Swisson and NEC Unified Solutions have partnered to implement a cloud based communication solution for the CitizenM Hotel Group.  The NEC UNIVERGE Sphericall solution was implemented in CitizenM’s new hotel in Glasgow, Scotland, as a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution.

The backend system will be hosted within an NEC local data centre. For this implementation Swisscom has combine its software-based IP communication platform with NEC’s UNIVERGE Sphericall. Read more »

According to Infonetics Research more businesses are set to implement unified communications solutions throughout this year. The researchers also highlight the fact that only few companies have implemented the technology and are urging UK businesses to adopt unified communications in order to improve their flexibility. Read more »

NextiraOne has announced that they have been selected by Ricoh to design and implement a complete unified communications solution across Ricoh’s offices in Europe South Africa.  Ricoh said the new solution will create a collaborative working environment that will help Ricoh to increase employee productivity, provide enhanced customer services and underpin the company’s environmental vision which is to reduce its carbon impacts by 88% by 2050. Read more »

MobileMax has announced the release of the MobileMax Unified Communications Application, which interoperates with BroadWorks, the VoIP application server by BroadSoft. Fixed and converged operators can now enhance their customer’s communication experience by extending the delivery of their BroadSoft powered IP-based communication services to mobile devices with MobileMax. Read more »

Following Cisco’s successful acquisition of Tandberg, 5i has expanded its UNIFY Manage Service to support Cisco’s extended visual collaboration suite. A subsidiary of 355 it, 5i Unified Communication solutions encompasses, telephony, contact centres, multimedia, encompass complex messaging, mobility, real time communications, conferencing and video technologies across multiple communication modes and devices under a single managed support contract. Read more »

Snom UK have announced that they will be at this year’s UK Unified Communications Expo in London.  Snom said they will be exhibiting in the Microsoft Partner Village, showing visitors and how snoms products are able to take full advantage of the functionality offered by Microsoft’s range of Office Communication solutions. Read more »

Spanish UC provider Nologin has partnered with CommuniGate, so that Nologin can offer CommuniGate Pro and Pronto! to Spanish-speaking telecom markets, which include Spain, Mexico, Colombia and Bolivia.  Under the agreement Nologin will offer a white-labeled integrated UC solution and value added services to their customers across these different markets. Read more »

InterCall has announced the acquisition of Prefered One Stop Technologies (POSTcti), one of Europe’s leading provider of professional services, components, systems and hosted services for Unified Communications (UC). InterCall, a provider of conferencing and collaborative services said they will be adding POSTcti's product and services to its communications network and operations infrastructure to assist its clients with their UC needs. Read more »

CommuniGate Systems, the leader in super efficient, massively scalable Unified Communications technology, today announces the next generation of their acclaimed Unified Communications application suite, Pronto! version 4.0. The new and improved features are available in both the Flash-based web version, Pronto! Web, and the new desktop client Pronto! Pro. Both web 2.0 and desktop versions use the same super efficient code base, and have an API to integrate to other business productivity applications. Pronto! integratesall types of communication into a single dashboard, allowing operators to offer subscribers one application, one experience, under one brand. Read more »

Microsoft Qatar on Monday will launch Microsoft Lync, the next generation unified communications solutions, here with the business sector across the country invited to witness the exclusive event. Organised in partnership with Jabra and Polycom, the event will give businesses in Qatar an exclusive opportunity to learn more about how Microsoft Lync can meet their needs for real-time collaboration and give them access to an integrated solution that enable users to communicate from anywhere in a cost-effective and secure manner. Read more »