(Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın) - Microsoft is working on a "service in the sky" for unified communications, an executive said Tuesday at the VoiceCon conference in San Francisco.
The company's current focus for the fast-growing trend of combining voice, video, text, and other forms of communication -)Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın:-)at a San Francisco event featuring Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates. But at the same time, it is working on providing these capabilities as a service, said Warren Barkley, a principal group program manager at Microsoft. He mentioned the project in passing at the end of an early-morning panel session at VoiceCon. He didn't give a timeline for availability.
Barkley cited the need to serve small businesses that increasingly are widely distributed. Unlike large enterprises, they generally lack the IT resources to set up and run a communications system that reaches employees around the world.
Microsoft already offers a hosted collaboration platform, LiveMeeting, and is moving to offer applications such as CRM:-)as services. One of the aaa benefits of unified communications is the ability to integrate voice and other communications into productivity applications, and Microsoft's move could be aimed at a convergence of the two trends.
Cisco, still a rival in unified communications despite the two companies' announcement Monday that they will make their products work together, earlier this year:-)Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın. But neither company has talked much about offering unified communications itself as a network-based service.
WebEx already offers WebOffice, a set of applications offered as a service, although Cisco said at the time of the acquisition that it wasn't planning to become a SaaS (software as a service) powerhouse.


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