Microsoft embraces new world of work with Skype for Business in partnership with Polycom

Leading the effort to “re-humanize” how communication is done within enterprises in a new world of work, Microsoft Philippines answers the urgent need for unified communications through Skype for Business. “Today, enterprise organizations in the Philippines are in for a digital disruption,” said Christian Lim, Office Marketing Business Group Lead for Microsoft Philippines. “As the workforce and the consumer markets become more digital, there is a need for flexible, rich communications and a reinvented productivity solution that will usher in a new modern work place”. A whole new World of Work Presenting data they have garnered through their “New World of Work” survey, Microsoft surmises that as enterprises adapt to the changing business landscape, they must simultaneously adopt new ways to communicate with their workforce that are grounded in available and inexpensive technologies. With most of the modern employees disparate and working well away from the office space, work mobility has become a primary concern among businesses. They have adapted multiple technologies to cope with the need to connect and interact with one another. But Microsoft stressed that a sporadic work force should not rely on multiple confusing devices in order to be flexible and work-competitive. “We understand there is an undeniable demand for communication that transcends time zones and geographies,” said Lim “the evolution of communication through technology has greatly impacted the workplace and we want to help equip businesses with products that will empower them to do more in a mobile-first, cloud first world.” Tools for Teamwork Microsoft embraces the new working culture present-day employees are steeped in by introducing solutions they have devised in Skype for Business helping them to unify communications in a heavily scattered workplace. Available Skype for Business solutions are expanded through Microsoft’s partnership with Polycom to deliver the industry’s first cloud-based video interoperability service. Polycom will also develop new video collaboration and video room solutions for Skype for Business, allowing their users to leverage the ease of use afforded to them by

Microsoft, and Polycom’s proven and industry-leading technologies in their new deployments. “Our 12-year partnership with Microsoft delivered industry-leading collaboration solutions to our end users,” said Peter Leav, Chief Executive Officer of Polycom