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HP UC&C Solutions with Microsoft Lync

Extending the benefits of your Microsoft® Lync® 2010 deployment by adding voice capabilities
Advantages of UC&C
If your company already uses Microsoft Lync for instant messaging (IM), web presence, and conferencing, you probably know that unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) meansrunning all communications vehicles on a single, common, unified platform. If you run Lync on HP, you know that this powerful UC&C solution enables you to meet your top business concerns: • Do more with less – You have fewer people, less time, and lower budget, but to remain competitive, you have to accomplish more work. • Support flexible work styles – Small and midsize companies are findingstrategic initiatives such as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) boost productivity and efficiency by enabling employees to work and access information from anywhere, on any device, including their own laptops, tables and smartphones. • Enhance the user experience – Your workers are too busy to learn new apps and interfaces. To enable fast adoption rate of any new solution, you need to provide one that isfamiliar and easy to use. What you may not know, however, is that you can extend the benefits of UC&C by adding voice capabilities to your Lync deployment—and by using the latest HP infrastructure components.

Microsoft partnership by deploying or adding Lync voice and HP infrastructure to your UC&C environment, you can: • Reduce infrastructure cost and complexity – HP Converged Infrastructure is anopen, standards-based architecture that integrates with your legacy infrastructure to intelligently evolve to an advanced flexible architecture for overall improvement of services, ease of use and scalability. • Leverage existing Microsoft infrastructure investments – Seamlessly integrate Lync voice with Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint® Server and Microsoft Exchange Server. Create aconsistent user experience company-wide while reducing communications costs. • Increase efficiency and worker productivity – Support a mobile or distributed workforce without adding IT resources. Support virtual teams across geographies or regions. Enable telecommuting, work from home, and green initiatives. • Enhance communications – The tested and validated Lync solution from HP and Microsoft increasescommunication reliability so your teams can better serve customers, retain a competitive edge, and differentiate your business.

Benefits of Lync voice
When you deploy the Microsoft Lync Plus Client Access License (CAL), you can provide enterprise-class voice telephony and other related features to users anywhere, using an Internet connection across IP phones, PCs, and desktop applications.Lync Plus CAL offers: • Features such as call answer, hold, resume, transfer, forward, and divert; all these features are supported directly. • Contact lists instead of personalized speed dialing keys. • Instant messaging in place of an automatic intercom. Traditional telephony management functions including dial plans, call authorization, and call detail records are supported and improved throughinteroperability with standard enterprise tools including Active Directory ® and Microsoft SQL Server ®. With Lync voice, your workers can use their computers or desktop IP phones as their primary business phones—as well as extend business calls to mobile devices, including HP handhelds and smartphones.

Powerful infrastructure supports all Lync capabilities
Communications, interaction andengagement are the backbone of your organization’s day-to-day activities. So when it comes to your Lync voice solution, leave nothing to chance—especially your IT infrastructure. Work with HP to deploy the right blend of infrastructure components: • HP Networking FlexNetwork Architecture – Provides agility, consistency and security for your UC&C deployment. The FlexNetwork Architecture combines...