HP is joining the latest telecoms competition by offering its own unified communications solution.
Working with partners such as Microsoft, Tandberg and Alcatel-Lucent, the company is offering the combined mobile, desk phone and computer deal to both commercial and public sector organisations.
In an interview with IT PRO Tim Banks, Unified Communications Solutions lead at HP, said the company had been involved with the technology for sometime but was now determined to make a push of its own.
"We have been engaged with activity for years. People are used to a solution with a number of different components and we have been delivering some of these for 10 years," he said.
"[However] the market place is ramping up in activity and we have had a strong focus on this now for 12 months with lots of activity internally in the company."
The company is now offering what it calls a "virtual workplace" believing through the solution it offers organisations can drive down costs whilst increasing efficiency.
"What we are offering today is a solution that composed of the best in class products combined with our own lifecycle services," added Banks.
The main partner helping to provide these "best in class" technologies is Microsoft. The mobile element of the solution is made to be used on handsets with the Windows Mobile Platform and the PC push is for Windows.
Banks confirmed mobile solutions would be available for BlackBerry, Symbian or iPhone handsets too and that Linux would be catered for on the PC as the company tried not to "constrain customers."
First phase deployments and trials can cost as little as 25,000 to 50,000 and be deployed onsite within two and four weeks for trials, according to Banks. The systems are designed to be scalable as a business grows or a customer wants to include more users.
