Tim Kostyniuk, Vice President of Product Management and Solutions Marketing, Mitel, talks with UCStrategies' Blair Pleasant about Mitel's new product announcements.
Transcript for Mitel's Tim Kostyniuk on Mitel Product Announcements
Blair Pleasant: Hi, this is Blair Pleasant. I am at the Mitel Partner Conference and Tim, why don’t you tell us what you do and tell us about some of the announcements that you are making here.
Tim Kostyniuk: Thanks Blair. I am the Vice President of Product Management Solutions Marketing at Mitel, and there are a number of exciting new products that we are announcing here. We have today, our Unified Communicator Advanced Client product. We have Android and RIM smartphone support. We are adding the iPhone and iPad support, so that’s a really exciting new product, lots of customer interest to collaborate from the iPhone and iPad and provide that whole heterogenous mobile environment for letting companies and end users be able to use the type of smartphone that they prefer. Another key product is the Mitel Collaboration Advanced product, which is a desktop collaboration application for audio, video, and web collaboration. So very exciting products that they are here to see and we are excited to hear the customer and channel partner feedback.
Blair: And what kind of timing are we talking about?
Tim: It's Q3 for the iPhone and iPad and Q4 for the Collaboration Advanced product.
Blair: And as far as mobility, you have the iPhone and the iPad and there’s something special you are doing with mobility, as far as being able to work seamlessly on any device?
Tim: Correct.
Blair: And can you tell us a little bit more about that?
Tim: What we are seeing is the market and customers are moving from more of a device-centric to a user-centric model. And as part of that, its end user is increasingly choosing the technical device that they prefer. It's really becoming a consumer choice item for the mobile platform that they use. And multiple devices are being used in companies, so we support that. We call it the Freedom architecture, the freedom of choice for the end user.
Blair: Great, well thank you.