<p>Siemens Enterprise Communications has changed its name to Unify and now hopes to take advantage of a growing interest in hosted unified communications.</p><p>The rebranding comes at time when the way enterprises communicate is changing. Thanks to trends such as bring-your-own-device, employees are no longer tied to a desk and a desk phone for their work.</p><p>For example, 87 percent of North American enterprises plan to add video conferencing to their unified communications infrastructure by August next year, according to a recent survey conducted by Infonetics Research.</p><p>At the same time, the use of the cloud is also on the rise: 22 percent of respondents had implemented portions of their unified communications system in a private cloud and 19 percent had done so in a public cloud, the market research company said.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2054840/siemens-enterprise-changes-its-name-to-unify.html">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/84032">What Siemens needs to do now that it&#039;s re-branded as &#039;Unify&#039;</a> (Network World)</p><p><a href="http://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/news/2240207291/Siemens-Enterprise-Communications-reborn-as-Unify-will-it-make-a-US-comeback">Siemens Enterprise Communications reborn as Unify; will it make a US ...</a> (TechTarget)</p><p><a href="http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/unify-siemens-enerprise-communications-project-ansible-129573">Siemens Enterprise Communications Is Now Unify</a> (TechWeekEurope UK)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=d0bs8k2mDgSAFCM9io1p2Pvkl0yvM&ned=us">17 additional articles.</a></p>