Microsoft® software-powered Unified Communications can help you cut costs and better position your business for the economic rebound by transforming the way you communicate and collaborate while maximizing your existing communications infrastructure. Businesses can reduce out-of-pocket expenses by reducing travel expenses and conferencing service charges with unified conferencing, and you can cut telephone tolls and cell phone charges with software-powered VoIP. Unified Communications enables you to avoid capital expenditures by optimizing your communications infrastructure, including consolidating messaging, telephony, and voice mail systems and by eliminating expensive storage systems.