While a proliferation of technology has enabled great employee mobility, it has also led to confusion for enterprises seeking to develop a coherent communications strategy. Enterprise fixed mobile convergence solutions need to provide a consistent user experience for employees regardless of location of work, while enabling IT to deploy consistent control and management policies across different communications modes.

Depending on the mobility profile of the business and the perceived business values, different solutions will need to be deployed. This presentation uses illustrative scenarios to discuss the business and end user imperatives to consider in an enterprise mobility solution.

Avaya is a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services.

Avaya Inc. designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than one million businesses worldwide, including over 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500®. Focused on businesses large to small, Avaya is a world leader in secure and reliable Internet Protocol (IP) telephony systems and communications software applications and services.

Driving the convergence of voice and data communications with business applications – and distinguished by comprehensive worldwide services – Avaya helps customers leverage existing and new networks to achieve superior business results.

Thomas is responsible for developing the vision, strategy and value proposition for Avaya IP telephony and Contact Centres solutions and communicating it to customers, business partners and service providers.

Thomas has over 15 years experience of business development and design consultancy in the European enterprise communication market for both voice and data network solutions. He has been with Avaya and Lucent Inter-Networking Systems since July 1998, when he joined as part of Lucent’s acquisition of Israeli’s Ethernet Switching startup Lannet.

Thomas graduated in telecom network engineering from French Grande Ecole Telecom Paris. He is married with 3 children.