Premises vs. Cloud: Does It Matter?

Enterprises are looking for broad services, features, ability to customize and integrate, and reliability at the lowest cost. Where should they look?

Car buyers do their research carefully on various models--reliability, performance, depreciation, and safety. Then they check reviews, perform a test drive, and do other forms of research. The issue of buy or lease comes last; that's just a financial question.

But in telecom, UC, and collaboration, it is more likely a decision up-front. There are big financial ramifications (expense vs. capital), but there are--or were--even bigger technical differentiators between UCaaS and a premises solution--starting with the fact that the two options often involve different vendors. If you're leaning toward a premises based solution, check out that group of vendors. If leaning toward hosted services, check the other vendors. However, separation by business model is beginning to fade.

Thinking Phone Networks Positioned as a Market “Visionary” in Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service Report

Placement in Visionaries Quadrant Based on Company’s Completeness of Enterprise Unified Communications Vision and Ability to Execute

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 18, 2011 – Enterprise cloud communications service provider Thinking Phone Networks today announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned the Company in the “Visionaries” quadrant of its highly regarded 2011 “Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), North America” report. Published by one of the IT industry’s premier analyst firms, the report reviews Thinking Phone Networks’ pioneering analytics-driven, open standards-based cloud UC platform and services.

Unified Communications and Video in the Cloud: Bye Bye Telco of Yesterday

For about a thousand years telecommunications companies have relied on analog wires connected through the land to dominate and capitalize on humans’ desire to speak to each other. The fact that few rarely have anything worth hearing is not the point.

THINKING PHONE NETWORKS NAMED TO COMPUTER RESELLER NEWS 2011 “EMERGING VENDORS” LIST

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October 19, 2011 – Enterprise cloud communications service provider Thinking Phone Networks announced that it has been selected as one of Computer Reseller News’ (CRN) “Emerging Vendors for 2011.” Thinking Phone Networks was honored in the networking category for ThinkingSuite, the only cloud unified communications platform to integrate a powerful analytics capability and application integration with core communications capabilities to drive significant enterprise business process improvements.

Mass. job growth flat in August

Data indicate national unease starting to weigh more on local economy
By Todd Wallack

September 16, 2011 Massachusetts employers cut jobs for the first time in three months in August, a sign that the state economy is slowing along with the struggling US economy.

Mass. to get $22M from feds for small businesses

September 15, 2011 CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Gov. Deval Patrick says Massachusetts will be receiving $22 million through a federal program aimed at helping small businesses grow.