COMMUNICATION REGARDLESS OF DEVICE, TIME OR LOCATION
We are now in a time where instant communication is expected, and it is expected to be available via a plethora of medians, regardless of location, end-point or time of day / night. Concurrently, security of both your data and systems are paramount. To make matters more challenging, organizations have a growing percent of their workforce that is not office bound and would like to use devices that are not traditionally considered office devices. Additionally, data growth continues at an alarming rate, due to several factors including the "paperless" office environment and the escalation of rich media content.
The bottom-line is that people need to work together, to share information and ideas, to collaborate, and these folks are no longer in the same physical location or even in the same time zone. So, welcome to the unified architecture, where you can leverage a cohesive platform to simplify management of disparate touch-points, while enabling greater communications throughout your organization and beyond.
WIRELESS IS NO LONGER A "NICE TO HAVE"
Gone are the days when your staff, guests and customers hoped for wireless access that was available, robust and simple to use. Now it is expected. And the consequences for lack of compliance are often business limiting.
EXPANSION TAKES FOREVER
Deploying IT technologies used to take forever…and in some cases still do. Projects were costly beyond the common-sense test, inefficient and ripe with angst and frustration.
In the Unified paradigm, the reality is different. With the newer technologies, the environment can provision itself when and where needed, can provide substantially improved data protection and requires much less day to day management. In short, your IT staff can manage the overall capacity for the environment, key systems, and the underlying architecture, and the user community can provision the rest themselves, as needed.