CallTower Announces Microsoft Skype for Business

Thank you for your business! Whether you are a long-time CallTower customer, partner or recently exploring CallTower’s product offerings we hope you experience our core behaviors of passion, action and delighting our customers. CallTower leads the market with hosted, best of breed communication solutions delivered by our proprietary operating platform. We are pleased to announce with Microsoft, the new future of Microsoft UCaaS, Skype for Business, hosted by CallTower.

CallTower partnered with Microsoft on this product announcement and embraces the advancement of Lync into Native Skype for Business. CallTower will continue to be the leader (as we have been with Lync) to deploy, host and support Skype for Business as a leading Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) solution for years to come. On behalf of the CallTower team, we wanted to make sure that you are aware of the announcement that Microsoft recently made about the upcoming version of Skype for Business scheduled to be release in the first half of 2015.

During the first half of 2015, Lync will become Skype for Business with a new client experience, new server release, updates to Office 365; all hosted by CallTower. Skype for Business will take advantage of the strengths of Skype and Lync, combining the experience you love with security you trust.

Familiar and easy
Because you know Skype, using Skype for Business with your colleagues,partners and customers is effortless — requiring less training and support.

Anywhere, any device
Conversations travel seamlessly with you from the meeting room to any mobile device, including OS X, Windows and Android.

Get even more out of Office
Turn an email into a meeting and escalate into a group call, thanks to improved integration with Office, Active Directory, Exchange and SharePoint.

Face-to-face conversations from anywhere
Video and voice calling are more natural than ever — like you’re in the same room. Skype for Business is designed to deliver a high-quality experience for every conversation.

Even more control at your fingertips
You can now confidently manage policies, grant feature rights and govern external communications, even from the cloud.

We are excited about the possibilities that Skype for Business will create for your organization. It is important for our partners to know that Microsoft is bringing together the best of Skype and Lync without losing any of the features, security and manageability that you care about. You will experience further adoption of UCaaS in your businesses and the cost and efficiency benefits that go along with that because of the familiar user experience that hundreds of millions of Skype users engage with every month. Furthermore, this change truly connects your business to the vast Skype network which includes many of your customers and partners.

On behalf of our entire team, we would like to reassure you that the features you care about and use the most in Lync are not going away. As one of the largest Microsoft Lync partners we are in very close connections with Microsoft and have positioned ourselves to continue to meet all of their development, deployment and service needs as this product evolves.

Ready to learn more about Skype for Business?