The environment encouraged by the NEC Users Group is conducive to influencing the development of new NEC products and services. The group is comprised of technical and business experts with a wide range of industry and service knowledge. Membership opens up a world of opportunities including a role on our Board of Directors or a working committee. We offer national leadership opportunities and professional exposure among nationally recognized peers and industry experts.

Business environments vary among our membership, however, you’ll find common themes as you interact to explore methods and approaches to user requirements.

• The communications industry is highly competitive and volatile. Business and technical leaders must quickly evolve and update skill sets and incorporate business strategies as they implement communication and network solutions.

• Convergence and product interdependence requires an analytical, diverse, highly-skilled support team that can manage security requirements, quality of service, regulatory compliance and business acumen.

• The ability to influence product and service design as we develop long-range planning models help us manage our businesses. Our constituents repurpose technology in widely variant ways that require us to continuously rethink our planning factors.

• Information Technology leaders have evolved their engineering and customer service teams to support a broader range of communication, data, and video services.

• Group members must manage a widely varying range of competing demands on their networks, their teams, their time, and their budgets.

• Networking opportunities . . . with colleagues and the ability to influence product and service development and delivery;

• A close partnership . . . with a world-class Manufacturer that recognizes the need for a balanced approach to problem resolution;

• Education . . . to enhance the use of the technologies and services, taking advantage of vertical market perspectives and diverse delivery solutions to allow for varying user needs;

• ROI . . . you’ll find that the cost investment of membership and conference attendance is reasonable in terms of value and opportunity to learn. Those that attend an NEC Users Group Conference know that it is a hard act to follow.