Unison offers free UC solutions to 10 NY SMBs

Unison Technologies, a New York.-based unified communications software company, announced a unique marketing ploy Tuesday to attract business in the New York metro area. The company launched its Unison Business Technology Advancement Program, which will give its unified communications software package and a server setup for free to 10 SMBs in the area.

Interested companies can apply at http://ubtap.unison.com until May 22 at 10 p.m. EST.

Unison Chief Marketing Officer Rurik Bradbury said the program will target business that may not have the technical know how or budget to implement a larger, more expensive UC system.

"We will install and manage deployments of the Unison solution for free for one year," Bradbury said. "We'd like to get some reference customers in the U.S. who we work closely with to figure out the best processes for deploying Unison in the small business."

Bradbury said each package Unison will provide for free normally could cost several thousand dollars. The package comes with server software, desktop clients for each seat, networking hardware, a new desktop phone for each seat, and support services, according to the company.

Unison Server is the company's unified communications server software, which includes fully-integrated email, instant message and presence, an IP-PBX, calendar server and LDAP directory with contacts. 

For more:
- see the Unison page for the program here 

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