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Ir Prognosis Eases Shift To Cloud-
Yealink attained
the Microsoft Gold
Delivered Communications Via
Communications

Partner Microsoft O ce 365

Competency

IR, the leading global provider of proactive communication infrastructure. Importantly, Prognosis’s suite of capabilities, which support
performance management so ware for critical IT Prognosis dashboards o er real-time visibility Microso SDN API 2.2, provides best-of-class
Yealink, the Global Leading UC Endpoint infrastructure and communications ecosystems, of user experience so that support departments insight into O ce 365 adoption and utilization
Solution Provider, recently attained a today announced a new comprehensive
can proactively resolve issues while calls are still through unparalleled visibility into the cloud-
Microsoft Gold Communications Partner Competency, which attests to its best-in- suite of experience management capabilities
in its award-winning Prognosis for Uni ed active.
Since Microso announced its advanced based network.
“Communications technology leaders and the
class functionality with Skype for Business/ Communications solution, designed to help cloud-delivered communications intentions deployment options they o er can no longer be
Lync. To earn Microsoft Gold Competency, organizations successfully implement cloud- through O ce 365 in 2013, organizations have limited to on-premises implementation; they
partners must successfully complete delivered communications with Microso O ce been moving one step closer to fully cloud-
must be able to handle today’s environment and
exams to prove their level of technological 365. With the advent of true cloud-delivered based uni ed communication delivery. e support these future imperatives of cloud-based
expertise, and then assign their Microsoft uni ed communications within the context
bene ts of uni ed communications via O ce and hybrid environments,” said Darc Rasmussen,
Certi ed Professionals exclusively to one of O ce 365, performance management 365 are enticing, enabling advanced concepts CEO, IR. “ e immense growth and sizable
Microsoft competency, which guarantees becomes a critical deployment requirement. such as Cloud PBX, PSTN Dial-In Conferencing installed base of the O ce 365 productivity suite,
sta ng capacity.
Complete visibility of network, applications and ultimately PSTN Voice. ese advanced and expected rapid growth of cloud-delivered
Through its Microsoft Gold and infrastructure through and post transition o erings, available via Microso ’s new enterprise communications within our global customer base
Communications Partner Competency, is a key component of successful performance E5 bundle as well as á la carte on top of current proves this and makes this solution o ering an
Yealink has proven to be capable of management.
O ce 365 enterprise bundles, promise signi cant important milestone for us.”
delivering the highest, most consistent Organizations deploying O ce 365 and advantages around operational simplicity and According to Gartner, “Regardless of whether
quality and support to the latest Microsoft Skype for Business face several complexity and cost savings.
a VoIP/UC environment is self-managed or
technologies.
multi-vendor integration challenges in order to Prognosis helps customers by delivering a maintained via a third party, VoIP/UC-speci c
User Bene ts
achieve full control and visibility as they shi comprehensive ‘current state of communications’ monitoring tools are a fundamental prerequisite
l Modern Skype for Business/Lync to cloud-delivered uni ed communications.
benchmark, full network assessment to make to the success of any VoIP/UC project.”*
Interface: Familiar and friendly user IR Prognosis will provide organizations with
sure that a company is ready for an O ce 365 *Gartner “Hype Cycle for IT Infrastructure
experience, minimal learning costs
a clear path to O ce 365 success through deployment plus proactive scenario testing and continuous collection of data from the current Availability and Performance Management, 2015”, by Ian Head, 23 July, 2015.
l Support for Skype for Business/Lync Server In-band Provisioning: Carefree ongoing performance management and optimization of their applications, network and
and future state environment. Additionally,
More at www.ir.com
con guration, mass deployment, e cient
and easier management
l Tailored phone functions for every
employee: Boss/Admin, Always Online, Dial NFON UK demonstrates Cloud
Plan, Phone Lock and more
Skype for Business, so administrators can
l Smooth and exible switching between level integration with Skype for assign the service only to those users who
Skype for Business/Lync and IP phone: require it, whilst the rest of the organisation
Call/listen with a single click, switch can simply use standard telephony licences.
conversations to other devices, more Business at IP Expo 2015
is provides a truly hybrid model, allowing
freedom at work
both sets of users to bene t from a full range of
For more information about Yealink’s UC telephone functions.
edition phones, visit www.yealink.com or Explaining why NFON’s Skype for Business
contact us at ucinfo@yealink.com
integration is di erent to other solutions NFON for Lync (Skype for Business) is
is seamless integration allows users to
currently available in the marketplace, UK a genuinely integrated solution with full work with Microso address book contacts,
Managing Director Rami Houbby said: “Many enterprise voice features, giving customers
calendar presence and other o ce applications,
How Will Skype providers will say they can integrate with Skype all the functionality of a business grade as well as more fundamental infrastructure
for Business – but not all integrations are the telephony system within the Skype for Business services like Active Directory. With this level
same. So our di erentiator is more about how we do it, not simply that we can do it. As a environment. e main advantage being that the Skype for Business client becomes a true of integration at the core, total resilience is also ensured, as the telecoms solution will continue
for Business standalone product, Skype for Business is a functioning end device, and can therefore be to function normally in the event of a failure
fantastic collaboration tool, but it misses the treated as any other extension of the system. with Microso , or with a hosting provider.
Ignite the enterprise grade PBX telephony functionality Allowing users to be included in all of the Seamless integration
that people need. And this is where we come in.
traditional telephony programming - such as A further advantage of NFON for Lync
NFON’s Skype for Business integration is hunt and pick up groups or ACD functionality, (Skype for Business) is the individual
Future?
di erent to all other solutions on market
without requiring complex changes to the con gurability of the system. Only UCC-
More at www.nfon.com
Skype for Business solution.
connected users need to be equipped with

Get behind-the-scenes feedback on the
latest news on Skype for Business
Hear breaking news from Microsoft’s Carousel Industries to Support Microsoft as Skype for Business Launch Partner
Ignite conference on Skype for Business.
Our webinar hosts will share real life — North America, Leveraging its Microsoft and Managed Services Expertise
deployment success stories and any new
solution enhancements and client details
learned, as well as what the future holds.
Carousel Industries, a leader in uni ed broad adoption of Skype for Business across will present a natural migration path for
Doug Green, Publisher of Telecom communications, managed services, data small, medium and enterprise markets.”
existing Microso Lync environments.”
Reseller, NATD World & ASCDI Now will be solutions and visual communications, As a launch partner, Carousel Industries
Skype for Business, which represents a
our moderator talking with Ed Wadbrook of Carousel Industries. They will ll you in announced that it will be supporting Microso as Skype for Business Launch Partner
has participated in many Microso -based initiatives, including Project Neptune; the two- natural migration of Microso Lync 2013, brings together the familiar experience of
on new Skype for Business solutions and — North America. As a Microso Gold week pre-release workshop for select vendors; Skype along with the security, compliance and
o erings and how that translates to your Communications, Gold Hosting and Microso Ignite, Microso ’s comprehensive technology control of Lync 2013 and Skype for Business
organization.
Certi ed Skype for Business and Lync Support event; and has been invited to participate in applications, infrastructure and workloads.
Topics include:
Partner, Carousel has already attained the the Skype for Business Advisory Council. e new communications platform promises
Ensuring the Success of Your Skype for highest levels of accreditation by Microso and Additionally, Carousel is one of several Skype to transform the way people communicate by
Business Deployment
was recently invited to participate in the Skype for Business North America Launch Partners.
extending communications beyond the walls of
Interactive discussions on lessons learned for Business unveiling and project roadmap.
“Our team is fully aligned with Microso ’s businesses to connect customers and partners,
from end-user adoption through the “Carousel is proud to play an important role strategy and solutions roadmap, and we have anytime anywhere.
Change Management Program
in the Skype for Business rollout,” commented begun implementing training sessions, and Carousel has already developed several in-
Skype Room Systems – Creating better Ed Wadbrook, Vice President, Applications are already coordinating one-to-one and depth webinars to educate its customer base
spaces to meet with new devices
and Collaborative Solutions, Carousel one-to-many conversations among our entire while also conducting customized training
Understanding Key Factors for Industries.
customer base,” he continued.
sessions to help businesses understand the
Maximizing End-User Adoption and ROI
“As a Gold certi ed partner, Carousel has “We anticipate Skype for Business will help implications of Skype for Business in their own
Watch the video at http://tinyurl.com/ the experience, resources, relationships and companies realize unprecedented collaboration networking environments.
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methodologies in place to encourage and drive
and business productivity, and that the launch
More at www.carouselindustries.com

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