Siemens collaborates with leading manufacturers to integrate HiPath voice communication in third-party applications and business processes

Siemens Information and Communication Networks (IC Networks) is broadening its HiPath strategy with the aim of offering business customers realtime communication solutions that can be combined with other vendors' solutions and used on non-Siemens communication platforms.

Siemens Information and Communication Networks (IC Networks) is broadening its HiPath strategy with the aim of offering business customers realtime communication solutions that can be combined with other vendors' solutions and used on non-Siemens communication platforms. Together with leading partners, Siemens is developing multimedia and realtime communication components that interoperate with those of other manufacturers and can be integrated in applications of third-party providers.

Siemens' HiPath strategy focuses on four key areas

-   The development of products for third-party platforms:
Together with innovative partners, Siemens is developing solutions that can be embedded in third-party software applications. For example, Siemens was the first company to publicly demonstrate interoperability with Windows XP in October 2001. Siemens is continuing to cooperate with Microsoft to create products that interoperate within a common infrastructure to leverage presence and instant messaging capabilities. Siemens is opening a liaison office at Microsoft to further intensify the long-standing cooperation between both teams of developers and focus this on realtime communication solutions that integrate with Microsoft's realtime communications client. The liaison office will be sited alongside Microsoft's Redmond/Washington headquarters and will include representatives of Siemens' product development and sales organizations.

-   Certifying third-party products:
Siemens strives to offer customers the best available solution on the market by testing and certifying best-of-breed products from other vendors for interoperability with Siemens products and solutions. Through the HiPath Ready Partner program, Siemens offers its customers simplified integration and interoperability with third-party solutions. Developers around the world come to Siemens to certify their products on a global basis.

-   Certification by other vendors:
Siemens also has its solutions tested and certified by leading Customer Relationship Management software vendors so that Siemens solutions can be deployed with confidence to interoperate with these products.

-   Co-marketing and sales activities:
Siemens participates in numerous co-marketing and sales activities with other vendors to offer customers the most complete set of communication solutions possible. For example, the partnership between Siemens and Enterasys Networks combines complementary core competencies and skills to deliver best-in-class enterprise solutions. Enterasys provides a network infrastructure that delivers complex services for HiPath and so guarantees end-to-end QoS (Quality of Service), availability, and security for converged IP networks.

"Siemens' IP telephony strategy is just right," according to Zeus Kerravala, Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure at the Yankee Group. "Enterprise customers need to find a way to drive user productivity while bringing costs down. Siemens' vision addresses these business concerns, not just the technology issues. Siemens has chosen world-class partners and should be the first choice of any enterprise looking to move forward with IP telephony," Kerravala continued.

"Siemens is a noteworthy innovator in the VoIP sector. We are pleased to have Siemens build its innovative HiPath products on Microsoft's 'Greenwich' platform. The secure, standard-based, and expandable Microsoft technologies will be linked to realtime applications such as voice to meet customers' needs," said Gurdeep Singh Pall, General Manager of the real-time communications and collaboration group at Microsoft Corp.

"We've remained true to our strategy of launching communication solutions that are based on standards that will continue to be supported and harmonize with best-of-breed applications of other vendors," said Mark Straton, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing of Siemens ICN's Enterprise Networks Division. "This was also the underlying philosophy of our HiPath IP convergence strategy announced two years ago. And we've been guided by the same vision in developing additional initiatives, programs, and partnerships aimed at giving our customers access to the best communication solutions available on the market today," Straton continued. "The goal we're pursuing right now is to enrich the communication aspects of business processes through joint product development efforts with sector leaders like Microsoft," Straton concluded.

HiPath is the Siemens Enterprise Convergence Architecture. It allows companies, in accordance with their own individual requirements and securing existing investments, to further develop their existing voice and data infrastructures, and, if necessary, to implement new IP (Internet Protocol) technologies. The extensive product portfolio offers companies various options for organizing the further development of their infrastructures on the basis of value creation and RoI (Return on Investment): There isn't one right way, but there is 'the' right way for each business.
To date, more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500 companies have already opted for a Siemens Enterprise solution. Customers include BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ford, IBM, Kodak, Oracle, Sofor and Volvo.
Additional information about HiPath is available at: http://www.hipath.com/

Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group (ICN) is a leading provider of integrated voice and data networks for enterprises, carriers and service providers. Its comprehensive portfolio comprises, in particular, IP-based convergence solutions, and a full range of products for broadband access, optical transport networks as well as the integration, services and applications business. The Siemens Group thus provides complete solutions from a single source for the infrastructure of the Next Generation Internet, a prerequesite for mobile business. In fiscal year 2000 (year-end 30 September) ICN posted sales of 11.4 billion euro, and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of 692 million euro. ICN employs 53,000 people worldwide.
Further information about ICN is available at: http://www.ic.siemens.com/networks

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