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Welcome to the Unified Communications Community.
Communication in the workplace should be more powerful than personal communications tools, because the more we accomplish during our work day the more flexibility and freedom we enjoy in our personal lives. Luckily, unified communication suites seamlessly integrate voice, HD video, instant messaging, email integration and mobility and allows for these solutions to be fully accessible from any PC, Mac, deskphone, smartphone or tablet.
With a unified communications infrastructure in place that is both easy to install and maintain, any business can see multiple benefits including reduced costs, as well as increased productivity and efficiency.
Yorktel Unifies Unified Communications on One Screen
Yorktel recently unveiled a very comprehensive video communications platform. With this new solution, it hopes to go further than the future demands of its users. The goal of Yorktel's new solution, called VideoCloud, is to bring different methods of enterprise communication under one roof. Solutions such as Avaya's Aura, Cisco's Call Manager and Microsoft's Lync can be put into one platform that will "unify" them.
05/20/2013
Arkadin Opens New Operations Center and Hosts Lync Webcast
As Arkadin continues to expand, it needs a new operations center. As such, it's setting up a new primary regional operations center in Schaumburg, IL, where it will continue its advancement as it provides audio, Web and video conferencing services and unified communications solutions.
05/20/2013
Crosspeer Partners with Ezuce to Offer Unified Communications in the Cloud
Unified communications is becoming an integral part of many organizations that help connect people, information, and teams, to enable comprehensive and effective collaborative experiences. Many companies are now collaborating to introduce effective and reliable UC solutions to the market.
05/20/2013
TMCnet Unified Communications Week in Review
There is no other area of technology that is growing as fast as the unified communications (UC) space. Companies around the world are realizing that this platform, which encompasses key functions including instant messaging, video conferencing and intelligent presence, can help them to not only keep current customers happy, but continuously attract new ones.
05/18/2013
Echoworx Gives Global PGP Users Access to the Cloud
Echoworx, a provider of e-mail encryption services, will enable PGP to be used as a fully functioning cloud service.
05/15/2013
SimpleSignal Partners with Park Bench Solutions to Provide a Unified Communications Experience
Due to technology advancements happening in Cloud Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C), companies of all sizes are looking for unified communications options that can increase the productivity of their employees in the current fast-paced environment. To provide a single solution and an entirely new unified communications experience to companies, SimpleSignal has partnered with Park Bench Solutions LLC to launch a new unified communications platform called "Organizes Development and In…
05/15/2013
Innovative Cloud UC Solutions Launched in EMEA By Thinking Phone Networks
Thinking Phone Networks recently confirmed that it had opened a new regional office in Amsterdam and has officially launched its services into Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region as well as Europe to answer the global demand for cloud services, particularly in these areas.
05/14/2013
Video App from Mozilla Brings New Life to Unified Communications
Video conferencing has brought a variety of benefits to the corporate environment including dramatically slashing expenses related to travel in addition to bringing the level of efficiency throughout geographically separated divisions to an unparalleled level. And unified communications (UC) platforms have proved highly advantageous for businesses as they can streamline operations overall and enable customers to communicate with the company through whatever channel they feel most comfortable usi…
05/14/2013
Tips to Launch a Successful Webcast
The advent and subsequent adoption of the Internet as a powerful business tool changed the way we communicate, share and receive information, and conduct business. It not only created a way to instantly complete transactions across the miles, it also provided the perfect platform for face-to-face communications without ever leaving the office.
05/13/2013
Unified Communications Week in Review
If you try to run a business in today's competitive climate without the most up-to-date tools at your disposal, it is likely that you will soon be seeing disastrous results. In order to eliminate the chances of this scenario from happening and enable your company to expand over the long term, a robust unified communications (UC) system is now considered highly important.
05/11/2013
Ergonomic Group Achieves Master Certification from Cisco
The Ergonomic Group, Inc. (EGI) has fulfilled training requirements and is now qualified to sell, deploy and support applications-based Cisco unified communications solutions.
05/09/2013
BroadConnect Telecom Launches UC Video Services Supported by Polycom VVX Media Phones
Supplier of hosted voice, video, managed data and security services, BroadConnect Telecom, has decided to introduce unified communications video services to its hosted PBX customers. To do so, the company will turn to Polycom's plug-and-play desktop voice and video solutions.
05/07/2013
Unified Communications Industry News
UK VoIP Service Provider Voipfone Creates the Ultimate Virtual Green Office
Market Maker Surveillance Report. MO, V, MU, CSCO, NBG, ORCL, Highest Net Sell Volume and Negative Price Friction For Monday, May 20th 2013
BUYINS.NET: Market Maker Surveillance Report. GM, ELN, SIRI, SID, JPM, MSFT, Bullishly Biased Price Friction For Monday, May 20th 2013
BUYINS.NET: Market Maker Surveillance Report. MO, V, MU, CSCO, NBG, ORCL, Highest Net Sell Volume and Negative Price Friction For Monday, May 20th 2013
Microsoft Dynamics GP & CRM Partner Altico Advisors Releases New White Paper and Infographic: Why Go Mobile?
IT Leaders Supporting Chicago's Top Startups
CCH SureTax(R) Announces the Integration of SureTax(R) Telecom with Omniware Billing
Enterasys Plans Discussion on Social Business Value at 2013 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
Jive Introduces Referral Program
Comcast Business Garners Top Spot in Infonetics Research's 2013 North America Business VoIP Service Leadership Scorecard
ConnectSolutions Extends Capabilities to Address Needs of SMB Market
Featured White Papers
Building A Business Case For Unified Communications
The hype surrounding any emerging technology often shrouds the private sector with mixed feelings, as decision-makers try to decipher whether new offerings will enhance operations, hinder productivity or introduce some bizarre mixture of the two.
Instant Cashflow Improvement and Rapid ROI with Unified Communications
The up-and-down economy of the past several years has highlighted the need to operate more effi ciently and cut costs wherever possible. In most situations, these two notions would seem contradictory, but a number of emerging technologies - cloud computing, virtualization and the bring-your-own-device movement among them - are helping companies accomplish these goals.
The Top Four Pitfalls of Unified Communications
Today's enterprise needs to be agile if decision-makers wish to remain competitive and relevant in the eyes of consumers. As more companies and customers around the world begin leveraging innovative devices like smartphones, tablets and next-generation laptops, the need to deploy unified communications grows alongside it. Neglecting to implement the technology may result in dire consequences that could spell the end of an organization.
Featured Solutions
Teo has reinvented UC.
In our personal lives we use multiple technologies for the various modes of communication we utilize throughout our day, primarily accessible from a smartphone.
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What Are They Saying?
"Teo UC's platform-independent interface lets administrators effectively manage their communications infrastructure, with a reduced downtime risk based on system redundancy, enhanced mobility features, and a robust feature set accessible from anywhere. Teo UC is already being implemented and sought by several different businesses of all sizes."
- Robbie Pleasant, UC Expert at ucstrategies.com