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Software Strategy to Drive Global Adoption of HD Video Through Interoperability and Open Standards
Polycom's software strategy is designed to bring secure HD video collaboration to the broadest range of business, video, mobile, and social networking applications through standards-based infrastructure delivered on-premises, hosted or with service providers from the 'video cloud'. Polycom's goal is to become the default choice of customers and partners for open UC and HD video collaboration solutions that work together seamlessly, across any application, protocol, call control system or end point.
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Polycom software will be increasingly present in desktop, mobile, and social networking platforms. From the cloud infrastructure, to group environments, to the fixed and mobile edge, Polycom software solutions are a living investment that adapts as customers' needs change. 
Andy Miller, President & CEO, Polycom, Inc. |
Commitment to Open Standards and Interoperability
Fundamental to Polycom's strategy is a commitment to open standards-based interoperability across all of the elements in a communications environment – including multiple products, vendors, networks, and connection protocols. This gives customers the freedom to choose best-of-breed solutions for instant messaging, presence, call control, web conferencing, video collaboration, mobile and social platforms, from any of hundreds of different vendors, with assurance that the solutions will:
- Seamlessly interoperate within normal business workflows;
- Be backward-compatible and forward-compatible;
- Be protocol-agnostic
- Deliver the essential system scalability, reliability, security, and lifelike experiences customers expect from Polycom
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Microsoft is committed to interoperability and choice; a key priority we share in common with our strategic partner Polycom. Together, we are excited about bringing integrated solutions to our customers, and driving innovative, game-changing video collaboration offerings to market that enhance business productivity. The Polycom RealPresence Platform is a compelling solution that will further drive the adoption of video collaboration, and it registers to the Microsoft Lync server.
Kirk Gregersen, Senior Director, Microsoft Lync™ |
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Low cost video on desktops and mobile devices combined with new 'social' forms of communications will change how enterprises define Unified Communications. IBM has established itself as a market leader in real-time collaboration, social software and UC interoperability and is a member of Polycom Open Collaboration Network. The integration of Polycom's RealPresence Platform with IBM Sametime enables you to seamlessly extend your collaborative and social experience to Polycom's HD telepresence with products that are in the market today
Caleb Barlow, Director of Unified Communications and Collaboration, IBM |
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Customers are seeking ways to enable their employees to share information faster, increase responsiveness, and ultimately improve productivity. By collaborating with HP and Polycom, customers will transform their communications infrastructure and benefit from an end-to-end UC solution that will address their needs today and in the future.
Arthur Filip, Vice President and General Manager, HP Technology Consulting |
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Jive is excited to partner with Polycom to bring the latest innovation in video communications to our customers. This partnership is yet another step in our commitment to leverage the power of social to change the way business gets done in the enterprise.
Chris Morace, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Jive |
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Polycom's RealPresence Platform, specifically their application programming interfaces (APIs), will allow us to customize our offerings, providing the cloud-delivered applications and services customers want. By deeply integrating with the Polycom RealPresence Platform and Open Visual Communications Consortium roadmaps, we will create and offer new, unique, and compelling video conferencing solutions that are as easy and intuitive for our customers as a regular BT voice call.
Tim Passingham, Vice President, EMEA, BT Conferencing |
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Throughout our longstanding relationship, BroadSoft and Polycom have worked to meet the rising demand for cloud-delivered communications services offered through our service provider partners. Our BroadCloud offering, powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, delivers a compelling ‘video as a service' delivered through the cloud. Polycom's innovations are key to helping our service providers better serve their customer base and maximize the business value. Together, we work with our service provider partners to lower the cost and complexity of deploying and using video solutions.
Leslie Ferry, CMO, BroadSoft |
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Juniper Networks and Polycom have leveraged our best-in-breed strengths in network architecture and unified communications (UC) to change how UC and video traffic are handled on a single converged network. Polycom's software strategy is setting the conversation in the industry, and together Juniper and Polycom are helping customers maximize their UC and network investments. The Polycom RealPresence Platform dynamically interacts with our high-performance network solutions to provide unmatched quality, scalability, and efficiency of video services to customers.
Brad Brooks, Vice President of Enterprise Marketing at Juniper Networks |
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Businesses need tools that make it easier and faster for employees to collaborate more efficiently. The combination of the Polycom software solutions with our services expertise will give customers flexibility and cost efficiency benefits – they will be able to choose solutions available in the cloud, on premise or both, all of which will help accelerate the adoption of video conferencing.
Andrew McFadzen, Vice President - Head of Global Marketing - Network Solutions, Orange Business Services |
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Video communication is key to dramatically improving efficiency for our customers, and Polycom and Siemens Enterprise Communications share a common framework for a complete unified communications software solution. The Polycom RealPresence Platform seamlessly integrates with our OpenScape UC platform to deliver a complete, scalable, comprehensive video and UC solution that helps customers increase teamwork and collaboration. Together Siemens and Polycom help customers achieve the productivity-enhancing benefits of open-standards, flexible unified communications, while protecting their existing investments.
Chris Hummel, Chief Marketing Officer and President, North America, Siemens Enterprise Communications |
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Conferencing solutions are becoming an integral part of all corporate strategies at all levels, be it tele-presence solutions or basic desktop conferencing. Our world class network services combined with best-in-class technology solutions from Polycom will help us unlock the potential of the rapidly growing video conferencing market in India and OVCC will be a big catalyst in the process. We are happy to be associated with OVCC.
Ajay Chitkara, CEO Global Data Business, Airtel |
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While many know Polycom for their popular end points, increasingly its Polycom’s software that is appealing to customers who need help 'unifying' all their UC tools – especially as video collaboration extends beyond their firewalls. Together, the Polycom RealPresence Platform and the broad partner ecosystem around it helps CIOs protect their existing investments in UC and prepare them for future technologies and solutions with a high level of assurance that everything will work together.
Rich Costello, Senior Research Analyst, IDC |
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At TBS, Inc., we continually seek to drive innovation to remain ahead of other media outlets competing for the attention of our global audiences. As we move to the future, the Polycom RealPresence Platform will make it possible for us to deliver our mobility goals across devices and disciplines while meeting our interoperability requirements for the full extent of our media, and pre- and post-production systems.
Dan Darling, CIO, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc |
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Innovation is one of our core competencies. Our Polycom RealPresence Platform give us a competitive edge because our managers can communicate more quickly and react faster. Polycom puts our geographically separated executives in a life-like virtual conference room without the inconvenience of long-distance flights. This results in faster decisions, saved travel costs and more productive employees.
Gunter Bert, Associate Manager Networking and Telecommunications Corporate Information Services, Merck KGaA |
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The Polycom RealPresence Platform installed at our head office in Lagos, Nigeria delivers the integrated network functionality and connectivity we wanted while ensuring an unsurpassed collaboration experience for our users.
Steve Horne, Chief Technology Officer United Bank of Africa Group |
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Polycom customized a solution to meet our unique requirements as a manufacturer with geographically-dispersed production facilities. The flexibility and scalability of the Polycom RealPresence Platform also means we can connect more people across the organization in true high-definition quality.
Mr. Zhang Huarong, Chairman and President, Hua Jian Group |
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