Workshops

Moving from the Brochure to Reality in Unified Communications with Office 365 and Lync

We all know that workplaces and workers are changing.

Teams are more distributed. Customers need productivity tools that enable them to work from virtually anywhere. Communications is a core part of all business’s productivity and is continuing to evolve and change the way business people, customer and client, interact.

Additionally, the industry is changing, and as IDC indicates, a few factors that are shaping the industry are that “Mobility is increasing in importance” and that “Enterprises increasingly expect to customize work flows with communications capabilities.¹ There is tremendous growth in the area of unified communications (UC) solutions and services, and Forrester and other analysts such as IDC indicate that that “[one quarter] of medium and large U.S. business[es] said they plan to implement a UC solution in the next 12 months, and nearly one third of small businesses plan to use UC in 2011.³

Why Microsoft Lync?

Microsoft Lync connects users in new ways, regardless of their physical location. The latest release of the Unified Communications platform delivers a fresh, intuitive user experience that is directly accessible from Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft SharePoint. Lync brings together the different ways people communicate in a single interface, is deployed as a unified platform, and is administered through a single management infrastructure. The unified nature of the system helps reduce costs and facilitates rapid user adoption. And because Lync is broadly interoperable, it fits into current IT infrastructures for easier deployment and migration.

What does this mean to you?

With vendors from all corners using the word unified communications how do you separate hype from reality? On May 18 you can learn from local Portland Metro Area experts what is real and what “vaporware” is!

Join inFlow Communications and Lead IT Consulting on May 18 to hear, see and learn what is available today for your business.

Lunch will be served from noon to 1p.m. with an open discussion and Q and A.

Address: 1414 NW Northrup Street Suite 900, Portland, OR 97209
Date and Time: Friday, May 18, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

¹IDC, Microsoft Announces Lync: Next-Generation UC Solution, Dec 2010
²Forrester, Market Overview: Sizing Unified Communications, Feb 2009
³IDC, 2010 WAN Manager Survey: Unified Communications, Mar 2011