Siemens Enterprise Communications Group  announced that Current Analysis has given the company’s flagship software-based product, OpenScape™ Voice, high marks in its latest Product Assessment Report.

In the report, OpenScape Voice earns a 5 out of 5 rating in scalability and performance for its ability to support up to 100,000 IP lines with just two industry-standard servers. OpenScape Voice also scored above the industry average in Pricing, as well as Security and Reliability.  

According to Current Analysis, “OpenScape Voice is threatening to competitors in the enterprise PBX market. The most modern and most advanced of Siemens Enterprise’s voice communications solutions, OpenScape Voice is uniquely positioned in the market. It can be configured as an IP PBX, capable of being cost-effectively positioned to mid-market enterprises requiring 500 or fewer lines. Or, thanks to its heritage as a platform for hosted voice services, it can scale up for organizations requiring support for 100,000 or more users. Alternately, OpenScape Voice can be deployed as an overlay to an existing voice network, a configuration called OpenXchange that provides centralized routing and session management for a large, complex network of Siemens Enterprise or third-party PBXs and communications application servers. In either scenario, OpenScape Voice can reside in a data center environment, allowing enterprises to reduce the number of disparate PBX systems distributed across their networks dramatically, and in the case of OpenXchange, reduce the number of T1 lines needed to support voice applications.”

OpenScape Voice is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based enterprise voice application and a key component of the OpenScape UC Server Suite, which incorporates enterprise grade voice services with carrier grade scalability and reliability, IP least-cost routing, video conferencing, mobility, unified messaging and role-based unified communications (UC) applications. Deployed in the data center, these offerings provide a flexible foundation for UC by building on the SEN Group’s OpenSOA approach, which itself is designed to allow for deep business process integration into virtually any existing line of business application and seamlessly provide rich communications-enabled business processes (CEBP). It also allows for flexibility in deployment, including supporting hosted models that allow organizations to defer the costs of traditional on-premise systems, at predictable monthly fees.

OpenScape Voice and the OpenScape UC Server Suite not only allow for uniform, ubiquitous access to multi-media devices, unmatched scalability and seamless, standards-based integration with other enterprise-class communication, they can significantly reduce TCO by simplifying and centralizing the administration of the communication infrastructure, reducing audio conferencing and call charges, and reducing power consumption. They can also enable seamless teleworking, help free organizations from real estate costs, assist business continuity and can help reduce carbon footprints by reducing the need for commuting.