Hannover, Germany  –  March 14, 2007  –  Today’s economy demands instant communications and availability of information, with solutions that drive revenue, minimise costs and offer superb responsiveness to customers. 

At CeBIT (Hannover, 15-21 March) NEC is showing the power of converged enterprise communications that support voice, data, web and video collaboration.
The solutions on show draw on NEC’s expertise in networking, enterprise mobility, Unified Communications and Collaboration applications that enable organizations and teams to cooperate more productively thanks to real-time communications.

NEC Philips Unified Solutions is demonstrating applications such as Secure Instant and Unified Messaging and rich presence information with extensive calendar and voice integration for operator, employees and agents, running on Microsoft LCS, Exchange 2007 and Windows Mobile, in combination with NEC’s UNIVERGE SV7000 IP server and wireless devices.

Desktop tools that integrate Instant Messaging, video, voice and Presence information are becoming the defacto standard for secure enterprise communications. Thanks to application integration and consolidation of operators and contact centres with IP-DECT, Microsoft’s Office Communicator clients and Windows Mobile-based functionality, NEC is enabling employees to enjoy full freedom to work and communicate at any place they wish and via any (mobile) device.

NEC Philips Unified Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and is successfully integrating its real-time communications solutions with Microsoft’s desktop applications.  The company’s unified communications concept integrates all communication means such as Instant Messaging, telephony, conferencing, video and e-mail into one uniform environment. The solution can be extended to integrate seamlessly with existing operator positions, contact centres, CRM and workflow applications, in combination with SIP-DECT and GSM traffic.