How UC&C Drives Down Costs

THE MAIN DRIVERS FOR UC&C IN THE CLOUD: 6THE MAIN DRIVERS FOR UC&C IN THE CLOUD: 6

59%Flexible ramping of users

55%OPEX pricing

51%Self-service provisioning

49%Cost predictability

Sources:

1 Wikipedia 2013, Survival of the Fittest

2 Nydailynews.com, March 22, 2013, How smartphones are on the verge of taking over the world

3 Citrix 2012 Infographic, Workplace of the Future

4 Cognizant, Innovation Journal 2012

5 Orange Business Services, December 2011, Infographic: Unify Communications: Join up your thinking with uni�ed communications

6 Orange Business Services, June 2013, Infographic: Unify Communications: Anywhere, Anytime Collaboration

7 Alcatel-Lucent, white paper, Aging Communications Systems: Risks and Opportunities

Sources:

1 Wikipedia 2013, Survival of the Fittest

2 Nydailynews.com, March 22, 2013, How smartphones are on the verge of taking over the world

3 Citrix 2012 Infographic, Workplace of the Future

4 Cognizant, Innovation Journal 2012

5 Orange Business Services, December 2011, Infographic: Unify Communications: Join up your thinking with uni�ed communications

6 Orange Business Services, June 2013, Infographic: Unify Communications: Anywhere, Anytime Collaboration

7 Alcatel-Lucent, white paper, Aging Communications Systems: Risks and Opportunities

9/10of knowledge workers say UC&C is important at work 5

NATURAL SELECTION: UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS & COLLABORATION

150 times a day or once every 6.5 minutes 2

The average person checks their smartphone

COMMUNICATIONS EVOLVED: ALWAYS ON, IN AN ALWAYS AVAILABLE WORLD

INTELLIGENT DESIGN: UC&C REDUCES COSTS AND INCREASES FLEXIBILITY.

80%

of companies have mobility on the roadmap for UC&C integration 6

When naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin used the phrase,

“Survival of the fittest,” he meant it as a metaphor for ‘better

designed for an immediate, local environment,’ not the common

inference of ‘in the best physical shape.’ 1

See how new Uni�ed Communications & Collaboration (UC&C)

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of organizations plan to offer a mobile workstyle by 2014 3

82 % of workers perform their job functions with team members in different locations 4

8O %

64% of the largest �rms use video conferencing regularly to collaborate in virtual teams 6

Lowers communications bills by approximately 7

10% - 20%

40%

Reduces operations time by asmuch as 7

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