October 3, 2009 4:05 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
AIM,
Google Talk,
instant messaging,
Jabber,
Microsoft,
OCS,
OCS 2007,
Office Communications Server,
PIC,
Public IM Connectivity,
Windows Live Messenger,
XMPP Gateway,
Yahoo Instant MessengerOrganizations using Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007) have a powerful instant messaging tool with Office Communicator and Communicator Mobile. Federation allows different organizations running OCS to link up so that the users in each entity can see each other's presence and communicate...
August 16, 2009 3:54 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
caller id,
caller info,
Evangelyze Communications,
Mike Stacy,
OCS 2007,
OCS 2007 R2,
Office Communications ServerOn our home phones and mobile phones we more or less take it for granted that the Caller ID will display the name of the person or organization calling in addition to the originating phone number. In fact, many people simply refuse to answer calls from "Unknown Caller" and let them go to voicemail...
July 13, 2009 1:10 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Evangelyze Communications,
Joe Schurman,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Voice and Unified Communications,
OCS 2007,
Response Point,
SMB,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsA couple of years ago Microsoft created an innovative team with the goal of thinking outside of the normal corporate bureaucracy of Microsoft and coming up with a communications system for SMB's (small and medium businesses). The result was the Response Point system.
Response Point was a...
May 31, 2009 4:38 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
alliance,
HP,
Microsoft,
OCS 2007,
Office Communications Server,
partnership,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsMicrosoft has established itself as a leader in the unified communications market, but their focus on the software side of things means that they don't have an end-to-end solution. The up side for customers is that Microsoft does not lock you into using specific or proprietary hardware. That is...
March 16, 2009 6:07 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
OCS,
OCS 2007,
ocs 2010,
Office Communications Server,
PBX,
UC,
Unified Communications,
VoIPIf you have been following unified communications and the evolution of Microsoft's Office Communications Server, it is probably not a surprise to you to learn that Microsoft intends for the next major release of Office Communications Server to entirely eliminate the need for an enterprise to have a...
February 22, 2009 10:04 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Evangelyze Communications,
OCS 2007,
OCS 2007 R2,
Office Communications Server,
ROI,
SmartChat,
SmartSIP,
SmartVoIP,
Unified CommunicationsUC-B is apparently a term coined by Blair Pleasant (and others at UCStrategies.com), President and Principal Analyst for COMMfusion Unified Communications. In
February 17, 2009 3:23 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Cisco,
IP PBX,
Microsoft,
OCS 2007,
Office Communications Server,
PBX,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsIt is no secret that Microsoft holds a dominant position in the server and desktop OS market as well as the office applications market. However, Microsoft products need networking equipment in order to interconnect and communicate and Cisco has a dominant place in the networking and routing...
January 28, 2009 1:16 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Evangelyze Communications,
Joe Schurman,
OCS 2007,
PBX,
software-powered voice,
UC,
Unified Communications,
voiceThere is an old saying in sales that customers 'don't buy the bacon, they buy the sizzle'. In other words, customers are less interested in the nitty gritty details of what a product is or how it works, and primarily interested in what it will do for them. It's a sort of 'show me the money'...
January 16, 2009 2:41 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Evangelyze Communication,
OCS 2007,
Office Communications Server,
SmartChat,
SmartSearch,
SmartVoIP,
UC,
Unified Communications,
VoIPMicrosoft's Office Communications Server 2007 offers enterprises a cost-effective platform for voice and unified communications that also allows them to retain their existing voice hardware whether it is traditional analog or VoIP. Another advantage that it offers is that, because it is software...
