Demo Facilities: Overview
Demo Facility Types
The Innovative Communications Alliance offers a full suite of unified communications
solutions that address the challenges faced by today's businesses. In order to help
our customers better understand these challenges and their solutions, Innovative
Communications Alliance demonstrations may be viewed in a variety of settings at
locations around the world. The Innovative Communications Alliance demos allow customers
and resellers to experience the newest technologies, and to learn more about the
solutions offered by the Innovative Communications Alliance in the most effective
and efficient manner possible.
- Nortel Executive Briefing Center- hosts customer briefings to showcase
the value proposition of Nortel solutions across a wide range of technical and industry
areas.
- Nortel Sales Offices- and customer facing labs are ideal for providing
the opportunity to explore Innovative Communications Alliance solutions in greater
depth with Nortel experts. Sales offices typically focus on providing solutions
from an end user perspective, while customer-facing labs allow in-depth hands-on
engagement.
- Microsoft Technology Centers- allow customers to envision, architect,
and demonstrate a customized solution using Microsoft and Partner technologies prior
to deployment in their own IT environment. Innovative Communications Alliance solutions
are deployed in the Microsoft Technology Centers Envisioning Center.
- Microsoft Business Productivity Centers- (BPCs), tailored for the
Asia Pacific market, are designed to showcase how companies can utilize Microsoft
solutions for improved productivity and competitive advantage by leveraging existing
investments with Microsoft applications. Innovative Communications Alliance solutions
are available at select BPCs.
- Microsoft Executive Briefing Centers- (EBCs) provide a professional
setting in which corporate and government leaders can interact with Microsoft executives
and business experts to explore how Microsoft solutions can be used to address the
unique business challenges of the participants. Select EBCs offer Innovative Communications
Alliance solution demos.