Whether it’s ERP, CRM or simple e-mail, IT has long been a cornerstone of business processes. Today, businesses are looking to IT to manage VoIP, unified communications and communications-enabled business processes in the same way.

But unlike everything else in IT, traditional phone systems are closed, proprietary and expensive, involving separate hardware, software, and provisioning just to ensure dial tone. Objectworld Unified Communications Server® can help you lower operational and capital expenses, simplify administration, and integrate business communications with business processes. Objectworld delivers IT Telephony™: VoIP, UC and CEBP solutions for Microsoft Windows platforms integrated seamlessly and in real-time with Active Directory®. Objectworld’s point-and-click service creation environment and application server provides IT administrators with an unprecedented opportunity to integrate business communications, whether it’s voice, fax, CEBP, or e-mail, into business processes.

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Cut costs while increasing functionality. The moves, adds and changes associated with a traditonal PBX by themselves may cost up to hundreds of dollars every year for every desktop. Objectworld UC Server lowers total cost of ownership by providing VoIP, unified communications and CEBP as Windows-based software managed with Microosft Active Directory.

• Reduce separate deployment, provisioning, training, support, reliability, availability, security, access management and compliance support requirements to a minimum with a simple, Windows-based software solution that includes VoIP, UC and CEBP.
• Further reduce operational expenses by consolidating your network topology and eliminating costs for separate fax equipment and services.
• Reduce the cost of deployment, operations, administration, adds, moves and changes by making telephony an incremental activity within your existing Microsoft IT infrastructure.
• Add branch offices and mobile workers without expensive integration costs, and manage them all centrally.

Simplify administration by leveraging the benefits of Active Directory®. With Objectworld UC Server, an IT team can make changes in a few minutes rather than hours or days. Objectworld integration makes use of Active Directory (and AzMan) to enable your unified communications solution to use the configuration and security policies already in your Windows environment, such as:

• Administration via a Users and Computers MMC snap-in or Objectworld UC Client
• Single point of administration for IT administrators
• Simpler security model that allow administrators to turn accounts on and off quickly from Microsoft Windows.
• Automatic service discovery
• Global policies
• Common user information
• Single sign-on and single help desk to simplify support for end users.
• Authorization and permissions
• Delegation of control and role-based authorization.

Gain unprecedented control over telephony, UC and CEBP. Objectworld UC Server enables IT personnel familiar with Microsoft products to perform operations, administration and management for telephony just like any other data center software.

• Use existing server/PC and network infrastructure, existing IT business processes and your existing bulk purchase and maintenance agreements for IT hardware, software and more.
• Simplify and speed internal support by making your IT Help Desk a single point of contact for all business communications using Objectworld’s Active Directory® MMC plug-in.
• Create, remove, enable or disable telephony accounts, change voice mail PINs, change user extensions, grant role-based access to user accounts, and much more with a few mouse clicks, all from within Active Directory.

Cut costs and simplify business processes with self-service notification services. With a traditional PBX system, specialized programming is often required to provide notification to an employee if this capability is available at all. This drives costs and makes it more dfficult for co-workers and customers to reach an employee. Objectworld UC Server makes it simple for employees to manage their own notifications with a point-and-click Windows-based interface that requries no specialized programming and none of the associated costs.

Make VoIP, UC and CEBP an incremental addition to your existing IT business processes. Objectworld UC Server allows IT teams to leverage existing IT infrastructure to deliver an end-to-end solution.

• Installation and configuration are simple and wizard-based.
• Objectworld UC Server uses the features of the Windows Server System® and other Microsoft products, including Exchange Server, SQL Server and Active Directory integration, to leverage all the benefits of your Windows-based infrastructure.
• Objectworld products integrate with and enhance Windows-based productivity solutions, such as Microsoft Office and Outlook.

Choose with assurance while avoiding vendor lock-in. Objectworld UC Server protects the investment a business has in its phone system and Microsoft platform over time.

• Objectworld UC Server Standard Edition extends the life and value of a number of PBXs with flexible, easy to upgrade software.
• Objectworld UC Server SIP Edition provides businesses with a clear and truly open migration path to SIP-based VoIP, allowing businesses to take advantage of the low cost of commodity hardware.
• Deploy the IP network, servers, phones and media gateways of your choice. By choosing Objectworld Connect™-certified hardware, software and services, you get the assurance and peace of mind of Objectworld second-line support.

Deploy today, be ready for tomorrow. With Objectworld open and flexible software-based approach to business communications, your business can easily adapt to meet future or unexpected communications needs.

• Objectworld UC Server takes advantage of all the capabilities and downstream benefits of modern data centers. Network storage protocols such as RAID and iSCSI allow for simple data redundancy. With traditional telephony these capabilities have been limited to large businesses with large budgets.
• In the IT data center these capabilities are competitively available using the Windows server platforms of your choice.As server hardware becomes faster and cheaper, and as the Microsoft platform evolves, the most important features of your phone system become more robust, scalable and secure.