Siemens announces mobile UC offering

Siemens announced an update to its OpenScape Mobility Solution Tuesday, a move it says makes it the leader in the Mobile UC space. Siemens claims OpenScape is the first single-vendor solution that combines enterprise telephony, unified communications, wireless capability and fixed mobile convergence.

Luc Roy, vice president for enterprise mobility for Siemens, said OpenScape combines those four elements into a reliable and completely flexible product that will enable greater worker productivity and all-wireless enterprises.

"We feel the product is well-differentiated from our competitors' offerings," Roy said. "Avaya talks a big game but doesn't have an end-to-end solution or a presence function, Cisco doesn't have FMC products, though they do a reasonably good job on the UC side, and Divitas isn't established enough to have the prior credibility of telephony services. That's why we strongly believe Siemens is the leader in the Mobile UC market."

Roy said OpenScape has seen strong interest from health care providers, such as large hospitals, who have seen significant cost benefits from employing the solution.

"I can't mention the name of the hospital," Roy said, "but it is the largest hospital in its region with between 350 and 400 beds. By using the OpenScape Mobility Solution, it was able to reduce its cost for communications by close to $2 million."

OpenScape Mobility is compatible with RIM, Windows Mobile 6 and Symbian OS, with compatibility for the iPhone coming soon, according to Roy. 

For more:
- see the Siemens release here [1] 

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