Hosted Lync UC supports your business as it responds to the growing trend for mobility. It’s unified communications using one of the leading platforms, Microsoft Lync, combined with enterprise IP Voice that can replace your existing PBX. Seamlessly integrate your mobile and home workers and present them as part of the team. Make it easier for your teams to work together and share information regardless of location, either internally or with partners and suppliers. Choose from a software client, or Lync phone handsets or headsets. Hosted Lync UC is fully federated, which means users can communicate and collaborate with people outside of the organisation as long as they are using another federated service: it could be MS Lync or earlier versions of the product, or similar services like IBM Sametime, Cisco Unified Presence Server, Yahoo Messenger or Skype.

1. Unified
Communications
Ten reasons why organisations are switching

2. Five reasons why people prefer Unified
Communications to desk phones…
1) Answering the phone is disruptive and you have to stop what
you are doing
2) People are more mobile – which number are they on today?
3) It’s a separate device, with a different interface –
we're used to screens now
4) It just takes longer – “Hi, how are you…”
5) You have to make separate notes, or keep a recording

3. “…there has been a significant
reduction in landline call volumes, from
88 billion per year in 2003 to 60 billion
per year in 2012…”
Ofcom, ‘Improving quality and value in the communications sector’,
January 2014

4. 6) Email’s not conversational – you don’t get an instant reply
7) If you use email for ‘chatting’ – like instant messaging – you
generate wasteful, bandwidth-hungry traffic
8) Attachments burn storage space and get duplicated with
every ‘forward’
9) Spam filters can consume legitimate emails – delivery
is not guaranteed
10)Clogged inboxes create general network
management headaches
And five reasons why they’re
switching from email too…

5. It all feels a bit
old school

6. “In 2012, the number of worldwide
instant messaging accounts will total
over 2.7 billion.
This figure is expected to grow at an average annual
rate of 6% over the next four years, and reach 3.4 billion
by year end 2016…”
Radicati Group Email Statistics Report 2012-2016

7. So here’s a different way
to communicate

8. Instant messaging, voice calls, conference calls, video calls,
status updates, presence, availability, document sharing…
…all through one connection
What is Unified Communications?

9. Here’s how
it helps

10. Office workers… Home workers… Colleagues out in the
field… Partners… Customers… Suppliers.
Across private and public networks.
Anywhere
Anytime
Any device
Quick, easy, effective collaboration

11. …instant messages really are instant
…presence shows you where everyone is
…video calls make things more human than voice calls
Quick, easy, effective collaboration

12. …conference calls reduce travel
…video calls are even more useful
Fewer journeys

13. It’s all on whichever
device you want to use
…on your PC at your desk
…on your smartphone on the move
…on your tablet if you prefer

14. Voice-over-IP can be cheaper than landline call charges
• less travel to meetings means less cost
• less email traffic can help to reduce network
management overheads and storage costs
It saves money

15. Unified Communications means no more PBX to buy,
manage and maintain.
…and it’s one less network.

16. We know because
we've done it ourselves with
Hosted Lync

17. A complete cost-effective cloud-based Unified Communications
solution.
Seamless, secure anywhere communications for
businesses and the people they work with.
Hosted Lync

18. Route calls to team members, simultaneously ring another
device, divert calls.
Share documents from anywhere and any device.
Collaborate via video conference, online meetings,
IM chat from anywhere and any device.
It’s smarter working with all the benefits
of Unified Communications and none of
the complexities.

19. Windows PC, Mac OS X, Windows Phone, Apple iOS, Android
Smartphones, Lync-compatible desk phones and headsets.
Unify your business with a uniform
platform that looks and works the same,
no matter the device:

20. Supports the public IM community (PIC) – compatible with
multiple solutions including Microsoft Lync, Skype, MSN, IBM
Sametime, Cisco Unified Presence server and Skype.
A flexible cost-effective way to connect your
enterprise and networks via client software
or Lync phone handsets or headsets

21. Saving your enterprise time
and money with a flexible
and scalable solution
Supporting as many people as you need, from 250 to 10,000+.
And the more users, the more cost effective it becomes.

22. Standard server: Unified Communications, with high availability
for voice and PBX.
Enterprise server: high availability for voice, PBX and Unified
Comms in large-scale organisations.
You can choose from simple voice
services or completely seamless
Unified Comms:

23. O2 is a Microsoft Gold Partner, we focus on helping enterprise
and Public Sector organisations to communicate and collaborate
more effectively – internally and externally.
O2 partners with Gamma, market-leader with more than
ten years’ expertise in IP voice capability technologies.
We’re an HP Gold partner, delivering storage, computing and
networking solutions on premise, in the cloud or as a hybrid.
All the benefits of unrivalled industry
expertise in secure communications
technologies

24. Moving to
Office 365?
If you or your partners, customers or suppliers are
moving to 365, Hosted Lync UC supports with a
seamless enterprise-level voice service

25. One solution,
one bill and one
account team…
…for all mobile, fixed and Unified Communications.
It’s simple and easy

26. Why O2?

27. And over 23 million customers in the UK.
We are part of Telefónica, the world’s largest integrated, fixed
and mobile telecoms company, with 330 million
customers across 25 countries.
We have more than 25 years’ experience
in building and operating networks

28. We take care of all the small details that make a
big difference.
We provide a fully managed end-to-end service, from
pre-sales product fit to service management, and consultancy.
With 24/7 monitoring and award-winning customer
service and clear SLAs.
It’s easy to make the switch

29. See a demo at our
Slough or Leeds offices
Take a low-cost 90-day pilot for up to 100 users
Call 01235 433 507
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