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Who are the top vendors for a unified communications system?
Where can I find a list of the top UC vendors in the industry. Who do you consider to be a top vendor and why?
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Top vendors for a UC platform will typically be a premise based provider because the systems are able to integrate in to more aspects of what creates a UC platform. This is integration through instant messaging, smart phone, and email. The goal is to provide a network where you are always be connected to your communications. To find out what a UC platform is you can reference:
http://www.focus.com/questions/information-technology/what-is-the-difference-...
Top 5 UC premise providers in my opinion are Cisco, Avaya, Mitel, Microsoft, and Siemens.
Top 3 UC hosted providers are Ring Central, Vocalocity, and Qwest (new offering)
Every vendor will tell you they are the best at providing this type of platform and UC is a buzz word that means different things to different vendors. Figure out what UC means to you and how it can be used to optimize your own business needs.Take those needs to any market leading vendor and see who is the best fitr for your needs.
I think the first question would be is how to you define Unified Communications? There seems to be many perceptions to what the definition is.
The hype around unified communications in 2010 stemmed largely from a corporate need to do more with less. Lower travel budgets and fewer employees forced many companies to consider UC as a way to help their employees be more productive. Vendors and channel partners recognized the opportunity and responded.
Many of the vendors in this space include, Polycom, Siemens, Avaya, Microsoft (through a partnership with Polycom) and Cisco. The problem so far with UC is no vendor offeres a soup-to-nuts solution – one that includs voice, video, presence, IM, mobility and all other elements of UC.
I believe that in the near future we will see in 2011 more of the vendors in this space become more involved and take more action to provide what the market demands in this space. Lets just hope that we can see the same progress moving forward as we did in 2010 regarding the development of UC and a full service application suite offering.
http://www.focus.com/research/comparison-guides/unified-communications/compar...
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