UBM TechWeb's Enterprise Connect Orlando 2011 Spotlights Mock RFPs

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise Connect, formerly VoiceCon, produced by UBM TechWeb, today announced that a wide range of vendors will participate in four different mock RFPs, and the results will be presented and analyzed during the conference. Enterprise Connect will be held February 28-March 3 at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando, FL. Registration is now open at http://www.enterpriseconnect.com/orlando/.

The titles and day/times for these sessions are:

• IP Telephony RFP: Who Delivers the Goods? (Mon, February 28, 2-5 pm)
• Comparing UC Options: Who's Delivering What? (Tuesday, March 1, 2:30-5:30 pm)
• Cloud-Based UC Services – What's Real? (Wednesday, March 2, 2:30-5:30 pm)
• Integrating Mobility and UC – Sizing Up the Vendor Offerings (Wednesday, March 2, 2:30-5:30 pm)

"Enterprise Connect is proud to present these in-depth mock RFP sessions, which deliver a level of detail and practical use that can't be found at any other event," said Fred Knight, Enterprise Connect General Manager and Co-Chair. "Every segment of the industry benefits from these unique sessions," he continued, "IT professionals get a jump start on their next procurement; the vendor community gets a forum to show what they can deliver; and the press and analysts get to see how the various offering stack up against one another."

The RFPs will be available on the Enterprise Connect Web site prior to the event and will be available to anyone; however, only conference attendees will receive the summaries and analyses of the responses.

The mock RFP sessions bolster an already rich Enterprise Connect program that will showcase the full range of platforms, services and applications that comprise modern communications and collaboration systems. The areas of focus for this year's conference are:

• Strategies Summit
• Unified Communications
• Mobility
• The Cloud and Virtualization
• SIP and SIP Trunking
• Video and Collaboration
• The Social Enterprise
• Planning/Implementing IP Telephony
• Managing Technology, Costs and People

"Each of our areas of focus will be covered in a variety of session formats, including the keynotes and plenary sessions on our main-stage as well as panels of IT execs describing what works, what didn't and why," explained Eric Krapf, Enterprise Connect Co-Chair and Lead Blogger for its editorial Web site NoJitter.com. "We'll also provide in-depth technical information in the workshop/tutorials that are led by industry analysts and consultants."

For more information on the mock RFPs, conference tracks and keynote speakers please visit the event Web site: www.enterpriseconnect.com.

The Enterprise Connect Exhibition will feature more than 100 companies and is the only expo where all of the enterprise communications equipment, software and service suppliers providers are in one location. The list of sponsors and exhibitors currently includes: Aastra, Aceyus, Acme Packet, Alcatel-Lucent, Aspect, AudioCodes, Avaya, AVST, Axede SA, Blackberry, Butcher+Suter AG, Calabrio, Carousel Industries, Cisco, Dimension Data, Echopass Corporation, Genesys, HP, IBM, Integrated Research, Interactive Intelligence, Level 3 Communications, Microsoft, NEC, NET, Orange Business Services, Plantronics, Polycom, Presidio Networked Solutions, Psytechnics, RADVISION, SecureLogix Corp., ShoreTel, Siemens, Sipera Systems, Skype, snom technology AG, Sonus Networks, Sprint, Verizon, Vidyo XIRRUS, XO Communications, and Zeacom.

About Enterprise Connect®

Enterprise Connect® (formerly VoiceCon) is the leading conference and exhibition for enterprise IP Telephony, Converged Networks and Unified Communications in North America. Enterprise Connect® brings corporate IT decision makers together with the industry's vendors, analysts and consultants to focus on the issues central to enterprise networks and communications. Enterprise Connect® owns and produces No Jitter, (http://www.nojitter.com/), providing daily blogging and analysis of enterprise communications, and it also serves the community with a weekly email newsletter, a Webinar Series and Virtual Events. For more information, visit http://enterpriseconnect.com/.

About UBM TechWeb

UBM TechWeb, the global leader in technology media and professional information, enables people and organizations to harness the transformative power of technology. Through its three core businesses – media solutions, marketing services and paid content – UBM TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed brands and media applications in the technology market. More than 14.5 million business and technology professionals (CIOs and IT managers, Web & Digital professionals, Software Developers, Government decision makers, and Telecom providers) actively engage in UBM TechWeb's communities and information resources monthly. UBM TechWeb brands includes: global face-to-face events such as Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat and Enterprise Connect; award-winning online resources such as InformationWeek, Light Reading, and Network Computing; and market-leading magazines InformationWeek, Wall Street & Technology, and Advanced Trading. UBM TechWeb is a UBM company, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.

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