Polycom & Microsoft Unite for a Better Video Conferencing Experience
Posted by Mara Drouhard on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 @ 10:40 AM
When you join Polycom and Microsoft together you are joining the global front-runner in video, voice, and telepresence solutions with the global front-runner in software solutions. This means that organizations will be able to utilize video conferencing in ways they never have before.
"Microsoft and Polycom are committed to a roadmap that will deliver interoperable UC solutions with choice and innovation in video conferencing and customer devices that will help transform enterprise communications,"
Gurdeep Singh Pall, Corporate Vice president of Unified Communication at Microsoft
Only Polycom provides a one-of-a-kind, comprehensive portfolio of integrated solutions spanning telepresence, video, voice, and also application integration with Microsoft’s entire collaboration platform that includes MS Office Communication Server R2, MS Exchange Server, MS Active Directory®, and MS SharePoint®.
"Polycom and Microsoft deliver a winning combination to our customers around the globe by delivering seamless, easy-to-use, high-definition communications at the click of a mouse,"
Andrew Miller, Polycom President and CEO.
Key Features include:
- Click to talk between MS Office communicator customer and Polycom’s: CX phones, HDX endpoints, RMX’s virtual meeting rooms, and Polycom’s immerse telepresence solutions
- Presence-aware, HD Polycom video and voice endpoints able to maintain B2B connectivity
- Calendar integration with MS Exchange Server (2007/2010) and MS Outlook for Polycom Conferencing (for MS Outlook software)
Watch out video conferencing world the Polycom and Microsoft
partnership is part of the Polycom Open Collaboration Network and it’s a good one. Or you might say that “good” is an understatement.