Microsoft Unified Communications can quickly help organisations
save costs by reducing operating costs, consolidating
infrastructure, and leveraging human capital more effectively. For
example, a Unified Communications solution can reduce toll costs,
cell phone charges, conferencing service fees, travel costs, and
meeting expenses. Organisations can also reduce costs by
consolidating older communications systems into a single,
integrated platform.
Microsoft Unified Communications solutions can provide business
process efficiencies, cutting both the time and labor spent on
communications-based tasks and also eliminating the
communications-based delays, duplications, and rework in business
processes. Organizations are seeing returns on Unified
Communications within a single budgeting cycle, often within six
months, and have the potential to save £2.5 million per 1,000
employees.
- Reduce travel expenses by replacing in-person
meetings with immersive Web and video conferencing (potential
savings of up to 40%*).
- Reduce telephony and audio conferencing
charges with built-in Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
and unified conferencing capabilities that help lower long-distance
charges and audio conferencing minutes (potential savings of up to
40%*)
- Lower real estate and facility costs by
enabling more mobile work, freeing employees from fixed desks or
offices, and increasing occupancy density in buildings (potential
savings of up to 40%*).
- Lower messaging and voice mail costs with
low-cost storage and consolidation of costly third-party solutions
like mobility, security, voice mail, and more (potential savings of
up to 40%*).
- Reduce the cost of communications systems by
eliminating the need for expensive private branch exchange (PBX),
instant messaging, and audio/video/Web conferencing systems
(potential savings of up to 50%*) and by leveraging human capital
by supporting individual productivity, workgroups and
collaboration, and enterprise governance (in a year, you can
potentially save more than £1 million per 1,000
employees).
*See the details of these cost and resource savings in the
Achieving Cost and Resource Savings with Unified Communications
white paper.