Our Solutions Microsoft Unified Communications technologies have enormous potential to help improve the day-to-day work life of end-users. Select from the product tabs below to find out more about the specific benefits associated with each technology. time.

How can IT workers benefit from Microsoft Unified Communications technology? Find out how

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The 2007 Microsoft Office release was designed to take full advantage of Unified Communications technologies. The Office system gains many additional features when deployed in a Unified Communications environment.

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Fully integrated presence technology

Presence technology appears throughout the Microsoft Office system, from document workspaces inside Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 to team sites and My Sites on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.



Communicate in context

Because every person who works on a file stays associated with it, presence technology can provide multiple channels for communication. If you're working on a shared budget in Office Excel 2007, you can launch an instant message session with one or all of the budget's owners with a few clicks. You can escalate the conversation to a phone call or audio- or videoconference at any point. Presence is also a part of the desktop experience itself. Incoming calls show up as desktop alerts, complete with the caller's name and presence information. With a click, you can route a call to voice mail, reply with an e-mail or instant message, or even answer the phone.



Voice mail, faxes, and e-mail in one inbox

Microsoft Unified Communications technologies also bring changes to the Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 experience. Voice mail and faxes will arrive in your inbox and you can work with them just like any other e-mail. You can color-categorize them, assign priority, attach them to to-do items, even forward them.



Dial in to hear your e-mails

When you're away from the office, you can dial in to hear your e-mails and voice mails read to you by the speech services built into Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. You can even access your contacts and place calls through your voice-accessible Office Outlook inbox.



A new level of communication

When businesses deploy Microsoft Unified Communications technologies, they don't just add a stand-alone solution. They transform the entire Microsoft Office system and Windows Vista experience.


Microsoft Outlook Voice Access in Exchange 2007




Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 is the Microsoft Office system hub for live, real-time communications. Office Communicator 2007 is the primary place where you find and connect with people through an instant message, a phone call, or an audio- or videoconference.

Availability at a glance

A key piece of the Office Communicator 2007 experience is the presence icon. Presence tells at a glance if someone is online and available for a conversation. Presence polls data from Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, so it stays in synch. You don't have to manage presence for it know that you're in a meeting or out of the office. Of course, you can control your presence status by manually setting it to "busy" or "do not disturb."



Click-to-connect

With Office Communicator 2007, you can launch an instant message or a phone call with a click. If you need to bring more people into the conversation, Office Communicator 2007 makes it easy. You just click their names and add them: it doesn't matter if it's a phone call or an instant message session. It's just as easy to switch to a videoconference, complete with an online workspace for sharing files.



Move between modes

With Office Communicator 2007, the barriers between different ways of communicating evaporate. You can move fluidly from an instant messaging session to a videoconference.


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With Windows Mobile 6 devices, company employees will find it easier than ever to work where and when they choose. They’ll have Microsoft Office applications at their fingertips so they can edit documents, update spreadsheets and rehearse PowerPoint shows on the go.

Exchange Server integration provides push email, appointments and tasks so that everyone stays in sync. And with access to your corporate address book and company files from anywhere they’ll always have the information they need to be effective.

For organisations with mobile information workers, Windows Mobile powered solutions provide mobile access to Outlook e-mail, contacts, and calendar, and tasks. This increases employee productivity and responsiveness. Windows Mobile powered solutions help you move your business forward.

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Microsoft Office RoundTable is an all-in-one videoconferencing phone that can broadcast synchronised audio and video over a standard Windows-based PC. Office RoundTable captures and broadcasts a 360-degree panoramic view of everyone in the meeting. Office RoundTable follows the conversation: it identifies the person speaking and broadcasts a close-up as he or she talks. As more people enter the conversation, Office RoundTable cuts seamlessly between speakers.

It is completely plug-and-play, and you need almost no training to set up or use Office RoundTable. Just connect Office RoundTable via USB to a computer that has access to Office Communications Server 2007 or an Office Live Meeting 2005 service provider and you're ready to host a live videoconference.

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To better address the needs of large, global organisations and those with highly complex IT infrastructures, Windows Vista Enterprise is designed to significantly lower IT costs and risk. In addition to all of the features available in Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise is designed to provide higher levels of data protection using hardware-based encryption technology. It also includes tools to improve application compatibility and enables organizations to standardize by using a single worldwide deployment image. Windows Vista Enterprise will only be available to customers who have PCs covered by Microsoft Software Assurance or a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.


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