1. Unified Communications
& Collaboration
Connecting people and information

3. Unified Communications
& Collaboration
Contents
Introduction
IP Communications
Visual Collaboration
Corporate Mail
Corporate Collaboration
Embrace, Enrich, Empower

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Increase productivity in the workplace with
Unified Communications and Collaboration
Enabling organisations to be more productive, drive growth and bring
products faster to market by connecting people and information in
disparate locations.
It’s ubiquitous. It’s empowering. It's growing. Communication UCC brings together traditional and emerging technologies
impacts every interaction, every process, every decision in to provide a cost-effective and cohesive framework for
every organisation and workplace. today’s contemporary workplace. With these foundations in
place, organisations will be able to find smarter, faster and
Thanks to technological advances, communication more economical ways of working.
and collaboration have broken free from physical and
geographical boundaries to become perpetual and To realise these benefits, organisations need to implement
pervasive. We read emails while waiting at a restaurant; the right platforms and processes – and ensure they
participate in web conferences when working from home; complement rather than constrain the adoption of the full
share information via team workspaces from the train; and UCC portfolio.
participate in video conferences with colleagues while on
holiday abroad. Whether your journey starts with IP telephony, email, visual
or corporate collaboration, a joined-up approach based on
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technologies, integrate multi-vendor offerings and plan a
UCC roadmap that results in a seamless experience for
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IP Communications
Laying the foundations for a collaborative future
An IP-based communications infrastructure is the first step Thanks to our vendor independence and extensive
towards transforming how employees, customers, and experience, you will be able to select the technologies that
partners interact in today’s contemporary workplace. best fit your business needs, user communities and budget.
Without these robust and flexible foundations, UCC To minimise capital expenditure, Computacenter will
initiatives will fall at the first hurdle. To seamlessly support identify opportunities to leverage existing networking and
voice, video and data, organisations need a network and communications assets. We also help organisations to cost
communications infrastructure that works all the time, every effectively leverage exciting collaboration software solutions,
time. such as Microsoft Lync, that has been acquired via a wider
licensing agreement.
Although many organisations have already embraced an
IP-based approach through IP telephony and VoIP, these Computacenter not only makes IP communications more
implementations are often in silos or on first generation affordable but also reliable. Our consultants are equipped
technologies. According to a survey by Ovum2, fewer than with a unique blend of both telephony and networking skill
one in five large companies have near-ubiquitous use of IP sets, ensuring network performance and readiness elements
telephony. are scrutinised and modified where required.
To realise the full financial and productivity benefits of UCC,
IP communications have to be omnipresent and fit-for- Accelerate change and decision-making
purpose for today’s connected and highly collaborative
workplace. Whether this means expanding your existing By combining our expertise and industrialised services with
IP telephony deployment, upgrading to newer IP best-of-breed technologies, your organisation will be able
communications solutions or migrating from a legacy PBX to establish an IP-based infrastructure that will encourage
infrastructure, Computacenter can help. the adoption of other UCC solutions, which will not only
transform the workplace but also reduce operational costs.
For example, users will be able to take advantage of
Making communication predictable and presence solutions, such as Cisco Unified Presence and
affordable MSN Messenger, which display the availability of colleagues
We have end-to-end IP communications capabilities, and regardless of their location, device or timezone. Such
can assist with readiness assessments, design, technology visibility can accelerate decision-making and problem
supply, implementation and support. resolution as senior executives or subject matter experts can
be located and contacted without delay.
Computacenter will help you evaluate internal processes,
applications, infrastructures and communication costs Presence is just one of the many UCC applications that
to develop a realistic IP communications roadmap and can be deployed once a solid and scalable IP-based
business case. communications infrastructure has been established.
IP Communications: why it matters
• educes telecommunication bills and the need to invest
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• implifies change in line with business growth, office
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Case Study: Harvey Nichols enhances the customer experience
and will make savings of £1 million with unified communications
Challenge
Harvey Nichols is synonymous with quality. To ensure an exceptional retail
experience, the company's 2,500 employees need to be able to deal with
customers' requests quickly. This often involves contacting other stores, the head
office or warehouse – a process that was hampered by Harvey Nichols' disparate
telephony systems. This decentralised approach was also adding unnecessary
cost and complexity to day-to-day business operations.
Solution
Harvey Nichols partnered with Computacenter to implement a new unified
communications infrastructure incorporating IP telephony and wireless connectivity.
Based on Cisco technologies, the new solution has simplified collaboration across
the company's 11 sites as well as IT support. Computacenter also provided the
underlying IPT foundations, which involved the implementation of structured cabling
solutions at each location and upgrading the local area network to Power over
Ethernet Cisco Catalyst switches, and is responsible for supporting the solution
HARVEY NICHOLS under a five-year contract.
Results
As well as significantly reducing Harvey Nichols' telephone bills, the new
infrastructure is more cost-effective to support, which will result in savings of £1
million over 10 years. Employees can devote more time to customers and answer
queries in a shorter timeframe, which helps improve the retail experience and
maintain Harvey Nichols' reputation.
IP Communications: how Computacenter can help
• We have a dedicated networking and communications
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practice with end-to-end IP communications capabilities with our workplace offerings to ensure a seamless user
• Computacenter has relationships with all the key IP
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communications vendors and holds Gold partnership • hanks to our multi-vendor status, we can fulfill all your
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certifications with Cisco, Polycom and Microsoft IP communications technology requirements – from
• We were Cisco’s UK Enterprise Partner of the Year in
peripherals and end points to soft clients and underlying
2009/2010 and 2010/2011 infrastructure components

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Visual Collaboration
Enabling instant and effortless interaction
From video conferences and digital signage to web As well as getting the client interface right, Computacenter
meetings and telepresence, visual collaboration is adding a helps organisations assess the impact of visual collaboration
new dimension to workplace interactions. on their back-end IT infrastructure, particularly in terms of
increased network traffic and storage capacity.
Customer meetings, internal briefings, staff training and
corporate announcements no longer require hours of travel To minimise the need for additional investment, we will
or a long lead time. Instead they can be scheduled and help you leverage existing assets and identify untapped
completed immediately without anyone having to change resources. For example, Microsoft Enterprise Agreements
their location. often include a Lync license, which combines instant
messaging with presence, IP telephony, audio-conferencing
The versatility and velocity of visual collaboration is attracting and video-conferencing features.
growing interest at both employer and employee level. Video
conferencing in particular is expected to experience massive Boost revenue generation with digital
growth, with industry watchers predicting that video content
signage and media
will constitute 91 per cent of global network traffic by 20143.
As well as empowering employees, visual collaboration can
To be ready for this explosion in visual collaboration, provide a valuable and highly effective platform for customer
organisations need to ensure employees have access to and partner engagement through the use of digital media
high-quality content and intuitive end points. Incompatible and signage. From e-posters and information points to on-
hardware, poor performance and complex set-up processes demand video content, digital signage and media can boost
can quickly derail the adoption of new collaboration sales and enhance the customer experience.
technologies resulting in a low Return On Investment (ROI).
By working with Computacenter, you will be able to tap
into these benefits with minimum effort and expense. For
Rapid adoption and ROI example, we helped O2 equip 400 stores with a digital
signage solution for sharing promotional material and hosting
By partnering with Computacenter, you will be able to handset tutorials. As a result, the company was able to
fast-track implementation, adoption and benefits realisation attract and retain more customers.
across the visual collaboration landscape. We have
extensive experience of sourcing and deploying all the Whether your visual collaboration journey starts with desk-
major technologies, and will assess the readiness of your IT to-desk video, digital signage or immersive telepresence
infrastructure and user groups. rooms, Computacenter will help future-proof your investment
and ensure a seamless integration with existing investments
We will identify which solutions are best suited to different and new solutions .
employee roles - for example video conferencing could
be offered desk-to-desk via a standard definition solution, As visual collaboration solutions become more pervasive,
such as Microsoft Lync, or via a dedicated room and high we can also assist with management and maintenance to
definition solution, such as Cisco TelePresence. ensure maximum uptime and an excellent user experience.
Visual Collaboration: why it matters
• educes the need for business travel and associated
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• upports flexible working practices and facilitates faster
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Case Study: Hospitals in East Kent improve medical training and
patient care with integrated video conferencing solution
Challenge
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust serves a wide
geographical area. With its main hospital sites some miles apart, the trust's
clinicians frequently had to travel to attend meetings and conduct training
sessions. The trust recognised travelling was not an efficient use of clinicians'
time. In addition to the impact on productivity, the trust was also keen to
reduce travel expenditure and its impact on the environment.
Solution
The trust partnered with Computacenter to design, implement and support a
sophisticated video conferencing solution. The solution installed at the trust's
three acute hospitals includes high-definition displays to enable clinicians
to share images from the hospital's Picture Archiving and Communications
System (PACS) such as x-rays and scans.
Results
By enabling its healthcare professionals to hold virtual meetings and share
medical information, East Kent University NHS Foundation Trust has reduced
travel costs and its impact on the environment. More importantly, the solution
enables faster diagnosis and treatment of patients, and improves mentoring
and training for medical staff. These factors all contribute to improving the
standard of patient care delivered to the population of East Kent.
Visual Collaboration: how Computacenter can help
• omputacenter has strategic relationships with all the
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major vendors, including Cisco, Polycom, Microsoft, NEC, Operations Centre to safeguard availability of both visual
LifeSize, Panasonic and Samsung collaboration applications and the underlying infrastructure
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infrastructure, integration and content management issues • ith an extensive product catalogue and configuration
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as part of any implementation and logistics operation, we can fulfill all your sourcing
• omputacenter has been awarded a range of vendor
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accreditations, for example we are a Cisco Gold Partner smartphones to LCD displays and plasma screens
and hold the Cisco TelePresence Video Master ATP • orking in partnership with our asset disposal subsidiary,
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Partner status RDC, we will ensure that redundant equipment is recycled
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Corporate mail
Embracing the next generation of messaging
Corporate mail is changing – and fast. Cloud computing, We understand the different corporate mail delivery models
integrated workflows and mobile devices are just some of – on-premise, off-premise, private, public and hybrid – and
the factors influencing the structure and delivery of today’s will help assess the needs of your organisation, user groups
greatest communication commodity. and IT operation so you can make an informed decision.
The ability to exploit next-generation email services will To help organisations realise the financial and agility benefits
depend not only on an organisation’s applications and of cloud-based messaging services, Computacenter has
infrastructure but also how they provision messaging developed C3Mail. Billed on a fixed price per month per
to employees. The ongoing criticality of email as a mailbox, the solution offers the flexibility of a dedicated or
communication channel means services must be affordable, shared infrastructure with Computacenter implementing and
predictable and accessible – and not just from the desktop. managing the email infrastructure within your premises or at
By 2016, at least 50 per cent of enterprise email users will one of our high-availability datacenters.
rely primarily on a browser, tablet or mobile client instead of
a desktop client.4 We also provide a services wrap for public cloud offerings,
such as Microsoft Office 365, which ensures corporate
To respond to employee demand and the evolving email mail and collaboration tools come with the enterprise level
landscape, IT departments need to replace legacy platforms support demanded of such critical applications.
and processes with a more scalable infrastructure and agile
approach. To avoid the capital expense and disruption
associated with such upgrades, many organisations will be Removing cost and complexity
drawn towards a private or public cloud delivery model.
Although the volume of corporate mailboxes and messages
As well as optimising costs, cloud computing can accelerate is expected to continue to grow, the increased adoption
the adoption of self-service features, increased inbox of more interactive and real-time UCC technologies will
capacity and integrated instant messaging – all of which decrease email’s dominance in the workplace.
contribute to greater staff productivity and satisfaction.
As a result, organisations need to be ready to offer a
seamless user experience to prevent both spiralling support
costs and increased complexity in the workplace. For
Selecting the right sourcing model example, rather than providing multiple touch points for
With corporate mail no longer restricted to on-premise different communication and collaboration tools, the email
delivery models, organisations need pragmatic advice to inbox can also be used to aggregate voicemails and instant
help them establish and execute the right approach for their messages.
business.
Whether you need to upgrade your existing messaging
Computacenter has extensive experience of migrating, infrastructure, enable integration with other UCC solutions
upgrading and managing enterprise email infrastructures, or adopt a new delivery model, Computacenter can provide
and will enable you to achieve an optimal balance between trusted advice and end-to-end support.
performance, risk, cost and agility.
Corporate Mail: why it matters
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Case Study: Morrisons keeps supermarket shelves fully stocked
with Computacenter partnership
Challenge
Morrisons is the fourth largest supermarket chain in the UK with 456 stores and
131,000 employees. To ensure it gets the right products on the right shelves
at the right time, Morrisons operates a number of manufacturing and logistics
facilities, including around 20 factories, 16 warehouses and 15 distribution sites.
To safeguard the timely delivery of 250 lorry-loads of goods to each warehouse
every day, the retailer must ensure it has continuously available IT systems.
Solution
Morrisons has partnered with Computacenter to deploy and manage new
technologies as part of a major IT transformation known as Evolve. One of the
first Evolve projects was the upgrade of Morrisons' email systems to Microsoft
Exchange. This involved not only migrating a large amount of data from 8,600
users' inboxes but also implementing a new backend infrastructure to provide
better disaster recovery. Computacenter has helped the retailer migrate to
Microsoft Exchange, deployed a new warehouse picking system and is
responsible for lifecycle management for 10,000 desktop devices.
Results
The email upgrade has improved staff productivity and satisfaction through
enhanced communication, and by working with Computacenter, Morrisons
has been able to maximise the benefits of its IT transformation. As well as
safeguarding the supply chain and increasing staff productivity, the new IT
services and systems have helped reduced costs. This will contribute to the
£100 million annual cost savings expected from the Evolve programme.
Corporate Mail: how Computacenter can help
• e have developed a portfolio of industrialised email
W • s one of Microsoft’s top three large account resellers
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services to simplify migration, licensing, backup and in the UK, we can help with licensing for Exchange and
archiving, infrastructure support and management Office 365 as well as broader Enterprise Agreements
• e migrate around 200,000 Microsoft Exchange
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mailboxes per year and have more than 300 accredited customers
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers • ur C3Mail offering delivers an enterprise email service
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• omputacenter can assist with integrating corporate mail
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with presence, instant messaging, web conferencing, and fixed price per month per mailbox
soft phone technology to provide a richer experience for
employees

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Corporate Collaboration
Uniting teams for greater productivity
Today’s workplace is a chameleon. Its location and structure as Microsoft SharePoint and Cisco Quad. As a result, you
is constantly shifting as globalisation, mobile technologies will be able to create a best-of-breed corporate collaboration
and flexible working practices result in more agile and platform that is scalable, cost-effective and easy to support.
decentralised business models.
Working in partnership with ICS Solutions, we will ensure
As people and information become increasingly dispersed, you derive maximum value from any existing investments
organisations need to be able to unite colleagues, teams in collaboration tools, and optimise the underlying IT
and decision-makers across multiple sites, countries and infrastructure to prevent any problems with capacity or
timezones. availability.
A corporate intranet is just the first phase of the corporate
collaboration curve. To complete tasks and projects Collaborating via the cloud
effectively and economically, staff also need access to virtual
workspaces, real-time document sharing and knowledge- To help organisations minimise the need for capital
based communities. investment and accelerate adoption of new technologies,
we can assist with cloud-based implementations of
To facilitate such a holistic approach, organisations will need corporate collaboration solutions.
to embrace a range of collaboration technologies and social
networking concepts – from extranets and employee profile For example, our C3Collaboration service enables a utility-
pages to websites and wikis. based implementation of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a
private cloud at one of our high availability datacenters. With
Taking a flexible and integrated approach to corporate pre-defined templates, user training and adoption modules,
collaboration will be essential as knowledge-based networks C3Collaboration delivers rapid results and transparent
replace hierarchies in the workplace. commercials.
We can also assist with a public cloud approach.
Computacenter offers an extensive Microsoft Office 365
Enabling an integrated approach services portfolio from readiness to deployment. Office 365
Although most organisations have already adopted some includes not only corporate collaboration tools but also
elements of corporate collaboration, many have yet to email, conferencing and presence functionality.
establish a standardised and integrated approach. This
disparate approach can not only increase operational costs Computacenter offers an extensive Office 365 wrap – from
but also limit employee flexibility. readiness assessments and pilots to migration, infrastructure
management and end user support.
Computacenter will help you amalgamate collaboration
tools, content and portals to provide employees with a Whether you source your corporate collaboration capabilities
unique and unified experience. via the cloud, an on-site roll-out or a hybrid model,
Computacenter can help maximise adoption, integration and
Thanks to our extensive vendor relationships, you will be performance, so staff can work faster and smarter.
able to evaluate established and emerging solutions, such
Corporate Collaboration: why it matters
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• Unites distributed teams resulting in greater productivity • Reduces costs as the need for telephony decreases
• ccelerates time-to-market for new business initiatives
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Case Study: ICS Solutions and Harrods
Empowering a diverse workforce with SharePoint
Challenge
Harrods has a blended workforce consisting of over 8,000 full-time and part-
time employees, and associates hired by the various brands it hosts. It also has
contractors recruited during peak periods such as Christmas. Harrods needed its
Intranet to overcome the challenge of integrating this mixed workforce. It should
improve corporate communications and employee engagement, by surfacing
and centralising all news and information. Moreover, the Intranet allows Harrods to
be compliant with new UK legislation, which determine that all staff should have
access to the same benefits and information.
Solution
ICS Solutions developed a bespoke layout for Harrods that reflects the brand’s
identity and functionality needs, including: custom site map, breadcrumbs, RSS
aggregator and web parts. Among the web parts built within the SharePoint Intranet
is a telephone directory, with the contact information from all 8,000 employees.
This directory uses Business Connectivity Services to allow users to update their
own details. The 'auto complete' functionality makes access to this real-time
information easy.
Results
To develop a solution that could address the complex needs of such a varied
workforce, Harrods chose to implement an Extranet on a separate farm and
synchronise the two sites. Moreover, PCI regulations, Forms Based Authentication
(FBA) and Active Directory were implemented. To provide a comprehensive
search experience, Search Server 2010 Express was configured to work together
seamlessly for both sites.
Corporate Collaboration: how Computacenter can help
• e take an assessment-led approach that enables you to
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prioritise your investment and adoption roadmap based on Microsoft SharePoint for a per user and per gigabyte
business needs charge
• ur corporate collaboration service is closely integrated
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with our networking practice to ensure infrastructure combined experience of Microsoft solutions and are both
readiness and ongoing performance certified Gold Partners
• e bring together the best solutions from vendors such
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as Microsoft, Cisco, Polycom, Avaya and Citrix and can hardware infrastructure in our secure and UK-based
assist with the procurement of software licences and datacenters
hardware components

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Embrace, enrich, empower
The corporate workplace knows no boundaries in terms Visit our UCC Experience Centre
of time or location. To deliver maximum value and achieve
Hatfield, UK
maximum flexibility in this evolving landscape, both
employee and employer need to embrace new ways of Helping you to make an informed decision - hands-on
sharing information and interacting. demonstrations and multi-vendor technology trials.
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UCC provides the foundations for today’s IT-enabled messaging and collaboration
business and tomorrow’s devolved workplace, and strips
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for you
By combining IP communications with email, visual and
corporate collaboration, UCC connects people and To book a visit, please contact your Account Manager.
information to create a joined-up enterprise regardless of
their disparate locations.
Working with a proven partner will enable your organisation
to maximise the benefits of taking an integrated approach
to communication and collaboration and future-proof your
investment.
According to Gartner1, “We are at the start of a 10-year
cycle of UCC change and evolution. The maturity of these
solutions today varies and, as a result, they have different
characteristics in the market and in enterprises.”
Computacenter is the ideal partner to ensure your
organisation avoids the hazards of UCC transformation and
instead unlocks the previously unimagined benefits through
new ways of communication and collaboration.
More information
To find out how Computacenter can help your organisation exploit UCC to maximum effect,
please contact your Computacenter Account Manager or call 0800 014 7420.
Alternatively, email: enquiries@computacenter.com or visit: www.computacenter.com/ucc
Sources
1 Gartner Symposium: Unified Communications and Collaboration Scenario – Is Leveraging
Hybrid Solutions the Key?, Bern Elliot, Matt Cain, October 2011
2 Large Enterprise Survey: IP Telephony and Unified Communications, October 2011, Ovum
3 Cisco Visual Networking Index
4 artner Press Release: Gartner Reveals Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users for
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2012 and Beyond, December 2011

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