Rod Hodgman is vice president of marketing at Covergence. He was a member of the Covergence founding team and is responsible for positioning the company's Eclipse solutions for maximum value and growth. Rod brings over 25 years of related business experience in technology start-ups and large companies. Prior to joining Covergence, Rod was the VP product marketing, Enterprise Products at Macromedia where he was responsible for the definition and introduction of Flex.
As companies continue the pursuit of reaping the cost savings and
productivity enhancements offered by integrating real-time voice traffic over
the corporate Wide Area Network (WAN), unified communications (UC) has found
an unlikely ally: service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Traditionally, application development is a slow-moving process: businesses
recognize the functionality they need within their infrastructures and
request that IT departments develop an application that addresses the need.
Before SOA, in the time it would take IT to develop, test, and train staff on
the solution, the issue had often times evolved or changed to the point where
the applications needed to be modified – or worse – scrapped
altogether. The allure of SOA is that it enables admin... (more)
Covergence is the creator of Eclipse, an award-winning series of
next-generation session border control solutions. Recently, the company
unveiled the Covergence Policy Manager, a policy enforcement solution for
real-time applications.
Using Policy Manager, organizations can now build session policy enforcement
into applications that include VoIP, video, IM, presence, conferencing,
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Rod Hodgman is vice president of marketing at Covergence. He was a member of the Covergence founding team and is responsible for positioning the company's Eclipse solutions for maximum value and growth. Rod brings over 25 years of related business experience in technology start-ups and large companies. Prior to joining Covergence, Rod was the VP product marketing, Enterprise Products at Macromedia where he was responsible for the definition and introduction of Flex.
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