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Business processes are becoming communications-enabled. New business drivers such as lower cost of communication are ushering in the next wave in ubiquitous access to people, communications resources, and applications through VoIP/PBX integrated Unified Communications (UC) solutions. UC meets a growing demand with more than 50% of enterprises now reporting that they are evaluating, installing, or running UC solutions.

Infonetics Research predicts that sales of unified communications applications will continue to grow in the high double digits each year through 2010. Unified messaging makes up the largest part of the unified communications market, according to the research.

The entire unified communications products and services market will be $22.6 billion in 2007, growing to $48.7 billion by 2012. Compound annual growth rate over the forecast period will be 13.7%. (Wainhouse-InStat)

Green IT is set to remain at the forefront of both vendors' and IT users' minds throughout 2008 and will be a significant factor in the marketing of unified communications solutions. (Datamonitor)

IP communications has evolved from a replacement technology for business telephone systems into unified communication (UC) applications that improve worker productivity and reduce business delays by reaching key decision-makers.

With renewed emphasis on business benefits for acquiring UC, IT managers can justify investments in IP communications based on savings from simplifying the management of their communication applications and the ability to connect to others quickly regardless of device or location.

Why Westcon Unified Communications Enablement Solutions?
Westcon’s Unified Communications enabled solutions for Microsoft Unified Communications provides resellers with a focused approach to address the technological complexity, resource requirements and solution expertise necessary to exploit the growing collaboration market.

With hard-hitting solutions, services and an integrated go-to-market approach, Westcon’s Unified Communications offerings provide a range of complete solutions that allow resellers to capture the budgets and projects in place today for unified communications solutions.