Microsoft Lync
Bring the future of communication to your business today
Microsoft Lync connects employees, partners and clients wherever they are, helping you to reduce costs while increasing productivity and responsiveness.
Microsoft Lync 2013 is an enterprise-ready unified communications platform that connects people everywhere. Lync provides a consistent, single client experience for presence, instant messaging, voice, video and meetings. Lync 2013 supports multiparty HD video conferencing, modern “touch first” capabilities for fast and natural communications, and work anywhere scenarios that do not require a VPN for encryption. Lync 2013 users can connect to anyone on Skype, enabling rich communication with hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Lync is available as a standalone service from Microsoft Office 365 or as part of an Office 365 for enterprises suite that includes Lync Online, Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Professional Plus, and Microsoft Office Online.
Hosted Lync / Lync Online gives businesses access to the collaboration tools that they require, but they do not have the operational burden of on-premises server software. The software is hosted in the cloud and the pay per user model puts capital expenditure at a minimum.
Lync Online features
- Stay in touch anywhere: Lync enables users to communicate securely anywhere they have network connectivity, and automatically adapts to network conditions.
- Use the device you want: Lync makes communicating easier with a consistent and familiar experience available on Windows PCs, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android smartphones. The new immersive Lync app for Windows 8 & Windows RT provides a seamless touch-first experience.
- Communicate in the right way: Lync unifies voice and video calls, Lync Meetings, presence, and instant messaging (IM) in one easy-to-use client, making it simple to choose and switch between different forms of communication.
- Connect with the outside world: Lync Federation extends unified communications securely over the Internet to customers, suppliers, and partners using Lync or Skype.
- Take advantage of standards-based HD video: Lync uses open standards including H.264 SVC to provide a high-quality video experience on a wide range of devices.
- Make virtual meetings more effective: See up to 5 meeting participants simultaneously with new multiparty HD video support. You can choose who to see or let Lync choose for you.
- Easily join meetings: Joining a Lync Meeting requires only a single touch or click on smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
- Extend Lync Meetings outside your organization with browser-based access: The Lync Web App allows PC and Mac users to join a Lync Meeting from a browser and delivers a full Lync Meeting experience including IM, voice, multiparty video, data collaboration and sharing.
- Take notes in OneNote: OneNote Share allows users in to create and share OneNote digital meeting notes within Lync Meetings.
- Quickly and intuitively find the best way to communicate: Quick Lync is a menu that appears over a contact in the Lync contact list and shows available communication modes.
Talk to IT Force about Microsoft Lync
As a Microsoft Gold Partner and solutions provider, IT Force can work with you to tailor the solution to your business requirements, extracting even more value out of the service. We can explore a number of options that expand the service offering, from unified messaging and archiving to social network integration.