Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government, and home communications. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make these networks possible, giving individuals, companies, and countries easy access to information anywhere, at any time. In addition, Cisco has pioneered the use of the Internet in its own business practice and offers consulting services based on its experience to help other organizations around the world.

Cisco Unified Communications increase business agility by helping you integrate communications more closely with business processes, ensuring that information reaches recipients quickly, through the most appropriate medium.

• Mobility: Get a unified view of calls, calendars, data, and e-mail anywhere, anytime, on any wired or wireless device.

• Collaboration: Share all types of media with voice, Web, or videoconferencing participants.

• Security: Extend comprehensive security throughout your network, from infrastructure through call control devices and communications applications.

• Choice: Open standards facilitate integration with applications from other industry leaders.

• Customer Service: Integration with applications maximizes call center performance and customer satisfaction.

Microsoft was founded in 1975 with a dream of helping people realise their true potential through technology. That vision has ultimately changed how people around the world communicate, work, learn and play. Our relationship with millions of Australians extends from the home to the office and our technology is fundamental to people working in business, government and the community. Microsoft has now extended this technology into the communications stream to help bring these fundamental people together through the use of a computer. We call it Unified Communications

Microsoft Unified Communications technologies enable you to merge telephone-based tasks such as phone calls, voicemail and conferencing – with computer-based tasks such as documentation, spreadsheets, instant messaging, email and calendars. By integrating disparate communications processes and systems, Unified Communications technologies help you achieve consolidated and unified messaging, an improved data presence, and greatly enhanced voice and conferencing capabilities. You also benefit from a streamlined, simple platform that is easy to scale over time.

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it.

Nortel and Microsoft share a common vision on software-based unified communications, and we believe networking can be enhanced to deliver a superior unified communications experience. Based on this common vision, Nortel and Microsoft created the Innovative Communications Alliance to accelerate enterprise transformation. Joint solutions deliver efficient operations and streamlined communications with business grade reliability and an evolutionary path for customers to move from current solutions to unified communications capabilities.

Nortel and Microsoft are committed to delivering integrated unified communications products and services that are designed to support an evolutionary path which delivers rapid return on investment to our customers.

BlackBerry® provides leading wireless solutions for connecting people to business information, colleagues, friends and family. Award-winning BlackBerry solutions provide mobile users with email, phone, instant messaging, web, SMS, organizer and more. Whatever your needs, there is a BlackBerry solution that's right for you.
For more information on available BlackBerry solutions, visit www.blackberry.com

A leader in the development of broadband and mobile communications technologies, NEC Australia’s expertise has propelled the company to the forefront of communications. NEC Australia is a leading provider of end-to-end voice, data and video solutions for business and government. NEC Australia utilises its expertise in IP telephony, contact centres and managed services to provide innovative and affordable business solutions.

Through the provision of new technologies, NEC Australia continues to drive innovation into the office and the home. NEC Australia’s commitment to innovation remains unrivalled and it is home to Australia’s largest ICT Research and Development facility.

www.nec.com.au