Cisco Unified Presence is a standards-based platform that collects information about a user's availability and communications capabilities to provide unified user presence status and facilitate presence-enabled communications for Cisco Unified Communications and critical business applications. With this scalable and easy-to-manage solution, Cisco Unified Presence delivers a consistent presence-enabled communications experience across Cisco Unified Communications applications everywhere, every time, independent of user device, application, or workspace location. In addition, Cisco Unified Presence gives customers and partners the flexibility to presence-enable and streamline business communications by interoperating with critical business applications through open interfaces.