"We used to organize business trips for our employees lasting up to two weeks. This travel came at a high cost, let alone the fact that our employees could not perform their regular duties while away."

"Siemens Enterprise Communications already knew the company's business and was providing us with good quality service. Maintaining it would lead to less impact in the changeover."

"While the primary project driver was the elimination of a high risk situation (outdated and de-supported voice system), Sauder gained an enterprise voice solution, which was highly scalable, carrier grade resilient, centrally managed, and gained rich features and functionality."

"With the upgrade to the current version of OpenScape Voice, cost savings of 20% were made possible due to the virtualization of the server environment."

"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."

"Siemens Enterprise Communications and Black Box offered an innovative and forward looking solution and service set to take our University forward. Even more, this partnership literally launched the same week as the University's new strategic plan—becomes a very real, pivotal component of CAU’s overall advancement strategy. One of our strategic …

"With OpenScape Voice and the extensive OpenScape Unified Communications solutions, we have achieved more efficient inter-site collaboration, as well as cost reductions."

"We've enabled new services for clinical and ancillary staff from wireless access of patient details to RFID tagging of critical ward equipment."

"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."

"For us it was particularly important, that no disruption to normal business occurred during the installation period. Customer access remained a priority at all stages of the process. I find it very useful that you can now access almost everything using just your Smartphone. So I can now work while …

"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."

"We wanted a control center solution that can be optimally adapted to the communication processes in the transport control center. OpenScape Xpert delivers the necessary flexibility for this requirement."

"Telephony wasn't our core competence, so we didn't want to make large scale infrastructure investments. We needed the right partner to design, manage and roll-out a new system in each country and then centralise things for us. We are a traditional industrial company – we operate on low margins."

"Since the hospital can't stop, we needed a reliable transition. Deployment went very well with no outages and no end user problems."

"The HiPath 3000 system has enhanced our customer service because we can distribute calls to our specialists or deal with peaks in demand more effectively. Staff can locate each other much more effectively, which had been difficult at times before."