Bangkok--8 Jan--PC & Associates Consulting
Cisco is introducing corporations in Thailand to a new collaboration solution designed to help companies accelerate business processes, increase productivity, reduce costs and speed innovation. Cisco Unified Communications System Release 7.0 enables companies to collaborate in ways that help them quickly adapt to market changes and improve competitive advantage through speed and innovation. This new technology has the potential to help companies to weather the global economic crisis.
Cisco Unified Communications System Release 7.0 offers enhancements to its applications development environment and provides deeper integration with desktop products from IBM and Microsoft. Mobility enhancements help extend productivity features across workspaces. Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator now supports devices running on Windows Mobile as well as Symbian and BlackBerry operating systems. Cisco Unified Communications Release 7.0 continues to help reduce system and management costs by increasing Cisco Unified Presence scalability to 30,000 users and Cisco Unity to 15,000 users on a single server and by enabling optimization of network management through an easy-to-use appliance deployment environment.
Mr.Mongkol Asawakowitkorn, director business development advanced technology of Cisco Thailand, said that in times where there are challenges in the economy, most corporations will review their technology investments. They will make their decisions more prudently and use criteria such as relevancy and total cost of ownership.
“Collaboration technology is the right tool that will meet the need of corporates in these challenging times. It can help executives to speed decision making with real time information and also make corporations more collaborative and effective, thereby helping them achieve business transformation and create new business models. Having the right collaborative platform helps increase productivity and improve relationships within the organization and with customers and partners,” he said.
“With the network as the platform, the Cisco new collaboration solution is designed to interoperate with business applications, communications devices and Web-based tools while allowing IT departments to maintain their mandates regarding security, policy and compliance. An open architecture and standards-based application programming interface (API) exposes application and network services and supports end-user customization, IT integration and third-party application and hardware interoperability,” Mr.Mongkol added.
Cisco Unified Communications System Release 7.0 improves the experience for end-users, systems managers, technicians, and security managers. Highlights include:
Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator extension of unified communications features such as dial via office, presence, and corporate directory look-up to mobile workers.
New time of day rules that enable mobile workers to easily adjust single number reach settings when they are traveling or do not wish to be disturbed.
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace and WebEx integration to combine the cost savings of on-premises voice with the productivity benefits of on-demand Web conferencing, all from a single interface. Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal enabling spoken access to directories and web applications for self service. Cisco Unified Communications System Release 7.0 is an open system designed to integrate and interoperate with enterprise applications and network infrastructure, and enable IT and partners to build new, customized applications. Highlights include:
Deeper integration with desktop products from IBM and Microsoft including business-to-business exchange of presence and IM between Cisco Unified Personal Communicator and Microsoft Office Communicator users and complete unified communications capabilities for Lotus Sametime. Cisco Unified Applications Environment and the Application eXtension Platform (AXP) which are open development platforms that enable the integration of unified communications and network services with business applications and the development of new applications. Cisco Unified Mobile Communicator support for devices running on Windows Mobile operating system, as well as Symbian and Blackberry operating systems. Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance which provides an open, yet secure foundation that makes it possible for every person in every workspace to connect and communicate. Cisco Unified Communications Release 7.0 continues to help lower system and management costs. Highlights include:
Increased Cisco Unified Presence scalability to support up to 30,000 users. Cisco Unity support for up to 15,000 users on a single server, and Cisco Unity Connection support of enterprise-class scalability and features on an appliance platform. Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 7.0 offers a new architecture that unifies voice and video conferencing in a single media server appliance and increases scalability. Cisco Unified Communications Manager deployed exclusively on an appliance platform optimized for performance and serviceability. ”Collaboration is the next phase of the Internet, a phase that analysts see as a US$34 billion market opportunity, and at the center of this development is the network. Our network platform uses open-standards protocols to expose critical collaboration services such as presence, instant messaging, call control and policy to a broad range of devices and applications. The Cisco collaboration portfolio uses this network architecture to create an integrated collaboration experience that encompasses everything from simple text messaging to immersive Cisco TelePresence sessions,” said Mr Mongkol.
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