Read the following case studies that are dedicated to unified communications.
TANDBERG, a leading visual communications company and Microsoft® Certified Partner, provides video conferencing solutions and services worldwide. The company’s customers need solutions that work with their existing Microsoft infrastructure. To meet that need, TANDBERG designed its business-quality visual communications tools to work with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007. As a result, TANDBERG customers can collaborate anywhere and anytime, whether at their desks, in a boardroom, or on the move. They can cut travel costs, streamline decision making, and get to market faster, while reducing their carbon footprint.
Giant Eagle, one of the largest food retailers and distributors in the United States, instigated a corporate cost-saving initiative to transition 700 of its employees to home-based offices. To ensure that these teleworkers stay well connected with their colleagues in Giant Eagle offices, stores, and warehouses, the company implemented a unified communications solution based on Microsoft®Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with Unified Messaging.
Volvo IT turned to Microsoft technology, including Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, to unify its real-time communication environment, and, at the same time, reduce audio conferencing bills. Volvo IT also plans to extend its internal and external communications to increase collaboration, a sense of community, and awareness of the presence of other employees. Already, presence awareness has become a valuable tool for office-based Volvo Group employees. Now that Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 is deployed, Volvo IT wants to extend these benefits to remote workers to create a more flexible working environment, and to help ensure that remote workers are as productive as their office-based colleagues.
