Unified communication technologies use the power of software to deliver complete communications to maximize the efficiency of your company’s communications. This allows for messaging, voice, and video to be distributed across the applications and devices that people use every day. Incorporating the practices you associate with the telephone--phone calls, voice mail, and conferencing--into the work you perform on a computer--documents, spreadsheets, instant messaging, e-mail, calendars--has the capacity to fundamentally change the way the communications world works. Unified communications will transform business in the coming years much to the same degree that e-mail changed the business landscape in the past decade. When phone services become software, are managed by a server, and are delivered to desktop applications, the results are fascinating:

• The computer starts to work like a phone

• The phone starts to work like a computer

• Voice mail becomes e-mail

• Unified communications streamline infrastructure

• Phone calls become digital assets

• Flexibility for technology advancements are at your fingertips