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Press release
Unify Introduces OpenScape 4000,
Delivering UC Benefits Today and In the Future
Offers comprehensive UC features including One Number
Service, enhanced security, virtualization; establishes clear
roadmap for future upgrades to Project Ansible
Huizingen, Belgium – 19 November 2013 – Continuing to demonstrate market
momentum and leadership in converged communications, Unify, formerly known as
Siemens Enterprise Communications, today introduced the latest version of its market-leading enterprise communications platform, including key enhancements and
new branding, enabling enterprises to take advantage of the new way to work. The
newly-released Version 7 of OpenScape 4000 – known formerly as HiPath 4000 and
successfully deployed at over 25,000 customer installations in over 80 countries –
includes important new features like One Number service, increased security, and
improved UC integration. Unify also announced that OpenScape 4000 V7 becomes the
release level that will provide customers a clear path to Project Ansible, the company’s
highly-anticipated next-generation communication and collaboration solution.
OpenScape 4000 is a unified communications solution for enterprises looking to increase workplace productivity and effectiveness while continuing to leverage existing
investments in IP and TDM platforms. As a powerful and highly-available communications solution, it offers a rich set of endpoints, mobility choices, edge solutions, unified
communications, and standards-based integration and interoperability with businesscritical applications and systems. With over 25 million ports in service, OpenScape
4000 is the industry’s proven communications solution. Key enhancements to OpenScape 4000 V7 include:
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One Number Service (ONS) now available on all devices, including all OpenStage TDM and IP phones, OpenScape UC soft clients, mobile clients and
cordless handsets, making it easier for anywhere workers to stay connected.
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Seamless integration with OpenScape UC, making it easier for users to
manage their presence status and preferred device list.
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Virtualization capabilities, using industry leading VMware vSphere ESXi 5,
for use in data center deployments that take advantage of a virtualized architecture (private cloud) lowering total cost of ownership.
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Improved security, using OpenScape Cordless Enterprise which reduces the
threat of eavesdropping, by providing a new encryption key every minute, for
all calls.
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Leverages the full business value of the OpenScape Enterprise professional,
managed and maintenance services portfolio.
Building on the HiPath brand’s strong legacy of quality, performance, and customer
satisfaction, the OpenScape brand reiterates Unify’s commitment to helping customers
maximize their technology investment by offering license flexibility with other
OpenScape Enterprise voice platforms, while simplifying the company’s product
portfolio nomenclature.
“Millions of users count on OpenScape technology every day, and the enhancements
we are announcing will further enable those anywhere workers to better connect and
collaborate, while providing companies with enhanced security and technology to drive
down costs,” says Eve Aretakis, EVP and Head of Products at Unify. “We are
committed to helping all of our customers take full advantage of communications
technology that improves business performance and enables the new way to work. The
enhancements in this latest version of OpenScape 4000 underscore that goal.”
Unify says that the latest version of OpenScape 4000 will make it even easier for users
to further enhance inter- and intra-enterprise communications as well as team
collaboration, helping them spend less time orchestrating work and more time doing
it. These goals are consistent with the design principles of the company’s next
generation solution known as Project Ansible. Project Ansible leverages secure,
dynamic collaboration, universal content aggregation, and a consumer-like, singlepane-of-glass experience that drives adoption and seamless integration into business
processes to enhance business performance. Project Ansible will ultimately integrate
into existing communications systems from Unify (and other companies) like the
OpenScape 4000. The company says V7 becomes the base release level for integration
to Project Ansible, providing a clear solution roadmap for customers who may choose
to upgrade as the new solutions become available.
“As Unify moves towards the path to Project Ansible and the new way to work, it is
important that customers get the business benefits of UC today, such as the ability to
support mobile workers, easy collaboration between teams across the enterprise and
the ability to reduce latency in decision making. It’s also essential that existing
customers that have already invested in technology have a simple migration strategy to
the future. Customers do not want to get locked into a dead-end architecture,” says
Tim Banting, Principal Analyst, Collaboration and Communications, Current Analysis.
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“OpenScape 4000 is an important step in that strategy.”
“Unify has truly delivered with the new release of OpenScape 4000 – comprehensive
UC capabilities, virtualization and improved security,” says Ralf Stäheli, Vice President
Enterprise Telephony Business, Swisscom Corporate Business. “In particular, the advanced encryption provided by OpenScape Cordless Enterprise will deliver real benefits to our customers.”
“The new capabilities available in OpenScape 4000 version 7 have been a great way for
Atos to experience the benefits of a comprehensive UC platform without having to
completely rip and replace our existing communications system,” says Oliver Vogl,
Operational Team Leader for Atos. “One Number Service in particular was something
we were looking to add, and it has provided immediate benefits to our users by making
it easier to stay in touch even away from the office. The modern architecture supports a
variety of flexible deployment models and that is what we were looking for as well.”
OpenScape 4000 is available now, directly from Unify and from our global network of
partners.
About Unify
Unify – formerly known as Siemens Enterprise Communications – is a premier
communications software and services firm. Our solutions unify multiple networks,
devices and applications into one easy-to-use platform that allows teams to engage in
rich and meaningful conversations. The result is a transformation of how the
enterprise communicates and collaborates that amplifies collective effort, energizes the
business, and enhances business performance. Born out of the engineering DNA of
Siemens AG, Unify builds on this heritage of product reliability, innovation, open
standards and security to provide integrated communications solutions for
approximately 75% of the Global 500. Unify is a joint venture of The Gores Group and
Siemens AG.
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This release contains forward-looking statements based on beliefs of Unify's
management. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "forecast," "expect,"
"intend," "plan," "should," and "project" are used to identify forward-looking
statements. Such statements reflect the company's current views with respect to future
events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual
results to be materially different, including, among others, changes in general
economic and business conditions, changes in currency exchange rates and interest
rates, introduction of competing products, lack of acceptance of new products or
services and changes in business strategy. Actual results may vary materially from
those projected here. Unify does not intend or assume any obligation to update these
forward-looking statements.
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