Microsoft and Polycom Unified Communication Seminar Touts Benefits of their Joint Solutions

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28/07/2011

Ease of Use, Interoperability, Security and Savings among the many advantages of UC solutions leveraging the latest technologies from Polycom and Microsoft

Beirut, Lebanon, 27 July 2011:Microsoft and FVC, the leading Value Added Distributor in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for Polycom, hosted a special half-day seminar to introduce joint Unified Communications (UC) solutions from Polycom and Microsoft. The event highlighted the advantages of using Polycom's full suite of HD voice, video, telepresence and infrastructure solutions that will natively integrate with the UC solution from Microsoft® Lync™.

Polycom solutions integrate with Microsoft Lync without gateways, making them easy to deploy, manage, and use. The company to offers a complete line of standards-based, fully interoperable voice, video, and telepresence solutions for the Microsoft UC platform, which includes Microsoft Lync, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft SharePoint® Server.

With Microsoft and Polycom, people can now communicate using familiar applications, adding rich voice and video to IM, e-mail, calendars, and more.  Polycom voice and video solutions - for Microsoft Lync - support system-wide secure authentication and media encryption, securing calls inside and outside the network. With Microsoft’s Active Directory® solution, people have access to a common directory across Microsoft applications and Polycom solutions, reducing the time and effort required to deploy and manage communications. The joint solution enable life-like communications in enterprise and business-to-business (B2B) environments.

Charles Nahas, Information Worker Business Group Lead at Microsoft MEA, said, “Microsoft Lync ushers in a new connected user experience transforming every communication into an interaction that is more collaborative, engaging, and accessible from anywhere. For IT, the benefits are equally powerful, with a highly secure and reliable system that works with existing tools and systems for easier management, lower cost of ownership, smoother deployment and migration, and greater choice and flexibility.”

“As businesses in the Levant (especially Lebanon) step up the use of real-time collaboration with unified communications, seminars like these provide an exclusive opportunity for them to learn more about how Polycom leverages Microsoft Lync to meet these needs,” said Ronald Hajj, FVC’s General Manager in Lebanon. “As one of the leading proponents of real time collaboration with their cutting edge video conferencing technology, Polycom’s solutions aim to drive the adoption of this technology especially in key sectors like education, healthcare, hospitality among others.”

This seminar is part of a Microsoft-Polycom road-show that FVC is hosting in the Levant and GCC countries. It will give enterprises in the region the opportunity to experience how these Microsoft and Polycom solutions can satisfy their needs for real-time collaboration, which enable users to communicate from anywhere in a cost-effective and secure manner.
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About FVC

Judged the Best Value Added Distributor (VAD) by Channel Middle East & Reseller Middle East, FVC is one of the leading VAD across the Middle East and North Africa. With dedicated offices in United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and an expanded presence in Nigeria, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Algeria, FVC works through its growing network of channel partners in over 45 countries across the region.

With new technologies and solutions driving the pace of change of businesses in the region, FVC has built a successful business by drawing on the best of global solutions. Uniquely in the region, its combination of full support for its channel partners and market-leading solutions from emerging technologies provides both FVC’s partners and their customers with the full confidence to invest in integrated next-generation IT and networking solutions. These include Unified Communications, Enterprise Threat Management, Cloud Computing, Network Optimization and Application Delivery.

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