"Polycom's telepresence solutions make us more effective by increasing productivity as well as reducing travel-related costs. Our commitment to telepresence is 100%—it’s not just a passing fad, it's long-term."

Polycom and Microsoft share a passion for delivering easy-to-use unified communications (UC) solutions that improve business processes, productivity, and efficiency in the workplace. The rich integration of Polycom's RealPresence™ Platform and full portfolio of UC endpoints with Microsoft Lync™ gives users the ability to collaborate and communicate, anytime, anywhere.

Polycom's software strategy is designed to bring secure HD video collaboration to the broadest range of business, video, mobile, and social networking applications through standards-based infrastructure delivered on-premises, hosted or with service providers from the 'video cloud'. Polycom's goal is to become the default choice of customers and partners for open UC and HD video collaboration solutions that work together seamlessly, across any application, protocol, call control system or end point.