Green IT

As environmental issues rise to the top of the world agenda, organizations’ green credentials are now central to corporate responsibilities - and increasingly important to clients, investors and employees.

At Siemens Enterprise Communications, environmental responsibilities are core to our corporate culture and global business practices. Since 1993, we have developed products with low energy consumption in mind and, where possible, adopted sustainable, environmental friendly production practices.

Now at the forefront of Green communications, we offer a range of solutions that are both good for the environment and good for business.

With voice and contact centre applications, managed services and a range of unified communications solutions– including desktop video conferencing –Siemens Enterprise Communications can help your business to:

• Reduce electricity consumption, by using fewer servers. For example, how about an 80% reduction in the amount of energy needed to provide telephony to your organization (versus PBXs in place today)?
• Cut back on travel, by conducting face-to-face meetings through desktop video conferencing. One of our customers in Austria reduced travel between countries by 50% this way.
• Use less real estate, by utilizing managed services and enabling staff to work remotely. We’ve adopted telecommuting initiatives around the globe ourselves for these savings. In the U.S. alone, we’ve reduced our expensive Silicon Valley real estate (and related) expenses significantly in the last two years. And we’ve reduced the cost to support our teleworkers by 70%.

As well as helping you to reach your environmental goals, our solutions offer measurable business value too. Less energy consumption, travel and real estate means you can significantly reduce your operating costs; while enhanced UC collaboration and greater mobility helps employees to be more productive, and enhances your customer service offering.

Find out more about how Siemens Enterprise Communications can boost your Green credentials and benefit your business:

OpenScape Voice
OpenScape Voice requires far fewer servers than competitive offerings, that means the use of less energy and less real estate.

OpenStage Phones
OpenStage phones can reduce your energy consumption by up to 60%, compared to competitor offerings. 

OpenScape UC Application and Video
Our unified communications solutions mean your teams can collaborate easily from any location, speeding up decision making and business processes. And with accessible video conferencing, you can eliminate the need for travel -  saving time, expense and helping to reduce your carbon footprint.

OpenScape Mobility
HiPath MobileConnect delivers enterprise-grade communications using “dual-mode” WiFi and cellular handsets. This means your staff can seamlessly switch their mobile handset over to your WiFi network when they are in range – helping to reduce costs and increase mobility.

OpenScape Contact Center and Voice Portal
With our OpenScape Contact Center and Voice Portal, you can operate a virtual call center operation from a number of locations - eliminating the need for dedicated call-center real estate and reducing your energy requirements.

Networks
OpenSmart Wireless provides on-campus wireless coverage using fewer data switching ports than other WLAN solutions. So you’ll use less energy, reducing costs and helping you to achieve your environmental goals.

OpenScale Managed Services
By sharing common computer resources such as servers, software, and personnel, you can significantly reduce your energy consumption and enhance your organization’s Green credentials.

OpenScale Professional Services
Professional services optimize networks and application integration, reducing hardware requirements and related real estate and energy consumption. And self managing, fault tolerant systems  - coupled with remote diagnostic capabilities  - means less travel and fuel consumption for service personnel.