Unified communications in education
Microsoft unified communications (UC) technologies help educators, administrators, and staff members streamline communications—regardless of medium, platform, device, or location. Users can stay in touch and get work done wherever they are, using whichever device is most convenient.
Unified communications in education can break down silos and extend existing communications investments. With a UC solution, you can:
Enable staff to get more done by giving them easy access to email, calendaring tools, voice mail, and instant messaging (IM) through multiple devices, so they can communicate with each other in different ways. Make it easier to collaborate with colleagues at different campuses or schools, using audio/video web conferencing technologies. Allow staff the mobility to spend more time with students, parents, and colleagues. Simplify IT management by using single technology architecture
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Improve communications, IT infrastucture
Microsoft unified communications can help you solve the communication problems on your campus by making it possible to:
Reduce infrastructure cost and consolidate third-party solutions. Increase productivity by streamlining access to people and information across multiple modes of communication. Provide the levels of reliability, availability, and scalability you need to manage your university or school. Provide your institution with the security needed to help manage specific areas of risk. Enable you to address compliance, retention, and privacy policy requirements for your institution.
Replace conflicting systems
With Microsoft unified communications, you can replace conflicting systems with a single unified platform that:
Streamlines communication. UC combines email, instant messaging, voice, audio, video, and web conferencing into a single system. Integrates with Microsoft Office. Educators and administrators can communicate with click-to-call functionality and presence information from any Microsoft Office system application. They are probably already familiar with these applications. Grows with your institution. UC provides a software-based solution that works with your existing hardware investments and can grow as your institution does. Helps increase security. UC solutions use encryption technologies to help make sure IM, email, and VoIP messages remain secure and provide compliance across all communications.
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