<p>What does session management have to do with unified communications (UC)? Craig Mathias explainsin this tip on ensuring successful UC deployments with session management features.Defining unified communications and its benefits</p><p>While vendors vary the definition of unifiedcommunications (UC),</p><p>SearchUnifiedCommunications.com members gain immediate and unlimited access breaking industry news, expert advice on UC, technical guides, and more -- all at no cost. Join me on SearchUnifiedCommunications.com today! Kate Gerwig, Editorial Director the term typically refers to the integration of multiplecommunications modalities within a single operational framework and under a single user interfacefor end users as well as network/service operators. The appeal is to make all voice, presence,conferencing, collaboration, multiple forms of messaging -- and potentially any electroniccommunications capability -- available across multiple platforms and access networks. The primarygoal of UC is productivity and convenience. The wide variety of UC solutions available today from agood number of vendors is a testament to the accelerating role of UC, with more enterprisesrealizing the power of this strategy on a daily basis.</p><p>UC can also improve security, accountability and regulatory compliance. To enable these benefits-- and to ensure a successful UC implementation overall -- is to carefully considerthe role that session management can play here. Management systems in general optimizeperformance of any network or network-based service today, and UC is certainly no exception --especially given the mission-critical role it can quickly achieve with rapid user adoption.</p><p><a href="http://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/tip/Use-session-management-for-a-successful-unified-communications-deployment">Keep reading...</a></p>