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Enterprises are always seeking to cut costs and optimize resource utilization. Now, in this harsh economic climate, the need is more compelling than ever. This paper highlights potential savings exceeding $5,000,000 per year for each 1,000 employees through the application of Microsoft Unified Communications to your business and IT operations.
Unified Communications (UC) opens up significant new ways to achieve both immediate and sustained cost and resource savings. In the past, communication-based business activities have been highly manual and prone to delays and workarounds. With UC, these communications steps can be streamlined and software-assisted to reduce costs while also improving results.
This paper identifies savings opportunities and actions for three broad categories of benefits:
- Reducing out-of-pocket costs for communications services such as telecom and cellular bills and hosted audio and video conferencing, and for related expenses such as travel and office facilities. Potential annual savings range from $2.6M to over $8 million per 1000 employees.
- Consolidating communications infrastructure to lower operating costs by replacing multiple diverse and dispersed legacy products with the integrated functions of the new UC solutions. Potential annual savings are in the range of $0.9 million per 1000 employees.
Leveraging human capital by supporting individual productivity; workgroups and collaboration; and managing unforeseen risks with enterprise governance and secure communications. Potential annual savings combined range upwards from $2 million per 1000 employees.