Siemens sees 400% jump in uptake of VoIP systems

The company suggests that increased user collaboration and productivity are the reasons, and states that it’s seeing uptake in all industry sectors and across companies of all sizes. Siemens says it now expects uptake to increase even further, with the release of new features, including over 40 new UC Foundation features, such as enhanced one-number services, larger business-groups for managed service providers (MSPs), new business continuity and disaster recovery options and UC inter-working with IBM and Microsoft systems. “The migration to IP-based enterprise communications is leading to the integration of real-time communications with business applications,” comments Jerry Carron, vice president research of analyst Current Analysis. “The worlds of IT and communications are rapidly coming together, and platforms such as the HiPath 8000 are facilitating that shift.” And Thomas Zimmermann, Siemens Enterprise Communications COO adds: “Today’s large enterprises, institutions and managed service providers don’t need ways to deliver yesterday’s communications capabilities. What they need is a strategic IT technology like the HiPath 8000 to integrate real-time communications and presence into their day-to-day business processes. That way they can optimise the performance and potential of their employees or managed service customers.”