
__By Nancy Jamison __ When companies use the word unique, I jump. I always want to say: prove it. This week, when NEC's Unified Solutions group announced that they had a unique communication model for helping companies unify business communications, based on a user's role, that is what I asked them to do. I also asked them how they determined that it was a unique approach. Their answer made sense to me, yet I'm not going to get up on the roof here and yell that NEC has a unique approach just yet, as I have heard other vendors talk a lot about the end user and the types of end users that are or will be using unified communications applications. Additionally, in the last year or so, there has also been a significant shift in the industry to go one step further than UC by integrating business processes across the enterprise with UC applications to unify business processes, with the newly adopted moniker of communications enabled business processes (CEBP). I will proclaim, however, that NEC has a determined focus on the approach they are taking versus several other UC encampments. Let me explain.