Microsoft Office Communications Online
Microsoft Office Communications Online allows you to take advantage of industry-leading collaboration capabilities without managing your own infrastructure, server hardware, facilities, or hiring support staff. Microsoft provides a more secure environment than public instant messaging tools for sharing intellectual property and working within teams that are increasingly dispersed around the world.
The Office Communications Online solution provides a unified communications capability that helps people be more productive by enabling them to communicate easily with others in different locations or time zones using a range of different communication options, including text based instant messaging, voice, and video. Integration with programs across the Microsoft Office system—including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Groove, and SharePoint Server—gives information workers many different ways to communicate with each other via a consistent and simple user experience.
Office Communications Online is available as a Dedicated offering, for customers with more than 5,000 employees who want a dedicated architecture. Contact a service representative to ask about purchasing the Dedicated version of Office Communications Online.
Features
Instant messaging with text based chat, file transfer, 1:1 or peer-to-peer audio and video communication among users in your organization using the Microsoft's instant messaging and presence client on PCs and notebooks or Microsoft Windows Mobile devices.
Presence awareness, enabling users to detect another user's availability on the network to determine when a user is available to communicate.
Dedicated servers and networks providing you with logical and physical security.
Benefits
Access to instant messaging via your intranet and the Internet.
Service Level Agreements at the service, not just server level.
Service evolution that includes upgrades to new Office Communications Online release versions at no additional charge.
Disaster recovery services that provide full instant messaging and presence capability in an alternate and geographically diverse data center within 72 hours.