October 25, 2005
Unified Messaging
SIP is facilitating the marriage of asynchronous applications like email with real-time applications. This enables unified messaging and helps companies stay connected. Interactive Intelligence, 3Com, etc provide unified messaging applications that are capable of working on a message before it enters the email system. The Find Me, Follow Me (FMFM) functionality checks for pre-configured contacts before moving on to the voice mail.
Unified messaging allows companies to prioritize their communication. The cost of these applications is not very high. The application provided by Siemens costs $ 80 per user per year. The cost of SIP phones are falling as well. informationweek.com reports:
Network Computing's poll paints an interesting picture of unified-messaging adoption. Only 17% of 686 respondents use unified messaging. But every one of our respondents from businesses with more than 5,000 employees say their companies have implemented it.
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