In June, our theme is Unified Communications with a focus on Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office Communications Server.
What do you see when you look around you? Today’s reality is about pervasive collaboration and grassroots innovation with no boundaries enabled by ubiquitous communications. Underlying this reality is doing more with less, effective use of resources, reducing costs, aligning with business strategies and objectives, powering real-time organizational agility and yet sill improving productivity, efficiency, client and user experience, and personalization. All of this happening with the user at the center and the surrounding communications technology transparent, dynamic, and seamless. What you see is also connected to what businesses are asking. How do you grow needed business intelligence, digital collaboration, information integration; substantially reduce risks, improve economy, and drive measurable ROI?
The answers reside in the fact that in today's fast-paced global business environment, people need to find, communicate with, and collaborate with each other quickly and easily. With the economic crisis and unstable energy prices, businesses 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 and clients. As IT Professionals you must provide solutions to these needs through a consistent communications experience that spans the desktop, mobile workers, small and medium sized organizations, the enterprise, and the cloud. Your unified communications infrastructure serves as a strategic asset upon which software can deliver valued services and user experiences powerfully and with confidence. At the heart of all of these requirements and questions are Microsoft Unified Communications solutions with Exchange Server and Office Communications Server at the core driving business success.
Microsoft Unified Communications streamline communications between people and organizations, bringing together e-mail, calendaring, voice mail, IM and presence, VoIP, audio, video, and Web conferencing. Increasingly highly mobile organizations are using Microsoft Unified Communications technologies to improve their business outcomes by enabling their executives and team members to communicate and collaborate to conduct business operations at any time, regardless of locations. 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. Organizations like yours are reducing travel costs up to 40% and cutting costs of telephony, voice mail, and audio-conferencing by 10% to 40%.
Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Exchange Server 2010 beta, and related tightly integrated Microsoft technologies provide the business solutions to ensure simplified deployment, control, and management for your organization’s communications environments and devices ultimately resulting in a more effective IT department. On these pages, you will be connected with the essential Microsoft Unified Communications resources that can help you to make a substantial difference to your organization. You are in control so have fun shaping it up!
We want to thank Stephen Ibaraki, the editor of June‘s edition, and spotlight Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), Lee Benjamin and David Elfassy, who provided their insights for this edition.
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