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Microsoft Webcast: Maximize Your Existing IT Infrastructure With Microsoft Unified Communications (Level 100)

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roi - tco

Overview This webcast gives detailed overview of the Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) vision. It demonstrates how Microsoft is combining e-mail, instant messaging (IM), voice, and video into a single, intuitive system built around people, not technology. In addition, it shows how Microsoft has built people-centric, integrated, secure communications into the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Discover the value of a Unified Communications environment that takes advantage of existing data and telecommunications infrastructure. The webcast explain how UC enables IT departments to deliver more flexible and secure communications, with a simplified infrastructure that streamlines management and reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

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Publisher	Microsoft
Live Date	8th May 2007 00:00 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	ROI - TCO, Collaboration Tools

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