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Archive for July 14th, 2008

Microsoft/Nortel alliance finds a UC customer in Germany

The Nortel and Microsoft Innovative Communications Alliance (ICA) has a new public customer today — arvato systems — one of the first ICA customers in Germany. arvato systems provides clients with IT services supporting the the use, management, and distribution of media (such consulting, concept design, development, implementation, and operation). This is a natural extension of their parent company, global media and communication services provider arvato AG.

Their new UC network pulls together voice, email, conferencing, video and instant messaging into a single interface (Microsoft OCS 2007). But it’s the services side of this deployment that makes it an interesting win.

In our UC alliance with Microsoft, Nortel has emphasized the services revenue potential that the …

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