Nick Lippis, President of Lippis Enterprises, delivers the alumni commencement speech to the Boston University College of Engineering 2007 graduating class on May 20th. Mr. Lippis predicts that engineering resources and talents are shifting from enhancing the human experience to improving the human condition. As engineers invest their careers in biotechnology, nanotechnology, green energy sources and terrorist defense this generation of engineers are presented with an unprecedented opportunity to improve the human condition by extending healthy life spans in a clean environment while in the process changing the world.

Zeus Kerravala, Yankee Group SVP and I look around the industry and compare notes. We express concerns over the lack of progress that Microsoft/Nortel ICA has made. We touch on Cisco, Avaya, Siemens, ProCurve, Foundry and Force 10. Who�s doing well and who�s falling apart. Listen in to find out.

David Butler, Director of Business Solutions and Partners in Emerging Technologies for Avaya and Julien Courbe, Managing Director of Financial Services Technology for BearingPoint join the Lippis Report podcast to discuss the emerging communications enabled business processes or CEBP market. CEBP promises to deliver a new kind of agile and competitive organization that can respond to business events quickly, satisfy customers more deeply and in the process create competitive barriers of entry. But how will CEBP be brought to market? Is CEBP customized for every corporation or will there be packaged or partially pre-defined and integrated solutions?