Siemens Enterprise Communications unveils Project Ansible

To erase the boundaries separating multiple communication channels and business process applications and provide visibility across a workgroup, enterprise and web at the same time, Siemens Enterprise Communications has designed a communications and collaboration platform "Project Ansible" to address this challenge. This platform will empower teams to engage in rich and meaningful conversations across virtually any communications channel or device, resulting in dramatically improved team productivity.

It is further designed to deliver increased business performance through real-time engagement by unifying voice, video, social communications, search, business process applications, and other channels into a seamless, immersive, intuitive experience.

With Project Ansible, challenging or time-consuming tasks such as searching for information across multiple sources (e.g. text, email, and social channels), conducting live/virtual meetings, or generating transcripts of conference calls becomes as easy as making a phone call.

Hamid Akhavan, CEO, Siemens Enterprise Communications, said, "Project Ansible is designed to address core challenges faced by so many organizations today: enterprises are at the centre of a complex web of interconnected systems that are hard to manage; companies are failing to drive the full value of those investments; and, while communications tools increasingly play a more central role in business, the user experience is broken. Project Ansible defines a clear path forward to next-gen solutions through an evolutionary approach for our existing customers and creates an opportunity for Siemens Enterprise Communications to reach a wide range of new customers while leading our industry to the next generation of user experience."

Project Ansible is expected to begin limited customer trials at the end of 2013 and be generally available later in 2014.