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Siemens AG — 2009-02-16

Did you know that you can follow the latest news from Siemens Enterprise Communications on Twitter?

Siemens Delivers Mobile Unified Communications with OpenScape® Mobility Solution

Siemens AG — 2008-10-14

Siemens Enterprise Communications today announced the availability of OpenScape Mobility, delivering mobility to a wide variety of UC users regardless of their location. OpenScape Mobility brings together, for the first time, from a single vendor, enterprise telephony, video, unified communications, wireless and fixed mobile convergence in a single integrated mobile UC solution. This comprehensive solution delivers unrivaled productivity gains and cost savings while freeing the workforce from the confines of the desk.

Duquesne Light Deploys Open Unified Communications Solution from Siemens Enterprise Communications to Help to Streamline Infrastructure and Reduce Costs

Siemens AG — 2008-10-08

Duquesne Light Company provides electric energy to more than half a million customers in southwestern Pennsylvania. With a commitment to deliver superior customer service and reliability to its customers, Duquesne Light wanted to simplify and consolidate its complex communications environment and make its business continuity plan more resilient. They selected Siemens Enterprise Communications’s OpenScape® Unified Communications (UC) Server and OpenScape Voice Application as the foundation for a centralized, IP-based infrastructure that will help them improve communications and reduce costs.

Accident Fund Selects Siemens OpenScape® Contact Center Portfolio to Help to Improve Customer Experience While Reducing Costs

Siemens AG — 2008-09-29

Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, one of the leading workers compensation insurers nationwide, prides itself on helping to protect employers and employees from issues stemming from work-related injuries. In an effort to enhance their ability to serve customers calling in to their support centers more quickly and efficiently, Accident Fund has deployed the HiPath ProCenter Enterprise solution, a key component of the OpenScape Contact Center portfolio from Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc. The solution has helped Accident Fund in its efforts to improve call routing capabilities, significantly reduce call-abandon rates, better manage the workload of call center representatives and help assure that all calls will be answered by the most skilled representative available.

Siemens Enhances OpenScape® Contact Center Portfolio with Shared IVR Solution and Hosted Service Management Option

Siemens AG — 2008-09-10

Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc. today announced enhancements to the OpenScape® Contact Center portfolio that will provide customers with advanced interactive contact center features and monitoring in a more cost-effective and easier to deploy hosted package. The new shared interactive voice response (IVR) solution and hosted service management offering will help enterprises deploy contact automation in an effort to deliver superior customer services.

Siemens 802.11n and Outdoor Access Points now the 'Green Choice' - Certified for Microsemi's Low Power PowerDsine® Ethernet Midspans

Siemens AG — 2008-08-19

Siemens Communications, Inc.'s HiPath® Wireless 802.11n and Outdoor Access Points have been certified at Microsemi Corporation’s PowerDsine® testing facility as the first 802.11n or Outdoor access points available today that are able to operate at the low power ratings specified in IEEE 802.3af standards for Power over Ethernet (PoE).

Mark Stone from Gores talks about new Joint Venture with Siemens AG

Siemens AG — 2008-08-08

In an exclusive Vodcast on www.siemens.com/open, Mark Stone from The Gores Group talks about the new Joint Venture between Siemens AG and The Gores Group

Joint Press Release of Siemens and The Gores Group

Siemens AG — 2008-07-29

Siemens partners with The Gores Group to grow SEN. Siemens with a stake of 49% in JV – Total investment of €350 million to fund growth. The Gores Group will contribute two assets Enterasys and SER Solutions to the joint venture.

Compliance

Siemens AG — 2008-06-13

The topic of Compliance has top priority at Siemens Enterprise Communications in Germany. Since the beginning of this year, all departments and regions have been actively implementing the new Siemens Compliance Program. The program also gives customers, partners and suppliers more confidence as well.

BT and Siemens to Deliver One-Stop Converged Communications Solution

Siemens AG — 2008-05-06

BT, one of the world's leading providers of networked IT services, and Siemens Enterprise Communications, one of the world’s leading suppliers of Open Communications software and services for enterprises, have entered into a global sales agreement to offer a converged communications solution for large multinational enterprises.

PosTrack Selects Siemens OpenScape Unified Communications Server to enable hosted VoIP services and Fixed-Mobile Convergence

Siemens AG — 2008-03-24

PosTrack Technologies, Inc. has selected Siemens Communications, Inc. as the backbone for PosTrack's hosted Voice over IP (VoIP) services for schools and enterprises.

Siemens Enters High-Definition Video Market with OpenScape Video, Expanding Video Conferencing Capabilities Across the Enterprise

Siemens AG — 2008-03-03

Siemens Enterprise Communications introduced OpenScape Video, the first single-vendor, unified video conferencing solution integrating high-definition (HD) video, desktop PC video, voice and presence into a single powerful communication environment.

Siemens Launches OpenScape Unified Communications Server to Deliver Communications Applications on a Unified Software-based Platform

Siemens AG — 2008-03-03

Siemens Enterprise Communications announced a significant step forward in its ongoing transformation into a software-oriented company with the launch of an innovative new unified communications software platform, OpenScape® Unified Communications (UC) Server.

Largest End-User Survey Quantifies Huge Costs, Workflow Disruptions and Frustrations Caused By Fragmented Communications

Siemens AG — 2007-10-16

Landmark Study Reveals Status Quo Could Conservatively Cost 1,000-Person Enterprises Nearly $13 Million Yearly in Avoidable Expenses and Lost Productivity

Siemens Strikes OEM Agreement to License OpenScape Technology to IBM

Siemens AG — 2007-08-22

Deal Delivers Open Unified Communications and Collaboration to Millions of Users in Mixed PBX/VoIP Telephony Environments

Mark Straton discusses Siemens' open approach to communications

Siemens AG — 2007-07-07

At Siemens Analyst conference, Blair Pleasant of UC Strategies interviews Mark Straton, their Senior Vice President, Product Marketing on unified communications.

Siemens Expands OpenScape Unified Communications Portfolio to Provide Industry's Most Complete Range of Premise-Based and Hosted Solutions

Siemens AG — 2007-05-08

Siemens Communications, Inc. has unleashed three new advances in its market-leading OpenScape unified communications portfolio to help enterprises overcome the barriers of today's fragmented communications, while offering a flexible new range of solutions that match the diverse needs of the enterprise. At the entry-level, the new OpenScape VoiceLink solution telephony-enables Microsoft's Office Communicator client and provides an easy starting point for adoption of unified communications at the desktop. The new SIP-enabled version of OpenScape VoiceLink now supports Siemens' highly scalable HiPath 8000 IP softswitch.

Siemens Wins iF product design award 2007 for OpenStage SIP Phone

Siemens AG — 2007-04-19

Prestigious award recognizes Siemens’ commitment to innovative & functional product design Siemens Communications, Inc. today announced that its OpenStage™ phone has won a 2007 iF product design award, one of the most prestigious awards of its kind in the world. Siemens competed against more than 163 other products in the Consumer Electronics/Telecommunications category and the OpenStage phone was one of two office-desk phones so honored.

Siemens Announces SIP-Based Open Virtualized Contact Center Solution for the Enterprise

Siemens AG — 2007-04-17

Groundbreaking solution offers on-demand enterprise service for virtually any existing corporate infrastructure Siemens Communications, Inc. today introduced its Open Virtualized Contact Center, addressing the traditional limitations of the hardware intensive site-based contact center. Siemens’ groundbreaking overlay software approach makes it easier and faster for organizations to distribute expanded functionality to agents in any location equipped with no more than headsets and minimally configured desktops. The new solution integrates two of its most popular and award-winning products: Siemens® HiPath® ProCenter® Enterprise contact center solution and Siemens HiPath 8000 SIP-based enterprise softswitch. The new blended solution supports environments from as few as two attendants to up to 5,000 concurrent agents and provides a platform to enhance customer interactions across every segment of an enterprise, on virtually any existing communication or network infrastructure.

Taking VoIP to the Next Level, Siemens Introduces HiPath 8000 V3.0 With Open, IT-Based IP Communications To Boost Enterprise Performance And Lower Costs

Siemens AG — 2007-03-19

Industry's Only Native-SIP Softswitch Offers A Highly Scalable Yet Centralized Approach To Unified Communications, Fixed-Mobile Convenience And a Rich User Experience Today's VoIP is yesterday's news, and has largely failed to deliver on the cost savings and business process integration essential in today's competitive world. Large enterprises worldwide face exploding numbers of mobile users and devices, more complex business processes and supporting applications, and continuous demands to contain costs. To meet these challenges head-on, Siemens Communications, Inc. takes VoIP far beyond simply delivering voice packets. Its powerful new HiPath 8000 Real-Time IP System V3.0 integrates with the enterprise IT fabric and applications more tightly than ever to help transform how businesses communicate and, even more, how they operate.

Siemens Delivers on Open Mobility Promise With HiPath Managed Services For Municipal and Enterprise Wireless Networks

Siemens AG — 2007-03-05

Predictable Pricing, Reduced Costs And One Point Of Contact Offer Faster Wi-Fi Network Setup And Easier Operation, Even In Multivendor Environments User simplicity and mobility lies at the heart of the Wi-Fi dream and now Siemens takes that dream one step closer to reality for enterprises and municipalities. By leveraging the global expertise of Siemens Communications, one of the world’s leading Managed Service providers, enterprises and municipalities can deliver the Wi-Fi dream with confidence.

Siemens' New OpenStage Family of SIP Phones Features Extraordinary Design and Newest Technical Standards

Siemens AG — 2006-12-11

Siemens Enterprise Communications today announced OpenStage™, a new line of stylish IP telephones that bring an open communications hardware platform to the desktop for the first time. With four different models ranging from basic to advanced, OpenStage phones feature a revolutionary new design that combines ease-of-use with PC functionality.

Communications SOA from Siemens Achieves "Powered by SAP NetWeaver®" Status

Siemens AG — 2006-10-16

Intel and Siemens to Collaborate on Second Generation VoIP

Siemens AG — 2006-09-14

Intel and Siemens to Collaborate on Second Generation VoIP

Siemens Communications Expands Features

Siemens AG — 2006-08-22

Siemens Communications Expands Features, SOA Components and Market Range of its HiPath 8000 Open Unified Communications Systems