"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 …

"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 …

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The Cloud communications infrastructure, created with OpenScape UC, gives us the flexibility for optimal support of our company’s sustainable growth strategy."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"With OpenScape Office Contact Centre, we have been able to deliver world-class customer support while also controlling costs. Moreover, we have achieved a new level of operational flexibility and can scale our resources rapidly to meet changing business demand."

"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."