What is Lync 2010 & how can it benefit Educators & Learners?
Despite organizations’ technology investments, users struggle to stay connected with colleagues and the business. Slow innovation in traditional technologies such as telephony forces users to choose other modes for collaboration and communication. This makes it more challenging for IT professionals to deliver new capabilities in an integrated, cost-effective, and secure manner.
Microsoft® Lync™ connects users in new ways, regardless of their physical location. The latest release of the Unified Communications platform delivers a fresh, intuitive user experience that is directly accessible from Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Outlook®, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft SharePoint®. Lync brings together the different ways people communicate in a single interface, is deployed as a unified platform, and is administered through a single management infrastructure. The unified nature of the system helps reduce costs and facilitates rapid user adoption.
Benefits
Microsoft® Lync™ delivers value that speaks to the needs of today’s organisations by bringing all your communications together it becomes easier to manage and easier to control costs.
Do more. With less.
Control costs
With Voice over IP (VoIP) communications can take place large geographical areas without long distance charges. Integrating audio, video, and Web conference helping reduce travel costs as well as the cost of third-party conference solutions.So you can partner with a school or university in Mexico & keep in regular contact and interact in a diverse way without a hefty bill.
Improving productivity
Instead of e-mailing documents back and forth for approval, workers can rely on real-time collaboration through enhanced conference with desktop, application, and virtual whiteboard sharing or contact a collaborator from within Microsoft Office or other applications. The unified Microsoft Lync 2010 client provides access to enterprise voice, enterprise messaging, and conference from one simplified interface.
Supporting a mobile workforce
If your educational environment is moving to a mobile solution with the use of laptops or tables improve it and enhance the communication with Lync. An updated Lync Mobile client makes joining and managing conferences, searching the Global Address List, and viewing presence information easy. A single user experience across PC, phone, mobile phone, and browser gives staff and possibly students more ways to stay in touch and engage on new levels.
Gain operational efficiencies
By integrating Unified Communications, delays can be reduced & the communication can carry on after the lesson. Group chat can enable topic-specific, multi-party discussions that persist over time.
Be more responsive
To students, parents, and employees with one-click call routing and management features in Microsoft Lync 2010 rich presence information in both help ensure that information is routed to the right person at the right time making. So you can let the relevant people know vital information quickly so in the case of an emergency, big or small, lync can have you covered.
Keep you data secure
Built-in security, encryption, archiving, and call detail records help meet strict requirements. By using your own servers and network, you maintain control over sensitive data that would otherwise be transmitted over public telephone networks and third-party conference platforms.