{"id":9344,"date":"2011-05-24T15:28:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/avaya_touts_people-first_model.html"},"modified":"2011-05-24T15:28:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:28:48","slug":"avaya-touts-people-first-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/avaya-touts-people-first-model.html","title":{"rendered":"Avaya Touts People-First Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week at IAUG &#8211; the Avaya user group event in Las Vegas the company launched a new program called Ace Your Apps with the goal of making communications more people centric while allowing corporations to integrated their UC solutions with a number of IT company solutions from IBM, Microsoft and others. David Yedwab breaks the news on TMCnet <a href=\"http:\/\/avaya-news.tmcnet.com\/avaya\/articles\/178305-linking-applications-new-user-experiences-avaya-aura-through.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At the heart of this program is a compelling offer for enterprises  with Avaya Aura or Avaya Communication Server 1000 and Microsoft or IBM&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=IBM\">News<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.tmcnet.com\/tmc\/vertical\/financial\/images\/chart_icon.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/enews\/subs.aspx?k1=%22IBM%22&amp;k2=%22Websphere%22&amp;k3=+%22Solid+Information+Technology%22&amp;k4=+%22Lotus%22&amp;k5=+%22db2%22\">Alert<\/a>)  instant messaging and presence clients.&nbsp;Enterprises current versions of  Avaya Aura or Avaya CS 1000 are entitled to one free desktop  integration user license for each UC-entitled user (up to $140\/user in  value).&nbsp;&nbsp; This adds up to a significant savings &ndash; up to 87 percent for  5,000 deployed users &ndash; plus the ability to establish a  communications-enabled business process (CEBP) platform that can further  drive innovation and workflow efficiency by integrating critical  business processes in order to grow competitive advantage through both  the extension of productivity growth within the enterprise to desk-bound  and mobile workers and across the supply chain.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Microsoft&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Microsoft\">News<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.tmcnet.com\/tmc\/vertical\/financial\/images\/chart_icon.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/enews\/subs.aspx?k1=%22Microsoft%22&amp;k2=+%22Windows%22&amp;k3=+%22Bill+Gates%22&amp;k4=+%22Sharepoint%22&amp;k5=+%22Windows+Phone+7%22\">Alert<\/a>)  Communicator Add-in integrates Avaya Aura with OCS R2 using client-side  OCS\/Lync integration on-prem and in the cloud with BPOS (and Office 365  in 3Q11).&nbsp;Only the OCS\/Lync Standard CAL is required reducing  customers&rsquo; spend by reducing Microsoft license costs.&nbsp;&nbsp; Worker  productivity is also enhanced with click-to-call and telephony presence  from Avaya Aura handsets without the need to purchase OCS\/Lync devices,  while the user experience with Microsoft Office Communicator (OC) is  preserved with single sign-on and support for phone and computer modes  supporting G.711, 722, 729 codecs.&nbsp;&nbsp; Moreover, users can leverage Avaya  Aura&rsquo;s rich feature set directly within OC client including a  conversation window allowing mid call control (release, hold and  retrieve, DTMF), click-to-video and CRM integration.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week at IAUG &#8211; the Avaya user group event in Las Vegas the company launched a new program called Ace Your Apps with the goal of making communications more people centric while allowing corporations to integrated their UC solutions with a number of IT company solutions from IBM, Microsoft and others. 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