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Broadview Announces Microsoft Skype for Business IntegrationBroadview Networks (News - Alert), a leading provider of cloud-based business communications and information technology services, announced today that its 100 percent cloud-based unified communications solution, OfficeSuite® Phone (News - Alert), now integrates with Microsoft® Skype® for Business, an industry-leading collaboration platform. Broadview's award-winning OfficeSuite® Phone service delivers a complete cloud-based phone system with unlimited nationwide calling and many of advanced calling and mobile features without any need for capital outlay. This new and seamless integration will provide Skype® for Business and Microsoft (News - Alert) Lync® 2013 users with a unified communications experience, including click to call dialing from any location using their business phone number, call routing, auto attendants and call groups, without the need to purchase new phones, servers, hardware or any additional Microsoft® licenses. "Software applications, especially unified communications (UC) solutions, need to adapt to the odern user, matching both their preferences in technology and digital, mobile lifestyle," said Stephen Farkouh, Broadview's Executive Vice President. "We saw an opportunity to enrich the Skype (News - Alert) for Business experience with an award-winning hosted phone system that has clearly become the people's choice." By leveraging the Microsoft® Skype® for Business software development kit, Broadview seamlessly connected the OfficeSuite® Phone service with the Skype® for Business client, so users can heighten their UC experience with a 100 percent cloud-based phone system and benefit from increased usability, productivity, cost-savings and business continuity. Users of Microsoft's Office 365TM subscription bundle of Office® software applications and other services will also benefit from Broadview's new integration, which will allow Office 365TM customers to utilize its enterprise-grade phone system to make cloud-based business calls. For more information on how it works, watch this short video. About Broadview Networks® www.broadviewnet.com Broadview Networks® is a network-based business communications provider serving customers with local and long-distance voice and data communications, premises-based and patented hosted VoIP systems, data services and a full suite of managed and professional services. It also provides an innovative portfolio of bundled, hosted IP phone and cloud computing services designed to meet the unique application requirements of diverse workforce groups. Its customers benefit from award-winning customer service, including a Web-based account management tool and a primary point-of-contact for real-time, personal customer care.
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