hosted office communications
Agility is a cornerstone of business success in today’s ever-changing global marketplace. Agile organizations can react swiftly and respond effectively to opportunities and challenges. They utilize robust tools that allow impromptu communication and real-time collaboration with co-workers and decision-makers. Yet many companies today are held back by their reliance on yesterday’s communications technologies. Their workers still engage in phone and e-mail tag, resulting in lost productivity and delayed decision-making. They incur travel expenses and costly long-distance charges to communicate with colleagues physically separated by location or time zone, driving up operations budgets.
Microsoft Office Communications Online delivers robust instant messaging and presence functionality that enables real-time person-to-person communication across an organization. Through presence awareness, workers can quickly detect a colleague’s availability for a time-sensitive consult or business-critical decision – and then connect rapidly using a reliable, security-enhanced IM solution.
Whether team members are in the next room or on the next continent, the powerful combination of presence awareness and IM can help improve productivity, drive business efficiencies and build a more agile organization.
Advantages of Hosting
The number one advantage of hosting is the peace of mind that comes with the service. With Microsoft Office Communications Online, you gain all the messaging functionality you need with none of the administrative burden. With Office Communications Online you can take advantage of:
- Convenient communication and collaboration service
- Real person-to-person communication via text, voice and video
- Built on a trusted Microsoft platform
- No costly infrastructure setup or maintenance costs
- No need to purchase your own hardware or software
- Predictable budget that scales as you grow, not before
Features & Benefits
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Ability to display and detect presence availability of other users on the network |
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Instant messaging over the Internet or a corporate network, with IM text encrypted |
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Integration with Microsoft Office Outlook®, Microsoft Office Excel® and Microsoft Office Word for presence awareness and collaboration |
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Presence integration with SharePoint sites |
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Users can add distribution lists to their Contact Lists and IM with individuals or the entire list |
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Person-to-person (1:1) audio and video inside a company LAN (between firewalls) environment |
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Remote access to the service over the Internet |
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Built on the proven capabilities of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 |
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Increased network security with the Intelligent Instant Message Filter program |
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Sign In application installed on users’ computers to provide a single sign-in point |
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