We all understand how Unified Communications and mobile operations are essential to enable field workers to work more efficiently and effectively, but what about the customer? Is your company using the latest techniques to minimise the amount of time your field workers spend on the road and your customers spend waiting for field workers to arrive?
In this session, Yuval Brisker will share specific customer examples to highlight how companies can increase mobile workforce efficiency and at the same time improve the customer experience by setting schedules, managing appointments and maintaining customer communication whilst on the road.

In this session you will get a look at the next generation of this platform through a series of demos. Brett will demonstrate how one can extend the Office Communicator experience into your Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight applications using new controls. He will also highlight how the UC Managed API 3.0 provides access to the new Voice-over-IP features of Communication Server.

Persistent Group Chat is a new feature in most instant messaging solutions but it has been around in the financial services sector for many years. Now made available to all, join us to learn how it can transform the way you work especially when it is integrated into your desktop, made available on your mobile or via the web allowing you to stay connected to work in real-time from anywhere at any time.

Aspect provides software and consulting services that turn the potential of unified communications into real business results across the enterprise and in the contact center. Applying 35 years of insight and experience, Aspect helps two-thirds of the FORTUNE Global 100, as well as small and medium enterprises, power their business processes with communications. For more information, visit www.aspect.com.

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Azaleos provides the cost savings and service levels of hosted solutions for organisations that won’t allow their data to reside outside the datacentre. The Azaleos solution is unique - all servers, storage, and data remain at your facility, behind your firewall, and in your physical control. Our certified experts leverage patented technology to remotely monitor and manage Microsoft Exchange, Office Communications Server, SharePoint and Active Directory environments. We proactively manage...

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Britannic Technologies are a highly innovative, focused and capable ICT partner, helping our clients realise the many benefits that can be achieved through unified communications and the convergence of voice, data and video technologies. Our award winning integration, market leading technical capabilities and clear vision for the future enables us to deliver significant value complimented with a real passion for long term partnerships and service excellence established over our 25 years o...

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In today's fast paced business environment, organisations have a strong need to communicate in real-time so they can quickly resolve issues and make decisions faster. Microsoft's unified communications portfolio enables people to communicate instantly across organisations. Organisations can run their own enterprise instant messaging network with integrated VoIP, connecting people, devices and organisations via IM/presence/voice/video/web conferencing in a well managed and secure environment....

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Break Down Barriers to Communication E-mail. Chat. Text messages. Cell phones. PDAs. It seems like every day there’s a new form of communication, and each one can offer your organization an innovative way to do business. The downside? Complexity. Too many devices, too many platforms, and too many conflicts. What businesses need today is an integrated solution with a single interface, letting them capitalize on the power and flexibility of these communication tools without getting bogged...

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Digium Inc., the Asterisk® Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. Since its founding in 1999, Digium has become the open source alternative to proprietary communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less. Digium offers Asterisk software free to the open source community and offers Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox IP PBX software to power a broad family of products for small, me...

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Eurodata are a Microsoft Unified comms specialist and bring to the UC Expo the very first OCS appliance that can be deployed to SME organisations in days. Since 1990 Eurodata have been delivering enterprise IT solutions and services to the mid market that have won multiple awards including ‘Microsoft Security Partner of the Year’ 2008 and Unified Communications Partner Finalist 2009. The company is one of the top 100 global managed service providers and among the top 250 executive management...

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At UCEXPO 2010 fabbricadigitale will present boxedUC, an innovative UC solution, a virtualized enviroment which will allow to quickly and easily access to all UC services with a remote continuous support and an innovative pay-per-use model. fabbricadigitale realizes infrastructures and innovative software applications with the constant research of high quality and excellence. The corporate strategy is directed to provide technologically advanced and future-oriented solutions, in order to...

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Formicary’s world class team of talented and dedicated professionals combine real-world industry experience with technical excellence to deliver innovative and sophisticated services and software around unified communications to help clients improve their productivity and increase their return on investment. Building on this expertise, Formicary has launched several world first collaborative communication solutions which are designed to specifically extend and complement the powerful feat...

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About Forum Nokia Nokia's global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, China, and Singapore, FNDC provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises.

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G3 is an Avaya Platinum Partner specialising in designing, implementing and maintaining IP Telephony and Unified Communications solutions for businesses accross the globe. Our implementations enable companies to: • reduce operating costs • improve customer retention • increase productivity We're demonstrating all of the Avaya UC applications here at UC Expo.

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Gradwell is a leading independent provider of Internet communications services to UK business people. From Internet telephony and broadband, to website hosting and email management, Gradwell designs flexible service packages, ideally suited to the small business customer. Founded in 1998 by Internet entrepreneur Peter Gradwell – ‘one of the changing faces of IT’ (Daily Telegraph, February 2007) – the company continues to be driven by a strong independent team of Internet experts. Gradwell’...

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Grey Convergence, a specialist Microsoft UC voice partner, will demonstrate the capabilities of Office Communications Server (OCS) R2 and Exchange Unified Messaging and their secure integration with Office Outlook and Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS). Unified Communications enables streamlined communications and a collaboration platform that integrate and interoperate with your existing telephony, providing a secure and compliant infrastructure. Grey Convergence has the knowledge to enab...

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Microsoft Unified Communications solutions harness the power of software to make it easier for people to communicate—whether they are down the hall, around the world, or away from the office. These technologies let you adapt to evolving business needs with a secure and extensible platform that spans the different ways people communicate, including e-mail, telephone, conferencing, voice mail, and instant messaging. Microsoft Unified Communications can bring your organisation nearly immediat...

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Mitel provides software based Communication Solutions to businesses across the globe that address their challenges and opportunities, including improved employee productivity, enhanced business performance and reduced costs. When it comes to business communications, you don’t invest in technology. You invest in business improvement. For more than 30 years, thousands of businesses worldwide have invested in and relied on Mitel®’s market leading portfolio of communications solutions, to help th...

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Outsourcery is the UK’s leading provider of mobile-centric unified communications (UC) and hosted IT solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises. It has its own state-of-the-art data centres and hosting infrastructure to provide managed services and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) IT and UC solutions. Outsourcery offers integrated unified communications solutions which work by integrating email, voicemail, instant messaging, mobile communications, business telephones, document and desktop...

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Polycom is the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice solutions and a visionary in communications that empower people to connect and collaborate everywhere. To learn more about how you can travel less, communicate “face-to-face” wherever you are, and lower your carbon footprint, visit www.polycom.co.uk

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As one of the UK's premier Unified Communications specialists they are accelerating the transformation of voice,video and data into highly reliable and secure people centric solutions that actually add real value to their client organisations. Driving the onward development of convergence into the third (or what is often known as the 'embedded') phase of convergence, the portfolio extends across both on premise and hosted Voice, Collaborative Applications (Microsoft OCS, Exchange and Acti...

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VanillaIP/Qudo is a hosted VoIP telephone system and application suite delivered over fixed data circuits, bypassing the customer need for on-site system ownership. This combines a compelling economic model, enterprise feature sets for businesses of any size without any of the support and management costs associated with owning technology assets. Qudo is our end user facing division. VanillaIP is a white label Reseller Program providing channel partners a market leading VoIP proposition...

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Working in partnership with our customers to understand your business opportunities and challenges, Vodafone aim to transform the way you work allowing you to be more cost effective, more flexible and more responsive to your customers. We create innovative solutions, bringing together the best of breed mobile and fixed technologies and applications to unify communications, provide secure access to company data and streamline your business processes. Visit Vodafone at UC Expo 2010 on stand...

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Foehn Brings Average Call Time Down By 10 seconds

UQConsult.pdf 2.53 MB

The attached case study for The BBC Worldeide highlights many of the real world benefits achiveable today through the specialist capabilities of POSTcti and their ability to leverage existing investment into Unified Communications to deliver lower operational costs, enhanced productivity gains and a powerful return on investment.

There is also a second case study here for the House of Fraser which highlights similar generic benefits across the organisation, again highlighting the real world benefits attributed to POSTcti's UC solutions today.

House_of_Fraser.pdf 173.43 kB

Collaborative working to suit the needs of a highly important, remote workforce was the key driver behind Frontier Economics' decision to task leading systems integrator Eurodata Systems with an important three-stage Unified Communications project.

Based in London and with offices around the world, Frontier has developed a reputation as a leading economic consultancy, operating across a diverse range of industries from energy and finance to healthcare, media and retail.

The company has long championed the use of technology as a productivity enhancer, and to that end, a decision was taken to implement a series of Microsoft-based Unified Communications (UC) and collaboration technologies
that could deliver on the objective of providing users with a real boost to their productivity, to improve efficiency and provide the business with a competitive edge enabled by their UC strategy.

Frontier Economics.pdf 208.72 kB

Eurodata Systems, self-implemented Unified Communications (UC) using an integrated Microsoft, Mitel and Dialogic platform. The UC solution gives productivity gains of 25% by creating a highly integrated voice, video, messaging systems for on-demand communications. Now remote, mobile and office-based staff waste less time on ineffectual communications and more time in productive and client-facing activities.

Des Lekerman, Eurodata Co-Founder, said, “ We now have integration between our telephony system, Outlook, SharePoint and voice and video conferencing. I am delighted with the productivity increases this has yielded even during its first three months of operation.”

Eurodata.pdf 138.49 kB

Councils face constant pressure to better
serve their citizens within tight budget
constraints. In difficult times, when demands for
services are up but budgets are down, this can
be a tough-balancing act.

1092_5696-SeriesX_3_Ashford_WMCH_FINAL_LR.pdf 3.79 MB

CIOs have to support business strategy, while at the same time, they’re under
pressure to cut costs and gain efficiencies. The reality is, IT departments spend too
much time on administration and not enough on innovation. In most organizations,
up to 70 percent of time and costs are spent “keeping the lights on.”

1092_5671-SeriesX_3_VirtualMCD_PO_FINAL_LR.pdf 2.27 MB

http://www.youtube.com/user/PolycomVideos#p/a/u/1/Y7Ji79Sdl7s

Until now, voice telephony and virtualization might have been on different planets,
so far apart were they. In the data center, voice technology was in a closet of its own,
and managed with a separate set of hardware, processes, staff, and technologies.
Now, this is changing. With the combined power of virtualization and unified
communications, mission-critical voice applications are joining enterprise business
applications in the mainstream data center.

1092_5704-Series+X+Virtu_finalLR.pdf 1.26 MB

Unified Communications solution saves thousands on teaching cover, drives up exam results, and increases staff productivity

WoottenBassett.pdf 218.89 kB

According to the US Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics™ Database, approximately two-thirds of U.S. hospitals use wireless technology within their healthcare delivery organization. In order to understand the issues, challenges and concerns surrounding the deployment and utilization of wireless networks, HIMSS Analytics conducted two focus groups in March 2009 with senior IT executives who have implemented wireless networks. Institutions represented in the focus groups range from large (1,000+ bed) urban health systems to small (100 bed) rural organizations. All of the participants manage IT for diversified healthcare companies with hospitals, sub-acute, ambulatory and home health operations. The findings from those focus groups are outlined in this white paper.

Top_Five_Challenges_for_Wireless_Healthcare_Deployments.pdf 80.31 kB

The two main tools we use for communicating - telephone and e-mail have traditionally existed in isolated silos, independent of each other. Over time some of these technologies have been integrated - voice and IP data network, voice messaging and e-mail , video and the IP data network etc. However until now nothing has integrated all these technologies into a single, easy to manage communications solution that can be used in a controlled business environment.

Unified Communications is a concept used to describe the coming together of devices and applications used to enrich how we communicate with each other, increase our productivity, enable more efficient team collaboration and to streamline business processes.

As an integrated solution Unified Communications can greatly increase the productivity of an organisation, allowing users to make decisions on how to communicate with each other, based on the detailed presence status of the person or people they want to contact.

Unified-Communications-Business-Case.pdf 117.15 kB

The attached white paper from POSTcti highlights a wide range of Unified Communications applications that are actively supporting Public Sector transformation today, Delivering real value against both local and central government initiatives, this white paper provids a blueprint which can be rolled out high and wide across the sector.

POSTcti_WhitePaper_PublicSector_UCv2.pdf 1.38 MB

A tale of two technologies
Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and other IT managers straddle two worlds – not because
they want to, but because they have to.
First, there is the world of the data center. Its servers and other hardware components, and
the business applications that run on them, are the backbone of the organization. They turn
the reams of data that companies generate and collect into the information they need to
understand and operate the business.
Then, there is the world of telephony. Here, voice applications ensure that the people whose
performance determines how well the organization does, how effectively it competes, and
whether it succeeds or fails, communicate with one another in myriad ways to ensure that
information is understood and acted on. Even in today’s high-tech world, voice
communication is the beating heart of the business.

1092_5724-SeriesX_3_Virtualization_Whitepaper_FINAL_LR.pdf 4.23 MB

51% of organisations believe that unified communications capabilities will be standard in 2012.

Gradwell's Hosted Unified Comms service changes the way you communicate within your business by focusing on the individual user, and not their number.

It provides a consistent single view of the status of colleagues across mobile, desktop phone and computer based softphone, so that you get your calls on the device you are currently using, and if you make a call on your mobile, then colleagues using a desk based handset will know you are engaged.

Hosted Unified Comms offers customers a complete mobile phone system so that all the traditional functionality associated with the office PBX is now available on your mobile

http://www.gradwell.com/phoneservices/multiuser/hosteduc

Gradwell Hosted Unified Comms.pdf 59.19 kB

Microsoft's Unified Communications (UC) enables improved collaboration with a simplified
interface, and tools that are easily deployed to every computer in an organization.

Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2 provides an ideal platform to unify business
communications. Combined Knowledge offers the best way to learn how to do it. This 5-day
course focuses on the core components of OCS 2007 R2, including:

• Instant Messaging (IM) between everyone in the organization in the office or remote
• Application and Desktop sharing for true collaboration
• Audio/Video Conferencing including internally hosted audio conference calls and Live Meetings
• Integration with Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging
• Securing the environment to protect communications

Combined Knowledge, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Core Technologies.pdf 372.37 kB

Grey Convergence have designed quick starts to get your organisation running quickly and effectively with Communications Server 2007 R2, with options to expand and enhance the platform in the future. Split in to blocks of functionality you can pick and choose what your final deployment will include.

Grey Convergence Microsoft OCS 2007 R2 Quick Start Overview.pdf 690.52 kB

Grey Convergence have designed a quick start for rapid deployment of limited functionality to get your organisation running SharePoint 2010. With a modular approach to deploying SharePoint we've simplified analysing the functionality you require.

Grey Convergence Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Quick Start Overview.pdf 823.82 kB

Introducing the only Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) Appliance to the UK mid-market

Our StartReady UC Appliance allows for a quick and easy deployment of Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS).

Why Choose the StartReady UC Appliance:

- Deploy in days, not weeks

- You have complete control of setup and usage

- Much lower total cost of ownership

- A completely scalable solution without the hassle

Learn more at: http://www.eurodatasystems.com/UnifiedComms_Voice.asp

UC Appliance.pdf 214.73 kB

Mobile computing, particularly over wireless and public networks, presents new management and security challenges. Often, there are multiple networks, many types of devices and different groups of mobile workers with varying roles and application requirements.

The Mobility XE Policy Management Module gives administrators unprecedented flexibility and control over mobile productivity and security by creating custom policies to manage access to network resources. Conditions and actions can be combined to help control WWAN costs, bandwidth usage and user experience according to your organization’s security policies. Basic block, allow, disconnect or pass-through actions can be assigned to parameters such as network interface speed, network name, IP address, date and time, OS version, and application name.

Policy Mgmt Module Datasheet.pdf 267.40 kB

Find out the features and benefits of hosting your Office Communicator service with Outsourcery by reading our Product Sheet.

OCS Product Sheet.pdf 1.08 MB

Office Communicator is the foundation for Unified
Communications (UC) and enables employees to communicate
instantly and effectively with each other through their computer,
and avoids the inconvenience, time and cost incurred in travelling
to and from meetings or tracking down colleagues.

OCS_Product_Sheet_Web.pdf 731.60 kB

Providing lone or remote workers with a mechanism to raise an alarm, whether in a planned and controlled manner or in “panic alarm” mode, can be a key requirement for complying with Health and Safety and Duty of Care legislation.
With both a “click to trigger” instant alarm facility and a deferred alarm options, Personnel Alarm from Interchange means not only is an attacker aware than an alarm has been activated with visual and audible alerts (if required) but, perhaps more importantly, so are colleagues or a remote support monitoring unit that can offer or organise assistance.

IG_1032_0210 Personnel Alarm.pdf 466.29 kB

As a service provider, fabbricadigitale offers an enterprise level pool of managed and hosted services targeted in a ‘private label’ model allowing the clients to access to the benefits of a great technologic experience and to the benefits of the SaaS (Software as a Service) licencing model.

. Private Label Hosted Exchange 2007 / 2010
. Dedicated Exchange 2007 / 2010
. Private Label Hosted OCS R2
. Dedicated OCS
. Enterprise Hosting for Blackberry
. Development Services for Blackberry
. Development Services for iPhone

SCOPIA Desktop Video Conferencing
SCOPIA Desktop is designed to meet the demands of high performance video conferencing with a standard PC and Internet connection. It includes the latest in video technology providing High Definition H.264 for viewing both meeting participants and data collaboration. Its audio system provides echo cancellation, background noise suppression, and is highly resilient to network errors common on the Internet. SCOPIA Desktop is a simple web browser plug-in that is centrally managed and deployed without complex licensing fees or installation issues. Simply click on a link and in moments you are ready to go. Include tele-workers in meetings, participate in video conferences from the road, collaborate with partners and suppliers and seamlessly connect through firewalls.
SCOPIA Desktop pro is the enhancement of SCOPIA desktop video that provides the user with the capability to have the video client in standard SIP point to point and hence free the MCU ports for heavier processing of Multiparty conferences .dialing to a user is easy, simply type your colleague name on the video client body list presence and you are done.

ScopiaDesktop7_Datasheet.pdf 1.40 MB

Our Proof of Concept gives you all the
advantages of enterprise-class technology at
an affordable starting price of just £5,000.
There’s absolutely no hassle and no risk
either. If you don’t want to go to full
deployment, just return the appliance and
we’ll refund the cost.

Proof of Concept - UC Appliance.pdf 160.65 kB