Analog Free Persistent

Mohit Bhishikar

CIO, Persistent Systems

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Six Reasons Why You Need ToThink about UC Strategy

1. Your employees ask your customer to provide a bridge number for a conference

2. You maintain a department within IT to manage telecommunications

3. Your IT team won’t commit to any SLA for voice services

4. You actually keep a reference manual for conferencing

5. You hate BYOD as much as you hate traffic in Hinjewadi

6. You spend more time with your CFO than your significant other

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Persistent’s IT Vision, Strategy &

Cisco Collaboration Alignment

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Problem of Plenty !!!

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Persistent IT’s Vision“Analog-Free Persistent”

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Collaboration Use Cases,

Best Practices & Business Benefits

• Disparate end-user devices

• Lack of scenarios like , mobility, user single reach & enterprise security

• Analog telephony synonymous to

• Single multipurpose IP Endpoint Device I like to call them, the

• Rolled new initiatives like

– thereby reducing facilities TCO

• IP Collaboration created a new platform for the

Our Journey … Till Date

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Roadmap on Cisco Collaboration :Taking Collaboration to the “Next Level”

Moving Forward ...

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Aligning with Cisco Technologies

On Premises CloudHybrid