Ericsson has announced it plans to integrate its One Phone solution with Microsofts' Office Live Communications Server 2005 to
enable single click to dial solutions for corporate users.
The integration will allow users to make, control and answer
calls on any phone connected to the corporate phone system straight from Outlook
2003 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2005. The platform will also work across
mobile phones.
The system will also provide presence awareness and other communications
tools such as instant messaging, conferencing, voice-mail and e-mail can also
be integrated.
Based on the MX-ONE platform from Ericsson, One Phone enables
enterprises to mobilise their workforces by making the mobile phone a
fully-integrated extension of the corporate communications network.
One Phone features a full range of telephony services, such
as conferencing, automatic callbacks, call transfer, hunt groups, and attendant
services, as well as unified messaging and "real-time" e-mail and calendar
access.
Rather than depending on the mobile phone network for
functionality, Ericsson's One Phone solution relies on functionality residing
in the phones themselves and in customer premise equipment such as IP PBX and
Application Servers.
The major benefit, which appeals to most communication
managers on the spot, is reducing the number of terminals to just "one" phone
per employee, as the solution name predicts.
"The mobile phone has become an indispensable personal
companion similar to your credit card or your keys - without which you don't
leave the house. So the idea of using this phone as the single device for
telephony and communication applications was very appealing" says Roger Hage,
Senior Sales Manager at Ericsson.
The solution works with Sony-Ericsson's P900/910i
smartphones and with any Symbian based mobile phone.
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