"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."

"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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Siemens Enterprise Communications' OpenScape Office LX platform has helped us continue delivering exceptional support to customers. The platform ensures that we communicate effectively with clients at all times while giving us the flexibility to accommodate future growth."

"Communications technology is becoming increasingly complex. Its operation requires specialist knowledge and ties up valuable resources. We wanted to change that with the project called 7,000 dial tones."

"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."

"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."

"We have challenged each other along the journey to achieve our goals, and this has led to a friendship between us; one which will inspire new opportunities in the future."

"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."

"We expected our partner to deliver full functionality including all equipment, software, and services in a centralized model over a single cabling infrastructure for voice, data and video. A single cabling network allowing Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) would reduce the cost of moving people around, and make PC and telephone connections substantially …

"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 …