Unified Communications and Collaboration Solutions

IBM and Cisco provide innovative business communications offerings that can guide organizations towards new business models that promote success. The combination of Cisco’s Unified Communications System and IBM’s expertise in collaborative applications, systems integration and global technology services, can allow businesses to converge voice, video, and data to gain a distinct competitive advantage. Reduced costs and increased productivity and availability, are supported by the advantage of accessing information virtually anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

Key Benefits:

• Facilitates improved business processes through access to collaborative applications and unified communications virtually anytime, anywhere, anyplace
• Helps reduce capital and operating expenses, improve productivity and enhance your customers’ experience
• Aids enablement of a smooth transition to an innovative communications environment through open standards and flexibility

• Webcast Replay: Changing the Game; Collaboration for Strategic Advantage (February 5, 2009) (WMV - 38MB)
  MIT's Thomas W. Malone, Cisco's Shelia Jordan, Vice President, Communications and Collaboration IT, and Tim Ringo, Global Leader, Human Capital Management, IBM Global Business Services, discuss how you can use collaboration for strategic advantage. Learn about emerging business drivers, their business imperatives, and ways in which you can prepare your business today to thrive in the economic upturn.

Solution Materials

• Solution Brief: IBM and Cisco Communications-Enabled Business Processes (PDF - 7MB)
• Whitepaper: Enhancing the Way People Work through Unified Communications (PDF - 393KB)
• IBM and Cisco Unified Communications and Collaboration Flash Demo

Customer Video Clips

• News@Cisco Video: Meeting Consultants Uses Cisco UC and IBM Lotus
• News@Cisco Video: IDEA Cellular Provides Voice Self-Service

For more information:

• Cisco Unified Communications
• IBM Unified Communications + Collaboration Strategy
• Cisco and IBM Integrated Product Offerings

Contact your local IBM or Cisco representative to find out how IBM and Cisco Unified Business Communications solutions can help your organization.