[cisco-voip] Microsoft Voicemail vs Unity Voicemail

[Scott Voll]

haven't played much with it thus far.  I and most of my co-workers are not
applicatiion dev. guys so on the support side I really like staying with
Cisco or MS.

Scott

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Tim Reimers <treimers at ashevillenc.gov>wrote:

>  well, on the note of moving away from Unity
>
> I'll ask the question:
>
> Has anyone on the list considered or experimented with integrating
> Asterisk's IVR/voicemail/call handlers into UCM at any level?
>
> I did a SIP trunk between an Asterisk server and a CCM 4.X server once and
> it worked quite handily to support a few wireless SIP phones.
>
> I've never tried out the IVR capacities of Asterisk and just wondered if
> anyone found it to be usable?
>
> I'd be interested to hear where people place Asterisk on the playing field
> now.
>
>
>
>
>
> Tim Reimers
> Systems Analyst II
> Information Technology Services
> City of Asheville
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>  *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Scott Voll
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:40 PM
> *To:* Tkachuk,Birni
> *Cc:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Microsoft Voicemail vs Unity Voicemail
>
>   It is definately something I've been kicking around for some time.  I
> just haven't yet pulled the trigger.
>
> I have Exchange 2k7 UM installed at one of my School Districts and they
> love it (but they also have never had unity).  The have a great voice portal
> which they love.  they have true UM.  Negitves are lack of Call handlers and
> the such.
>
> I have a SLA with MS for pretty much all Enterprise OS / Apps and it would
> not cost use much at all.  I've been totally frustrated with Cisco on their
> pricing structure for smartnet / subscriptions.  I'm paying more for my
> Unity server in contract then my CM cluster.
>
> budgets get any tighter and it may just push me over the top.  We already
> use OCS for IM / Presence, and I'm working on integrating CM into it.  I
> think I could see us going to Excheange 2k7 pretty easy.  I don't see coming
> off CM for Call Processing or UCCx for contact center, but Unity is pretty
> easy to flip a coin.  and it would get it off my plate and on to my Exchange
> / AD guys plate =)
>
> Scott
>
> 2009/2/18 Tkachuk,Birni <birnit at nait.ca>
>
>>  Has anyone thrown in the towel with Unity and opted out for the
>> Microsoft Voicemail product.    We're aware of the work around with MWI.
>> What about interfacing with a Blackberry Enterprise Server?
>>
>>
>>
>> Birni Tkachuk
>>
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