5 Steps to Deploying Skype for Business Successfully5 Steps to Deploying Skype for Business Successfully

In this sponsored post, IR shares an excerpt from "The Road to Enterprise Voice," an eBook published to coincide with Microsoft's E5 release and to assist organizations assessing or deploying Skype for Business.

The green light to roll out Skype for Business is only the first step.

To realize promised returns on investment (ROI), users must not only consume the service but also be satisfied with the experience. Disgruntled employees are hesitant to use technology if the quality doesn't meet expectations, or it doesn't work. And for communications -- an important asset to any company -- voice quality is very high profile and critical, so understandably the bar is set very high.

The one common thing with all successful deployments (or indeed any large project) is that each is broken down into phases, with lessons learned from one phase applied iteratively to the next. The approach and names of phases can vary from company to company, depending on the particular goals and niches being addressed. Typically, they align to the critical areas of the project: considerations before you begin, during installation, and perhaps most importantly (and often overlooked) during sustained activity and normal usage.

Skype for Business deployment can be broken down into five steps:

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