Telefónica will market and incorporate Microsoft Office 365 to its Unified Communications platform.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Telefonica and Microsoft have signed an agreement to jointly develop the market for unified communications in large companies and public administrations

He is a strategic alliance that combines the leading innovation of Microsoft IT and the communications services Telephone


Office Phone 365-marketed and incorporate Microsoft Lync its Unified Communications platform

-The agreement will help large companies and governments to evolve their traditional communications environments and to maximize the efficiencies of the new collaboration tools

Madrid, July 6, 2011 .- Telefónica and Microsoft just make a new step in their collaboration to jointly develop the market for Unified Communications. Both companies, which share the same mission focused on improving the lives of people and help develop business, had long been providing innovative services based on Information Technologies and Communication.

By signing this agreement, which is applicable in the context of large corporations and government, both companies' solutions together to provide greater customer value. Telefonica's extensive knowledge of their communications services, along with Microsoft's experience in the section Information Technology, resulting in a differential value proposition for this particular market segment.

While there was agreement between the two companies signed in 2008, the development of technology and social relations in recent years have changed the way in which working groups communicate, revolutionizing the relationship between companies, customers and suppliers. Products Unified Communications Microsoft has been adapting to this new reality, using all the collaboration capabilities in the most effective, while services and personalized management of Telefónica have proved the perfect complement to get the first peak potential.

Because the agreement is renewed on three fundamental points.

Firstly, Telefónica, one step further with the signing of the agreement for the marketing of Office 365, suite of cloud services, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online, which allows users to work anytime and anywhere, improving productivity of companies. It also incorporates Microsoft Lync as a platform for unified communications services, with which Telefónica approached from two years ago, the evolution of communication environments more traditional corporations. Telefónica has been marketing Microsoft products, such as OCS (Office Communication Suite) or Exchange, adding capabilities such as management or accommodation. This new marketing agreement and Microsoft Office 365 Lync is a step in its corporate communications strategy

The second remarkable point of agreement has to do with the patch that Microsoft has in the last year of mobile operating system, your Windows Phone 7. Telefónica is the first operator in Spain to offer phones with this new operating system, you're getting an excellent response from corporate clients, press and analysts. Phone Windows 7 is the result of an ambitious effort to provide a different phone, since it is a smartphone designed to be used in both the personal and professional and offers the best mobile access to Microsoft collaboration applications .

The third element of this agreement is the design and implementation of a joint commercial approach to clients of both companies to draw, client to client, a strategy for the development of its transport communications to large corporations and public bodies worldwide as a new paradigm that makes the partnership a substantial element of their communications.

In short, this agreement, which takes on the dimension of a strategic partnership reinforces both companies approach the market and a guarantee of success. And now is the time, the technology is mature and who better than Telefónica and Microsoft to help big companies and governments extract real and tangible results of the implementation of our joint proposal of Unified Communications services

Microsoft Ibérica (Spain)
Microsoft Ibérica's Spanish subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation. Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to help both the development of talented people and the business potential of increasing their efficiency, productivity and competitiveness. For more information, visit their web pages in Spanish http://www.microsoft.es

About Telefónica
Telefónica, headed by Cesar Alierta, is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world by market capitalization and number of customers. It focuses primarily on business fixed telephony and mobile telephony, with broadband as the key tool for the development of both. It operates in 25 countries and has a customer base of 268 million accesses around the world. Telefonica has a strong presence in Spain, Europe and Latin America where the company focuses an important part of its growth strategy. Telefónica is a listed company. It has more than 1.5 million direct shareholders. Its share capital currently is divided into 4,563,996,485 ordinary shares traded on the continuous market on the Spanish stock exchanges (Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bilbao and Valencia) and the London, Tokyo, New York, Lima, Buenos Aires São Paulo.