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SoftwareONE Completes Acquisition and Integration of House of Lync

By Frank Griffin Contributing Writer

The connected workforce in which most of us work in is being driven by real-time communications and collaboration solutions. Employees can now work from anywhere, on any device, anytime using hosted cloud services to access all the applications and resources they need. But in order to use these technologies, the right applications are needed, and according to SoftwareONE, the purchase of House of Lync was driven by a direct response to rising demand for Microsoft Skype (News - Alert) for Business services.

SoftwareONE provides software management and IT solutions with its PyraCloudintelligent software management platform and Software Portfolio Management (SPM) services. The company has formed partnerships with leading vendors, including Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, VMware, Oracle (News - Alert), Citrix, Symantec, McAfee and others to deliver comprehensive solutions in more than 80 countries around the world.

The purchase of House of Lync, a Microsoft (News - Alert) High Touch Partner that is part of the Skype Operations Framework, will give SoftwareONE's global enterprise customers a complete Skype for Business Unified Communications (News - Alert) solution.

Having the House of Lync platform is going to streamline Skype for Business migrations when it is combined with SoftwareONE’s SkypeSimple, an end-to-end professional services offering for on premises, hybrid and private or public cloud environments. Using the ProtoSkype proof of concept tool, organizations can now accelerate their adoption of Skype for Business.

“We are thrilled at the opportunity to enhance our Microsoft Enterprise Voice offerings, providing new ways of working anywhere, any time, on any device...It reflects a larger trend as business leaders look to provide a communications platform for the connected workforce,” saidSean Nicholson, Global Director of Technology Services for SoftwareONE.

The blended software and technical services is going to simplify Skype for Business deployments for organizations using the application for everything from IM to presence, AV conferencing and mobile. Companies with multiple locations across wide geographical regions can bring their employees together so they can collaborate with greater ease because of this integration.

House of Lync has global expertise in Skype for Business deployments along with specialization in collaboration, enterprise voice, cloud, on premises, managed services, customer application integration, contact centers, conferencing, hybrid integration with traditional PBXs, and office 365.

With Skype for Business and House of Lync, SoftwareONE can provide enterprise grade features, reliability and security with cross-platform consistency and scalability. As a Gold UC, Gold Cloud/Office365 and Silver Messaging certified Microsoft partner, House of Lync also brings proven solutions that have been used around the world.

Edited by Alicia Young