NextPlane
Federation Cloud Accommodates More than 127, 000 Users and 280
million Messages across Multiple UC Platforms over 30-day Period.
SUNNYVALE,
Calif. (June 27, 2012) -- In May, NextPlane,
Inc., the market leader in cloud-based federation
services for unified communications (UC), posted a record month
connecting more businesses than ever into federated business
communities through the NextPlane Federation Cloud service. NextPlane
federated UC traffic exceeded a quarter of a billion messages during
the month, illustrating the growing demand for federation between
disparate UC platforms to enable real-time, collaborative business
communities using cloud computing.
Forward-looking
global organizations in a number of industries, including
manufacturing, automotive, oil and gas, media, pharmaceuticals and
financial services, are integrating the NextPlane Federation Cloud
into their enterprise business strategy. During the month, the
NextPlane Federation Cloud service federated a total of:
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1,090 unique domains, connecting more than
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127,925 unique users, and more than
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280 million IM, multi-user chat and presence messages transited the
NextPlane service.
This
highlights the increase in demand for a solution that brings users
locked in siloed unified communications platforms together in a
collaborative business community. NextPlane offers the only
cloud-based presence, IM, multi-user chat, voice and video federation
service. The NextPlane Federation Cloud service provides the ability
to federate with the widest reach of business partners – supporting
all major UC platforms including Microsoft LCS, OCS, OCS R2 and Lync,
Cisco Jabber XCP, CUPS and Webex Connect, IBM Sametime, Google Apps,
Jive OpenFire, ISODE M-Link and eJabberd. In addition, NextPlane
Federation Cloud members benefit from enhanced services such as
guaranteed service levels, policies, and a wide variety of reporting
and analytics tools.
“Unified
communications speeds time-to-market with real-time collaboration,
and our cloud-based solution breaks down the interoperability
barriers between UC platforms,” said Farzin Shahidi, Founder and
CEO of NextPlane. “More businesses are realizing that building
federated partner communities using presence, chat, voice, and video
has a competitive advantage and saves them time and money.”
According
to a study by Fonality, using unified communications saves workers 75
percent of the time they normally waste trying to track down
associates and information, and 50 percent of the time wasted trying
to contact customers. The same study indicates that if you calculate
the value of unified communications for 50 workers, each earning an
average salary of $40,000 per year, the savings in productivity would
be $942,000 annually. When you calculate the value of those UC
efficiencies by expanding collaboration with federation to business
partners, the savings in time and money multiply exponentially.
The
NextPlane Federation Cloud service accelerates building federated
business communities by eliminating the need to set up and maintain
separate federation to multiple partners. In addition, NextPlane
Federation Cloud subscribers enjoy unprecedented control over which
types of traffic (IM, presence, voice, video, and file transfer) are
allowed or denied across any of their federated partners. Finally,
using NextPlane’s unique analytics and reporting tools, companies
are gaining valuable insight into how collaboration with their
federated partner community is driving their business.
To
demonstrate the value of the NextPlane Federation Cloud to build
collaborative business communities, NextPlane is offering a 30-day
trial to qualifying organizations. For more information, visit
http://www.nextplane.net.
About
NextPlane, Inc.
NextPlane
offers the NextPlane Federation Could service for unified
communications (UC) platforms, seamlessly federating Microsoft LCS,
OCS, OCS R2 and Lync, Cisco Jabber XCP, CUPS and Webex Connect, IBM
Sametime, Google Apps, Jive OpenFire, ISODE M-Link and eJabberd.
Using the NextPlane Federation Cloud service, organizations can
connect users from different companies regardless of underlying UC
platforms - with shared presence, instant messaging, multi-user chat,
voice and video - as if they are on the same UC platform.
NextPlane
offers an ideal solution for companies migrating from one UC platform
to another, or to integrate different legacy platforms following a
company merger or a new contract or partnership. NextPlane even
supports domain sharing, allowing two or more UC platforms to
federate internally and externally using the same domain name.
For
more information please visit http://www.nextplane.net,
or contact sales at sales@nextplane.net.
Contact:
Farzin
Shahidi
NextPlane,
Inc.
(650)
305-7404
Tom
Woolf
Woolf
Media & Marketing
(415)
259-5638
