Todd Landry is the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Sphere Communications where he oversees the company’s product strategies and go-to-market activities, including alliances and channel development. An accomplished speaker, Landry can be seen in numerous forums, panels and keynotes that include topics such as market changes and impacts, business applications for technology, case studies, industry direction and others. He has joined many industry experts from top analysts, technology vendors and end users of existing and new technologies and has focused on the real value in leveraging technology for business. Previously a vice president at CommWorks Corporate, a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation, Landry oversaw multiple business lines of network access systems and software. He directed a team of Product Management, Marketing, Applications Engineering, Customer Proposals and Technical Publications organizations to provide the delivery tools for product life cycle management, market delivery, sales and customer & industry interaction. Landry has been involved in the telecommunications industry for over 20 years including over 7 years in senior positions with U.S. Robotics Network Systems, where he was responsible for the award winning Total Control product line of carrier Internet access, voice over IP, and 3G wireless data product lines.
In the early days, the birth of desktop computing resulted in technology that
provided integration between the computer and the telephone: we call it
Computer Telephony Integration or CTI. The concept was delightful to most
technology-minded people, but it never really emerged as a ubiquitous desktop
solution. Today IP-based telephony for business is a hot and growing market,
and many vendors are providing some level of integration with the desktop
computer - the most basic is a software-based phone, the most advanced is
complete control of user communications and multiple forms of media from
which the user may easily select. While this convergence of communications at
the user's desktop provides value for end-user productivity, these
applications are typically independent desktop applications and have little
integration with other business applications.
Today CIOs... (more)
The concept of adding the phone system to your company’s SOA framework
may sound radical. But as IP telephony systems become more commonplace, the
phone system is “just another business application,” and it is
natural to integrate it with other business systems. As vendors begin to
support web services interfaces with WSDL and other tools, IT professionals
are realizing they can execute integration projects that would have required
telecom experts just a few months ago. There are real business benefits of a
web services approach to integrating key IP telephony f... (more)
Todd Landry is the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Sphere Communications where he oversees the company’s product strategies and go-to-market activities, including alliances and channel development. An accomplished speaker, Landry can be seen in numerous forums, panels and keynotes that include topics such as market changes and impacts, business applications for technology, case studies, industry direction and others. He has joined many industry experts from top analysts, technology vendors and end users of existing and new technologies and has focused on the real value in leveraging technology for business. Previously a vice president at CommWorks Corporate, a subsidiary of 3Com Corporation, Landry oversaw multiple business lines of network access systems and software. He directed a team of Product Management, Marketing, Applications Engineering, Customer Proposals and Technical Publications organizations to provide the delivery tools for product life cycle management, market delivery, sales and customer & industry interaction. Landry has been involved in the telecommunications industry for over 20 years including over 7 years in senior positions with U.S. Robotics Network Systems, where he was responsible for the award winning Total Control product line of carrier Internet access, voice over IP, and 3G wireless data product lines.
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