Unified Communications Office Communications Server

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Unified CommunicationsOffice Communications
Server

• Oscar Trimboli oscartr_at_microsoft.com
• http//blogs.msdn.com/oscartr

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Thank you

• Last year was a record year for Office
  Communications Server and Live Meeting in
  Australia
• Over 500 partners training in Office
  Communications
• Over 20 Australian partners federated with
  Microsoft including
• 3D Networks, Avanade,BlueArc, Broadreach
  Services, Data3, Dimension Data, Gartner,
  Getronics, HP, Intel, Nortel, NSC, NT Solutions,
  OBS, Polycom, Readify, Strategic Data Management
  (SDM), Tandberg, Telstra, Total Network Support,
  Uniqueworld, WebCentral

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Microsoft UC VisionIncreased productivity
through communications convergence
Identity and Presence
Across multiple devices and networks
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Unified CommunicationsBuilding a Foundation
Presence and IM
E-mail and Calendar
Identity
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Agenda

• 3 year trend in unified communications at
  Microsoft
• Solution overview
• Microsoft activities and investments
• What is the market opportunity for Partners?
• How can Partners capitalise on the opportunity?
• Partner resources
• Partner commitments to get involved

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3 year trends in the UC business
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Looking forward for the next 12 months
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Office Communications Server 2007 The
opportunity
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Microsoft activities and investments

• Unified Communications customer launch October
  December 2007 across Australia
• Largest above the line marketing campaign for
  Microsoft Business Solutions Group in Australia
  in 2007
• BPIO assessment model assists our customers in
  understanding where they are on the journey

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The path on the unified communications journey
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What is the market opportunity for Partners?

• Attach OCS to Exchange 2007 upgrades
• Professional Services
• Financial Services
• Export industries especially mining
• Competition
• Travel budgets
• IBM SameTime, WebEx, hosted solutions

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How can Partners capitalise on the opportunity?

• Install Office Communications Server 2007
  in-house and
• Complete the Unified Communications
  Specialisation
• BPIO profiling of Unified Communications for
  customers
• Unified Communications road show through October,
  November December including Press, customer and
  Tech.NET events
• Funding for industry leading customer upgrades
  specifically
• Financial services, Professional services
• Manufacturing, Retail
• Public Sector, Health

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Partner resources
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Partner commitments to get involved

• Upgrade your skills with OCS 2007 training and
  qualify for the Unified Communications
  specialisation in the partner program
• Deploy OCS 2007 inside your own organisation and
  federate with Microsoft
• Enterprise managed partners
• Sign off your Unified Communications PSP with
  your PAM
• Other partners engage should the BPIO UC
  marketing campaigns with Mike Heald

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Unified CommunicationsOffice Communications
Server

• Oscar Trimboli oscartr_at_microsoft.com
• http//blogs.msdn.com/oscartr