We covered the below:
From Lync 2010 to Lync 2013 to Skype for Business: What has changed?
Why move from Lync to Skype for Business?
What does E5 and voice in the Cloud mean for your company?
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Cisilion Skype for business event Oct 2015
1. 6th October 2015
Rob Quickenden – Chief Strategy Officer
Demetri Nicolaou – Microsoft Pre-Sales Consultant
James Hinton – UC Practice Lead
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2. INSPIRING INTELLIGENT CHANGE
ABOUT CISILION
Established in 2000
Enterprise Networking and Collaboration Experts
Global Systems Integrator
Business Led Not Technology Led
Award Winning Customer Service
Working with Clients in 56 Countries across 5 Continents
London Based Productivity Focused Innovation Centre
UK Innovation in Revenue Marketing Partner of the Year – 2015
EMEA Partner of the Year - Riverbed Partner Summit 2015
Enterprise Solution of the Year - IT Europa IT Excellence Awards
Architectural Excellence Borderless Networks Partner of the Year -
Cisco Global Partner Summit
Capital Partner of the Year - Cisco Global Partner Summit
Mobility Solution of the Year - IT Europa European IT Excellence Awards
Enterprise Convergence Solution of the Year - Comms Business Awards
Most Innovative Business Impacting Network of the Year
CISILION COMPANY OVERVIEW
15 INDUSTRY AWARDS
3. INSPIRING INTELLIGENT CHANGE
OUR STORY IN NUMBERS
Three office hub locations
New York
London
Hong Kong
35+
PARTNERACCREDITATIONS
500+
UNIQUECERTIFICATIONS
$
650m
CUSTOMERSUPPORTEDASSETS
WORKINGWITHCLIENTSIN…
56COUNTRIES
5 CONTINENTS
THEOFFICEHUBLOCATIONS
NEWYORK LONDON HONGKONG
23%
AVERAGEREVENUEGROWTH
PERANNUMSINCE2010
15 INDUSTRYAWARDS
RECOGNISINGCHANNEL
EXCELLENCE
98%
CLIENTRENEWALRATE
10. INSPIRING INTELLIGENT CHANGE
Complete meeting solution
Reach thousands for very large
meetings, attendees join from
virtually any browser and device
Use a dial-in number to join
Skype meetings from any device,
dial-out to bring participants
into the meeting
Modern attachments, ‘meet now’ in unified groups,
online meetings by default
Office real-time co-authoring in Skype for Business,
fast HD video-based screen sharing
Team collaboration device from Microsoft, full spectrum
of meeting devices with partners
Skype meeting broadcast
Office real-time
Co-authoring in skype for
business
11. INSPIRING INTELLIGENT CHANGE
Cloud PBX and PSTN calling
Manage your calls right within O365; eliminate separate PBX systems
for information workers
Make, receive and transfer calls from mobiles, tablets, and PC’s,
from nearly anywhere with internet access
Office 365 administration portal as the central location to
manage users for communications, email and content
Take advantage of your existing telephony infrastructure
(i.e. traditional PBX systems or on-premises SIP trunks)
Subscribe to calling plans from Office 365, use existing phone
numbers or get new ones, starting in the US this year
How you can
manage your calls
16. INSPIRING INTELLIGENT CHANGE
Why Work with Cisilion?
Business Led & Flexible Approach
15 years of Voice and Networking Heritage
We partner with the 2 Global Leaders in UC&C
…and leading Eco System Partners
…meaning we can remove the technical barriers to design, implementation and migration
We help you drive success, ROI and User Adoption through our On-Boarding Services
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Support & Managed Services
Training & Adoption Services
Project & Change Management
Strategic advisory
Cisilion
Collaboration
Services
Consultancy Services
19. Skype for Business is a game changer…
Offering the ability to transform the ways people work, reaping significant
RIO…..but only if users change their behaviour..
Enables you to
• Text, call, communicate
• Meet Discuss, collaborate
• Connect, present, demonstrate
From your
• Laptop
• Desktop
• Tablet
• Phone
• Meeting/Conf Room
With
• Colleagues
• Customers
• Skype Contacts
• Remote users anywhere, anytime
20. Adoption Services – The Key to Success
Increase
Business
Productivity
Improve
Employee
Satisfaction
Drive
Operational
Efficiency
Mitigate
Escalations
Save Time
and Money
Adoption
Impacts
ROI
Change drives adoption which in-turn impacts ROI
“User Adoption is the daily, habitual use and deep utilisation of a product
or technology by end-users”. #TheFaceBookEffect
Adoption requires that users change their behaviour – sometime is needs to be driven or enforced!
21. Resistance is a natural reaction to change
Avoid using a push strategy, that will just deed the resistance
Become aware of “red flags” that may hamper change and adoption
Adoption Services – The Key to Success
Change is a process
Change drives adoption adoption leads to ROI
FACT! 70% of change initiatives fail due to poor user adoption!
http://www.kenblanchard.com/img/pub/Blanchard_Mastering_the_art_of_change.pdf
Connect users change to business results
Utilise a push strategy for optimal impact
Take a proactive approach using a common framework and success indicators
Maintain focus on the end-user
22. Why do so many change projects fail?
Push Strategy
“Re-use your towels.
It save us money!”
Pull Strategy
“Each day we use millions of gallons
of water and tons of detergent to
wash towels that have only been
used one.
Decide for yourself – a towel on the
rack means “I will re-use it again”.
Many customers implement a push strategy without even knowing
it and end up managing resistance instead of change.
23. THANK YOU
- Standalone environment that “extends” to your desktop and mobile
- Allows real users to use the benefits to help sell it back into the business
- Enables you to build momentum and gain “sponsors”
- Can be funded / part funded through DPS Days
Try it, Use It, Adopt it……
24. INSPIRING INTELLIGENT CHANGE
Why Work with Cisilion?
Business Led & Flexible Approach
15 years of Voice and Networking Heritage
We partner with the 2 Global Leaders in UC&C
…and leading Eco System Partners
…meaning we can remove the technical barriers to design, implementation and migration
We help you drive success, ROI and User Adoption through our On-Boarding Services
24
Support & Managed Services
Training & Adoption Services
Project & Change Management
Strategic advisory
Cisilion
Collaboration
Services
Consultancy Services
Editor's Notes
Lync 2010 – Microsoft highlighted platform features - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-new-in-Microsoft-Lync-2010-9D6F323D-D0D3-46BC-BE73-56F7ABE5265A
Lync 2013 – Microsoft highlighted platform features - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12700.lync-server-2013-what-s-new.aspx
Skype for Business – Server Core and Voice Improvements - https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Whats-New-in-Skype-for-Business/Skype-for-Business-Server-Core-and-Voice-Improvements
This slide shows a high level timeline of the investments in order to help customers plan.
First: Microsoft will deliver the Skype for Business clients, new server, and updated service in Office 365 during the 1st half of calendar year 2015 – this is done…
Our next enhancements come in the 2nd half of CY 2015:
Large meetings support in Office 365, with the ability for Skype for Business Server customers to use this as a “Hybrid” option.
The beginning of our rollout of enterprise voice in the cloud, starting with PSTN calling in the US.
We will expand to the larger markets in Western Europe in CY 16. Exact timing depends on a variety of factors including local regulations and local partners, of course.
Our aspiration is to be “Cloud First” by the middle of CY 16 (the beginning of our FY17). By this time, our intention is to give our worldwide customers the option to use our Online service without sacrificing enterprise voice or other key scenarios. Note that this does not mean that every feature will be exactly the same, but instead, that we will enable the full set of scenarios