MICROSOFT UNIFIED COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS
Integrating technologies, unifying communications
Microsoft are building their unified communications on proven Microsoft technologies like Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005, and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007. As they deliver new versions of these products as part of the launch of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, they're creating a unified communications platform that will deliver a people-centric, intuitive, and efficient solution into the backend server environment, and offer complete telephony services to Microsoft customers.
What can Microsoft unified communications solutions do?
- Connect workers seamlessly across devices, regardless of underlying networks or protocols
- Enable rich, multimodal communications
- Utilize open-standard SIP (Session Initiated Protocol)-SIP will do for communications what HTML did for the Web
- Provide a people-centric (not device-centred) solution-for example, a person can have one consistent identity for all communications
- Provide a cost-effective solution for IT with a single directory and common management
