OpenScape Voice

OpenScape Voice puts communication at the heart of all your business processes. It serves as the foundation for business communications supporting multi-media UC and communications enabled business process through a unique blend of:

• Rich features – delivers rich feature set for data-center deployment for rich end to end communications
• Open Standards – native standards based interoperability with existing ICT infrastructure within an IT framework
• Scalability – unmatched scalability for growth at your own pace from 300 to 100,000 users – and from just voice to full unified communications
• Resiliency – unrivalled reliability, resiliency, and recovery for business continuity
• Manageability – advanced administration capabilities to simplify system management and reduce TCO
• Extensibility – advanced application integration with choices in features
• Open service delivery – highly flexible deployment models

What's more, with OpenScape Voice you can choose the devices, clients and user experience that make the most sense for your business - all with a view towards protecting your assets and enhancing user productivity.

Yes, it is!

If your business issues include the need to grow revenue, reduce costs, improves asset efficiency or create corporate excellence then OpenScape Voice is the right platform for you.

Measurable business benefits. 

• Reduce voice communication TCO up to 25%*
• Reduce voice traffic cost by IP-LCR up to 30%*
• Cost savings from integration into business processes with conferencing 30% to 70%*
• Productivity increase of mobile and remote workers 10% to 30%*
• Reduce Cellular costs up to 30%**
• Integrated workplace / Flexiplace and Hoteling 5% to 20%***
• Lowers energy use CO2 footprint by up to 90% vs. traditional PBXs also lowering costs****
• 30% less power usage by endpoints (OpenStage)  - Lower CO2 footprint and lower costs****
• 35% lower power use from optiPoint****

* Sources:  Average estimate derived from Forrester Consulting 2005 Study / **Source: North American Voice over WLAN Market, 2005 Frost & Sullivan Report / ***Source: Calculations Based On Estimated Business  Activity and Market Information / **** Source: Internal study by Siemens Enterprise Communications, 2008

Green credentials are now a core part of a modern company’s responsibilities. So reducing energy consumption and waste not only has immediate costs benefits, it also enhances your corporate image, making you more attractive to potential clients, investors and employees.

Because OpenScape Voice can support up to 100,000 users with just two servers, it uses up to 90% less energy and requires real estate. It also reduces waste by minimizing manufacturing and disposal.  So while cutting your costs, you can enhance you Green credentials.

Doing business today is not just about working more cost-effectively – it’s also about transforming the way your company works. This often requires a comprehensive change in the way you deal with your core competencies, customer potential, workforce performance and investment in strategic technology.

Traditional enterprise communications systems, including most IP PBX systems, were built for one function – voice communication. This tunnel vision has cost enterprises dearly in terms of their ability to deal with business issues faced in the present and preparedness to face new challenges in the future.

These challenges include questions on how to:

• Increase business efficiency
• Increase business continuity
• Lower costs
• Optimize use of financial resource
• Capitalize on investments in current infrastructure
• Build inherent ability to integrate with business process

All with a view to improving the quality and reliability of your organization, its products and services, at the same time as managing the associated costs.

As an enabler of powerful communications capability within an enterprise the OpenScape Voice:

• Is built on a well orchestrated Open framework of technologies and will capture synergy from an Alliance Ecosystem
• Reduces complexity through centralization
• Improves business continuity
• Eliminates technology silos
• Offers team-oriented end user features
• Simplifies application integration
• Provides seamless and common user experience
• Has standards based inter-operability with multi-vendor legacy systems
• Allows smooth migration from today's telecoms landscape
• Encourages IT based manageability

Profit from a modern data centre deployment, with OpenScape Voice you can deploy voice services from a centralized data center just like you would other business applications. That significantly reduces costs, typically by 20% or more. And at the same time, allows you to provide consistent features and user experience across your whole network.

The overlay architecture of OpenScape Voice can transform your Enterprise Communication infrastructure with an advanced feature-set that’s ideal for both medium and large enterprises, as well as managed service providers. It’s also designed for a smooth migration to Open Communications – for one user, group, department, branch or the whole network at once, whilst protecting your investment throughout.

It has the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and the best possible Return on Investment (RoI) for the deployment of voice services within a large organization. And it transforms communication and collaboration within your organization:

• staff are more productive
• teamwork improves
• information is easily retrieved and recovered
• operation and maintenance costs are reduced
• reliability is optimized

Plus, with its enterprise-wide, user dynamic licensing, you can reduce the totalcost of licensing by only paying for online users.

All in all, a solution that integrates easily with your existing applications and business objectives.