No Jitter blogger Sorell Slaymaker offers a presentation explaining some principles to help your enterprise save money in delivering communications to end users.

In this No Jitter podcast, recorded just before VoiceCon Orlando 2009 in late March, the CEOs of AVST and Unimax discussed the partnership that the 2 companies subsequently announced at VoiceCon. We also discussed TCO and ROI for unified communications and network management tools.

Phil Moen, CEO of Unimax, discusses Unimax's technologies for configuration management, and how automating configuration can provide return on investment.

Dana Call, EVP and GM for Aastra USA, discusses Aastra acquisitions, product architectures, and the challenging economy.

Tim Passios, director, solutions marketing for Interactive Intelligence, explains their new offering, which integrates SMS messaging with the contact center and why Interactive Intelligence sees the contact center as a good launching point for Unified Communications in the enterprise, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Jon Anderson, senior manager, competitive marketing for Siemens Enterprise, discusses life under Siemens' joint venture with the Gores Group, and how focusing on hard dollar savings as part of tightening expenses in the enterprise can help IT grow in a softening economy, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Lawrence Byrd, director, UC architecture for Avaya, discusses Avaya's integration of the UC endpoint interface into its IP telephony options, empowering users by supporting multiple kinds of clients, and te changes in Avaya's leadership, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Jim McQuaid, director of product management for NetQoS, explains why it's essential to manage application performance and QOE (quality of experience) and not just QOS, as well as the improvements to NetQoS's Unified Comunications Monitor, which now manages the Microsoft OCS platform and video, as well the Cisco IP Telephony platform, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Marty Sexton, senior product marketing manager, video solutions, discusses the growing market for video in the enterprise and Polycom's CMA (Converged Management Application) which facilitates centralized management of video endpoints; Tim Yankey, director, product marketing, voice solutions, describes Polycom's HD phone and codec, which increase frequency range and clarity without significantly increasing bandwidth, and which are being announced at VoiceCon San Francisco, with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.

Brian Gollaher, Senior Product Manager, Contact Centers, Empirix, discusses network monitoring for the contact center--how load testing and transaction monitoring can help you keep track of what's going on in the network--with NoJitter Editor and Lead Blogger Eric Krapf.