Collaboration and Unified Communications

Government agencies, now more than ever, are turning to new technologies to improve the way agency personnel collaborate and communicate — supporting the new distributed workforce. Enterprise collaboration systems are a combination of tools that support enterprise-wide communication, which include video conferencing, document sharing, instant messaging, social software, email and other similar technologies. Unified Communications (UC) is an important part of any enterprise voice, video and data communications strategy — providing seamless integration of real-time collaboration services across the enterprise. Studies indicate that UC is helping organizations do more with less, increasing employee productivity cutting costs, improving service and speeding up results.

Interoperability and Scalability are Key

LifeSize products are interoperable with other standard industry solutions. LifeSize is both a member and co-founder of UCIF (Unified Communication Interoperability Forum), which is a non-profit ecosystem of communication technology vendors who focus on furthering and fostering UC.

LifeSize’s rich video conferencing products are interoperable with Microsoft® UC platforms, enabling users across the enterprise to seamlessly connect over video from LifeSize systems to the desktop and vice versa. This allows agency personnel to use a variety of communication services — including email, video, chat and phone — from a single user interface.

LifeSize solutions are interoperable with multi-function UC desktop software such as Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (OCS) or Microsoft Lync 2010, enabling video to be accessed with a simple click or touch from a presence indicator or an Instant Messaging (IM) session.

What makes LifeSize the ideal government collaboration solution?

• Add Video to UC: Realize collaborative benefits and productivity gains of HD video calling in a UC environment.
• Streamline communications: — both internal and external — LifeSize Team 220 and LifeSize Passport are qualified on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (OCS). Many LifeSize offerings are interoperable with Microsoft Lync 2010.
• Scalable: As a founding member of the UCIF forum LifeSize ensures solutions scale to meet agency-wide needs.
• Ease of Deployment: Be up and running quickly — in many installations, personnel can connect office to home in 15 minutes.