Overview

Together, AT&T and Polycom provide unique value to your organization by helping to transform traditional business models. Your organization can realize tremendous gains in productivity while reducing costs by creating a high performance workplace that drives:

• High impact communication
• Collaborative, FAST decision making
• The agility and ability to react to market needs
• Improved time to market
• The ability to effectively leverage the worker knowledge base among geographically dispersed teams
• A competitive advantage

Applications

• C-Level Boardroom and executive meetings
• Video contact centers
• Staff meetings and any collaborative sessions
• Education
• Medical: Telemedicine applications, consults, grand rounds and remote diagnostics
• Government: Mobile responder and judicial arraignment bundles
• Human resources: Staff development, communication and interviewing
• Product development collaboration
• Law firms for depositions, interviews
• Regularly scheduled or ad-hoc meetings
• Any and all communication between geographically dispersed co-workers

Customer Solutions

The following is an example of how AT&T and Polycom worked with a major manufacturing company to find innovative solutions to a business challenge.

Business Challenge:

Increase speed of global innovation by providing "real-time" meeting access to key decision makers and engineers in over 100 locations in North America.

AT&T / Polycom Solution:

A bundled offering of AT&T network integration capabilities, Polycom hardware & software and ongoing On-Site and Remote IP Management from AT&T that transfored the company's operations group into a leading-edge collaboration technology service bureau.

Business Value

• Allowed this customer to save significant funds per year on third party bridging / network services
• Integrated real-time reporting tools to spot trends and determine future cost reductions
• Upgraded all conference rooms to allow for multi-media collaboration in business/ engineering meetings, significantly increasing productivity