NEC Accelerates Personal Products' Business Processes with Unified Communications

NEC Personal Products is implementing an integrated unified communications (UC) solution with Microsoft (News - Alert) and NEC Corporation. The companywide deployment began earlier this month and will help approximately 3,000 employees ranging from development and sales personnel to corporate staff.

 

The company said that the new system is among Japan’s largest UC deployment and links NEC’s (News - Alert) UNIVERGE SV7000 IP telephony communications server with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS).

 

Kazuo Tsuzuki, associate senior vice president, NEC Corporation stated that the company prides itself on providing the communications solutions through its own UNIVERGE portfolio. To this end, NEC is committed to interoperability with the world’s major software companies.

 

NEC’s 30-year relationship with Microsoft proved to be an excellent opportunity to showcase these integration capabilities, as evidenced by the deployment of their UNIVERGE telephony communications servers with Microsoft’s Office Communications Suite across their NEC Personal Products, Ltd. facilities in Japan, he noted

 

NEC Personal Products uses this solution to communicate and collaborate efficiently, leveraging features such as IP voice, instant messaging, email and video conferencing, all according to the users’ status information provided by the presence function. NEC can also implement high compliance security measures as the new system is capable of archiving phone calls and email as well as encrypting the network.

 

By combining the functionality of the UNIVERGE SV7000 communications server with Microsoft’s OCS, the new solution easily achieves integrated voice and data IP communications. This enables the use of productivity functions from Microsoft Office applications. The two products will be integrated using NEC’s OCS-Gateway (News - Alert) middleware, according to NEC.

 

The newly integrated UNIVERGE / Microsoft solution offers a number of primary organizational and technical benefits such as improved work speed through efficient communications; enhanced security and compliance; reliable and redundant business communications; ability to maintain the entire NEC and Microsoft integrated solution; and reduction of transportation and floor relocation costs.