Kansas City Cloud Computing User Group Meets to Discuss Lync Unified Communications 

What Is Lync Online?

Lync is an exciting new Microsoft technology that can transform your interactions with colleagues, customers, and partners to a collaborative, engaging, and effective experience all while staying in control of end-user permissions and policies and cutting infrastructure costs:

Leverage Presence and Instant Messaging
Workers can view the availability status of their colleagues and share their own status so that they may find and communicate with one another efficiently and effectively.

Interact from within Microsoft Office
Presence information is consistently available in Outlook, SharePoint, and other Office applications by default. Hovering over the presence icon displays a menu that can be used for initiating a conversation from the application.

Communicate Efficiently
Move easily from an instant messaging conversations into an ad-hoc online meeting that can include audio, video and screen sharing with just a few mouse clicks.

Build Stronger Connections
Keep up with your co-workers through the activity feed that shows updates from contacts when they change their personal note, picture, title, or location.

Collaborate Effectively
Schedule online meetings and presentations with customers and colleagues directly from within Outlook. Include audio, video, screen sharing and a virtual whiteboard as it suits your meeting needs.

Reduce Infrastructure Costs
Lync Online can help you achieve cost reductions in web- and teleconferencing services, IT and telephone engineering workload reductions, and Help desk call volume reductions.