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February 2011 Issue
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eZuce Product Spotlight: Instant Messaging
eZuce Avaya SCS Investment Protection
Successful Social Business begins with Communication and Flexibility
eZuce Partner Spotlight: Copper State Communications
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I receive a lot of requests from customers and partners asking about managed services and hosted environments which prompted me to consider the following:

  • What services are of greatest value to customers and why?

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Welcome to the eZuce Insider- your source for open communications and social business. Each issue we will feature the latest news and updates on eZuce open communication solutions to help you best leverage our products, programs, and promotions within your organization. If you have any feedback or suggestions on topics you'd like to see featured in the eZuce Insider send your comments to marketing@ezuce.com we'd like to hear from you. Enjoy this month's edition!

eZuce Product Spotlight: Instant Messaging
eZuce openUC™ Instant Messaging provides a state-of-the art Enterprise IM & presence application that is highly scalable, reliable and fully based on the XMPP standard.  The openUC IM & presence solution is based on the Openfire server, a highly reliable and widely used solution for small and very large deployments.

Some of the key IM features eZuce openUC provides include:
  • Instant Messaging (Chat)- An Enterprise instant messaging system offering a rich and integrated communications environment for the modern enterprise. Automatic and personal presence status makes it easy to communicate effectively.
  • Group Chat- Personal chat rooms enable efficient team collaboration.  Group chat can be used as an add-on capability during voice conferences or as a way to efficiently distribute messages to a group of users. Every user can have a personal chat room.
  • Show "On the Phone" when in a call- IM presence and phone presence (i.e. BLF presence) is federated so that an aggregated presence message is displayed to your friends.
  • Simple Escalations from Chat to Call, Group Chat to Conference Call- Want to ping someone before a call is made to see whether the person is available?  You can then very easily escalate from chat to call without dialing a number.  This same feature is available for group chats that can be escalated into your personal voice conference bridge without distributing a number first and then having to ask everyone to dial in.
  • Dynamic Call Routing based on Presence- The openUC find-me /follow-me feature is sensitive to your personal presence setting.  If a phone number or SIP URI is included in your presence message, calls will be forwarded to this destination for the duration.
  • Presence and IM Federation- Often you have friends on different networks, but don't want to have several different clients open at the same time.  openUC allows for IM & presence federation with many networks.  And all this without the need for a multi-protocol client.
  • Shared Profiles and vcards- There is only one address book between the phone system and the IM system.  Profile lookups and profile updates are shared between all the components and services so that the information is always consistent.
openUC offers server side federation with many public and commercial IM services.  Server side federation offers distinct advantages.  No multi-protocol client is required. The IT admin stays in control and grants permission to individual users to federate with defined networks, while message archiving is still possible for all federated networks. eZuce openUC provides support for the following federated networks: Google, AOL, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, IRQ, IRC, Facebook, and Lotus Sametime.

To learn more about eZuce's Instant Messaging capabilities please visit http://www.ezuce.com/instant-messaging
instant messaging
eZuce Avaya SCS Investment Protection Extended Through March 31st 2011!
Upgrade your IP PBX
eZuce Inc. has now extended the Avaya Software Communications System Investment Protection Program as a result of increased customer demand. One of the primary drivers has been the ongoing commitment from eZuce to a forward migration strategy and long term product roadmap for Avaya SCS customers. This program is available from authorized eZuce EZ Elite partners currently enrolled in the eZuce Partner Program.  read more....
Successful Social Business begins with Communication and Flexibility 

Where do you spend most of your time while on the clock for work? For most of us it is facing the computer or on the smart phone; no matter where your current physical location.  The key component to accomplishing our work is communication, in all forms! Whether it is email, voice, IM, presence, document sharing or messaging we can all agree, communication and collaboration with one another, regardless of physical location, is necessary to accomplish our jobs.

Let's say your customer relationship management (CRM) is on one platform and your email on another ...read more...BPI- business process integration
eZuce Partner Spotlight: Copper State Communications

eZuce continues to expand its partner community with the addition of Copper State Communications, based in Phoenix, AZ., as they are now officially enrolled in the EZ Partner Program as an EZ Elite partner. The eZuce EZ Partner Program delivers customizable tools, resources, and programs that enable its channel partners to go-to-market successfully with the complete portfolio of eZuce open communication solutions, while delivering professional support services directly to their customers.

As an EZ Elite partner, Copper State Communications collaborates with eZuce to deliver open communications to the mid to large enterprise marketplace providing an IP PBX migration strategy that enables customers to move off legacy and expensive platforms, leverages existing IT investments, and transition to an all software solution while lowering overall communication costs per user.

In addition, Copper State Communications will be transitioning their own internal communications infrastructure by upgrading their existing legacy PBX system, Avaya SCS, to the eZuce openUC solution so they can experience the benefits of an all software-based solution which delivers an all new, presence based, user experience.

Copper State Communications is an established reseller in the Southwestern United States.  As an eZuce EZ Elite Partner they will be introducing the eZuce open communications portfolio to their installed base of accounts within state and local municipalities, agencies, educational institutions, and enterprises in the Arizona region. The eZuce openUC managed services edition is a perfect fit for Copper State Communications supporting their strategy of increasing revenue and profits offering managed services around software based open communications solution.  Copper State Communication's customers can share in the UC experience cost-effectively with access to all product features and unlimited device support for three to five times less than comparable unified communication solutions.

"Copper State Communications is pleased to join the eZuce partner community as an EZ Elite partner. We are excited to begin offering the complete portfolio of open communication solutions and managed service offerings from eZuce to our customers as they migrate from their current IP PBX systems to next generation UC technology. We believe eZuce will provide incremental revenues and profits to Copper State and become an integral part of our go-to-market strategy for 2011. "
Steve Sutton, CEO, Copper State Communications

Copper State Communications provides proven solutions that enable enterprises to enhance their communications and collaborative efforts with key customers and business partners by delivering:
  • Contact Center Solutions
  • Collaboration Solutions
  • Mobility Solutions
  • Unified Communication Solutions
  • Managed Services

To read more about the business partnership between Copper State Communications and eZuce here.
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SIPfoundry Q1 2011 Update


 

Join us as we've got plenty of updates and news to share with our SIPfoundry community members including:

- Recent eZuce contributions to SIPfoundry

- SIPfoundry press and industry coverage

- Overview of Release 4.4- what's new!

- New and improved SIPfoundry blog post

- Profile of recent sipXecs customer deployments and testimonials


Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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FREE eZuce Social Business Symposium

Successful Social Business begins with Communication! 


Tuesday March 15, 2011
Time: 8:00am-11:00am
Hotel Indigo
10 Flint Road
Amherst, New York 14226
716-689-4414
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Time: 8:00am-11:00am
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15 Middlesex Canal Park
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February 2011