Microsoft Unified Communications can quickly help organizations save costs by reducing operating costs, consolidating infrastructure, and leveraging human capital more effectively. For example, a Unified Communications solution can reduce operating costs for long distance calls, cell phone charges, conferencing service fees, travel costs, and meeting expenses. Organizations can also reduce costs by consolidating communications systems for messaging, voice mail and telephony into an integrated platform based upon the two cornerstone products: Microsoft® Exchange and Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2.
Organizations are seeing returns on Unified Communications within a single budgeting cycle, often within six months, and have the potential to save $5 million dollars per 1,000 employees:
Reduce Travel Expenses from 20 to 40 percent* by replacing in-person meetings with immersive Web, video, and audio conferencing with Office Communications Server.
Lower messaging costs from 50 to 80 percent* by reducing storage costs and consolidating costly third-party solutions like mobility, archiving, backup, and more with Exchange
Reduce telephony and audio conferencing charges from 20 to 40 percent* by lowering long-distance charges and audio conferencing minutes with built-in Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and unified conferencing capabilities in Office Communications Server.
Lower real estate and facility costs from 30 to 40 percent* by freeing employees from fixed desks or offices, and increasing occupancy density in buildings. With Exchange and Office Communications Server employees can work from anywhere—with simply a laptop, a headset, and an Internet connection—and stay connected with a full suite of more secure communication tools for e-mail, integrated Presence, enterprise instant messaging, VoIP, and unified conferencing.
Reduce the cost of communications systems from 40 to 60%* by consolidating separate legacy voice mail with Exchange, and expensive private branch exchange (PBX), instant messaging, and audio/video/Web conferencing systems with Office Communications Server.
