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…
Genband, which rapidly grew its UC portfolio by buying Nortels business, is opening its online GenApps showcase to give customers a look at its portfolio of IP communications software. – Genband is the latest technology company looking to increase
business by creating an online presence to show businesses and service
providers interested in IP communications its wide array of
applications.
The solution areas initially being featured in the GenApps online showcase,
which was ann…
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 …
Polycoms UC app for Samsungs Galaxy Tab is one of several steps Polycom is making to expand the reach of its UC solutions through partnerships. – Polycom officials, in their increasing competition with
Cisco Systems in the unified communications space, are relying partners to
expand the reach of their technology.
Polycom on Nov. 8 announced that Samsung will embed
Polycoms standards-based video applications on to its upcoming Galaxy Tab
…
The hosted unified communications platform offers business-critical applications including messaging, mobile integration, Web collaboration and video conferencing. – BroadSoft unveiled its cloud-based unified communications offering for
telecommunications service providers that includes messaging, mobile
integration, Web collaboration and video conferencing.
Dubbed BroadCloud, the hosted infrastructure will feature a full line of
unified communications servi…
ShoreTel will expand its mobile UC portfolio and gain access to more Fortune 1000 companies with its $11.4 million acquisition of Agito Networks. – ShoreTel is expanding its unified communications capability by buying Agito
Networks and creating a product that lets users communicate anywhere, from any
device and on any network.
ShoreTel officials, who announced Oct. 21 that the company is
buying Agito for $11.4 million, said the deal also w…
Avaya and Skype will integrate their communications offerings to enable easier collaboration between Avaya and Skype users via video, voice, IM and presence. – Two weeks after unveiling an aggressive initiative to push into the video
communications realm, Avaya is announcing a partnership with voice-over-IP
vendor Skype.
The two companies are integrating their IP-based communications
offerings, a move that will widen Avaya’s UC (unified communications)…
Polycom lures away Joseph Burton from Cisco to become the company’s CTO, one of several executive appointments as the company looks to expand its unified communications business. – Polycom, which has seen rivals like Cisco Systems and Avaya grow their reach
in the unified communications space, is making high-profile moves of its own,
reorganizing its business strategy and revamping its executive lineup.
The biggest name to come to Polycom is Joseph Burton, CTO
for Cisco’s…
The partnership between Communigate Systems and Deutsche Telecom ICSS aims to offer cost-conscious businesses affordable unified communications (UC) applications. – CommuniGate Systems, a specialist in scalable unified communications (UC),
announced its partnership with Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales
amp; Solutions (ICSS), a provider of international carrier solutions, to
deliver a white-label UC-as-a-service platform to carriers. The partners…
Microsoft and Polycom are entering an alliance that will include jointly developing, selling and marketing unified communications products based on Polycom endpoints and Microsoft’s Communications Server 14. – Polycom, which already has partnerships with the likes of Hewlett-Packard
and Avaya
as it ramps up its competition with Cisco Systems in the unified communications
space, is now hooking up with Microsoft.
The two companies announced a partnership Aug. 9 in which they
will jointly develop and ma…
Avaya officials are following through on promises to aggressively integrate technologies acquired from Nortel to build up its enterprise communications offerings. The newest UC and contact center offerings are the latest examples. – When Avaya officials last year announced their intention to buy struggling Nortel Networks enterprise business for $915 million, both they and some analysts believed that would push the company toward the top of the enterprise telephony market.
And thats a market that includes the likes of technolo…
Polycom and BT are unveiling enhancements to their communications solutions to take advantage of Microsofts Communications Server “14” offering. – Polycom and BT are bulking up their communications offerings to
leverage Microsofts plans for its Office Communications Server
technologies.
The two companies made their announcements during the
first two days of Microsofts Worldwide Partner Conference in
Washington, D.C.
Polycom introduced ad…
Verizon Business will hold trials of a hosted unified communications package based on Cisco technology, including its UCS. The offering will provide businesses with UC applications through a cloud computing environment. – Verizon Business is about to launch customer field tests of a hosted unified
communications service based on a new offering from Cisco Systems.
The two-month trials, which will begin in July, will give
businesses an alternative to on-premises UC solutions by delivering services via
the cloud, ac…
HP and Avaya have announced a three-year partnership that will have HP selling and servicing Avaya UC solutions, including Avayas Aura platform. The move is part of HPs strategy of competing with Cisco through a series of alliances with the likes of Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent. – Hewlett-Packard is partnering with Avaya to help expand its unified
communications offerings in its ongoing competition with Cisco Systems.
HP officials on June 29 announced a three-year
alliance that will include HP selling and servicing Avaya UC and
Contact Center products as part of HPs UC am…
HP and Alcatel-Lucent are offering services and solutions designed to make it easier for enterprises to migrate off their legacy PBX systems and onto a UC solution. The partnership is part of a 10-year alliance HP and Alcatel-Lucent announced a year ago. – Hewlett-Packard and Alcatel-Lucent are partnering on a series of unified communications solutions, part of the 10-year technology alliance the two companies announced almost a year ago.
HP and Alcatel-Lucent officials announced May 24 a
mix of solutions and services from both companies designed to…
A number of vendors, including Microsoft, Polycom and HP, are creating the UCIF to leverage currently available standards to improve interoperability among unified communications products. Juniper and Logitech also are founders of the UCIF, which has about a dozen members. However, absent from the membership rolls are Cisco and Avaya. – Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Polycom are among the founding members of an
alliance created to push interoperability between unified communications
offerings using currently established standards.
Other founding members of the UCIF (Unified Communications
Interoperability Forum) include Juniper…
News Analysis: With the right partners or acquisitions, HP could turn a WebOS tablet into a compelling device customizable for any unified communications partner that comes along.
– From the moment I first heard about Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Palm,
I’ve been pondering whether WebOS could play a key role in finally helping the
hardware company define a cohesive unified communications strategy beyond its
current approach of quot;provide hardware and partner. quot; Eve…
At the Interop show in Las Vegas, Avaya is showing off its newest enterprise capabilities, the first since buying Nortels enterprise unit late last year. The offerings include a new switch and a wireless LAN solution, and are designed to help enterprises more easily handle UC and video applications.
– Avaya is rolling out a host of new enterprise-level networking tools
designed to help businesses more easily handle the growing number of
bandwidth-eating video and unified communications applications.
Avaya will show off the new offerings at the Interop 2010 show, which kicks off April 26 in Las…
Qwest is offering a hosted UC platform that gives enterprises and smaller businesses alike a way to take advantage of a unified communications environment without having to worry about the cost or complexity associated with in-house offerings. Qwest joins a growing group of vendors, including Nortel, Cisco, NEC and BT, in developing hosted UC platforms.
– Qwest Communications is the latest company to offer a hosted unified
communications platform.
Qwest on April 7 unveiled its iQ HUCS (Hosted Unified
Communications Service) to help businesses bring together the various pieces of
their communications infrastructure from voice and video to e-mail, …
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…
