are you ready for skype for business?
TRANSCRIPT
accelerate your ambition
Are you ready for Skype for Business?
Real-time collaboration, real business growth
Copyright © 2014 Dimension Data
More than slapping a sticker over Microsoft® Lync, it supports a new, flexible way of working together. With a common format, it lets you quickly communicate, connect, and collaborate.
Skype for Business marks a radical change in how companies will consume unified communications and collaboration.
Read more …
Copyright © 2014 Dimension Data
300 million ways to connect
This is especially true for a new generation of workers. In America, four million Millennials enter the workplace every year. Along with Gen-X before them, this group makes up 30-40% of your employees; this demographic also reflects a typical consumer base.
Read more …
Copyright © 2014 Dimension Data
Plan your integration
We believe Skype for Business has allowed Microsoft to enhance the existing Lync platform. There’s been a lot of effort into making sure it’s an even more stable and effective platform.
Read more …
Copyright © 2014 Dimension Data
Real-time development
Recently Microsoft and Dimension Data polled 150 IT leaders to find out how they used their unified collaboration tools. ‘Some 65% said it was used for internal collaboration, mostly between IT, HR, and marketing departments.
Read more …
Copyright © 2014 Dimension Data
Intimacy with consumers
We believe Skype for Business can create closer connections with consumers. ‘When we look at the financial services industry, people don’t typically visit a brick-and-mortar bank anymore when they can bank with applications on a smart phone or device’
Read more …
Copyright © 2014 Dimension Data
Protecting the platform
As business moves to a more consumptive application model, Skype for Business is poised to bring other cloud elements into the offering under the Office 365 license. But you can tailor your applications to a specific cloud, hybrid or on-premise model
Read more …
Copyright © 2014 Dimension Data
For more on this piece please go to http://www.dimensiondata.com/Global/Latest-Thinking/Skype-for-business/Pages/Home.aspx