It’s an anytime, anywhere, 24/7, 360º, what-have-you-done-for-me-lately, want it now or-else world.

And on a rough day that’s all before lunch.

There’s no such thing as business-as-usual anymore.

At home. On the road. Office-to-office. Coast-to-coast. Border-to-border.

It’s about connecting. And staying that way. By any means necessary.

People to people. People to places. People to information.

It’s a flexibility, productivity, mobility,

                                      connectivity, reliability, efficiency thing.

It’s Unified Communications.    

Network Convergence, increasingly referred to as Unified Communications, has emerged as a very powerful tool for businesses of all shapes and sizes.

According to a 2007 Gartner report 70% of businesses with more than 100 employees are expected to migrate to IP or network-based telephony and Unified Communications solutions within the next three years.

A recent Sage Research survey for Cisco revealed that employees without unified messaging spend more than 75 minutes a day handling e-mail, voicemail, and other messages. But central message management of unified messaging saves people an average of 43 minutes a day—a 57-percent improvement in productivity.

Sage Research also found an average reduction of 30 percent in conferencing expenses (when in-house conferencing was deployed) and $1,700 saved monthly on travel avoidance by using rich-media conferencing, another core unified communications application.

The survey also reported that Unified Communications-enabled employees save an average of 55 minutes per day, and that conferencing, soft phones, and other Unified Communications applications significantly reduce out-of-pocket costs for travel, long-distance telephony,
and non-integrated video-conference services.

What can Unified Communication do for your business?

Contact an Allied Unified Communications expert today to learn more.