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Improve workforce effectiveness with flexible working, mobility & Unified Communications.

To justify embarking on the journey towards Converged Communications & Collaboration, every organisation needs to examine the costs of continuing with the current disjointed communications infrastructure.It is also critical to gain the vital input from IT, human resources, departmental heads, as well as Senior Leadership, in order to build your strategy and business caseVodafone’s solutions aim to untangle communications channels, by putting the user, rather than devices, at the heart of communications and cutting through the complexity of multiple platforms. With so many of your employees separated by location and devices, our approach is to design solutions that allow each mode of communication to work together, rather than independently.When planned and implemented with the right partner, Unified Communications & Collaboration solutions can support and enable flexible working, help attract and retain the best staff, reduce the organisation’s carbon footprint, reduce property costs and help in the rationalisation of the property estate and deliver value via reduced TCO and simplified support and infrastructure. These strategic benefits are compelling for any organisation with the need to realise efficiency savings, while improving service delivery.• Speed - Respond more quickly to customers’ needs • Simplify - Improve workforce effectiveness• Save – Costs through consolidation and reduced overheads • Secure - Company informationJoin Vodafone to discover how we approach this journey, how we have already helped organisations to address their collaboration needs and property rationalisations goals, understand our ‘User Profiling’ methodology, and become aware of how Vodafone’s people, products and services can benefit your business requirements….

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Thursday 20 October, 11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Theatre: Communications & Mobility

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Bruce Everest
(Solution Development Principal) Vodafone

Bruce Everest is a Solution Development Principal within Vodafone Unified Communication Group UK, responsible for tracking future evolving markets and technology innovation.His focus is specifically around helping to shape customers communications architecture and strategy, and the support and development of Vodafone’s propositions into UK Public Sector organisations, specifically targeting the areas of Unified Communications & the integration of Communications into Business Processes.In 2011, Bruce begins his 24th year in the voice and data communications industry, with a career spanning a variety of roles within IT, network management, technical design and business consultancy arenas. He has spoken widely on the topics of convergence, collaboration, mobilised and remote workforces, and the future direction of business communications.

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Working in partnership with our customers to understand their business opportunities and challenges, Vodafone aims to help you change the way you work allowing you to be more cost effective, more flexible and more efficient. We create innovative solutions, bringing together the best of breed mobile and fixed technologies and applications to unify communications, provide secure access to company data and streamline your business processes.

Join us to discover new ways of working that can provide demonstrable benefits including:

• Speed - Respond more quickly to customers’ needs
• Simplify - Improve workforce effectiveness
• Save – Costs through consolidation and reduced overheads
• Secure - Company information

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Seminars by Vodafone

Wednesday 19 October 1:10 PM - 1:40 PM

Improving productivity through secure mobile working?

Tarik Reid, Pre-Sales Consultant , Vodafone

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The traditional approach to data security often means managing risk of data loss and security breaches by locking down business, which can significantly hinder flexibility and efficiency. In today’s challenging environment, security not only helps to manage risks and maintain compliance, but allows the organisation to drive business opportunities, customer service and improved performance as the enabler of flexible and mobile working. This requires a more open approach to security, where productivity is no longer compromised.This session will explore:• How to allow your staff the freedom to work flexibly and productively through mobile working, safe in the knowledge that security is covered.• How to apply the appropriate security measures to meet the needs of your business, making sure they won't suppress productivity by restricting the availability of IT.• Securing Smartphones and Tablets in the enterprise world.

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Wednesday 19 October 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Optimised WAN services from Vodafone – the intelligent approach to Networks

Mark Carrington, Sales Manager - Fixed Networks, Vodafone

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How much is too much when it comes to network bandwidth? The cost of Wide area networks continues to fall, however, is that any reason to simply buy as much as you can afford? If the LAN is swamped with traffic from badly behaving users or applications, what chance does your WAN stand, regardless of how big the pipes are?Vodafone has connected tens of thousands of users on wide area networks and in doing so has always sought to provide the best possible experience to them. We do this, not by selling the biggest networks, but by utilising Unified Performance Management from Exinda, in conjunction with the most appropriate connection technology, whether that be fibre or copper based.Vodafone will demonstrate a three phased approach to ensuring the best possible experience for the network users. It starts with Visibility of the traffic on the network at an application level. This ensures that decisions on access capacity are made in the full knowledge of the ability of the network to handle the peaks of traffic and also helps to troubleshoot network events that cause users to cry “the network has crashed” when more often than not it is a failure elsewhere in the infrastructure.The second element is Control, where the administrator of this expensive resource can use the information they now have to prioritise traffic to an application or user level. There is no artificial restriction to this capability as is often the case with network level Class of Service differentiation. Your network is your own to manage, ensuring that those peaks of traffic that previously brought the service to a halt, or severely degraded response times, are now contained within strict boundaries, giving your network a much longer shelf life.The final element, and the one that most are familiar with, is Acceleration. Vodafone believes that this is possibly the least successfully installed element of network performance enhancement. The reason for this is that there is a common misconception that this is a panacea for all network ills and hence many stories of this being deployed with little positive impact. The fact is that only certain applications will benefit from the deployment of an acceleration capability. Vodafone works with its clients to examine the application portfolio and assess the potential benefit of this optional module.Vodafone believes that by deploying WAN Optimsation organisations will finally understand what is happening on their WAN and have the ability to control it for the benefit of all of their users. Join us at the seminar to find out more.

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Wednesday 19 October 11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Improve workforce effectiveness with flexible working, mobility & Unified Communications

Bruce Everest, Solution Development Principal, Vodafone

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To justify embarking on the journey towards Converged Communications & Collaboration, every organisation needs to examine the costs of continuing with the current disjointed communications infrastructure.It is also critical to gain the vital input from IT, human resources, departmental heads, as well as Senior Leadership, in order to build your strategy and business caseVodafone’s solutions aim to untangle communications channels, by putting the user, rather than devices, at the heart of communications and cutting through the complexity of multiple platforms. With so many of your employees separated by location and devices, our approach is to design solutions that allow each mode of communication to work together, rather than independently.When planned and implemented with the right partner, Unified Communications & Collaboration solutions can support and enable flexible working, help attract and retain the best staff, reduce the organisation’s carbon footprint, reduce property costs and help in the rationalisation of the property estate and deliver value via reduced TCO and simplified support and infrastructure. These strategic benefits are compelling for any organisation with the need to realise efficiency savings, while improving service delivery.• Speed - Respond more quickly to customers’ needs • Simplify - Improve workforce effectiveness• Save – Costs through consolidation and reduced overheads • Secure - Company informationJoin Vodafone to discover how we approach this journey, how we have already helped organisations to address their collaboration needs and property rationalisations goals, understand our ‘User Profiling’ methodology, and become aware of how Vodafone’s people, products and services can benefit your business requirements….

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Thursday 20 October 11:50 AM - 12:20 PM

Improve workforce effectiveness with flexible working, mobility & Unified Communications.

Bruce Everest, Solution Development Principal, Vodafone

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To justify embarking on the journey towards Converged Communications & Collaboration, every organisation needs to examine the costs of continuing with the current disjointed communications infrastructure.It is also critical to gain the vital input from IT, human resources, departmental heads, as well as Senior Leadership, in order to build your strategy and business caseVodafone’s solutions aim to untangle communications channels, by putting the user, rather than devices, at the heart of communications and cutting through the complexity of multiple platforms. With so many of your employees separated by location and devices, our approach is to design solutions that allow each mode of communication to work together, rather than independently.When planned and implemented with the right partner, Unified Communications & Collaboration solutions can support and enable flexible working, help attract and retain the best staff, reduce the organisation’s carbon footprint, reduce property costs and help in the rationalisation of the property estate and deliver value via reduced TCO and simplified support and infrastructure. These strategic benefits are compelling for any organisation with the need to realise efficiency savings, while improving service delivery.• Speed - Respond more quickly to customers’ needs • Simplify - Improve workforce effectiveness• Save – Costs through consolidation and reduced overheads • Secure - Company informationJoin Vodafone to discover how we approach this journey, how we have already helped organisations to address their collaboration needs and property rationalisations goals, understand our ‘User Profiling’ methodology, and become aware of how Vodafone’s people, products and services can benefit your business requirements….

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