Unified Communications

August 28, 2008

Microsoft Business Productivity Online - Partneraankondiging 8 oktober

8 oktober a.s. organiseert Microsoft een informatie middag voor Microsoft partners die geintereseerd zijn in de Business Productivity Online Services. Ben je (werkzaam bij  een) Microsoft Partner en heb je interesse ? Schrijf je in !

In juli vond de jaarlijkse Worldwide Partner Conference plaats. Hier werd bijzonder veel aandacht gegeven aan de software + services-strategie. De kern hiervan is dat we klanten de keuze willen bieden hoe zij de software gaan gebruiken: lokaal of online.

Specifiek werd aangekondigd dat Microsoft binnenkort zelf SharePoint, Exchange Server en Live Meeting online gaat aanbieden in de Business Productivity Online-suite. Ook in Nederland zullen we deze diensten volgend jaar samen met u in de markt zetten. Op onze partner portal vindt u een samenvatting van deze aankondigingen.

Het evenement

Dit initiatief roept vanzelfsprekend veel vragen op. Is er nog een rol voor uw bedrijf? Voor wie is het bedoeld? Hoe kan ik mij hierop voorbereiden? Inmiddels zijn er ook steeds meer details bekend over het afrekenmodel, de inschrijfprocedure, de training en de eerste resultaten in Amerika. Om deze informatie met u te delen en om uw vragen zo adequaat mogelijk te behandelen nodigen wij u uit voor onze BPOS-partneraankondiging op woensdag 8 oktober te Schiphol. …

Ga naar de Microsoft site voor meer informatie

March 17, 2008

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Portal

 

The Live Meeting Service Portal makes it easier to deploy and manage Live Meeting. If your company has deployed Microsoft Active Directory directory services, you can use the Live Meeting Service Portal to:

  • Automatically create Live Meeting accounts for users once they are authenticated on your corporate network.
  • Allow authenticated Windows users to log in to Live Meeting without entering a Live Meeting user ID and password.
  • Permit users to change their Live Meeting passwords when authenticated by your Active Directory service.
  • Automatically synchronize a user's Live Meeting account settings with the user's Active Directory settings each time the user logs in through the Portal.

Source: Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Portal

March 05, 2008

Microsoft Online Services - new portal

The new portal is live. It contains, information on the various offerings and lot's of links to trials, etc. If you are a Microsoft Partner (or want to become one) do check out the Partner section.

Please notice that the Microsoft Online offering for companies with less than 5000 seats is still beta only and focused on the US ... If your company has more than 5000 seats there's nothing that should hold you back wherever you are ...

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February 29, 2008

Forrester: Top Unified Communications Predictions For 2008

Fully agree here Hosting and SaaS will become a favorable approach for UC and will speed up deployments ...

In 2007, the vendor side of unified communications (UC) saw tremendous hype, while many buyers struggled with confusion, wondering exactly how to define UC and what UC meant for their businesses. Still, UC met a growing demand; more than 50% of enterprises now report that they are evaluating, installing, or running UC solutions. The great promise of UC is that it will enable communication with experts and decision-makers in order to facilitate the resolution of business issues when, where, and by whatever means is best suited to achieving the task at hand.

What should you expect in 2008? Mobility will become an expected part of UC, video will come of age for multiple purposes, communication-enabled business processes will start providing return on investment (ROI), and hosted and software-as-a-service (SaaS) UC offerings and demand will grow. Don't expect federated presence to break out of the pack yet, though; interoperability and user-configuration tools remain roadblocks to adoption in the near term.

Source: Top Unified Communications Predictions For 2008
"Henry Dewing"
Date Published: Wed, 20 Feb 2008

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