Unified Collaboration from Polycom

Communications Have Never Been More Important
Contemporary business realities such as globalization, worldwide competition, and the need for business continuity in a world of disruptions call for leaps in productivity and efficiency—and demand solutions that make the most of operating budgets and maximize returns on investment. Your top-line growth—growth that must be sustainable over time—is achieved by delivering differentiated and innovative products and services. To address these challenges, organizations are cutting costs through off-shoring, more strategic partnering, and policies that address global business and lifestyle realities, such as working remotely. Unfortunately these approaches have inserted distance into the workplace—a challenge that until recently hindered people from meeting together quickly, easily, and effectively. But not any longer.

Better than Being There
Polycom has removed the problem of distance in the workplace and offers organizations the opportunity to use information to create true competitive advantage by delivering a meeting experience that is as close to actually being present in a face-to-face meeting as any solution delivered by any other company. Ever. With our standards-based, on-demand unified collaboration (UC) solutions and Polycom® UltimateHD™, H.264 High Profile, and other ground-breaking technologies that uniquely combine voice, video, and content, Polycom empowers your teams to meet, share information immediately, and make smarter decisions more quickly. How? By removing distance barriers throughout your organization—no matter where your people are located and no matter what the capabilities of their working environments. What's more, Polycom UC solutions are easy to deploy and easy to use—so your teams will readily adopt them.

Leverage Your Investments with Polycom Open Collaboration Network
In addition, Polycom makes it safe and easy for your IT groups to afford and deploy collaboration solutions for competitive advantage by leveraging existing infrastructures from companies such as Microsoft, HP, IBM, Avaya, BroadSoft, Juniper, and Siemens. Through the Polycom Open Collaboration Network strategy, Polycom aligns closely with these leading UC technology platform partners—and others—to provide customers with open and interoperable collaboration solutions that enable full Unified Collaboration integration and protect your existing IT investments.

Polycom and the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum
The Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) is a multi-vendor, non-profit organization of worldwide technology leaders working together to fully realize the potential of Unified Communications. The UCIF members collaborate and focus on interoperability issues, working with existing industry standards, to help drive simplified deployment within enterprises. Founding members of the UCIF include Microsoft, HP, Juniper Networks, Logitech / LifeSize and Polycom.

Polycom is and always has been committed to open standards and interoperability. Our leadership position as a founding board member in the UCIF is a natural extension of Polycom’s open approach to communications and we are delighted to see others in the industry help move this initiative forward. This not only benefits the UC industry as a whole but most importantly, enables organizations to deploy interoperable UC solutions with confidence thus solving a major obstacle for them as they seek to implement a seamless UC solution.

Powered by Polycom™
As your organization steps up to meet the challenges of today’s business and develop competitive strategies, we urge you to consider Polycom UC solutions. Only Polycom has on-demand and truly immersive telepresence solutions that enable the best possible meeting experience—anytime, anywhere, from any device. Polycom's innovative ways of empowering your team and customer interactions will help you become more agile, make better decisions faster, close deals, increase sales—and conduct business more successfully every single day.

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