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Unified Communication Industry Study

Overview Businesses realize that speed in meeting their commitments is essential to achieve growth and profitability. Emerging next-generation applications enable productivity gains across the enterprise and create new agility in business communications. This paper looks closely at three vertical industries and measures how unified communications improve work processes within each industry. These surveys uncovered several findings that reveal businesses overlook several opportunities to drive greater efficiencies and improve employee productivity. Unified communications is not about replacing existing applications; it is about improving the functionality of existing applications through the use of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), which enables businesses to connect quickly to the intended party for actionable results.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Forrester Research	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2006	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Unified Communications

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