BlueNote Networks Named ''Cool Vendor'' by Leading Analyst Firm.TEWKSBURY, Mass. -- Vendors selected for the "Cool Vendor" report are innovative, impactful and intriguing BlueNote Networks(TM), provider of SessionSuite(TM) IP Telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. software, has been included in the March 16, 2006, "Cool Vendors in Enterprise Communications, 2006" report published by Geoff Johnson, et al of Gartner, Inc. Gartner defines a "Cool Vendor" as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are "innovative, impactful, and intriguing." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Gartner report, CIOs and managers of enterprise communications face many challenges including better-managing customer interactions, improving support for staff mobility, improving network security, infrastructure consolidation and operational efficiency. The opportunities in these areas continue to drive innovation and investments by startups and small companies, hoping to exploit the gaps and shortfalls in the offerings of the global vendors. BlueNote Networks is one of six such vendors profiled in this report. "We're pleased Gartner has recognized the significant and unique shift that BlueNote Networks is making in the enterprise communications market," said Tom Burkardt, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president, BlueNote Networks. "Real-time, interactive communications like voice and video are critical to everyday business, and need to be tightly integrated into business processes and workflow to improve the overall experience and value." The BlueNote SessionSuite IP Telephony solution provides a software foundation combining the distributed application An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications capabilities of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) with SIP-based multimedia services, to allow enterprises to deliver communication-enabled applications. The first release of SessionSuite is a standalone software application that lets an enterprise deploy a global Internet-facing telephony system delivering a rich set of SIP-controlled voice and video services to users, regardless of location. Enterprises benefit through SessionSuite's global reach, reduced costs of delivering communication services, and its ability to integrate voice into business applications. About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability mer·chant·a·ble adj. Suitable for buying and selling; marketable. mer  chant·a·bil or
fitness of a particular purpose.
Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months. About BlueNote Networks BlueNote Networks is driving the integration of real-time interactive communications with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) by delivering the first enterprise-class interactive communication platform: SessionSuite. BlueNote Networks combines the preeminent features of Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP) with Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. to drive innovation while radically lowering the cost and complexity of enterprise voice, video and data services. Its SessionSuite software forms the foundation enabling globally-reachable services and integrated workflow applications A workflow application is where various applications, components and people must be involved in the processing of data to complete an instance of a process. For example, consider a purchase order that moves through various departments for authorization and eventual purchase. , while leveraging the existing data infrastructure. BlueNote Networks is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts Tewksbury (pronounced IPA: /ˈtʊksbɛriː, ˈtʊksbriː/) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 28,851 at the 2000 census. . For more information, visit www.bluenotenetworks.com. |
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