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Unify Announces Details for Project Ansible,
Its Solution for the New Way to Work
-- In Response to Strong Market Interest, Unify Accelerates
Timeline and Creates a Customer Advisory Council
for Project Ansible --
Munich, Germany and New York City, USA – October 15, 2013 – Today Unify,
formerly Siemens Enterprise Communications, announced details of Project Ansible, a
secure and engaging communications and collaboration platform first officially debuted to
wide acclaim from customers and analysts in June 2013. Based on strong interest from
customers, partners and carriers, Unify announced an acceleration of the timeline for Project
Ansible, including initial customer trials in January and expected general availability
scheduled for July, 2014.
As part of today’s news, Unify announced that the platform’s first version will
support four communication channels simultaneously – voice, video, text and remote screen
sharing. The platform’s first version will also enable users to move multichannel
conversations intact from device to device using a simple gesture or “call swipe.” Also, Unify
confirmed that the first version of Project Ansible would be delivered as a cloud-based,
software-as-a-service (SAAS) offering. Furthermore, Project Ansible will be designed to
complement a broad array of existing solutions, including Unify’s own award-winning
OpenScape portfolio as well as corporate telephony solutions from other vendors like Cisco
and Avaya.
Unify made this announcement in conjunction with the launch of its new brand and
updated business vision focused on the future of work. The launch took place in a global web
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cast and at events in New York and Munich. Read details of the new company brand here.
“We are challenging the status quo of what businesses should expect of enterprise
communications technology so that we can answer the call of the new way to work, and help
enhance our customers’ business performance,” said Hamid Akhavan, CEO of Unify. “The
expectations of the next generation of enterprise workers go beyond today’s systems.
Customers, partners and carriers are excited about the possibilities they see in Project
Ansible and we are moving rapidly ahead. With Project Ansible, we can help existing
customers enhance their return on technology investments through an evolutionary
approach. We will significantly expand our market opportunity in a move likely disruptive to
our competitors by offering the benefits of Project Ansible to their customers,” Akhavan said.
Developed with frog after extensive industry and customer research, Project
Ansible will reshape the way businesses and their employees interact, communicate and
collaborate. The platform pulls together and manages the daily flow of communications into
rich and meaningful conversations by aggregating communications across virtually any
channel into a single view. Project Ansible features a unique, consumer technology-like user
experience that encourages adoption and brings joy of work to users. The new platform also
seamlessly integrates into enterprise business processes, providing opportunity for enhanced
business operations.
Project Ansible leverages an agile development methodology, where constant
customer validation and feedback are critical. To this end, the company announced the
establishment of the Project Ansible Customer Advisory Council. The company also said
that registration for Unify’s initial beta testing of Project Ansible is already oversubscribed, a
further indication of customer, partner and carrier interest in the offering.
“Interestingly, we are seeing an entirely new company – redesigned and ready to go
head to head with the industry’s biggest competitors,” said Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst
at ZK Research. “Unify is putting forth the vision, brand and -- with Project Ansible -- the
right platform, to make it happen. The Project Ansible user experience is a great example of
how enterprise communication should work and how we as users want to work. It will
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redefine how we all interact, communicate and collaborate as part of daily work.”
About Project Ansible
The result of a two year development effort, including extensive research on user
requirements and preferences, Project Ansible is a next-generation communications and
collaboration platform from Unify. Developed in collaboration with frog, Project Ansible is
the first platform to deliver a unique, single-pane-of-glass user experience across virtually all
devices and designed to extend beyond the promises of unified communications (UC),
aggregating information and data across virtually every channel, including social software,
business applications, video, text, analytics, and traditional voice communication. For more
information, please visit www.ProjectAnsible.com, www.unify.com/ProjectAnsible or
#ProjectAnsible.
About Unify
Unify—formerly known as Siemens Enterprise Communications—is one of the world’s
leading communications software and services firms. 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 percent of the Global
500. Unify is a joint venture of The Gores Group and Siemens AG.
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including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, changes in
currency exchange rates and interest rates, introduction of competing products, lack of
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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
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