Will it create an efficient and high quality, integrated or unified communications service before Google does?
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In doing so, users are becoming increasingly frustrated by the lack of Unified Communications tools.
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But the deal is really about "unified communications, " in which Microsoft is competing with Cisco and others.
Jawbone's industry-leading industrial design and superior ergonomics ensures users can wear their unified communications wherever they go.
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One effective way to get over this hurdle is by seeking cloud-based VoIP, Unified Communications and associated applications.
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Koso bought his new communications systems from Thinking Phone Networks, a provider of unified communications technology.
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To deliver its own unified communications solution, however, Oracle will need additional technology.
Akiba Saeedi, the company's director of unified communications, says Cisco's focus on video in general may be slightly impractical.
Enterprises also recognize the significant benefits of having a single provider that can deliver a comprehensive unified communications offering.
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Don't be surprised to see Microsoft abandon its current unified communications branding--Microsoft Lync--and rechristen the product Skype for the Enterprise.
And, suite solutions, available from unified communications (UC), CRM, and workforce optimization (WFO) vendors, are evolving and include comprehensive feature sets.
While plenty of other unified communications (UC) services exist, Avaya says Flare is more efficient and fun to use than its competition.
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J2 provides online fax, email hosting, unified communications and other online services.
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Read the sales book for Cisco Unified Communications, complete with elevator pitches.
For a CIO who needs to reduce the cost of IT, that is a significant impact and a strong case for a new approach to Unified Communications.
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Together with the complementary technology forces of social, mobile, the cloud, and unified communications, big data brings countless new opportunities for learning about customers and their wants and needs.
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Unified communications VP Dave Donohue is glad you asked.
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Cisco's unified communications systems and TelePresence hardware, for instance, which are designed to facilitate easy remote conferencing, may be seen as a cost-cutting measure to replace expensive travel as fuel prices rise.
Jawbone ICON for Cisco Bluetooth Headset will intelligently bridge mobile phones and Internet Protocol (IP) phones in a way that is transparent to users and extends unified communications beyond the walls of the workplace.
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OnSIP also provides a free unified communications interface (think Skype, but for a group of people) you simply click to dial coworkers, chat with coworkers, and check your voicemail all in one place.
Microsoft sees unified communications as a multibillion-dollar business.
Its software also enables unified communications, so an executive might wake up in Beijing or Oslo, pull out a smartphone and make and receive calls just as if he or she were in New York.
Working with U.S. Army and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) sponsors and partners, BlackBerry 7 smartphones have undergone successful testing through Army labs leading to a subsequent listing on DISA's Unified Communications Approved Product List (UCAPL).
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Microsoft says it will use the company's software, people and intellectual property to accelerate the delivery of its unified communications vision, a vision bringing together various technologies including e-mail, instant messaging, short message service, telephony, and Web conferencing.
The story that needed to be told was that the company, historically a seeming No. 2 to Cisco, is now software-based and boasts interoperability with partners, such as H-P and IBM the technical term is open standards-based unified communications and visual collaboration.
In theory, government agents who are scattered geographically will be able to log on and meet "face to face" as realistic avatars in a digital conference room equipped with video and audio conferencing, presentation applications, and file sharing, all provided by IBM's unified communications software.
Powering this vision is a suite of IBM products such as Lotus Notes for email, contacts, and calendaring, Lotus Connections, the social networking environment, Lotus Quickr, the document repository, and Lotus Sametime for unified communications and real time collaboration such as web conferencing and instant messaging.
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In a 2012 report, analyst firm COMMfusion asserts that the next phase for UC will be Unified Communications and Collaboration, the notion that myriad UC applications can no longer exist in silos as the increasingly mobile workforce demands a unified experience across all devices, networks and locations.
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Actiance, which has been in the business of real-time communication for 10 years, worked with regulators such as the SEC and FINRA in the U.S., the FSA in the UK and IIROC in Canada to help them understand what was technically possible as communications evolved from email to instant messaging to unified communications and then to social media.
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The portfolio also includes Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) planned for launch in late 2012 and Sprint Complete Collaboration, a Unified-Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solution launched earlier this year.
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