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Extending the Functionality of Cisco Unified Presence Environments

Deploying Cisco Unified Presence v8 (CUP8) is one of the first steps to take advantage of the benefits of Unified Communications (UC). However, in heterogeneous environments where the UC platform operates alongside other communications applications, the overall security, management and compliance becomes more complex.

Aside from the obvious hazard of malware using unauthorized channels to subversively enter the network, deploying CUP8 without the means to enforce other communications channels from being used adds the danger that organizations are not monitoring everything that leaves or enters the network. Add to this a lack of management to consistently enforce disclaimers, manage content filtering, and provide granular control over all Internet communications and it is clear that releasing the full potential of unified communications and collaboration requires specialist technology to meet the security, management, and compliance issues created when deploying a UC platform.

Actiance's award-winning platform, Vantage, extends and augments CUP8's native functionality with security, compliance, policy enforcement, reporting, and archiving, without impacting the scalability or the performance of a CUP8 deployment. Actiance's extensive functionality enables enterprises to embrace internal and external collaboration, with the ability to create ethical boundaries and block or control potentially unauthorized applications, such as Skype, Google Talk, and other real-time communications.

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