Tightening Microsoft Lync-Polycom Collaboration: New Team Up Solutions in the Market

Polycom, Inc. tightened its collaboration with Microsoft Lync when it announced the expansion of the company’s portfolio, featuring 40 offerings resulted from the company’s partnership with Microsoft Lync. This tight integration between the two is expected to help users to efficiently start and manage both remote participants and the meeting room in meetings.

Organizations are expected to rely on the collaborative efforts that resulted to Microsoft Lync and Polycom solutions. The solutions will make it easier for spread out employees to still continue collaborating and connecting with each other through voice and video collaboration sessions, especially within familiar business workflows and applications. One of which is the Polycom® CX8000 room system for Microsoft Lync.

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Built on the Polycom® CX5000 Unified Conference Station, a panoramic, 360-degree 720p HD video collaboration system, Polycom® CX8000 room system for Microsoft Lync is a Microsoft Lync video conferencing system with uses that include:

• Application sharing
• Contact search
• Editing on shared documents
• Instant messaging
• HD video conferencing
• HD audio
• Presence
• Virtual white boarding
• Touch display-powered presentations

Offering through its 360-degree camera customized for Microsoft Lync, a center-of-table experience, Polycom® CX8000 room system for Microsoft Lync has several features that include a built-in multiparty video. Along with this is a better experience both for video and audio that powers the standards-based SVC or Scalable Video Coding implementation. Available in selected countries in March, Polycom® CX8000 room system for Microsoft Lync drives greater ROI and increases usage, when collaboration is made in Microsoft Lync environments.

In the Polycom® CX8000 room system for Microsoft Lync, Polycom also plans to offer Polycom® CX5100 Unified Conference Station as an optional feature. In contrast to its predecessor, it offers 1080p HD video collaboration camera and phone combination. It offers an around-the-table-group experience that can easily be connected to PCs through USB connection.  

Take a look at what experts and other professionals in the industry have to say about the new solutions:

New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Information & Technology General Manager Arian de Wit said, “We turned to Microsoft and Polycom for a state-of-the-art and feature-rich unified communications solution that is easy to use and manage. Previously, we had been dealing with a very fragmented, aging and unreliable set of phone systems solutions from a range of vendors. We first installed Microsoft Lync for presence and IM and then added Polycom phones. The result has been excellent voice quality that’s helped us remove the barrier of distance between our employees and we’ve had great feedback about the ease-of-use of phone features like voicemail and dial-by-name. We’ve been so pleased with the simplicity and ease of use that we will look at replacing our aging videoconferencing systems from another vendor soon, as they now seem like a ‘legacy’ solution. The Microsoft and Polycom solution and direction is clearly superior to other options.” 

Polycom Strategic Alliances Group Vice President Ted Colton said, “Companies of all sizes recognise the need to break down the barrier of distance between dispersed teams of customers, partners and employees to harness the benefits of collaborating together in real time to solve everyday challenges. The Polycom CX8000 room system for Microsoft Lync meets this need with an intuitive and natural experience. We are excited to deliver this solution to the market building upon Polycom’s portfolio of Microsoft Lync solutions and services.” 

Microsoft Lync Product Marketing General Manager Giovanni Mezgec said, “We have long worked with Polycom to ensure our solutions are interoperable and we’re delighted to add Polycom CX8000 for Microsoft Lync video system to the portfolio. With Polycom, we’re able to solve the problems organisations face. Together we provide reliable unified communications and collaboration because Polycom shares our commitment to providing the highest quality products and superior customer support.” 

ZK Research founder and principal analyst Zeus Kerravala said, "Customers demand simple to deploy, easy to use, interoperable solutions. The close alliance between Polycom and Microsoft provides those end-to-end unified collaboration solutions that the industry wants and needs. The expanded portfolio of video and voice solutions optimised for Microsoft Lync is proof that Polycom is committed to delivering on its strategic relationship with Microsoft so that they can provide greater value for their joint customers around the world." 

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