As enterprises grow in size and complexity, the organization’s communications needs and requirements increase concurrently. In fact, a solution architecture that would typically be deployed in a carrier, is now required for large enterprises to achieve the benefits that next generation corporate communications can offer.
Banks, financial institutions and other large enterprises typically consist of several, disparate organizations, operating under the same banner and head office. In many cases they operate different networks and manage their own UC services in a diverse, non-centralized fashion. This duplicates costs, hinders integration, hampers growth, and is not sustainable. To eradicate this competitive disadvantage, heterogeneous enterprise networks must be centrally administered, fully automated, flexible and easy to use.
Large enterprises demand a fast, cost-effective, robust UC system. The communications infrastructure must be able to support disparate networks and technologies, seamlessly integrating the existing infrastructure and legacy software, with new services and applications. It will need to span multiple countries and work in many different languages and locations. The network must also be able to rapidly and effortlessly integrate new business units and acquisitions.