Skype For Business Finds Its Voice, At Least For Some

No Jitter has launched a series of surveys of our enterprise end user base, and naturally the first topic we addressed is the one that continues to be foremost in the minds of many enterprise communications shops: Microsoft Lync, now Skype for Business.

You can see some of the highlights in the slideshow that my colleague Beth Schultz put together, and of course the chart that jumps out at you is the one showing that almost 90% of those who have adopted Lync Enterprise Voice consider it "better" or "much better" overall than the legacy systems they've been using.

We asked two detailed follow-up questions that reveal a little more about how people feel. When we asked respondents who'd adopted Lync Enterprise Voice to rate its voice quality, 63% considered it better or much better -- a falloff from the overall rating, but still a healthy majority. When we asked about feature/functionality, 80% called Lync better or much better.

So clearly, enterprises that have deployed Lync believe it (and Skype for Business) can be a PBX replacement going forward. Oddly, it got more positive rankings overall than it did in the two specific metrics that we assumed would be most important: voice quality and feature/function. What does that tell us?

Read the rest of Eric's analysis at No Jitter.