Orange adds enterprise telephony to Business Together program

Orange Business Services announced it has added enterprise telephony features to its Business Together joint offering with Microsoft. The Managed Microsoft OCS supports telephony additions to business applications through integration with Cisco IP Phones.

Business Together has 450,000 end-users currently, according to the company. Now, users of the program will be able to use Microsoft Communicator to unify instant messaging, email, telephony and mobility. On Cisco phones, employees using Business Together with Enterprise Telephony will be able to access click-to-call and presence features within Outlook, Office suite, and SharePoint. The new offering will reduce voice costs, costs-per-user, and travel expenses for businesses, according to Orange.

"Multinationals are looking for ways to effectively respond to the current economic challenges by reducing costs while increasing worker productivity," said Laurent Kocher, senior vice president of global services for Orange Business Services. "Business Together achieves both goals helping our customers to become more efficient and gain a competitive advantage." 

For more:
- see the Orange press release here [1] 

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