About Unified Communications

We've heard it all before.

  • Phones aren't as intuitive as they should be (just try to start a three-way call without hanging up on someone)
  • Computers can check your email, but not your voice mail.
  • The cost of managing two separate infrastructures to support both real-time (synchronous) communication and message-based (asynchronous) communications is enormous.

The solution - unifying both networks - often involves having to tear out your old communications network.

With Microsoft Unified Communications, bridging the divide between the two is simpler than you think.

Microsoft Unified Communications technologies brings both forms of communications together with two integrated servers - Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 - which integrate into existing phone systems and deliver complete communications service using your existing data network.

Through Microsoft Unified Communications, businesses can harness the power of software to streamline communications, regardless of medium, platform, device, or location.

Microsoft Unified Communications help businesses break down communications silos and preserve existing infrastructure investment, reducing the cost and complexity of staying connected.

Click here to find out more about Microsoft Unified Communications.

In today's global business environment, businesses need to have the ability to collaborate on demand, anywhere, anytime. They need access to the right information and people at the right time and place. To make this happen, businesses need in-context access to the appropriate communications methods from within the business applications that they already use every day.

Find out how Microsoft's Unified Communications approach delivers these capabilities for businesses of all sizes.

Unified Communications and Collaboration - A Microsoft White Paper