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Industry Leaders to Duke It Out at Wainhouse Research Summit
in Mythic "Battle for the Enterprise Collaboration Desktop"
in Mythic "Battle for the Enterprise Collaboration Desktop"
May 3, 2004, Brookline MA - Rich media conferencing end-users from the Fortune 1000 will choose sides, top enterprise IT providers will challenge each others solutions; industry luminaries will provide insights; and everyone will gain a better understanding of where real-time collaboration using audio, video and web conferencing is headed at the fourth annual Wainhouse Research Summit, July 14-16, held at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The theme for this year's conference is "Peering Into the Future."
One of the major events of the Summit will be the "Battle for the Collaboration Desktop," a set of presentations and round table debate in which the three different approaches to real-time collaboration -- IP Telephony, Converged Communications, and Converged Applications -- will be discussed and debated by leading advocates from IBM, Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft, Polycom and WebEx.
Questions to be addressed include "Is this a battle to the end, or will all three approaches co-exist? And, "How will enterprise end users benefit from the coming age of ubiquitous audio, video, and web connectivity."
The July 16 sessions will kick off with a keynote by Bob Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, inventor of Ethernet, video pioneer, and now a venture capitalist with Polaris Ventures. This will be followed by presentations by CEOs from four conferencing and collaboration start ups- Convoq, eDial, Perspective, and SightSpeed.
Other presentations from large and small end users will highlight the reality of achieving success with rich media communications in business meetings, training, and customer relations applications. End users speaking at the Summit include the World Bank, IBM, Electrolux, LifeCare Hospitals, Countrywide Financial, and SAIC.
Expert industry analysts from Wainhouse Research, in the wake of their just released report on rich media conferencing, will provide a fact-filled presentation on the "State of the Rich Media Conferencing Market."
Other industry players participating in the Summit include: Arel, Compunetix, Genesys, Global Crossing, GlowPoint, SONY, TANDBERG, Ubiquity.
"Our annual Wainhouse Research Summit, with its informal atmosphere and highly interactive spirit, has proven to be a great networking event for the industry's customers and vendors. The issues are topical and timely, and are designed to send everyone home with a clearer view of where conferencing and collaboration technology and solutions are heading," said Andrew W. Davis, Wainhouse Research's Managing Partner.
Complete details and a registration form are available at www.wainhouse.com/wrsummit.
Wainhouse Research is an independent market research firm that focuses on critical issues in rich media communications. The company conducts multi-client and custom research studies, provides strategy advice to vendors and end users, publishes a variety of reports, and delivers public and private seminars.
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