About: Alliance Background
Nortel and Microsoft established the Innovative Communications Alliance to help
our customers realize the significant business benefits associated with unified
communications. The Alliance represents both a shared, software-centric vision for
the future of unified communications and a deep commitment to build on our existing
offerings and relationship to help customers accelerate their business performance.
This alignment of two industry leaders-makes it possible to integrate IT and telephony
infrastructures and applications, bridging today's communication and collaboration
silos to deliver unified communications.
Our combined technology, service and support offerings enable enterprise customers
to enjoy tangible business benefits associated with our shared unified communications
vision and execution plan. These solutions leverage a single client and common architecture,
reducing IT complexity and providing greater stability than alternative solutions
that make disparate components coexist. This design premise covers any deployment
scenario, from on-premise, to hosted or hybrid, to branch deployments. Solutions
also reflect a "graceful migration" strategy, in which existing investments in desktop
technology and network infrastructure can be supported. In other words, there is
no need to "rip & replace".
Nortel and Microsoft are jointly investing in three areas: Product Development,
Sales and Marketing, and Systems Integration. This work includes:
Solution Development:
Both companies are working together to innovate and collaborate on solution development.
Learn more about the current
solution offerings.
Sales and Marketing:
Joint marketing efforts focused on bringing unified communications benefits to our
joint customer base and channel partners.
Systems Integration:
Nortel Global Services is a solutions-focused professional services practice, providing
unified communications-focused business processes, technology integration, implementation,
and management expertise for customers.
Learn more.
We believe the industry requires an evolutionary approach to ensure these benefits
are accessible to the widest range of organizations, regardless of their current
state of communications investment.
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