Siemens is offering packaged OpenScape communications offerings that include audio conferencing, unified messaging and collaboration tools for the licensing cost of a voice-only solution. – Siemens Enterprise Communications is offering new integrated unified
communications packages based on its OpenScape platform and aimed at
enterprises and midmarket businesses.
The
new IP-based packages, OpenScape UC Server Enterprise and OpenScape UC Server
Xpress, offer a host of communication…
Siemens is growing its OpenScape unified communications platform by offering a Web-based solution that is as simple to use as Skype, but with enterprise features. – Siemens Enterprise Communications is preparing to announce enhancements
to its OpenScape
unified communications platform, with the key enhancement being a new
cloud-based collaboration offering.
Siemens’
OpenScape Web Collaboration solution is designed to enable businesses to
easily, quickly …
Siemens is distributing a Trend Micro security tool created to help organizations clean machines infected with the Stuxnet malware. Stuxnet targets Siemens SCADA software and has been utilizing infected USB sticks and a Microsoft Windows vulnerability to spread. – Siemens is distributing a tool to help customers deal with a malware threat
targeting its SCADA, or supervisory control and data acquisition, software.
Sysclean, developed by Trend Micro, detects Stuxnet and cleans it from
infected machines. First reported by security vendor VirusBlokAda, based i…
News Analysis: By selling its struggling network equipment business, Motorola improves its financial picture and gains the resources it needs to exploit its success with the Droid smartphone line. – The announcement by Nokia Siemens Networks that it will
buy Motorolas wireless network infrastructure business for $1.2 billion will
free the wireless product maker from its struggle to compete with larger
competitors, while also giving it the cash it needs to carry out its plans to split
the co…
Nokia Siemens Networks had agreed to acquire Motorolas wireless network infrastructure assets for $1.2 billion. Nokia Siemens executives indicated in a conference call that the deal will increase the companys customer leverage. – Nokia Siemens Networks will buy
Motorolas wireless network infrastructure assets for $1.2 billion, in a deal
expected to close by the end of 2010. The news seems the next logical step in
Motorolas long-running quest to split into two independent and publicly traded
companies during the first qu…
Nokia Siemens Networks is reportedly interested in purchasing a Motorola unit responsible for creating telecommunications equipment. The sale could enable Motorola to better focus on smartphone sales. – Motorola is in talks with Nokia Siemens Networks about selling a
unit of the company thats responsible for older-generation
telecommunications equipment, the Wall Street Journal reported July 13, citing people familiar with the matter.
Were the deal to go through, the Journal estimates that it …
Aimed squarely at cost-conscious businesses, Siemens Enterprise Communications’ OpenScape Office MX unified communications (UC) solution offers features such as drag-and-drop conferencing, call recording and click-to-call functionality. – Siemens Enterprise Communications, a provider of enterprise
communications, today announced OpenScape Office MX, an all-in-one
unified communications solution designed specifically to meet the
communications needs of small and medium-size businesses. The product
includes features designed to yie…
1882: Ernst Werner von Siemens tests a demonstration “trackless trolley” in a Berlin suburb. The innovative device pulls electricity from overhead wires, but runs with road wheels, not on rails.
By the early 1880s, Siemens (yes, that Siemens) had already displayed the world’s first railway using a “third rail,” in which the rails themselves were [...]
Siemens Enterprise Communications is bringing greater virtualization capabilities, a new hosted model and bundled applications to its OpenScape UC Server 2010 platform, announced at the VoiceCon show. Siemens also announced an expanded partnership with VMware.
– Siemens Enterprise Communications is looking to take advantage of
virtualization and other technologies to make it easier for enterprises to
bring unified communications into their data centers.
Siemens, at the VoiceCon show in Orlando,
Fla., on March 23, unveiled OpenScape UC
Server 2010, whic…
Reportedly preparing to spin off its IT division in the fall of 2010, tech giant Siemens is downsizing 2,000 jobs in Germany and plans to eliminate another 2,200 technology jobs globally by 2011.
– Engineering and industrial-technology conglomerate Siemens
announced March 18 it will lay off 4,200 employees in the IT division, in what
some news sources are claiming is preparation for an IT division spinoff. Siemens
said it plans to invest $500 million euros in SIS, its IT solutions and
serv…
The UC alliance between Siemens Enterprise Communications Group and Polycom comes in the middle of other maneuverings in the market, including Ciscos intended acquisition of video conferencing equipment maker Tandberg. At the same time, Mitel is kicking off a bus tour through the United States to show off its UC offerings, including its TeleCollaboration telepresence software.
– The maneuvering in the increasingly competitive video conferencing
space is continuing, with Siemens Enterprise Communications Group
announcing that it will integrate Polycoms telepresence technology
into its unified communications offerings.
The alliance and resale agreements between the two co…
The partnership between Siemens Enterprise Communications Group and Shared Technologies is designed to help organizations take better advantage of the business communications set up they now have in place, and to help them plan their move to a UC environment.
– Siemens Enterprise Communications Group is partnering with Shared
Technologies to help businesses make the move to a unified
communications environment.
The five-year partnership is aimed at offering customers best
practices for taking advantage of what business communications
technologies they…
As part of a seven-year deal, Siemens Healthcare will supply its Soarian health IT portfolio to Cape Cod Healthcare, a regional organization looking to improve medical care and efficiency at its facilities. The Cape Cod deal was the latest in a number of Soarian customer wins that Siemens has announced this year.
– Cape Cod Healthcare is looking to Siemens Healthcares Soarian health IT
software to increase efficiency and improve medical care at the organizations
two hospitals and other facilities.
Siemens on Dec. 15 announced a seven-year deal with Cape Cod Healthcare that
will include applications aimed a…
Hamid Akhavan, currently the chief operating officer at Deutsche Telekom and CEO of T-Mobile International, will take over as CEO of Siemens Enterprise Communications, a joint venture of Siemens AG and a U.S. private equity firm. The company sells telecommunications products and services.
– Siemens Enterprise Communications has appointed an executive from Deutsche Telekom to be its CEO.
Siemens announced Dec. 8 that 47-year-old Hamid Akhavan, who has
been the chief operating office at Deutsche Telekom since July, will
take over the reins in February.
Mark Stone, the interim CEO for…
At the VoiceCon 2009 show in San Francisco, officials with the Siemens Enterprise Communications Group will show off the upcoming integration of Twitter with the companys OpenScape UC application. The demo is the latest example of the growing presence of social networking programs in business, improving not only communication between workers, but also between companies and their customers.
– In a nod to the growing influence of social networking in the business
world, Siemens enterprise communications unit is looking to integrate Twitter
with its unified communications application.
At the VoiceCon 2009 show in San Francisco
Nov. 4, the Siemens Enterprise Communications Group or SEN
…
Economic pressures force Nokia Siemens to eliminate close to 6,000 jobs from its work force. The company plans to shrink its departments from five to three organizations in 2010, and plans on acquiring companies in its market in the coming year.
– Nokia Siemens Networks, the European telecommunications provider in the mobile, converged and managed services businesses, plans to cut 7 to 9 percent of its work force in announced restructuring and business realignment of major departments.
The layoffs, dubbed by the company as quot;strategic w…
Siemens Enterprise Communications Group and SoTel Communications partner to bring Siemens’ HiPath OpenOffice ME IP-based unified communications solution to cost-conscious businesses.
– SIP services provider SoTel Communications and Siemens Enterprise
Communications Group announced a two-tier distribution agreement of the SEN
Group’s HiPath OpenOffice ME IP-based unified communications platform. HOOME is
an all-in-one UC appliance that provides productivity, mobility and
collab…
Sybase has partnered with Siemens Enterprise Communications Group to bring a platform to the enterprise that allows for streamlined management of mobile devices and fixed-line voice and data. Other Sybase partnerships throughout 2009 have shown the companys drive to expand its mobile-management software into the enterprise and across a broad range of devices, including the Apple iPhone.
– Sybase announced a partnership with Siemens Enterprise Communications Group on Sept.
22, with the aim of providing an enterprise platform that integrates both mobile
and fixed-line voice and data, and allows for the management of various mobile
devices across a completely heterogeneous environmen…
He calls himself a Silicon Valley refugee who has worked for giants IBM and Siemens as well as software startups. Now Ronald Raffensperger, a marketing director at fast-growing Huawei Technologies, numbers among the increasing numbers of foreign expatriates China is counting on to steer its
The Bayreuth and Salzburg Festivals will begin on July 25. At both festivals, the Siemens Festival Nights will present operas live on large outdoor screens in perfect HD video quality and 3-D sound. At the same time, a worldwide audience will be able to watch Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuth, August 9) and Cosi fan tutte [...]
