[cisco-voip] Dialing solutions for PC and Phone

[Dane]

I seem to recall there is a plugin or something to allow dialing
Outlook contact phone numbers directly without having to actually
punch in the numbers on the phone.  Wasn't that a standard plugin in
CM?

More importantly, can anyone recommend a solution that works with more
then just Outlook?  For instance, you see a phone number in someones
email signature and it is smart enough to allow you to click on it and
dial from your phone.  Or a number embedded in a website or something.

Is there anything like that?  Anything someone uses and can recommend?
 I have some VP's and higher ups asking about it and I just can't keep
up with things as much as I would like.  Not to mention half the time
you find something and well its a company already out of business or
closed or something.  Rather hear from someone actually using
something.