Demand for unified communications and
collaboration technologies is growing rapidly. According to an independent report from Forrester Research, 84 percent of
enterprises in North America and Europe are currently evaluating, piloting or implementing unified communications and
collaboration solutions, and the market is expected to grow at a rate of 35.9 percent through 2015.
Microsoft Unified Communications - UC and Collaboration with HP and Microsoft Whitepaper
1. Unified Communications and Collaboration
with HP and Microsoft
Comprehensive solutions from HP and Microsoft to A new way to deliver business
improve business productivity efficiency and value
Through process innovation, strategic insights and
customized offerings, HP and Microsoft® together offer
unified communications and collaboration solutions
Demand for unified
communications and
Welcome to Workforce 2.0 designed to harnesses the combined power of
collaboration technologies is technology to deliver an end-to-end business
There’s a new world at work—one that’s driven by
growing rapidly. According to an productivity solution.
independent report from Forrester
globalization, macroeconomics and a volatile business
Research, 84 percent of climate. As a result, today’s business mandate is clear: Our modular approach helps you streamline
enterprises in North America and It’s time to rethink how your employees communicate, communications and collaboration between people—
Europe are currently evaluating,
piloting or implementing unified
collaborate and innovate. whether down the hall or across continents. Our
communications and solutions enable your organization to improve business
collaboration solutions, and the You need a more efficient, truly cost-effective way to
productivity and adapt to changing business needs
market is expected to grow at a bring together your communications and collaboration
rate of 35.9 percent through
with a secure, extensible infrastructure that accelerates
solutions to help people connect to colleagues and
2015.1 the optimization of messaging, voice, video and
information across a myriad devices and geographical
enterprise-wide collaboration.
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Market overview: Sizing Unified barriers.
Communications, Forrester
Research, Inc., February 2009. We know that for you, unifying business productivity
Meeting these goals brings a fresh set of IT
through communications and collaboration is a long-
complexities and cost challenges—as you look for
term strategy—not just a point solution. That’s why our
ways to deliver innovation while wringing every
solutions give you the flexibility to implement
possible drop of value from existing investments.
components today and over time—so you can address
short-term needs pragmatically while maintaining your
vision for future growth.
2. Unified communications and
collaboration solutions from
Transforming business innovation Unified solutions tailored to your needs
HP combine calendaring, With the current economic and environmental Choose from modular solutions that combine a range
e-mail, voicemail, instant
landscape, companies are taking a hard look at costs of software-powered communication and collaboration
messaging, presence, voice
and conferencing—including and impacts on their operations. Globalization is solutions from Microsoft combined with HP products
PC audio, telephony, video expanding operations and the need to coordinate and services, including servers, storage and network
and web—within a supply chains and service customers in markets around infrastructure, plus scalable device and solution
streamlined collaboration
environment. This approach the world. It’s imperative that your employees connect components for voice, conferencing, instant messaging,
makes the right with colleagues and partners in multiple time zones, video and collaboration. All solutions are designed and
communications tools and bringing high travel costs to an already strained tested by HP and Microsoft—and all are supported by a
information available to the
right people—when you operating budget and environment. rich portfolio of professional enterprise services.
need them, regardless of
where you are or what Unified communications and collaboration solutions HP hardware and software
device you’re using. from HP and Microsoft allow geographically For a reliable, scalable unified communications and
With unified communications distributed teams, mobile workers and teleworkers to collaboration solution infrastructure, HP provides:
and collaboration solutions, communicate and collaborate effectively anytime, • HP ProLiant and BladeSystem infrastructures with HP
delivered by HP, your anywhere. This in turn enables you to:
company can begin to Insight Control environment management enabling a
transform your business Maximize IT investments and mitigate risks best-run infrastructure, including the business-ready
with innovative solutions infrastructure of HP BladeSystem Matrix
that enable you to improve Reduce travel, training, real estate, telephony and
productivity and lower audio conferencing by 40 percent—and voicemail • HP Virtual Connect technology dramatically
costs while mitigating risk. costs by nearly 60 percent and IT by up to 50 simplifying the installation and maintenance of your
Wondering where to begin? percent . You save on multiple fronts—by improving
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environment as it separates the server management
Start with one of our Business operational efficiency and consolidating servers and from network management
Value Services: Define your storage, as well as converging voice, video and data
unified communications and • HP StorageWorks products providing the scalability,
collaboration strategy with infrastructure. Our modular, integrated solutions enable performance and ease of management you need for
the Transformation you to make the most of your IT investments while a cost-effective, protected storage infrastructure with
Experience Workshop. increasing communications security and compliance.
Discover ROI with the direct attach and shared storage, including HP
Business Benefits Workshop. LeftHand iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions
Increase productivity with streamlined communications
And set your architecture
with our Strategic and collaboration • HP desktops, notebooks, tablets and iPAQ
Architecture offering. Empower your people with familiar and easy to use Smartphones serving as versatile client access devices
tools that boost productivity and can help you speed • HP Business Technology Optimization (BTO) Software
time-to-market, drive new revenue streams, improve products and solutions enabling more effective
decision-making and strengthen customer relationships. management of complex IT, IP and telecom
Click-to-begin simplicity means people can find the infrastructure to bring the power of software to life
right expert at the right time, as they move beyond
• HP Halo state-of-the-art telepresence solution,
information overload with streamlined communications
bringing meeting attendees from around the globe
and collaboration.
into a collaborative environment that feels as if they
Improve operational efficiency and accelerate are in the same room
business value • HP ProCurve Networking offering a wide variety of
Transform IT from supporting the business to powering enterprise-class networking hardware and software,
the business. Then move quickly into business process including non-blocking, data center optimized local
innovation as you use unified communications and area network (LAN) switches, wireless LAN services,
collaboration solutions, backed by world-class services wireless area network (WAN) routers and software
from HP or our joint partners, to integrate workflows to for both network management and security
enhance decision-making and business controls 2
The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Unified Communications Products
established within departments and across your company. and Services, Forrester Consulting, October 2007
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3. Microsoft core technologies and software
“Buying reliable technology is just the first step in Your unified communications and collaboration
solutions will typically include one or more of the
making customers happy. We also need to work with
following Microsoft offerings:
partners that understand our way of thinking, so we • Microsoft Windows® Server and Microsoft Exchange
can customize and optimize the technology to match Server delivering reliable e-mail, unified messaging
and collaboration functionality
our specific needs. The partnership between HP and
• Microsoft Office System providing a complete system
Microsoft gave us the industry insight and expertise of advanced collaborative and workflow tools,
we needed.” content management, and business intelligence tools
• Microsoft Office Communications Server providing
– Kurt Häfliger, System Engineering, HINT AG enterprise-grade, real-time communications including
presence awareness and instant messaging, enterprise
voice and telephony integration, and web
conferencing capabilities
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server with capabilities
for improving employee communication and
collaboration, streamlining information access, and
HP services managing content across the enterprise
HP works with your business and IT teams to provide
• Microsoft Office Communicator and Microsoft Office
unified communications and collaboration solutions
Communicator Mobile offering a communications
that tailor to the specific needs of your organization.
client that integrates telepresence, instant messaging,
Our experienced worldwide team of trained, certified
voice, video, web conferencing and desk phone
Microsoft consultants delivers new and enhanced
offerings that include: • Microsoft Office Live Meeting providing on-premise
web conferencing capabilities
• Business Value Services taking the first step to
establish solution value and alignment plus a • Microsoft Hyper-V securing your virtualized
roadmap for your organization environment and helping you to consolidate server,
storage and networking hardware; improve
• Messaging solutions extending communications
infrastructure utilization; increase automation; and
beyond basic e-mail with a consolidated,
enhance system portability
modernized platform including unified messaging
with Microsoft Exchange Server • Microsoft System Center enabling management and
automation of operations
• Collaboration solutions unifying collaboration,
portals and content management solutions including
Microsoft SharePoint Server
Why choose solutions from HP and
• Conferencing solutions incorporating Microsoft
Microsoft
Office Communications Server and seamlessly Proven partnership and commitment
integrating audio, web collaboration and desktop Through the HP/Microsoft Frontline Partnership, HP
video conferencing and Microsoft have been working closely together for
more than 25 years on joint engineering, product
• Voice solutions delivering scalable, enterprise-class
development and go-to-market activities. As part of our
telephony that spans the PC desktop, IP phones and
global unified communications and collaboration
mobile devices
initiative, the two companies endorsed one other as
• Comprehensive unified communications and preferred partners. We have integrated teams working
collaboration solutions taking a lifecycle approach side-by-side to research, develop, test, implement and
to designing and implementing end-to-end solutions support end-to-end solutions designed to meet your
for enterprise communication-enabled applications business needs—to help you do more with less while
• Managed and outsourced services providing a leveraging new technologies.
single point of contact for managing the complexities
of implementing and managing a next-generation
network infrastructure
• Trusted end-to-end support services for your
complete solution ranging from basic to mission-critical
support
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