A new whitepaper is out for identifing cost savings for Unified Communicaitons. The paper oulines how Unified Communications Provides Proactive Responses to the Harsh Economic Environment and How Microsoft UC Solutions Can Enable Those Responses for Your Enterprise.  It is authored by UniComm Consulting and is focused on Microsoft OCS R2 solutions.  Specific areas of cost savings include:

• Reducing out-of-pocket costs for communications services by $2.6M to over $8 million per 1000 employees
• Lower operating costs by $900 thousand per 1000 employees
• Leveraging human capital by supporting individual productivity with annual savings  from $2 million per 1000 employees.

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