To The CIO

TO THE CIO

Today’s volatile global economy requires businesses to make the most out of resources while delivering their products and services. The businesses that thrive are investing in ways that not only meet today’s goals, but also position them for competitive advantage in the economic upturn. Collaboration, virtualization, globalization, and video-enabled capabilities should be key parts of your plans to thrive.

Unified communications is now one of the top tier strategic technologies for companies of all sizes. Blue Violet Networks uses Mitels unified communications to deliver three distant waves of business value:

• 1. Cost Savings Through Consolidation

  The first wave occurs when migrating to IP telephony. Consolidating voice, video, data networks onto a single IP network makes it possible for companies to reduce the cost of communications, take advantage of underused network capacity, and lay a foundation for unified communications.

• 2. The Companywide Collaboration Effect

  The second wave of value comes when you extend applications, such as unified clients, IM, presence, and unified messaging across the business to improve collaboration. With unified communications you can obtain up to two hours of more productive work from individuals each day.

  Less Travel, More Productivity

  By using TelePresence, web and standard audio-video conferencing, you can reduce internal travel and training-related travel by 80 percent—enabling your staff to perform at the speed of business.

• 3. Boundary-Free Collaboration.

  The third wave of business value in boundary-free collaboration with the ability to collaborate across boarders and enterprise boundaries you can obtain objectives that you wouldn’t have easily reached alone.