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David Wippich, CEO Ensim. What We’ll Talk About Today. Crazy Market Dynamics Convergence of Convergence Unifying Unified Communications Benefits of Complexities Realizing and Sizing the opportunity The Un-Confusion Conclusion. Market Dynamics. Market Dynamics.
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What We’ll Talk About Today • Crazy Market Dynamics • Convergence of Convergence • Unifying Unified Communications • Benefits of Complexities • Realizing and Sizing the opportunity • The Un-Confusion Conclusion
Market Dynamics Market Dynamics • Increased commoditization of traditional isp/telecom services • Decreasing ARPU and eroding margins require deployment of new high-value services Market Opportunity • Leaders will be determined by delivering the right product at the right time the right way • Opportunity to be a “one stop shop” • Winners will enjoy on-going cash cow business
Unified Communications Benefits & Issues • Enterprise Benefits • Enable higher productivity and improved possibilities for interaction between and within organizations • Insuring UC meets security and compliance requirements • Deliver greatly improved customer care and service, using different devices – wired/unwired, location based, etc… • Gain flexibility to switch, increase, or relocate functions as staff requirements change • Replace old/obsolete systems in stages with leading edge options • Centrally manage their network, devices and apps and cut support or maintenance costs • Service Providers Top Issues Long Sales Cycles Varied Requirements for customers Distributed Needs
Separate applications from infrastructure to speed roll-out of new services • Homogenized administrative interfaces • Simplify deployment, delivery and management of services through product based solution • Pre-built application managers • Single solution for both Managed & Hosted • Sales cycle • Extensive requirements • Enterprise IT push-back • Lack of clear differentiation between hosted vs. on premise • Automation of provisioning and service enablement • Enable resellers to lower your costs of sales • Deliver role-based delegated administration • Cost Efficiency • High cost of delivering next generation in mixed environments • Maintaining legacy equipment • High cost of sales & support Service Provider Challenges & Solutions Solutions Service Provider Challenges • Deliver Mixed service bundles • Deliver convergent services on both shared and managed platforms • Keep up with new service demand • Flexible offering based on application popularity, not delivery method
How to Realize the Opportunity for mid-size enterprise • Offer homogeneous management tools • Lower cost of support and operations by using single management system in mixed environments • Identity Management, Access Control, Policy Enforcement • Provide tools empowering IT and employees, demonstrating YOUR value-add as solution provider • Lower switching costs from on-premise to outsourced • Self-Configuration of clients and devices • Self-management of basic tasks • Offer full suite of Unified Communications applications • Messaging & Collaboration (email, groupware, IM,..) • VoIP, Mobile • Presence • Unified Messaging, Communications, Collaboration
What solution providers need • New Services • Accelerate time to market; first mover advantage, higher margins (ARPU), extend value chain, create stickiness with multi-service offering, increase ARPC, better ROI on CAC • Automation • Operational efficiency as base services commoditize, end-user and reseller control increase satisfaction and decrease churn, lowers opex • Support of Mixed Environments • Lower cost of deployment and support, increase reach, access to customer relationship owner, add additional services to value proposition
Technology Requirements • Platform that provides latest technologies, web-services, web-parts, extensibility, IP and App hosting, Multi-tenant or dedicated or mixed • Service Creation tools • Resource Management • Common authentication and authorization • Provisioning across multiple services & devices • Delegated Administration & Channel Enablement
Conclusion • The market for Mixed Environments services has never looked better and is becoming critical to long term success of solution providers • Leading providers are strategically positioned to capitalize on this opportunity • Effective engagement in the value chain requires the creation and delivery new services rapidly and efficiently • Flexible distribution methods must be offered • Partnerships are a must (Tech components, Commercial Software, System Integrators)