Ubiquity & Technology
Part two of a four part series:
Part one: Communications Without Boundaries
Part three: Embedded Communications
Part four: Digitization to Humanization
Part two of a four part series:
Part one: Communications Without Boundaries
Part three: Embedded Communications
Part four: Digitization to Humanization
INTRODUCTION
Want to see what embedded real-time communications can do for you? Now you can. We’re bringing Kandy to the doorsteps of companies across North America. It’s the perfect opportunity for everyone from developers to C-suite level decision makers to see what voice, video, chat, screen sharing, co-browsing and collaboration can do for their applications.
2014 was a remarkable year at GENBAND, as we continued to bring better ways of working and communicating to our growing channel partner network, who in turn leveraged our cloud (NUViA) and platform (Kandy) as well as our SIP Trunking and Application Server offerings to improve their offerings – and bottom line profits.
Question: What do Google, Telefonica, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo, Fidelity, Snapchat and now Blackboard have in common?
Answer: They have all acquired or financed companies that offer Web Real-time Communications (WebRTC) solutions. Comcast, Amazon and NTT are a little different, they have chosen to build instead of buy.
More people with smartphones…
More Internet access points with the growth of Wi-Fi and hot spots…
More developer platforms and the rise of real-time communications APIs…
The freelance economy is the future of work, even in the traditional workplace. Getting things done, especially in the hyper-connected information age, is happening more and more remotely, and is increasingly being measured in “job units.” How productive the coming generations of workers are will likely be measured less by “punching the clock” and more by “finishing the job” – one job after the other.
Over-the-Top (OTT) service providers, like Skype, Google, WhatsApp and Netflix are riding on top of Communications Service Providers (CSPs) capex-intensive infrastructure by delivering Web and mobile competitive offers either directly (pure OTT VoIP applications) or indirectly (embedding voice, video and messaging into social, mobile, or gaming apps).
I came to GENBAND in February of this year. I joined the company because of my past experience with David Walsh and his ability to lead. You see, I am all about innovation and execution. For ideas to turn into innovation it requires a winning culture.
Culture can be defined as the cumulative IQ of the team, past experiences, attitudes and willingness of the group of people of an organization to win. Culture is the critical environment in which ideas will thrive or die. Winning cultures require teamwork.
Everything in the communications industry is changing – again. Today, GENBAND is formally launching Kandy and after opening this powerful “Platform-as-a-Service” to a handful of our partners as part of an “early access” program, tonight we will be sharing their applications, which will prove to the world that communicating in real-time will never be the same. Those partners include massive companies like SAP, IBM and Tech Mahindra, as well as smaller start-up companies.