Microsoft Lync for Mac - Software assurance - charity - Open Value - 3 Year Acquired Year 1, additional product - Mac - Single Language

Microsoft Lync ushers in a connected user experience transforming every communication into an interaction that is more collaborative, engaging, and accessible from anywhere. For IT, the benefits are equally powerful, with a highly secure and reliable system that works with existing tools and systems for easier management, lower cost of ownership, smoother deployment and migration, and greater choice and flexibility.
From controlling costs to managing compliance, Microsoft Lync delivers value that speaks to the needs of the organizations.

• Control costs
• Improve productivity
• Support the mobile workforce
• Gain operational efficiencies
• Maintain regulatory compliance

• Control costs
  Voice over IP (VoIP) enables communications among geographically dispersed company locations without long distance charges. Integrated audio, video, and web conferencing helps reduce travel costs as well as the cost of third-party conferencing solutions.
• Improve productivity
  Rich presence information helps employees find each other and choose the most effective way to communicate at a given time. Instead of e-mailing documents back and forth for approval, workers can rely on real-time collaboration through enhanced conferencing with desktop, application, and virtual whiteboard sharing - or contact a collaborator from within Microsoft Office or other applications.
• Support the mobile workforce
  Mobile workers get access to rich unified communications tools from practically anywhere with an Internet connection, no VPN needed. An updated Lync mobile client makes joining and managing conferences, searching the global address list, and viewing presence information easy. A single user experience across PC, phone, mobile phone, and browser gives workers more ways to stay in touch.
• Gain operational efficiencies
  By integrating unified communications and rich presence into business workflows, latency and delays can be reduced or eliminated. For geographically dispersed teams, group chat can enable efficient, topic-specific, multi-party discussions that persist over time.
• Maintain regulatory compliance
  Built-in security, encryption, archiving, and call detail records help meet regulatory requirements. By using your own servers and network, you maintain control over sensitive data that would otherwise be transmitted over public telephone networks and third-party conferencing platforms.

Microsoft Lync ushers in a connected user experience transforming every communication into an interaction that is more collaborative, engaging, and accessible from anywhere. For IT, the benefits are equally powerful, with a highly secure and reliable system that works with existing tools and systems for easier management, lower cost of ownership, smoother deployment and migration, and greater choice and flexibility.