Avaya Evolves Business Collaboration for Mobile Workers

As the second day of the International Avaya User Group conference got underway in Las Vegas, Avaya announced the next step in the evolution of unified communications solutions for mobile employees that expand flexibility, enable more efficient collaboration and reduce the cost of supporting a growing mobile workforce. The latest Avaya one-X soft client solutions enable higher levels of productivity for workers in any location through a consistent user experience delivered by Avaya Aura unified communications applications to the broadest range of mobile consumer devices.

“Today, Avaya gives mobile users the broadest range of choice to seamlessly integrate consumer devices into their enterprise toolkit. Further, Avaya UC Mobility solutions provide a consistent experience across multiple devices, simplifying access to people and information and freeing users from the limits of their location or situation,” saidAnthony Bartolo, vice president and general manager, Unified Communications, Avaya
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Among the enhancements to Avaya’s industry leading portfolio of unified communications soft clients for mobile workers:

• Support for new devices including: Android-based devices such the Samsung Galaxy II; Apple MAC OS, Apple iPhone 3GS and 4G, and RIM/Blackberry touchscreen devices in addition to Symbian and Windows-based operating systems
• A new SIP client for Apple iOS on iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone enabling UC and voice over wifi or cellular networks
• Presence status of team members available across Avaya endpoints and soft clients – including Microsoft OCS – and mobile devices
• Unified call logs, contact lists and voice messages across all endpoints and soft clients
• Consolidation of mobile UC client applications, management and administration onto a single, virtualized server reduces IT support requirements and operating costs for low total cost of ownership.

Jongshin Kim, Vice president of Media Solution Center at Samsung Electronics said, “As the leader in Android-based smartphones, Samsung sees a huge benefit to our customers being able to access all capabilities of their business communications systems while mobile. We are delighted to deliver the first Android-based smartphone to offer Avaya one-X Mobile, a world-class unified communications and collaboration solution, on our enterprise ready devices including the Galaxy S II. Together with Avaya, we can provide simplified, seamless access to powerful business communications and collaboration anywhere in the world.”

For more information, please visit www.avaya.com.