To enhance communication and collaboration activities while reducing costs, leading enterprises around the world are implementing Unified Communications (UC) solutions from Avaya and HP ProCurve Networking. As Unified Communications (UC) moves increasingly from promise to implementation, questions arise about the best ways to establish UC solutions and how to measure the value of UC from a business perspective.

By its nature, UC brings together a number of moving parts and requires coordination among previously disparate technologies, product categories, and providers. Avaya and HP ProCurve share a common approach toward UC—as well as a range of solutions—that promotes effective UC implementations delivering tangible business benefits.

This paper describes:

• Effective approaches to unifying communications
• The importance of optimizing your network infrastructure
• How embracing converged communications can increase business productivity and spur competitiveness
• Ways to evaluate return on investment (ROI) for UC