Unified Communications

Optimize communication and cut costs with Unified Communications

Unified Communications is an integrated communications platform, enabling you to communicate more quickly and more efficiently. All your employees can phone each other, send chat messages and conduct online meetings by various audio and video options with one mouse click on their laptops.

The advantages are obvious: reduced travel time, quicker responses, collaborating as if you are together in one room and reduced communication costs. Take advantage of The New World of Work by creating an environment for flexible working.

The New World of Work

Microsoft Nederland claims that the New World of Work is how we will work in the future. The New World of Work stands for flexible working, where and whenever you want, thus creating a new dimension of communication. Unified Communications, or integrated communication, fits in the framework of the New World of Work and stands for new ways of communication and collaboration.

Microsoft Office Communications Server

We can introduce Unified Communications by implementing Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS), a tool which integrates instant messaging, e-mail, audio and video conferencing and telephony.  By implementing OCS, you meet a way of communication many people are already accustomed to in their private lives. Most people have an MSN Messenger these days, haven’t they? OCS streamlines communications and that’s what people want today, not only in their leisure time, but at work too.

Advantages

• Streamlining communications
• Flexible communication
• Reduction (international) travel costs, travel time and communication costs
• Intuitive software
• Increasing productivity
• Quick and simple implementation
• Integrates with all other Microsoft products
  

Experiences of an OCS user

“Office Communications Server is the ideal tool for the improvement of communication. I find the presence-information in particular very useful. It enables me to see who is available and to choose the most optimal way of communication at the very moment. When I notice that someone is available, I go and see him. When I see that someone is in a meeting, I send an e-mail. I use the chat for brief questions. Sharing information has also become much easier. The option Live Meeting allows you to attend a meeting online and to simultaneously work with several people on the same document.”