"Taking your number with you is getting popular around the city. Being able to make and take calls anywhere, on their smart phones or at home offices has been convenient. Once they get it, they run with it."

"Councils are under tremendous pressure to deliver efficiencies while maintaining service levels. Our work with Siemens Enterprise Communications has delivered an enhanced voice infrastructure that has enabled flexible working for all our staff. This will support our next stage development; moving to new offices that will drive further efficiencies."

"One of the challenges we face on an ongoing basis is the gap between long-term investment cycles and rapidly-evolving technology. Sometimes, by the time a new technology is deployed, the technology has moved on."

"Our open profile must be supported by technological solutions that make it easier to work internally in a transparent and harmonized manner: that's why we have decided to grow with Unify."

"Replacing our old Centrex phone system with a SIP - based communications platform has really paid off for the Town of Enfield. The new OpenScape solution significantly reduced our telephony costs while giving us a host of new communications capabilities."

"We made a decision to streamline our communications processes to improve efficiency and collaboration. We needed a partner that could support us on a global scale, and we wanted a proven solution that we could standardize on."

"With constantly changing guidelines, higher education institutions are under increasing pressure to meet government targets. Siemens Enterprise Communications has implemented a reliable and scalable contact centre. This has enabled our staff to increase first call resolution, improve the clearing experience, and accurately review performance with real-time reporting during clearing."

"Our work with Unify has delivered enhanced customer service through greater management of information. We needed an infrastructure that would move with us. OpenScape Office LX provides the much needed flexibility and scalability as we continue to progress with a shared services agenda."

"Our reception team now sees where everyone is and messages are standardised and easily accessed by different departments. The voicemail system is much easier to access and far more reliable. The system has greatly improved our efficiency and parents are complimentary about it which is the real proof."

"By tapping their 'smart card' against a reader on the computer in any patient room, clinicians are logged on or off that device. When they tap out, they are not actually logged off our system completely; their current session is just disengaged from the computer they are working on at …

"With the combination of OpenScape 4000 and OpenScape Voice and the standardized administration of both systems with the OpenScape User Management module we have the option of a soft migration from TDM technology to a standard-based softswitch solution."

"Even in the world of telephony, all roads now lead to IP communication, which is why the strategic choice for us was OpenScape Voice. This was not necessarily for cost reasons, but because IP communication makes light work of routine tasks and improves employee satisfaction."

"Conference and event business over the last year increased 40%. That spike tells us that we would have lost 40% of the corporate events because we didn't have the communications technology. This represents a big ROI for us."

"Continuously driving efficiencies and customer service improvements is part and parcel of our team. The Unify OpenScape Contact Centre Solution has been a key enabler in our ability to deliver exceptional customer service. The power of the information we can get from the system is world-class and truly enables us …

"Efficient communication requires multi-modal tools with high user acceptance achieved through ease of use. The OpenScape UC Solution meets this criterion."