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Raymond Caasick

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CEO,CFO,VP,Director, Enterprocity

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My major focus for most of my career path has been software development. This occupies several industry spaces related to telecommunications, application development, service based architectures, and line of business style applications. Also throw onto that DB integration and a ...

My major focus for most of my career path has been software development. This occupies several industry spaces related to telecommunications, application development, service based architectures, and line of business style applications. Also throw onto that DB integration and a heavy dose of VoIP side integration and you may say that I have been around.

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Nov. 11, 2010

Raymond Caasick and 1 other person answered this question

How does SIP makes UC faster, cheaper, etc.?

Well that is kind of an interesting question. I am not sure that just moving to SIP makes UC faster, or cheaper, or easier at the outset like I think a lot of people expect.
As with most things, you always need to look at ... more

Information Technology

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Oct. 21, 2010

Raymond Caasick and 1 other person commented on a brief

Five Reasons Why the Desk Phone Will Persist

I agree that many people LIKE having a hard phone on their desk and are very reticent to give it up for a PC based solution. That's why companies like Cisco and Nortel still make a ton of money selling desk sets that are IP ... more

Customer Service

Information Technology

Contact Centers

Oct. 21, 2010

Raymond Caasick and 6 other people answered this question

What is a good reason to NOT implement an IP phone system?

I agree with most folks here.
A traditional TDM PBX is a huge investment that many companies have made already, and are still just now able to leverage due to the fact that they have finally crossed the line form them being a large expense ... more

Information Technology

IP Ohone System

Oct. 21, 2010

Raymond Caasick and 5 other people answered this question

How do Unified Communications vendors address concerns related to power outages & internet dowtime?

I have been asked this also and to be honest my general response is to consider VoIP disaster recovery and resiliency the same way consider TDM. If you want high uptime and access the standard is UPS/Generator backup, redundant trunks from disparate vendors, etc… This ... more

Information Technology

Diaster Recovery

Unified Communications

Unified Communications Systems

Oct. 18, 2010

Raymond Caasick and 8 other people answered this question

How often should we conduct performance reviews of our employees?

@Maria,
While I tend to agree that 'yearly' (as in ONLY done yearly) reviews can be a scary thing, I believe that as long as you stay engaged with your employees on a regular plan then the yearly is just a sit down to look ... more

Human Resources

Career Development

Performance Review

Oct. 12, 2010

Raymond Caasick and 12 other people answered this question

I know VOIP is great Technology, but would it make sense to go completely VOIP in a Medical Center?

I have been involved in VoIP for a long time (long history at Intel and Dialogic dealing with thing things from gateways to system implementations using Microsoft UM, IBM SameTime or a bunch of other things) and personally, in an environment as critical as a ... more

Information Technology

Oct. 11, 2010

Raymond Caasick answered this question

Any tips for getting a promotion?

Rule #1 - Show 'value'.
Just like people pick stocks, jobs, cars, furniture, the typo question is what will this do for me NOW that will support, help, or otherwise make life easier for me down the road.
If someone thinks that you are happy ... more

General Management

Human Resources

Career Advancement

Oct. 11, 2010

Raymond Caasick published a brief

5 Standard Features Any VoIP System Should Have

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Sept. 30, 2010

Raymond Caasick and 5 other people answered this question

What have you found the number one benefit of UC to be?

Hands down the benefit that I see is the ability to link together presence information with the communication space. By far the largest benefit is the ability to stop the lost efficiencies of wanting to respond to an email or a voice mail or an ... more

Information Technology

Unified Communications

Unified Communications Features

Sept. 30, 2010

Raymond Caasick and 1 other person answered this question

How do you see Microsoft Lync 2010 impacting leading Unified Communications solutions?

In my opinion Lync is going to be one of the technologies to watch within the next year. The offering of a fully unified communications infrastructure that will support all modes of communication and include call center style routing and monitoring in a unified manner ... more

Information Technology

Unified Communications

Unified Communications Solutions

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