Unified Communications

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How UC Works

See Microsoft Unified Communications in Action

In today's fast-paced global business environment, people need to find, communicate with, and collaborate with each other quickly and easily. Learn how Microsoft unified communications solutions help streamline communications between people and organizations, bringing together e-mail, calendaring, voice mail, IM and presence, VoIP, audio, video, and Web conferencing.

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Business Value of UC

Reduce Costs and Improve Business Results

With the economic crisis and unstable energy prices, corporations are taking a hard look at cutting costs, while maintaining their competitive edge by transforming ideas into value, and delivering that value to their customers. Microsoft unified communications solutions help organizations reduce operating costs of travel, telecom and IT, while enabling them to improve business outcomes in a more sustainable way.

Learn more and see how organizations like yours are reducing travel costs up to 40% and cutting costs of telephony, voice mail, and audio-conferencing by 10% to 40%.

Enabling a Mobile Organization

Learn How UC Enables Highly Mobile Organizations

See how a highly mobile organization is using Microsoft unified communications technologies to improve its business outcomes by enabling its executives and team members to communicate and collaborate to conduct business operations at any time regardless of locations.

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Highlights

HP and Microsoft Expand Alliance

Initiative to deliver an end-to-end, integrated unified communications and collaboration solution, and help organizations lower costs and improve productivity.

Microsoft Announces General Availability of Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Learn how R2 extends the software-powered Microsoft UC platform, and how customers and partners are experiencing the benefits.

Microsoft Unveils Exchange 2010 with Public Beta

Exchange 2010 introduces a new integrated e-mail archive and features to help reduce costs and improve the user experience.

University of Kentucky Uses Unified Communications to Cut Costs

Learn how university IT personnel discovered that OCS 2007 could reduce IT costs and enhance the way people communicate.

Enabling a High Performing Mobile Team

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When Rebecca gets an e-mail alert about a turnaround plan she is presenting soon, she phones a mobile colleague and begins a video call, which she then transfers to her mobile phone. En route to the airport she uses Exchange to check and reply to e-mail and voice mail via phone. See how Exchange helps her tap colleagues for feedback, and balance work with home life, while she's on the go.

The New World of Work

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A Microsoft office in the Netherlands adopted a new physical layout with a social objective: increasing interaction between employees. See how the new world of work puts the possibilities of technology to work for you, offering enhanced productivity and a better way to work together while also giving individuals the chance to improve the combination of work and personal life.