Lync connects employees, partners, and customers wherever they are — helping you reduce costs while increasing productivity and responsiveness. Only Lync delivers an end-to-end unified communications solution, while giving staff a consistent experience for presence, IM, voice, and video across PCs, Macs, phones, and browsers. Plus, with Lync available on-premise, in the cloud or as a hybrid solution, you can evolve your IT at the pace you want. Consider these benefits:

1. Work Productively From Anywhere

• Employees can communicate with colleagues and customers in real-time from virtually anywhere.

• Staff have the tools to securely work from anywhere without a VPN connection.

• Personnel can use a range of devices, including PC, laptop, phone or tablet form factors, to access Lync.

2. Improve Productivity With Connected Experiences

• Personnel can provide instant feedback and engage spontaneously with colleagues, customers, and partners since Lync is integrated with Outlook, SharePoint, OneNote and other Microsoft applications.

• With Lync and Skype, staff can securely connect to hundreds of millions of people quickly and easily.

• Employees are able to use presence information to know a colleague’s status in real time and find the best way to contact them.

3. Easy to Control and Use Across Multiple Devices

• Personnel get a familiar Lync interface across a wide variety of devices and can transition from smartphones, tablet form factors, PCs, Macs, phones, and room systems with ease.

• Employees stay productive using Lync seamlessly with a variety of applications on their different devices.

• Staff does not lose time understanding Lync. Adoption rates are high with personnel being able to use the software effectively in hours.

• IT personnel get the tools they need to manage and secure communications across PCs, laptops, phones and tablet form factors.

• Business doesn’t lose time integrating Lync with existing devices, applications or legacy hardware including PBXs, because of the solution’s interoperability and open standards.

4. Lower Costs to the Business

• Businesses have the option of Lync as an on-premise or cloud-based solution.

• With Lync, companies gain an end-to-end unified communications solution that forms part of a Microsoft productivity software stack. It simplifies IT and gives staff a single, intuitive interface that they are already familiar with.

• Businesses reduce travel costs with employees organising less face-to-face meetings and choosing video conferencing instead.

• Companies reduce IT complexity and cost since Lync becomes part of a shared infrastructure and a single data store.

• Companies can work with a single supplier, Microsoft, to support their IT infrastructure and converged communications.

• Businesses can follow their own timelines and budgets since Lync provides a path to converging communications.

• Companies will eventually save money by retiring the separate PBX system.

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