Here are some benefits of Lync:

• Control costs - Integrated audio, video, and Web conferencing helps reduce travel costs as well as the cost of third-party conferencing solutions
• Improve productivity - Microsoft Lync 2010 client provides access to enterprise voice, enterprise messaging, and conferencing from one simplified interface
• Support the mobile workforce - Experience across PC, phone, mobile phone, and browser gives workers more ways to stay in touch
• Gain operational efficiencies - For geographically dispersed teams, group chat can enable efficient, topic-specific, multi-party discussions that persist over time
• Be more responsive to customers, partners, and employees - Enhanced delegation through Lync 2010, for receptionists, and rich presence information in both help ensure that opportunities are routed to the right person at the right time
• Maintain regulatory compliance - Built-in security, encryption, archiving, and call detail records help you maintain control over sensitive data by using your own servers and network

Unified Experience

• Get easy access to presence, instant messaging, voice, and audio, video, and Web conferencing
• Use one set of contacts across Lync 2010 and Office applications
• Communicate with context including Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft SharePoint

Simple, Essential, Reliable Conferencing

• Collaborate more effectively with built-in desktop and application sharing, PowerPoint upload, and rich white boarding, including the ability to copy and paste images and other content
• Schedule and join meetings with a single click in Microsoft Outlook or the meeting reminder
• Place attendees in a virtual lobby for greater security and control over who can attend

Complete Enterprise Voice Features

• Delight your users with the features they need, a wide range of IP and USB devices
• Architect your deployment for high availability using data center resiliency and survivable branch appliances
• Manage bandwidth utilization and increase Quality of Experience with Call Admission Control, QoS markings, and an adaptive media stack that works well even on unmanaged networks like the Internet
• Meet North American regulatory requirements with flexible Enhanced 9-1-1 capability

Powerful Deployment and Management Tools

• Get consolidated management tasks in one location with dramatically improved navigation through the new Silverlight-based, scenario -driven unified graphical management tool
• Get support for server virtualization of most OCS roles

Extensibility

• Significantly simplifies deployment, operations, and interoperability
• Added features that improve provisioning, load-balancing, fail-over, and draining
• Supports 26 languages

Is it time for your organization to look at Lync? Take the time to contact your Firehouse Networks Consultant for more information.