Run Your Organization in Real Time: Leverage the Power and Potential of IP Communications

This is a concise book that has short, easy to digest chapters. It targets corporate executives, managers and small business owners and no technical knowledge is required. The sub-title Leverage the Power and Potential of IP Communications indicates the transition to a robust, mainstream medium and the proven ability of the new applications and services to deliver a powerful range of business benefits.

The introduction covers the intrinsic differences between traditional telephony and IP telephony. It explains why IP communications are not only more efficient, but also why brand-new communications paradigms could be developed, e.g. the ability to blend real-time telephony with real-time information. This allows mainstream business processes to be improved and brand-new processes to be developed.

Jeff Pulver, a US citizen living in New York, is the Founder and Chairman of pulvermedia, and one of the true pioneers of the VoIP/IP Communications industry. Leveraging well over a decade of hands- on experience in Internet and IP communications and innovation, Jeff is a globally renowned thought leader, author and entrepreneur. He is the publisher of VON Magazine and The Pulver Report and creator of the Voice on the Net (VON) conferences, where all sectors of the IP communications industry come together to discuss, debate, and advance the industry. Additionally, Jeff is the founder of Free World Dialup, the VON Coalition, LibreTel, and is the co-founder of VoIP service provider, Vonage. Bob Emmerson is an English national living in the Netherlands. He holds a degree in electronic engineering and mathematics from London University and now works as a freelance writer, part-time consultant and ‘industry observer.’ Bob writes about Information and Communications Technology for various technical and business publications. In addition he has produced three market reports for the Financial Times as well as a number of white papers and he is the European Editor of VON Magazine.