Unified Conferencing & Collaboration as a Step Toward UC

We all know that in today's increasingly virtual workplace, with an unstable economy and in the face of rising prices, companies are even more eager to find new ways of doing business that increase productivity while reducing costs. At the same time, organizations need to ensure their employees can collaborate with one another, regardless of where they are and what they're doing.We talk a lot about unified communications as a way to achieve these ends, but for a lot of companies, a full-blown UC deployment is out of the question right now. The good news is that unified conferencing and collaboration--which includes integrated audio, web and video conferencing applications--can address all those issues, as well as help companies steer a path toward a broader unified communications platform. The ROI is often easier to prove; the technology is typically easy to use and deploy, especially on a hosted model; and the cost savings around travel, especially, can be significant.

Especially in tough economic times, unified conferencing and collaboration can help companies save money and drive productivity, allowing them to do more with less. For more on how to start down the path toward UC&C--and, if you're interested, UC--please join me for an eBroadcast on the topic on Tuesday June 2, at 2pm ET. Just register here: http://ebroadcast.frost.com/unifiedconf