Microsoft Philippines and Polycom solidify their partnership in delivering a more powerful unified communications experience. In photo from L-R: Pia de Jesus, Microsoft Philippines Communications Manager; Christian Lim, Microsoft Philippines Business Group Lead; Thep Ritrangkla, Polycom Regional Manager; Moses Lim, Polycom Technical Sales Manager; Cammie Cheng, Polycom Marketing manager; Yvette Watson, Microsoft Philippines Productivity Specialist
Leading the effort to “re-humanize” how communication is done within enterprises in a new world of work, Microsoft Philippines answers the urgent need for unified communications through Skype for Business.
“Today, enterprise organizations in the Philippines are in for a digital disruption,” said Christian Lim, Office Marketing Business Group Lead for Microsoft Philippines. “As the workforce and the consumer markets become more digital, there is a need for flexible, rich communications, and a reinvented productivity solution that will usher in a new modern work place”.
A whole new World of Work
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Presenting data they have garnered through their “New World of Work” survey, Microsoft surmises that as enterprises adapt to the changing business landscape, they must simultaneously adopt new ways to communicate with their workforce that are grounded in available and inexpensive technologies.
With most of the modern employees disparate and working well away from the office space, work mobility has become a primary concern among businesses. They have adapted multiple technologies to cope with the need to connect and interact with one another. But Microsoft stressed that a sporadic work force should not rely on multiple confusing devices in order to be flexible and work-competitive.
“We understand there is an undeniable demand for communication that transcends time zones and geographies,” said Lim “the evolution of communication through technology has greatly impacted the workplace and we want to help equip businesses with products that will empower them to do more in a mobile-first, cloud first world.”
Tools for Teamwork
Microsoft embraces the new working culture present-day employees are steeped in by introducing solutions they have devised in Skype for Business helping them to unify communications in a heavily scattered workplace.
Available Skype for Business solutions are expanded through Microsoft’s partnership with Polycom to deliver the industry’s first cloud-based video interoperability service. Polycom will also develop new video collaboration and video room solutions for Skype for Business, allowing their users to leverage the ease of use afforded to them by Microsoft, and Polycom’s proven and industry-leading technologies in their new deployments.
“Our 12-year partnership with Microsoft delivered industry-leading collaboration solutions to our end users,” said Peter Leav, Chief Executive Officer of Polycom. “Together, we equip our customers of all sizes with cloud-ready solutions that will help them realize the powerful benefits of collaboration in the workplace of the future.”
Partnering with the international communication technology company, two readily available solutions built in Skype for Business were presented by Microsoft: Outlook Integration and Cloud Private Branch Exchange (PBX).
Businesses can now integrate their Outlook accounts into their Skype for Business app; providing them ease in inviting workmates into meetings and Skype calls that dissolve the need to bring their work into the boardroom. Microsoft has also made this available to people who do not have the Skype for Business app yet through the free web app.
PSTN Calling and PSTN Conferencing by integrating their already existing PABX solutions with Skype for Business will provide a seamless experience for end users—one tool for IM, video conferencing, presenting content and even telephony—enabling true audio conferencing to anyone, anywhere and Cloud PBX implements central cloud Private Branch Exchange without the bulky hardware which eventually drives down communication costs.
“Answering the urgent need for unified communications, we simplified Skype for Business’ design and created a common user experience that is both accessible to people and fitting to their devices,” said Eileen Ong, Small and Midmarket Solutions and Partners (SMS&P) Director for Microsoft Philippines. “And with the present day’s threat to privacy, we employed measures to ensure reliability and security in our services, we assure our customers that they can put their whole attention into the conversation worry-free.”
Facing the future head on with Skype for Business, Microsoft assures businesses the opportunity to modernize mobility, collaborations, and meetings within the workplace.
“We at Microsoft, underline our mission to empower people to do more by pushing further toward advancement, to which we believe there is only one way—forward,” said Ong.
Know more about today’s new world of work and how Skype for Business can help you and your business answer the need for communications, log on to: https://www.skype.com/en/business/.
