Microsoft Unified Communications can quickly help organizations 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. Organizations 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 $5 million dollars 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 $2 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. Microsoft Unified Communications can quickly help organizations 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. Organizations 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 $5 million dollars 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 $2 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.