
Every business needs a telephone. These days, they’re also likely to need a video communications platform, a chat interface, social media, and a company-wide calendar. This technology patchwork is a lot for the user to keep track of, and a bit of an IT headache.
Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solves these problems in a single sweep. UCaaS offers a secure means of collaboration across multiple channels (voice, video, chat, etc.) and guarantees a seamless communications experience for mobile and remote employees.
Effective UC can also help CIOs simplify data management, satisfy privacy requirements, and solve quality of service (QoS) issues. The “as-a-Service” model is flexible, scalable, and cost-effective. These are just a few of the benefits, but there are many more.
Better Disaster Recovery – Disaster recovery capabilities are some of the most persuasive reasons to consider UCaaS. Think about the importance of maintaining uninterrupted communications. While large companies can build redundancy into their systems, this can be cost-prohibitive for smaller enterprises, or those with tight budgets. Being cloud based offers UCaaS users access to communications from any location, eliminating the need for redundancy.
Rapid Service Deployment – On-premise solutions can take months and even years to roll out company-wide. Upgrades can take just as long. With UCaaS, a new feature or service can be available to all employees immediately.
Greater Employee Mobility – Cloud-based systems provide access from anywhere, at any time, solving what is often referred to as the “BYOD” (bring your own device) challenge. UCaaS offers connectivity to smartphones, laptops, tablets and other devices.
Improved Team Collaboration – With features like audio and video conferencing, as well as interoperability between devices, employees can connect from any location.
Enhanced Customer Relationship Management (CRM) – Contact center capabilities, interactive voice response, call routing, and other outstanding features will make it easy to build relationships with customers, all while seamlessly integrating these interactions with your CRM software.
Centralized Management – One of the more significant challenges in managing any kind of premise-based application is scaling the administrative functions. This can include setting up new users, applying patches, or updating features. The tasks may need to be repeated many times, depending on the architecture of the on-premises solution. With a hosted UC solution, the administrative tasks are centralized, allowing the administrator to perform tasks once, and be confident that those changes will take place company-wide.
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