Unified Communications
and Contact Center

The Current Analysis coverage of the Unified Communications and Contact Center sector focuses on real-time voice, video and text-based communications solutions, as well as the companies that develop them and the overall market trends that affect them. The unified communications and contact center solutions tracked are deployed on-premise by enterprises, the mid-market, small- to mid-sized businesses, small businesses and within customer service environments. Our coverage centers on four main market segments:

• Unified Communications Solutions
• Business Communications Solutions
• Contact Center Solutions
• Video Conferencing and Telepresence Solutions

Analysis of unified communications solutions focuses on server-based platforms that provide end users with an integrated set of voice, video, and corporate-grade instant messaging functionality closely tied to telephony and IM presence awareness multimedia collaboration applications. Business communications solutions analysis centers on a range of voice-centric communications platforms, including IP PBXs, key systems, integrated communications platforms and SIP-based communications services. Also integral to our coverage of business communications solutions is analysis of enterprise session border controllers, session management software, IP desk phones, wireless LAN and DECT end points, and the mobility software that ties mobile (cellular) phones into the corporate communications environment.

Contact center solutions coverage focuses on the systems and software that companies rely on to respond to customer inquiries, proactively reach out to customers, record and analyze customer interactions and otherwise provide customer care. These solutions process inbound and outbound customer interaction conducted via traditional phone calls, email, voice mail, fax, text messaging and chat. Also integral to contact center solutions coverage is software that monitors public social media services such as Twitter and Facebook, and allows either agents or marketing personnel to respond, track and otherwise process customer service-related social media interactions. Contact center solutions coverage also touches on customer-related business process automation and the use of corporate unified communications and collaboration software to create ties between customer service environments and the larger enterprise.

Analysis of video conferencing and telepresence solutions focuses on a wide range of software and on-premise systems that facilitate point-to-point and multi-point video interactions. These include desktop video conferencing software integral to many unified communications solutions. It also includes room-based video conferencing using H.323 or SIP, as well as immersive telepresence solutions that use high-definition video and life-sized imagery to make conference participants feel as if they were sitting together in the same room.

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2012

• Avaya Brings Advanced Mobility to IP Office - Jan 13, 2012

2011

• Microsoft Releases Mobile Client for Lync, Lync Online - Dec 12, 2011
• Cisco Makes Video Conferencing More Cost-Effective for SMB and Mid-Market Customers - Nov 3, 2011
• Google Adds Google+ to its Enterprise Portfolio - Oct 31, 2011
• Interactive Intelligence Innovates with CaaS Contact Center Trial Program - Oct 19, 2011
• Polycom and Jive Trail Competitors’ Integration of UC and Social Software - Sep 16, 2011
• The Call for Session Border Controllers Grows as Contact Centers Move to IP, Increase SIP Trunk Dependence - Sep 6, 2011
• Mitel-VMware Work to Lead to Widespread Soft Phone-VDI Integration
  - Sep 1, 2011
• Cisco Gets Conversant with Microsoft Office via Versly Acquisition - Aug 31, 2011
• Avaya Improves Aura Contact Center Suite with Three New Offering - Jul 14, 2011
• Cisco’s Customizable Cius App Store Will Help IT Gain Some Control Over Tablet App Adoption - Jul 1, 2011
• Interactive Intelligence Enhances Innovative Image with New CIC 4.0 Release - Jun 15, 2011
• HP’s Blurred Telepresence Vision Ends with Polycom Sale - Jun 2, 2011
• Tablets in the Enterprise: Competitive Landscape for Devices in 2011 - May 31, 2011
• Microsoft’s Skype Grab Promises as Many Challenges as Benefits - May 11, 2011
• Aastra Complements its ViPr Platform with BluStar 8000i Media Phone Desktop Videoconferencing Offering - Mar 1, 2011

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