staff productivity with Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 r2

Are you wanting better productivity from your staff?
Are you wanting to reduce expenditure, whilst maintaining best of breed technologies?

Look no further then Microsoft Office Communications Server.
OCS is at the forefront leading the way we communicate with colleagues/departments, outside companies, peers.
The features include- Telephone Exchange integration (meaning you can call your Exchange Server to check on emails, diary, tasks and all your other Outlook Functionality)- Voice,
file transfer, instant messaging, video communication
Software is used to increase and streamline all communications, inc the typical conference call.

Your staff can collaborate in real time to get more work done.

Microsoft staff themselves are using the latest Office Communications Server r2 and are saving on average 90,000 Million in travel costs alone.

A less biased example, 46, 000 staff at Lionbridge save 25hours each on average a year with OCS which equals 125,000 hours saved in total which equates to 60 additional staff to the organisation.

OCS gives Lionbridge that competitive advantage needed especially in todays climate.
Staff benefit from better work flexibility, which is easily adoptable -with an easy intuitive, single interface bringing your organisation benefits today, saving money, delighting your peers, reducing environmental impact and increasing productivity.
http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver/en/us/business-value.aspx
If you want to see how OCS can benefit you today call Microsoft Gold Partners Network Si on 0121 511 1234 to arrange f0r an on site visit by one of our Certified Consultants.

Learning Gateway Conference and Novotronix

I thought it was about time I put this post up.
One afternoon in the Oldbury office when I first started with the company I picked up a colleagues extension and it was one of the Network Si customers...
“Can you help us with SharePoint...”
As I was quite new at the time and obviously not too familiar with what SharePoint was.
I decided to ask my colleagues as I would normally do here as who is best to help, (after hearing the full requirements) -three of my colleagues agreed we get a specialist SharePoint implementation company known as Novotronix out to see them.
I went on my colleagues recommendation as many of them have been working here many years and I respected what they had to say and put the customer in touch with Novotronix.

The IT Manager for this NHS group in the West midlands came back to me thanking me for the recommendation, I was quite chuffed “A flexible company with some good projects going on” was the comments given to me (as I'm not technical!) I was happy my colleagues gave me the right advice as I know how NHS dept IT can be difficult :-)

Just to show how IT is such a small world, 3 years later I bumped into Novotronix again!
This time face to face with one of the Directors Steve Eyton Jones, we was both at the Learning Gateway Conference in the West Midlands. I was on the desk helping sign guests in and I recognised the company name straight away and even managed to have a chat at the end with Steve as I was collecting the conference feedback forms, I asked him what interested him in attending on the day he explained the company he works for are able to provide sharePoint solutions in Education and talked me through some of his latest LEA wins he was very proud on the number of schools and colleges in the region his solutions are helping.

When I got back into the office I decided to check out Novotronix and did some of my own research, as you do -I asked a few questions to industry experts SharePoint MVPs everything they had to say on Novotronix was positive I thought well I will check on the EduGeek website and maybe there might be a few conflicting views..........it was all positive - I had to be 101% sure before I made this post!!

If you wanted to see the completed projects for yourself http://www.novotronix.co.uk/