January 5, 2012
- Here are the top 10 reasons and how to avoid them
- Avaya
Unified communications (UC) is increasingly viewed as a valuable platform that can offer numerous benefits across the entire enterprise. The technology is expected to play a key role in many organizations' ongoing efforts to grow their business and improve profitability.
UC implementations can fail for many reasons. Organizations planning to deploy a UC platform across their enterprise should keep the following pitfalls in mind as they move through the implementation process.
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While most organizations are at least partially on the path to various forms of UC solutions, there are almost as many variations on the solutions as there are organizations. In fact, even the exact definition of "Unified Communications" will vary from organization to organization.
In this paper, Avaya offers a discussion of a number of reasons that UC implementations fail - or are sub-optimal to say the least. A lot boil down to setting reasonable expectations and offering the portions of UC that are most attractive to your organization.
For instance, being able to customize your approach is key. Just because there are a "gazillion" options doesn't mean that every option must be implemented. In fact, in some cases there may be so many options that users end up resisting using the capabilities due to the complexity.
Of course, in addition to pointing out the reasons for failure, the paper also offers suggestions as to how to avoid these pitfalls.