine group in a relaxing and fun atmosphere.	Restaurant Walliser Kanne, Gerbergasse 50, CH-4001 Basel www.walliserkanne-basel.ch
Start	Wednesday, 5-December-2007	Presenter/Moderator
8:30 AM	Coffee & Registration
9:00 AM	Welcome & Introduction	Richard Norris, Wainhouse Research
9:15 AM	Unified Communications – Deployment Methods that Work Brent Kelly will present what his research has shown are current best practices in implementing unified communications solutions, including a four-step method for communications enabling certain business processes. He will also outline some of the “gotchas” in certain UC offerings. Brent will take concepts from vendors and end users, and meld them into concrete suggestions for end users. He will provide an overview of key developments and alliances in the UC market and outline what these will mean for end user companies. The session will conclude with open Q&A	Dr E. Brent Kelly, Senior Analyst & Partner Wainhouse Research
10:15 AM	Coffee Break
10:35 AM	Unified Communication Proof-of-Concept - Beauty and Challenges This session will cover what Novartis is currently doing in terms of UC (UCC, UC2), explaining their vision, the current PoC we are running with MSFT (OCS 2007), the beauty of such systems and the various challenges we faced, are facing and will face!	Christophe Ritzler, Enterprise Architect for Collaboration and Communication Services, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
11:20 AM	Tour of the Novartis Halo Telepresence Studio	Gerold Furler, Head VC Services, Novartis
12:00 PM	UC à la carte – Communication adapted to your business How to design your UC solution, so that it will support your business needs today and also evolve with them? This presentation will show key elements of a future oriented platform which enables role based, modular deployment of the UC services and integration of communication actions into business applications.	Alexandra Droz-Georget, Global UC Team, Siemens Communications
12:40 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	UC applications in the workplace An overview of specific applications of Siemens UC solutions in the pharmaceutical and financial sectors.	Alexandra Droz-Georget, Peter Pietsch, Global UC Team, Siemens Communications
2:10 PM	Preparing for Unified Communications in a multi-national organization This presentation with open discussion will focus on the critical success factors to consider in planning a UC strategy.	Jon Neville, Practice Consultant Wainhouse Research
3:00 PM	Coffee Break
3:20 PM	UC Open Discussion Forum A review and discussion of the findings from the day's presentations. What are the next steps? What are the challenges? Who has the answers?	Richard Norris & Jon Neville Wainhouse Research
4:00 PM	An introduction & overview of the AMI Consortium and what's 'coming soon'.. Next Generation Meeting Technologies	Christine Perey, AMI Consortium
4:20 PM	Wrap-up	Richard Norris & Jon Neville Wainhouse Research
4:30 PM	Adjourn

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