Are You Ready for Skype4B Online?

by Gary Audin Network quality and connectivity to the cloud is critical when planning and implementing Skype for Business (Skype4B) deployment leveraging the Office 365 cloud. UC Assessor helps ensure a positive user experience of voice, video, and application sharing. You need to measure across the LAN/WAN and all the way up to Skype for Business Online in Office 365 before users are migrated to the Skype4B. UC Assessor by IR identifies network quality and performance levels according to Skype4B minimum requirements, and will help troubleshoot and remediate identified problem areas across the entire network path. Skip Chilcott, Head of Product Marketing at IR www.ir.com and Gary Audin recorded this podcast at the Microsoft Ignite conference. They discuss the value and benefits of testing the BEFORE migrating to Skype4B online. Skip recommends running the UC Assessor for at least a week. A snapshot of a few hours or a day will not point what problems will be encountered in the O365 online migration. IR www.ir.com is the corporate brand name of Integrated Research Limited, a provider of proactive performance management software for critical IT infrastructure, payments, and communications ecosystems. More than 1,000 organizations in over 60 countries rely on IR Prognosis to provide business critical insights and ensure continuity-critical systems deliver high availability and performance for millions of their customers across the globe. Every second, thousands of teams work tirelessly to maintain order but the threat of a problem is never far away. IR makes sure these systems run at their best and predict vulnerabilities before they arise. Today IR Prognosis solutions for payment hubs, unified communications ecosystems, and contact centers are trusted by Fortune 500 companies to keep their business running. IR continues to be an industry pioneer with innovations in predictive and prescriptive analytics as well as advances in automation, allowing IT to stop a problem even before it happens.