October 2013 VCI-Group President’s
Message
I have been telling you that this year we are
transforming the VCI-Group organization to provide more relevant, thought
provoking webinars, introducing you to Manufacturers and Service Providers and
their new products/services, alerting you to all the events being held in our
industry and a more robust website and forum. I am pleased to announce that not only have we
done that; but, we have developed a new opportunity for YOU our members to “influence” the industry!!
I would like to officially introduce the “VC DireXions
Summit”, an exciting new program to be held in conjunction with ITEXPO on January 28th – 31st,
2014 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
What is the VC DireXions Summit? Your
opportunity to help fulfill our charter: “working to influence the development of Industry-based
standards for multimedia collaboration technologies and applications, to
improve industry products and services, and to facilitate the exchange of
information among its members”.
We will be asking YOU; our members, to provide direct feedback to industry hardware,
software and service providers on improvements you want made in their products
and services related to interoperability.
Your feedback will then be ranked by your peers along with others’
feedback. The top-ranked requests will
be taken forward with support from the Open Visual Communications Consortium
(OVCC) to work with the manufacturers and vendors to resolve any
interoperability issues and implement the features and functionality you need
to be successful in your organization.
Tell us what applications or business
solutions you are trying to implement; but, are having issues/concerns because
you cannot get your equipment to talk to each other. We are developing a special presentation
template available shortly which you can use to make your case. Our goal is to receive over 100 requests. You will be able to vote on what you would
like the industry to focus on. The top 10 requests will be our first priority. Upon notice from the vendors of successful
resolution of each interoperability request, we will be turning it back over to
you, our members, for final testing and approval. Finally we have an opportunity as End Users
to influence
the industry on those issues which personally affect the ability to deliver a
service to our clients and company.
Also, at the VC DireXions Summit during IT Expo we will be providing a new type
of certified training on multi-vendor interoperability by our strategic partner
Compass Business Solutions. Keep watching our Newsletter and emails as we will
be sending more information on this event.
Lastly, as we approach the end of 2013 we are looking
for Members who would like to be a part of the Visual Communications Industry
Group Board of Directors. This is a
great opportunity to join a group of individuals who are passionate about the
collaboration/conferencing/unified communications industry and are looking to
take it from “good to great”.
Please reach out to any current Board Member
or the VCI-Group office if you are interested in becoming a 2014 Board Member.
Toni
Alonso
VCI-Group
President
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