Skype for Business marks a radical change in how companies will consume unified communications and collaboration. More than slapping a sticker over Microsoft® Lync, it supports a new, flexible way of working together. With a common format, it lets you quickly communicate, connect, and collaborate. Learn more here: http://www.dimensiondata.com/%20%20Global/Latest-Thinking/Skype-for-business/Pages/Home.aspx

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More than slapping a sticker over Microsoft®
Lync, it supports a new, flexible way of working
together. With a common format, it lets you
quickly communicate, connect, and collaborate.
Skype for Business marks a
radical change in how
companies will consume
unified communications
and collaboration.
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300 million
ways to connect
This is especially true for a new
generation of workers. In
America, four million Millennials
enter the workplace every year.
Along with Gen-X before them,
this group makes up 30-40% of
your employees; this
demographic also reflects a
typical consumer base.
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Plan your
integration
We believe Skype for
Business has allowed
Microsoft to enhance the
existing Lync platform.
There’s been a lot of effort into
making sure it’s an even more
stable and effective platform.
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Real-time
development
Recently Microsoft and
Dimension Data polled 150 IT
leaders to find out how they
used their unified collaboration
tools. ‘Some 65% said it was
used for internal collaboration,
mostly between IT, HR, and
marketing departments.
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Intimacy with
consumers
We believe Skype for Business
can create closer connections
with consumers. ‘When we look
at the financial services industry,
people don’t typically visit a brick-
and-mortar bank anymore when
they can bank with applications
on a smart phone or device’
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Protecting the
platform
As business moves to a more
consumptive application
model, Skype for Business is
poised to bring other cloud
elements into the offering
under the Office 365 license.
But you can tailor your
applications to a specific cloud,
hybrid or on-premise model
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