Unified Communications and Collaboration - Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service for Government

Drive results with better communications and collaboration.

Making the move to a cloud-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) platform is a strategy that can work to your advantage. Why? Because outsourcing non-core services lets you focus on mission-critical tasks and helps improve productivity across the organization.

Get everyone on the same page with flexible, effective unified communications and collaboration tools.

An agency’s success or failure depends on its ability to communicate and collaborate effectively. Whether you’re looking to increase productivity, accelerate innovation or improve citizen engagement, building and streamlining quality connections between people and the information they need is key. Unified communications as a service (UCaaS) solutions can help you achieve some of those objectives, but combining it with collaboration—sharing knowledge and seamlessly working together any time, on virtually any device, from nearly any location— is the key to your organization’s success.

Our solution, Unified Communications and Collaboration as a Service (UCCaaS), gives you a complete set of tools on a reliable and efficient cloud-based platform. UCCaaS speeds and improves the way your teams communicate and collaborate, putting everyone on the same page and working more productively toward shared objectives.

UCCaaS — the right fit for your enterprise needs

UCCaaS allows organizations to customize communications and collaboration capabilities in order to meet mission-specific needs. Whether you have requirements around regulatory compliance, enterprise resource planning or customer relationship management integration, existing Private IP networks or other needs, UCCaaS can help you:

• Control operating costs through service integration.
• Improve productivity and agility by enabling teams to connect easily.
• Easily scale to meet changing workforce demands.

UCCaaS as a cloud-based platform

Communicate and collaborate nearly anywhere and on any device.

Expand the way your organization communicates and collaborates with employees, partners, suppliers and citizens. UCCaaS delivers a scalable, cloud-based platform that helps your teams more easily and readily connect with each other on any device, to share ideas and make critical decisions.

With UCCaaS, your agency will be able to:

• Bring together voice, data, messaging, email, conferencing, and file and desktop sharing.
• Conduct virtual meetings with HD video and voice calling, as well as an integrated desktop messaging app.
• Use presence and sharing tools to inform others of your availability and status.
• Share files, URLs and desktop presentations via WebEx.

UCCaaS helps reduce the complexity of deploying a collaboration solution, allowing you to get it up and running quickly. Simplified, built-in lifecycle management features free up your IT staff to focus on driving your organization forward, instead of having to spend time managing, maintaining or upgrading your communications and collaboration systems.

UCCaaS Expressway

There’s a better way to empower your mobile workforce.

Business keeps your employees constantly on the go, which means mobile devices serve as their primary connections to your organization. Now there’s an easier way to connect employees—and keep them connected—to the tools and information they need to be productive using their mobile devices: UCCaaS Expressway.

With UCCaaS Expressway, you can:

• Enable access for employees who use personally owned devices to important business information, apps and systems without the need for an agency-provided VPN connection.
• Provide users access to voice, video, voicemail and chat outside the corporate network.
• Launch a WebEx session for ad-hoc virtual meetings.

A secure, dedicated solution

Opt for a FedRAMP^SM-Authorized solution*.

Verizon UCCaaS for Government provides a strong layer of security and reliability to unified communications and collaboration solutions. These services can help you:

• Reduce capital expenses and control operational costs while giving you a high-availability, highly secure solution.
• Keep information safe with a dedicated, customer-specific connection that includes overlapping layers of protection.
• Control the flow of traffic to and from your private cloud with network firewalls, protecting against threats from inside or outside your organization.

*Verizon’s UCCaaS for Government is built on Cisco’s FedRAMP Authorized HCS-G Hosted Collaboration Solution for Government. Availability scheduled for later in 2Q2017.

Business Value calculator

See the benefits in dollars and cents.

How do you know if your investments in UCCaaS are providing the value they should? Try our Business Value calculator to find out.

This tool can show you how UCCaaS can help improve your communications and collaboration—not to mention your bottom line. You’ll receive a detailed report that shows you all the estimated benefits that come from using our UCCaaS solution, including:

• Employee cost savings, such as the costs for recruiting and training.
• Workforce productivity and overall meeting efficiency improvements.
• Potential operational cost savings, like with travel expenses and office rentals.

Calculate the business value of UCCaaS