Integrated Research Selected as Finalist for Best of Enterprise Connect 2012 Award

Judges Choose Integrated Research As One of Six Companies to Compete at Enterprise Connect Orlando

SAN FRANCISCO – February 27, 2012 – Today Integrated Research announced its selection as one of six companies chosen as a finalist for Enterprise Connect Orlando’s Best of Enterprise Connect Award. The Best of Enterprise Connect winner will be announced during the event, which is happening March 26-29, 2012 at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, FL.  For more information visit: http://www.enterpriseconnect.com/bestofenterpriseconnect

Integrated Research will showcase Prognosis for Unified Communications, its multi-vendor performance management solution at Enterprise Connect, the leading conference and exposition on enterprise communications and collaboration. The five members of the Best of Enterprise Connect Judging Committee reviewed all entries and selected finalists based on the products with the most significant technical impact, helping to revolutionize the enterprise communications industry. 

Commenting on the selection, Mark Brayan, CEO of Integrated Research said: “We are honored to be chosen as a finalist for the Best of Enterprise Connect Award.  As organizations embrace unified communications, it becomes critical for users to have end-to-end visibility of their UC environment, to be able to effectively manage multi-vendor, single vendor and hybrid legacy environments. We give you the flexibility and capacity to not only protect your technology investment today, but also to embrace the technologies that will be here tomorrow.”

“We want to congratulate Best of Enterprise Connect finalists for their innovation within the enterprise communications market,” said Eric Krapf, Enterprise Connect Co-Chair.  “The Best of Enterprise Connect Award honors exhibitors who are leading the industry and continue to present the latest in technological advancements.  We applaud Integrated Research and look forward to presenting the Best of Enterprise Connect award onsite at the event.”

Best of Enterprise Connect is a juried award in which the preliminary round of voting chose six finalists, including Integrated Research.  Voting for the Best of Enterprise Connect winner takes place in early March and the winner will be announced Wednesday, March 28, 2012.

Judges for Best of Enterprise Connect include:

• Doug Carolus, Senior Associate, Pace Harmon
• Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst, ZK Research
• Marty Parker, Prinicipal, UniComm Consulting
• Sorell Slaymaker, President, Unified IT Systems
• David Stein, President, Stein Technoloy Group

About Enterprise Connect
Enterprise Connect (formerly VoiceCon) is the leading conference and exhibition for enterprise IP Telephony, Converged Networks and Unified Communications in North America. Enterprise Connect® brings corporate IT decision makers together with the industry’s vendors, analysts and consultants to focus on the issues central to enterprise networks and communications. Enterprise Connect® owns and produces No Jitter, providing daily blogging and analysis of enterprise communications, and it also serves the community with a weekly email newsletter, a Webinar Series and Virtual Events. For more information, visit http://enterpriseconnect.com/.

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