Unify and Open-Xchange Team to Provide Real-Time Collaboration of Microsoft Office Documents Inside Circuit

ORLANDO, Fla. and HANNOVER, Germany, March 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise Connect, CeBIT -- Unify, a leading communications software and services firm and Open-Xchange, a leading vendor of communication and collaboration software for cloud providers, announced today a collaboration to make real-time document editing available inside Circuit, Unify's next-generation communication and collaboration platform. This integration supports the new way to work by providing Circuit users with a more seamless, productive experience when collaborating on Microsoft Office documents from any location. Additionally, Unify announced it has made Circuit's platform APIs available to developers, to enable additional integrations moving forward.

Open-Xchange's OX Text, OX Spreadsheet, and OX Drive are cloud-based software products that can create and edit native Microsoft files as well as the Open/Libre Office equivalent files inside modern browsers, seamlessly in real-time for multiple users. This streamlines and simplifies the collaboration process on these documents, improving productivity and team efficiency.  Leveraging Circuit's open platform APIs enables a close integration of OX Text and OX Spreadsheet into the user experience of Circuit.

"Open-Xchange is pleased to leverage Circuit's openness and offer our real-time document editing capability, now also for enterprise users collaborating on Circuit," said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. "Editing Word and Excel files in real-time is a great complement to Unify's voice, video and chat capabilities embedded in a Circuit conversation."

"Unify welcomes Open-Xchange to the growing Circuit ecosystem," said Dr. Stefan Ried, CTO of Unify's Product House. "We believe that communication between people and the collaboration around documents should be as simple as possible in a modern cloud service, but also fully synchronized and integrated into an on-premise enterprise environment. Unify and Open-Xchange can deliver on this promise."

The first version of this seamless integration of OX Text, OX Spreadsheet, and OX Drive into Circuit can be seen at Unify's booth at the CeBIT trade show, Hall 13, Booth D38, and is available to Circuit developers. Developers can also find more information on Circuit's open APIs at developers.yourcircuit.com. Open-Xchange users can contact their Open-Xchange operator to access it in Open-Xchange and Circuit. The two companies plan to make additional interoperability scenarios available moving forward.

To learn more about Unify solutions such as Circuit, and how to bring life to work, visit www.yourcircuit.com. Join the conversation on Twitter at #NW2W.

About Circuit by Unify
The result of an agile development effort including extensive research on user requirements and preferences, Circuit is the next-generation communications and collaboration platform from Unify. Previously known as Project Ansible (now Circuit), Circuit improves teamwork by bringing together voice, video, messaging, screen share, and file sharing into a single platform, with one unified view across virtually all devices. Designed to extend beyond the promises of unified communications (UC), Circuit enables teams and "anywhere workers" to collaborate as naturally when they are apart as when they are together, sharing a full history of information and content in a persistent and secure meeting space.

About Unify
Unify is one of the world's leading communications software and services firms, providing integrated communications solutions for approximately 75 percent of the Fortune Global 500. Our solutions, including Circuit, unify multiple networks, devices and applications into one easy-to-use platform that allows teams to engage in rich and meaningful conversations. The result is a transformation of how the enterprise communicates and collaborates that amplifies collective effort, energizes the business, and enhances business performance. Unify has a strong heritage of product reliability, innovation, open standards and security.

About Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange develops real-time communication and collaboration software that can run on existing cloud and telecom infrastructures. Deployed by the most trusted service providers worldwide, OX's flagship product – OX App Suite – gives individuals the freedom to collaborate, work and communicate in the way they want to by combining document creation and editing, email, social media management, messaging, VoIP and calendaring. Founded in 2005, the company is privately owned with headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, and offices in Hamburg, Germany and Palo Alto, CA. For further information, please visit: www.open-xchange.com or via Twitter: https://twitter.com/openexchange

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