Unify launches with mission to transform business communications

MUNICH, GERMANY: Unify, formerly known as Siemens Enterprise Communications, is one of the world's leading communications software and services firms. Unify has set out to change the way companies communicate and collaborate, helping them spend less time orchestrating work and more time doing it.

Unify said significant forces were reshaping the communications and IT industries like the consumerization of IT, bring your own device (BYOD), the role of millennials and the impact of "anywhere workers" essentially defining a new way to work.

The launch of the new brand builds upon significant momentum and market recognition gained from the company's unveiling of Project Ansible in June 2013. Project Ansibleis a new communications and collaboration platform that leveragess ecure, dynamic collaboration, universal content aggregation, and a consumer-like, single-pane-of glass experience that drives adoption and seamless integration into business processes to enhance business performance.

Based on strong interest from customers, partners and carriers, Unify announced that it has accelerated the timeline of Project Ansible, with customer deliveries expected to begin in July 2014. The platform will be first available as a cloud-based, SAAS (software as a service) offering that would complement OpenScape solutions from Unify, and corporate telephone systems from peer competitors.