Companies of all sizes are increasingly being challenged to beat tight operational schedules and meet customer demands – all while walking that tightrope of diminishing IT budgets and limited staffing resources. As much as technology has advanced in the last few decades, there are still only 24 hours in a day. That’s where Unified Communications, comes into play.
When considering the definition of Unified Communications (UC), industry leaders typically describe it as communications being integrated in order to optimize business processes.
This means that an organization is able to seamlessly integrate, or unify, its typical business processes with both real-time communications (such as instant messaging/chat, presence information, telephony/VoIP, call control, and video conferencing) and non real-time communications (such as unified messaging – integrated voicemail, e-mail, SMS and fax).