Microsoft Lync Online:
Microsoft Lync Online is a next-generation Cloud communications service that connects people in new ways, anytime, from anywhere. Lync Online provides intuitive communications capabilities across presence, instant messaging, audio/video calling and a rich online meeting experience including PC-audio, video and web conferencing. Microsoft Lync Online transforms your interactions with colleagues, customers and partners from today’s hit-and-miss communication to a more collaborative, engaging, and effective experience.
Microsoft Lync Online helps you to find and quickly connect with the right person, through instant messaging (IM), Lync video calls, or online meetings from within the Office applications you already use everyday. Lync allows you to connect from virtually anywhere through rich prescence, instant messaging (IM), PC-to-PC audio/video calls, and online meetings. The prescence indicator is there to enable you to see when colleagues, partners and suppliers are online and available. It also allows you to conduct rich online meetings, including web conferencing and audio and video, with people both internal and external to your business.
Lync Online also provides users with the ability to share their desktop , online whiteboards and presentations with colleagues and partners inside and outside of the organisation, and click-to-communicate functionality is avaliable with other users of Office 365, Windows Live and Windows Live Messenger.
The Key benefits of Lync Online are:
- Connect with others through Lync contact photos, activity update feed and interactive contact card in Microsoft Office
- Move easily from instant messaging into ad-hoc online meetings including audio, video and screen sharing
- Conduct online presentations to customers and colleagues including audio, video, screen sharing and a virtual whiteboard
- Invite external contacts to easily join online meetings via a native or web-based client
- Connect with customers and partners through instant messaging, audio and video federation
- Feature rich desktop client and web based interfaces.
- Reply to an email with an instant message or an audio call for quicker and more effective resolution of issues
- Instant message with Windows Live contacts View presence status and click-to-communicate from within Outlook, SharePoint and other Office applications
- Financially-backed, guaranteed 99.9% uptime Service Level Agreement
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