Tom is the CEO and co-founder of Centrify Corporation, a software and cloud security provider that delivers unified identity services across data center, cloud and mobile.

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While plenty of other unified communications (UC) services exist, Avaya says Flare is more efficient and fun to use than its competition.

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For example, using the zEnterprise System with the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager, a financial services company managing credit card transactions on the mainframe using an IBM blade optimized for analytics can gain insights from the information in seconds.

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Unified offers what it calls enterprise-level services to automate the whole process on multiple social sites.

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Mobile service providers, OTT video services and advertisers need to come together as part of a unified and open value chain to deliver the high-quality monetized video their subscribers are looking for in a multi-screen environment.

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Marketing has unified their lead management processes and also increased automated collaboration with sales and field services.

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In addition, the cloud broker provided a single, unified web interface for end users to design, procure, provision, monitor, and govern the services.

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