Check out this informative and succinct video. It gives a great introduction and overview of unified communications, an area with big development occurring almost everyday.
Unified Communications for dummies
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Interesting summary of UC. With the magnitude of the integration effort required, it would be helpful to see a prioritization so the that efforts are focused in the right manner. This is particularly true if you are a smaller company and have to determine the best use of your resources.