With the growing economy of the world, businesses are also growing at a high pace. Large multinational companies build up their centers across the world and it becomes mandatory to organize and manage these centers. Communication is a major aspect then in this purpose. Many people need to communicate and discuss about multiple aspects of business and reach to a conclusion. This is where unified communication comes into play. Unified communications is the integration of communication tools like internet calling, instant messaging and face to face calls, to enhance synchronous communication without any time delays. These let people in a team or a big group share their ideas and do their effectively by being time effective. Unified communications can be asynchronous as well, like Gmail, or email systems, Twitter, Facebook that might not get you instant replied. Synchronous systems are real-time (actually happening conversations) and are different places but same time communications. On the contrary, asynchronous communications happen as per the individual’s convenience and are referred to as different place and different time communications. Therefore, unified communications providers offer tools that allow synchronous and asynchronous communications so that the user can use all the features involved in the software. Let’s have a look at five of prominent unified communication providers around the world.
Skype for Business– This Microsoft Company, Skype has made its market mark by providing a unified communication software enriched with features. With evolution, it moved from just serving personal users to serving big chunks and big groups of people. Now it has tie-ups with some big business houses and even provide special features to its client in case of any special requirements. It has features of video calling, instant messaging, sharing files and videos instantly, emoticons, and what not. It offers call control and multimodal communications. It is known for providing group chat, group video chat, group messaging. You can also turn the notification of the group or people you don’t like. Skype is also one of the cloud unified communications providers. Whatever file a sender tries to send to the receiver, it is uploaded to the cloud from the sender’s machine. When the receiver wants to access it, he can download it from the cloud. It is similar to how Google Drive works.