case upm – unified communications & the roadmap to the cloud
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Sergio Bolivar, IT Manager
Skype for Business Vision Days
22.03.2016
UPM: Unified Communications
& The Roadmap to the Cloud
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Content
• UPM as a Company
• UPM Cloud Strategy
• UC Strategy
• UC Roadmap
• Business Benefits and Challenges
• Closing Message
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UPM As a Company
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UPM Today
March 20144
Turnover:~ EUR 10 billion
Personnel: approx 20, 000
Shareowners: over 90,000
• Plywoodproducts
UPM Plywood
• Label materialsfor product and information labeling
UPM Raflatac
• Magazine papersin Europe and the USA
• Newsprint and fine papers in Europe
UPM Paper ENA
• Fine papers in China• Label papers
globally
UPM Paper Asia
• Hydro-, nuclear- and condensing power(incl. shares in energy companies)
• Electricity productionand trading
UPM Energy
• Pulp• Plantations• Biofuels• Sawmills
UPM Biorefining
UPM Biocomposites
UPM Biochemicals
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Innovations in Action
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UPM ProFi
UPM BioVerno UPM Biochemicals
UPM Formi
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Requirements for the Future’s IT services
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Easiness
• Easy to set up
• Easy to use
• Easy to scale
Mobility
• Always available
Simplicity
• Standardized
services
• IT as a Service
SLA
• Guaranteed
Services
Innovation
• Enabler for a new
business
development
Cost
• Low unit costs
• Usage based billing
improve cost-
control
Speed
• Fast to implement
• Fast to scale
• Improvements to
time to market
Scalability
• Pricing: usage
based billing
• Services: easy to
scale up/down
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UPM IT Strategy
Move towards Cloud i.e. buy IT as a Service when available
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Some History…..
3 Steps to Lync 2013 Service
New Lync Meeting Services delivering unified online meeting toolset.
Upgrade to Lync 2013 Client.
Live Meeting & Intercall services ramp down.
Upgrade to full Lync 2013 Service, Mobile Clients & Features
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Q2/Q3 2013
Q3 2013
Q4 2013
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Target of UC Strategy Today
Microsoft Skype f
Business
Chatting (IM)
Lync Calls
E-meetings
Skype
Services &
Devices
Mobile
Telephony
PBX/IPT
PSTN Calls Video Conferencing
Unified End User Experience
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UC Skype 4B Platform Roadmap
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2016: Replacing PBX/IPT
wherever needed/possible
2017: Global UC Service
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Cost Saving Case:
Use Skype to save money and time
• Within UPM: use Skype to Skype calls - No extra cost
• Use Skype calls* always when calling abroad - Only local cost or less
• Use Skype calls* via WIFI when calling from abroad yourself
- Only local cost or less
• Utilise more Skype meetings instead of travelling
- No travelling costs and saving time
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0 20 40 60 80 100
Lync call
Mobile call
Example
Using a Finnish mobile phone 100 minutes vs. using Lync call in China
Lync call Mobile call
90 €
1,5 €
*Skype calls to phone lines only available for
Europe based users
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Business Benefits & Challenges
• Benefits
– End User Experience – Mobility & Devices
– Lower costs -Infra & Operations
– Scalable & Agile service
• Challenges
– Quality dependency on many external factors
• Devices
• Network, etc
– Gaps compared to traditional IPT
• i.e. Call Centre
• Hardware
– User adoption
– Slow technological transition
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