As one stop on our Collaboration Tour 2009, Compunetix will be at the Royal Sonesta hotel in Boston at the end of July for the annual Wainhouse Research Collaboration Futures Summit. Compunetix is a corpoarte sponsor of the event and will have speakers and personnel on hand to discuss “The Technology of Cooperation.”
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After months of preparation and training, more than 10,000 runners pounded the pavement as part of the Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon on May 3rd, 2009. Included in the group of runners were members of Team Compunetix. These fourteen elite runners are pictured below. Congratulations, you’re all winners to us!
Team Compunetix from left to right: Tom Altmeyer, Brian Ciarimboli, Jerry Pompa, Scott Stern, Ben Krokosky, Ed May, Ken Sharp, Viviana Altieri, Mike Hockenberry, Dana Monticelli, Jason Lemak, Angla Eagle, Andy Voltz and Ben Li
After a very full couple of days at Elliot’s Future of Conferencing Workshop, the IX crew took a day to attend to the CTIA Wireless show being held at the LV Convention Center.
With our new CONTEX Connections smartphone application, we decided to take advantage of the opportunity and walk the exhibit hall, attend a keynote and investigate some tools and partners.
This time was very well spent and we were fortunate enough to see demos of upcoming devices, wi-max networks, deveice testing services and unquie new applications.
And, no, I am not referring to the Mel Brooks movie.
I am talking collaboration industry trade events. It’s March/April/May, and that always means the opportunity to get out of the office and hit the road. We get to step out and sponsor a few events around the globe to meet with customers, talk about trends and happenings, and try and sniff out some new opportunities.
This Spring brought three, no really four, shows.
The first was the Telespan Future of Conferencing Workshop hosted by Elliot Gold and company at the Palace Station in Las Vegas. For those “in the know,” this annual industry get-together is THE place to be in March. Industry movers, shakers, and c-level executives all gather for two days in Sin City to talk about the market, compare trends and discuss where things are headed.
This year’s workshop brought together over 130 of the conferencing industry’s brightest stars to network, listen to a collection of subject experts, and to discuss the future of our market. Featured presentations included “The State of the Industry,” “USF: How the Dust Settled,” “Preventing Fraud,” “Conferencing Event Management” and “Using Social Media to promote Brand and Extend Reach to New Customers.”
Compunetix was designated as a Hospitality Sponsor of this year’s conference and specifically provided a cocktail reception and networking session at the end of the first day. Additionally, Compunetix participated in the Workshop’s first ever Technology Sandbox™ and setup a CONTEX Solutions table with product information, live demonstrations and a see-through CONTEX Summit™ Media Processor.
The highlight of the overall event, however, was Mr. Pompa’s presentation on mobility and its impact on conferencing. Jerry was joined on stage by Mark Dzwonczyk, president of Vello Conferencing, where they conducted a live demo of Vello’s outbound conference initiation application for Blackberry smart phones.
The new version of the Sonexis ConferenceManager collaboration platform bundles together fun and productivity increase in one brillently executed and integrated package.
As recently noted by all of the large enterprise platform giants - IBM, Microsoft, Cisco - speed, mobility and collaboration are the new keys to business success. Knowledge workers require an environment of interconnectivity, with a free flow of ideas, communication and decision-making. The Sonexis ConferenceManager pulls those elements together in an enterprise deployable server solution that leverages the best resources of your organization and sets them loose.
As posted earlier, Sonexis Technology Inc is now part of the Compunetix family and provides our customers an alternative solution for on-premise hardware/software deployments. This robust solution, backed by Compunetix 40+ years of product manufacturing, customer support and project management/consultation, is the perfect compliment to our existing line of carrier-class conferencing platforms for telecos, carriers and conferencing service providers.
But don’t take my word for it. See for yourself. Click on the link below to see a first-hand demonstration of Sonexis ConferenceManager. You won’t be sorry.
Predating the CONTEX Summit’s recently announced web conferencing integration with WebEx, IBM/Unyte and MS Live Meeting, Compunetix completed it’s first bundled audio/web conferencing integration with our own CONTEX Presenter Online Collaboration tool.
CONTEX Presenter, initially developed in 2006, is an exceptionally clean and uncluttered web and data sharing application that can be purchased and managed in-house by Conference Service Providers (CSP) and Enterprise customers alike. It features the most important online collaboration tools, such as application and desktop sharing, whiteboarding, unified roster, audio controls, conference recording, annotations, all in an easy-to-use package that is lightweight and firewall-friendly.
Watch the short movie below for a quick demonstration of this superb unified collaboration environment.
Dr. Giorgio Coraluppi, the founder and President of Compunetix, Inc. was recognized last month by the Monroeville Area Chamber of Commerce at their annual community awards reception.
Dr. Coraluppi, who has founded three businesses in Monroeville, was named “Businessman of the Year” at the Chamber’s November 13 reception, an honor that recognizes the local businessman that has demonstrated stability, innovation, perseverance and a commitment to making our community a better place to live, work, shop and play.
This prestigious award is part of the Chamber’s annual ROC’s program which seeks out and Recognizes individuals, Organizations and Companies that Shine (ROCs).
Click on the link below to watch the award video and hear Dr. Coraluppi discuss the early beginnings of his plans to start a new organization…
Compunetix is, once again, encouraging employees to “Get out the Vote.” in Monroeville, PA. This program initially began in 2006 during the last general election, and it provides all employees who present evidence that they have voted with 4 hours of PTO (Paid Time Off). All 400 employees of three Monroeville based businesses - Compunetix, Chorus Call and Compunetics - are eligible for the perk.
The non-partisan program for employees is not associated with any specific political dogma other than good citizenship. “We do not care whom they vote for, just that they vote,” Dr. Coraluppi, president of the three companies, explains. “We want to eliminate any barriers to the voting process.”
Read additional stories about the Compunetix/Chrous Call/Compunetix voting initiative at the Pittsburgh Tribune Review and Earthtimes.
As we mentioned in a previous post, Compunetix President Dr. Giorgio Coraluppi is one of the finalists for the Pittsburgh TECH 50 CEO of the year award. This year’s award ceremony will be held at the Carnegie Music Hall on Thursday, Oct 16, 2008. Many Pittsburgh area technology companies will be honored through the evening which will be hosted by WTAE reporter Sheldon Ingram.
Our friends at the Tech Council’s TECHburgher blog have all the details.
A new short (3 min) video is available that demonstrates the Compunetix CONTEX® Mobile Groups application.
For those of you new to the space, Mobile Groups is a java-based application for mobile handsets that allows you to leverage the phone’s internal directory to pull up, tag contacts and initiate a group call. It makes multipoint conference calls a breeze, and enables group communication from a mobile device like no other solution.
This application can be ported for deployment on most any java-enabled handsets, and utilizes the mobile network’s GPRS (data) connection to a CONTEX media processor for hosting the collaboration call.
Take a moment to find out what all the fuss is about.