Unified Communications

 

UC - Analyst Insight
With the emergence of converged IP services, medium-to-large businesses are demanding greater performance from their enterprise networks than ever before. To meet the evolving needs of these five to 50-site companies and their mediarich applications, enterprise networks are challenged to evolve in lockstep with those demands.

 

The Power of Collaboration within Unified Communications
Historians of communications technologies will likely refer to the era from 1997 to 2007 as the Decade of Infrastructure Readiness. Beginning with a select group of global enterprises who sought to decrease operating costs by merging their telephony and data infrastructures, the migration into the 21st century has seen companies of all sizes and types embracing IP-based networks for their inherent costeffectiveness, flexibility, and ability to support business-driven applications.

 

Finding the Value in UC
To stay competitive in an increasingly global workplace, companies today must find ways to allow and encourage their employees to communicate and collaborate anytime, anywhere, and from any device. Unified communications and collaboration-an integrated set of voice, video, and Web collaboration applications-can enable advanced communications among employees, customers, and business partners.


Defining Telepresence - How it can help your organization
Telepresence is the latest in a long lne of visual communications technologies that have promised to revolutionize corporate collaboration. But can the technology meet the complex and demanding needs of today’s organizations for reducing costs, improving productivity, and realizing their environmental responsibilities-or is it just another example of a solution looking for a problem?


The Total Cost of UC
This Report breaks down the cost elements of both Cisco’s and Microsoft’s UC solutions and provides several scenarios that compare the two solutions.


UC can change your outlook
This paper highlights the key drivers and pain points for small and mid-size businesses, and identifies how improving communications can have a significant impact on the bottom line. It discusses the business benefits that are enabled by UC technology, and how to get them in a simple, cost-effective way.