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A Report on Microsoft’ s Communication Platforms From

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in Enterprise. Just looking at the end-cus- national producer and marketer of food,
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you planning the transition and want
vast majority of existing voice systems (including
and tablets to access corporate documents and
tomers expected at the event and the sched-
the core networking division for Windows
agricultural, financial and industrial prod-
Microsoft Lync is typically thought
avoid the headaches that are possible? Even if you
Avaya communications systems, the road to
most of the Avaya PBXs sold in the last 20
communicate with coworkers anywhere, at any
of as a tool for unifying communica-
Server. While most of the world looks
uled presenters, you can see a long list of
ucts and services. During a recent inter-
do not have Lync transition plans, you should
implementing UC can be daunting.
time. It is only natural, then, that popular tools
household names, most of which are home
tions at huge, tech-savvy enterprises. But
at Lync as a great unified communica-
view with Joe Milledge, Voice Architect,
even the small- to medium-sized business listen to this podcast to get a heads up on the
One solution that is getting a closer look is
to over 10,000 employees. Large enterpris-
Cargill, he commented “With 142,000
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tions software package, underlying its user
es have some unique challenges, requiring
right where they are, surrounding the PBX with
issues involved.
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