Deployment of Unified Communications (UC) desktop applications such as VoIP, Presence and VPN clients is a key concern for IT managers and can greatly impact the future success of a UC project.

The need to deploy UC software poses vendors and service providers with several challenges:

• Installing the UC server in the data center is followed by a challenging task of provisioning the relevant client to dozens or hundreds of PCs
• Employee desktops are already installed with multiple applications, and introducing a new set of applications is likely to cause collisions and compatibility issues
• Future upgrade and expansion of the application set would require repeating the same desktop installation process
• Mobilizing the unified communication software package between branches or making it available from employees' homes is extremely difficult

The Ceedo Enterprise client in conjunction with Ceedo's management platform enables UC vendors and service providers to easily deploy UC desktop applications to a large number of endpoints and to manage them throughout their lifecycle.

Ceedo’s platform answers all the challenges posed by current UC application deployment methodology:

• Deploys multiple applications to different groups of employees without requiring IT intervention for every PC
• Application deployment is only done once and to one central location
• Applications are centrally managed (add/remove/change policies)
• In the field, avoids collisions and compatibility issues by running separately from the applications on the employee's PC (virtual workspace)
• Employees are automatically notified when a new UC application is available
• Employees can obtain additional UC applications with a single click (no installation required)
• Employees can easily mobilize their UC applications to a mobile storage USB or remote storage