Email & Collaboration.

Hosted Lync.

Lync Server 2010, is Microsoft's Unified Communication solution for presence, instant messaging, conferencing, and enterprise voice for businesses around the world.

Lync enables users to access to the right communication tools at the right time for the most efficient and effective communication flow. It does this by integrating voice, video and data on a single secure network allowing you to move easily from a mobile device to a personal computer to a room based video system.

Microsoft Lync is especially suited for businesses across multiple office locations, where information and knowledge may not be centrally located, a large mobile work force, or if you have numerous partner organisations (suppliers or customers) in diverse locations around the country or globe.

Ultimately, Lync provides you with:

• One communication experience - unifying instant messaging, meetings and voice. It features a dashboard that makes it easy to find and use common functions such as the dial pad, visual voicemail, the contact list, and the list of active conversations
• Find the right people, right now, with Skill Search - enter keywords that describe the skills, expertise, and group information to get a list of experts in your organisation who have the skills you are looking for.
• Communicate from Office and SharePoint - You can see presence information in Microsoft Outlook, SharePoint and other Office applications.
• Connect with people outside your organisation - You can use presence and IM with other Microsoft Lync Server users outside your corporate network.
• Extend presence with Personal Note, Location and Photo - You can display your personal notes, locations and photos with enhanced privacy settings.
• Never miss a call - Lync 2010 uses simultaneous ringing to have incoming calls automatically ring on your mobile phone, home phone or other telephone number in addition to your desktop client.
• Simple, essential, reliable conferencing - provides built-in desktop and application sharing, PowerPoint uploads, schedule and join meetings with a single click.
• Manage conferences effectively - allows you to place participants in a 'lobby' and then allow them in to prevent embarrassing errors or security issues.
• Stay up to date with Activity Feed - allows others in your company to find out what colleagues are thinking and doing.
• View and rejoin existing conversations - Lync allows you to save IMs and maintains a history of incoming and outgoing phone calls, allowing you to restart a conversation with the original context available to all participants.

The result is true collaboration between staff anywhere, anytime.