{"id":16200,"date":"2016-04-02T16:57:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.c3.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16200"},"modified":"2019-02-27T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:08:33","slug":"ucisa-16-discussions-dominated-by-transition-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.c3.co.uk\/blog-cms\/2016\/04\/02\/ucisa-16-discussions-dominated-by-transition-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"UCISA 16 Discussions Dominated by Transition Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank you to everyone who visited our stand at last month\u2019s UCISA 16 Conference in Manchester.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The event was well attended and the C3 stand saw considerable traffic with many interesting conversations with contacts old and new.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c3.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/UCISAlogo_Member_white-gif.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16164\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16164 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.c3.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/UCISAlogo_Member_white-gif-300x199.gif\" alt=\"UCISAlogo_Member_white gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out of our discussion one major theme emerged; the transition from TDM to SIP. By all accounts this is gathering momentum and offers considerable rewards for higher education institutions, however many universities and colleges are finding that this transition is taking longer than expected.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This delay brings with it additional, unexpected challenges, with organisations requiring newer technology to help their operations through this period of conversion, bridging gaps between existing legacy technology and new core telephony networks leading to multi-channel solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The solution to this dilemma needs to provide a technology agnostic interface, able to integrate with any given 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party platform, allowing new technology and applications to be introduced now which will be available throughout the transition.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the leading technology-agnostic telephony specialists C3 is already working with a range of universities to help them make a successful technical transformation with minimal disruption.<\/p>\n<p>These enable universities to improve efficiencies in all internal &amp; external communications, including multi-channel helpdesks, student acquisition, retention and fundraising.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Need help with your technology transition? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c3.co.uk\/about\/contact-us\/\">Speak to C3 <\/a>to see how we can help your institution bridge technical gaps seamlessly in times of change.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who visited our stand at last month\u2019s UCISA 16 Conference in Manchester. The event was well attended and the C3 stand saw considerable traffic with many interesting conversations with contacts old and new. Out of our discussion one major theme emerged; the transition from TDM to SIP. By all accounts this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c3.co.uk\/blog-cms\/2016\/04\/02\/ucisa-16-discussions-dominated-by-transition-challenges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UCISA 16 Discussions Dominated by Transition Challenges<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[24,35],"tags":[61,64,65],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Looking back at UCISA 16 - C3 Communications<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The event was well attended and the C3 stand saw considerable traffic with many interesting conversations with contacts old and new.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.c3.co.uk\/blog-cms\/2016\/04\/02\/ucisa-16-discussions-dominated-by-transition-challenges\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking back at UCISA 16 - 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