What is LifeWorks?

Our Vision for the Future of Communication - Siemens vision for significantly improving the way people and organizations communicate, to make communications easier, less complex, more in control ? at work at home and in-between.

A Guideline for our Strategy - Siemens has fully incorporated the LifeWorks vision into our company's strategy for how we meet customer requirements, innovate and how we enhance our competitiveness. It governs our strategic decisions.

A Blueprint for Our Offerings - Our vision for LifeWorks has been translated into a blueprint that guides the development of our all of our new offerings.

The two essentials necessary to create LifeWorks are:
Unified User Experience
Unified Network and Application Domain

Benefits of LifeWorks

LifeWorks provides presencebased real-time communication, offering simple, seamless and intuitive access to every kind of application - independently of the user's terminal equipment and location. It also unites applications and networks, enabling a consistent user experience on all types of terminal equipment. With these benefits, LifeWorks creates substantial competitive advantages for network carriers and enterprises as well.

For carriers - LifeWorks gives carriers the opportunity to offer innovative services, enabling them to stand out from the competition and to tap new revenue streams.

For enterprises - LifeWorks greatly reduces an enterprise's operating costs and raises productivity by fully integrating communications in the IT environment and in business processes. In addition, LifeWorks makes this application available to the mobile work force. As a result, all employees can communicate more efficiently.

For users - Users can always be reached and can access important information anywhere, allowing them to work more efficiently. They can control whether they want to be available, enabling them to better coordinate their business and private lives.

For home users, LifeWorks raises the quality of everyday communication, enhancing the convenience and ease-ofuse of communication as well as entertainment applications.

LifeWorks - how you can start today

Siemens is already providing to the marketplace several building blocks that customers can leverage in a step toward realizing LifeWorks benefits.

For enterprises

To enable a more Unified User Experience: HiPath OpenScape
To enable a more Unified Network and Application domain: HiPath 8000

LifeWorks - Our vision of communications