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What is Enterprise Communications?

In FAQ
September 1, 2020
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Enterprise communication refers to all kinds of communication dimensions that are utilized in organizations and enterprises amongst employees to communicate effectively. Forms of communication include chat, email, IM, audio conferencing, video conferencing, business phone and many others. Enterprise communication has to be fault-tolerant, secure and reliable. Providers that offer such services have to make sure that the infrastructure is easy to manage and flexible according to enterprise needs.

Unified Communications and collaboration services go for a centralized approach towards various communication technologies on a unified platform that can be centrally managed and monitored. This makes sure the employees are communicating seamlessly and there are sharing options to fulfill the collaboration needs of today’s customers and employees. Unified communication enables the enterprise to facilitate employees with communication services as much as possible.

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Top 5 Benefits of Office/Microsoft 365 for Business

In Microsoft 365
June 16, 2020
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Microsoft 365 for business has come a long way. From mere Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, Office 365 has evolved into a collaboration tool to enhance cloud business productivity. Today, Microsoft 365 (the new name for Office 365) is much more diverse, simple, available, and user-friendlier than ever. Let’s take a deep dive into the 5 major business benefits of Microsoft 365.

Microsoft 365 for business is Simple to use

Simplicity is one aspect of Microsoft 365 that has made it very popular with users. Despite Microsoft 365 is equipped with the latest tools and increasing products, there has been no complicated procedures and smooth switching between the products.

It is designed for cloud business

Microsoft 365 provides lucrative businesses with its Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Basic plans. In both of these, the full office suite is available to the business adopting these plans. The office suite includes Word, Outlook, Excel, Exchange Online, One Drive, SharePoint, Yammer, and Microsoft Teams. Easy Microsoft 365 pricing plans are excellent options for small to medium-sized businesses as well as large organizations.

Microsoft 365 for business enhances Team Collaboration in a cloud business

In the modern era, projects succeed in collaboration. Businesses which are equipped with best in line collaboration tools have a high chance of success in the market. Microsoft 365 provides a gateway to share, communicate, and talk more. SharePoint serves as a company-wide intranet service and a document library to store and manage content for the entire organization. Teams offer collaboration like no other. With a Calling in Teams option, Voice and video conference calls have been introduced right into Microsoft 365!

It assists Remote Working

Talking about the collaboration, the next step is remote working. While your business is equipped with the best in line collaborative tools from Microsoft 365, including a remote working resource in your business team won’t be a problem. Microsoft 365 assists remote workers with best in line security with Microsoft Authenticator for 2FA and also latest security policies.

Microsoft 365 provides Reliability and Resilience

Microsoft 365 provides the infrastructure needed for SME’s to function and flourish properly in the market. The platform is delivered right from the cloud and thus no heavy setup is needed at the business’s end, thereby, reducing the setup overhead. The cloud-hosted setup is all you need to carry out hassle-free business operations.

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MachCloud provides profitable Reselling of Microsoft 365 services

MachCloud is a one-window for all your business’s collaboration and digital business communication needs. With MachCloud, you can profitably resell Microsoft 365 services. Experts at MachCloud are very well informed of Reseller needs and how to cater for better reselling. With MachCloud, the Reseller’s favorite Microsoft 365 Services provider, you can Transform Microsoft 365 portfolio to the next level of implementation and usability.

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Five key issues with standby duty service using Digital Business Communication System

In Digital Communications, Unified Communications
February 6, 2020
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Meet Ted, the CEO of a reputed enterprise. Ted has always been enthusiastic for a progressive Digital business communication system for his workplace communication. Ted believes, the success to his business is to expand business presence. This requires, more staff availability and the employees being available even in their off time. Well, that’s a tough demand.

Tim, the IT manager, has a solution: Standby duty service based on call forwarding.

It is no surprise that communication is a solution that connects people to people. Call forwarding now plays a major role in assuring staff availability, empowers employees to work on the go and expands business presence. When digital business communication solutions became the norm in business community, a lot of concepts from old business communication had to be mapped into the modern digital communications. One of them is “Standby duty service” which gets its implementation through Call forwarding.

Standby duty service

If employees take turns to be reachable by telephone outside office hours in the event of incidents, emergencies or other calamities, this is called a standby duty. An employee can have a standby duty during the day, at night or during a weekend. During a standby duty service, an employee can be called and asked to perform work. In the past a beeper or pager was used to call employees, but nowadays it is the employee’s mobile phone that is the primary workplace communication device. And sometimes things go wrong.

1.      The empty battery

Despite all the care, it may happen that a cell phone or workplace communication device has no range, busy or has an empty battery. If a telephone call for an employee is diverted to a mobile device, the call almost always ends in a standard voicemail service. This is undesirable in the event of an emergency. That is why Digital business communication systems the MachCloud-CloudPBX has the option in the standby duty service to play the message to the employee like: “Press a key to accept the call”. If the employee does not press a key, the call will be forwarded to a fallback number or central reception post. This prevents voicemail from getting in the way.

2.      A mobile app replaces manual transfer schedules

If the call forwarded to employees is managed by a person, a mistake can occur. An employee is sick or on leave. A much better option is to let employees sign up in the call routing plan themselves. The most user-friendly way is that of a mobile app, because people can operate it anytime and anywhere. When setting up a standby duty service, we ensure that someone is always registered in the forwarding schedule. This prevents an employee from logging off without another employee being registered. A change of the guard can only be activated by the new employee in the app by activating a virtual switch.

3.      Multiple standby duty services

Larger organizations often require multiple standby duty services. By assigning a separate number to each standby duty service and setting up a separate forward diagram to the mobile numbers of employees, optimal availability is ensured.

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4.      Often overlooked: What if things go wrong?

In the end, accessibility remains human work. Even though everything is arranged optimally, it is possible that a call for an emergency is not answered. That is why we emphasize that a backstop or is always included in the forwarding scheme. If a telephone call is not answered in the event of an emergency, it is better to play a message with a message about an alternative contact method, than a scenario where the caller is on hold endlessly. Call forwarding must therefore always include an end point with, for example, a message about how to act if the call isn’t answered.

5.      Fair share?

A standby duty is often necessary. But the hours often do not count as paid hours. It is important that employees know that the working hours are allocated to different colleagues according in a fair manner. This prevents employees having the perception, they account for more hours than colleagues. Insight into answering time is important as well. In the event of an emergency, it must be possible to review answering time. That is why reports and call details related to workplace communication can be made available. The MachCloud-CloudPBX supports all these functions.

Do you need advice when setting up a standby duty service in your Digital business communication system? Contact us via www.machcloud.com.

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7 thoughts on Microsoft Teams Portal adoption with existing (Cloud) PBX

In Business Communication, Cloud PBX, Digital Communications, Microsoft Teams, PSTN
January 31, 2020
3 Min Read
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In the coming years, traditional telecommunication solutions will be replaced by digital business communication systems such as the telephone service from Microsoft Teams. Organizations are faced with the choice to replace the entire telecom service or to maintain a Cloud PBX next to Microsoft Teams. Despite the advantages of telephony in Microsoft Teams, organizations will often keep the existing Cloud PBX.

Here are a few things you must be aware of while considering moving to a modern digital business communication platform.

1. Change of work process

When migrating digital business communication systems, it is not the technical challenges that require most attention. In order for the implementation to succeed, attention must be paid to changes in the use of communication systems and the associated work processes. Some people will adopt the new system in a short period, but others require more time. During a certain period, the existing Cloud PBX and Microsoft Teams will have to function side by side.

2. Maintenance of functions through Microsoft Teams Portal

In some organizations, special functions of a Cloud PBX cannot be directly replaced by calling in Microsoft Teams. Examples of this are: Call Center functions, Wall board, special routing, functions for a reception post and connections with CRM packages.

ALSO READ Microsoft Teams Direct Routing: Where to start?

3. Device retention

At present, the purchase price of devices that are suitable for calling with Microsoft Teams is still high. Some functions of existing telephone devices cannot be replaced. It may therefore be necessary to continue to use existing devices in combination with a Cloud PBX.

4. Telephone number management

When migrating to a new digital business communication system, it can be useful to migrate telephone numbers that are in a telephone number block, one by one. MachCloud has a Web portal that allows  telephone number block management in real time and transfer of numbers to Microsoft Teams. For this it is not necessary to port numbers. This has the advantage that if something goes wrong, numbers can immediately be returned to the existing system.

5. Redundancy

If telephony is business critical, it may be necessary to  have redundancy implemented when opting for a digital business communication solution. You can get that implemented through the Microsoft Teams portal. An example of this is the design of a customer contact center cloud solution based on geographically separated data centers.

ALSO READ 5 Microsoft Teams Direct Routing Features to Look Forward

6. Flexibility price plans

The call traffic per user can vary greatly. Some employees need a small bundle of calls, while others, for example, have high call volume to international destinations. Microsoft Teams  portal caters for both. To minimize costs, it may be desirable to allow international frequent callers to use a special price plan based on a charge per call.

7. Support

Telephony is a service that must be accurate on all details. Is it necessary to be able to call anonymously? Is it necessary to filter call traffic or set up protection against over-usage? Perhaps special solutions are needed for a standby duty service or reports? For all these types of questions, the use of a Cloud PBX in addition to Microsoft Teams portal may be the correct answer.

MachCloud is the specialist for business corporate communication systems where a (Cloud) PBX is integrated with Microsoft Teams. Do you need advice? Then contact us via www.machcloud.com.

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5 Microsoft Teams Direct Routing Features to Look Forward [2020 Guide]

In Digital Communications, PSTN
January 23, 2020
3 Min Read
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Microsoft Teams Direct Routing is the latest trend in modern digital business communication. This is a scenario where companies can bring in their existing SIP Trunk/Carrier/SBC and connect it with Microsoft Teams and avail its benefits with User PSTN Telephony. This ensures better productivity and fewer changes required to the existing infrastructure.

A while ago, Microsoft announced a few enhancements that are promised in Microsoft Teams Direct Routing. Let’s go through them:

Media Relay Override

With this, customers can “change their default Media Relay to match their public IP structure”. With a Media bypass plan setup, media is kept directly between Session Border Controller (SBC) and Teams user.

Missed Call Message Suppression

Since Teams can go on along with an existing 3rd Party PBX, this feature enables Teams not to miss any notification if a gateway is setup in such a way that it rings or forks a call (on both Teams and PBX) and the call is picked up on PBX or PBX’s voicemail.

SIP Tester

It is a feature to be introduced for convenience. A PowerShell script is introduced which will test the basic configuration of SIP deployment over Direct Routing in Teams.

Ringback Bot

It is available for Direct Routing in non-media bypass mode. During the call imitation process, the Ringback Bot is helpful in ringing a distinctive audio signal to the caller while there are any unexpected silences while the inbound call is being placed from the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to Teams clients.

PSTN Reporting

With this feature, you’d be able to get PSTN Call Detail Records reports directly in your Microsoft Teams Admin Centre. Reports can be viewed for a historical trend for 28 days and also till any custom date. With this feature, you can easily have a look at a detailed analysis of Microsoft Teams PSTN usage.

ALSO READ 4 handy ways to start a Microsoft Teams call

MachCloud – All-in-one Digital Business Communication Platform

MachCloud is a complete digital business communication platform equipped with top notch infrastructure to provide your business all the features needed for a smooth business communication according to your business needs. Microsoft Teams Direct routing allows for easy migration of existing telephone numbers to Microsoft Teams. The Industry-leading digital communications platform offers other Products like SIP Trunking, Cloud PBX, MachCloud and Office 365 reselling services. With MachCloud you get Cost-effective and advanced PBX Services with Microsoft Teams.

Head up to MachCloud for a smooth digital business communication solution and unlock the potential of your business.

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5 Ways Business VoIP brings more Revenue

In Digital Communications, VOIP
December 12, 2019
2 Min Read
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Business communication has transformed into digital business communication from the past few years. With Unified digital communications and even UDCaaS being in the norm, many businesses opt for a decent Business VoIP for many reasons.

Here are top 7 cloud business benefits once you deploy a decent VoIP in your workplace:

  • Reduce missed opportunities

With a VoIP, your incoming calls are not tied to one landline, so there is hardly any chance that you miss an important call. This is one of the many cloud business benefits that you can’t miss.

  • Stay customer friendly

A business VoIP app does a lot more than traditional receptionists on call. They provide multi-media messages and enable visual communication to tackle things faster than on call. Other digital communication tools like virtual PBXs have the potential to be integrated with your main CRM to provide a customer friendly user experience.

  • Reduced costs

With less initial costs and almost no jungle of wiring needed for your office workspace, the digital communication tools provide the best cloud business benefits by reducing costs for your business.

  • Enhanced Collaboration

Digital communication tools provide you better collaboration experiences for your employees. Business VoIP is more adaptable to change according to business needs.

  • Improved sales performance through reporting

With dashboards provided by digital communication tools providers, managers can know major KPIs like analytics and assess individual and team sales performance. This way, you can also track incoming leads which can help in pointing the right direction of investment.

ALSO READ Boost your Business Productivity with Teams Direct Routing Solutions

MachCloud – Promising Digital Communication Tools Under One Platform

MachCloud is the industry leading digital communication tools provider in the Unified communication market. With easy plans and pricing for SIP Trunking, Cloud PBX, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Skype 4 Business and many more services, MachCloud provides products tailored according to your business needs. MachCloud is all-in-one toolbox for a customized and collaborative business communication experience.

Head up to MachCloud and get your digital communication tools in place according to your business needs.

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How Digital Business Communication solutions can make you win over your competitors

In Digital Communications
November 26, 2019
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Investment in Digital business communication solutions is regarded as the new norm for business success. It is often believed that the way to business success is the investment in the Right areas. In case of cloud- based businesses, the Right areas have become cloud business communication solutions. By going with a typical business phone system, you fail to realize how much you are spending on the calls and internal communication costs that you could’ve saved with cloud based communication solutions. Here are five ways how you can stay ahead of your competitors using a digital cloud based business communication solution:

  • Become Productive, not busy!

Staying busy all the time doesn’t mean you are being beneficial for the company all the time. Half of the time employees are busy fixing recurring tasks that can be automated. With a digital business communication solution in place, you’ll find more productivity amongst your employees, increased customer base and better prospects which eventually beats your competitors in cloud business competition.

  • Reach Out to international clients

With a cloud based business communication solution, you can reach out to international clients in an easy manner without biting your nails for potentially increased bills. When you reach out to an international customer base, you are more likely to sell better, grow your business and pursue for stability in your services. Capturing International clients is all you need to stay ahead of your competitors.

  • Get rid of barriers in the way of productivity

Business phone’s tangled wiring; jitters in video conferencing, dropping out important clients’ calls are a few barriers that come in the way of smooth service delivery from your end. With digital business communication, you can make use of top-notch infrastructure for smooth service delivery, that too without the hassle of maintenance at your end!

  • Save Cost on Calls

With business communication solutions, there are easy pricing plans that can fit any business. With a decent communication service provider, you only have to pay for what you need and so you can do more with less. There is less setup costs and almost no maintenance costs with a digital communication solution. In reality, you only don’t save direct communications costs, but also save indirect costs. For example Employees aren’t dependent to take calls only from the desk but can work from anywhere, so you never lose a business call and so potentially you save a huge indirect cost.

  • Hassle-free setup

Not only you save on setup and installation costs, you also save time with the quick and hassle free setup. You don’t have to boil the ocean during setup and installation of a cloud-based business communication solution, because setup is a low-hanging fruit in the first place.

ALSO READ Ways Cloud Voice can boost cloud computing for business productivity

MachCloud’s business communication solutions for promising cloud business outcomes

MachCloud is an Industry-leading digital business communications platform offering best-in-line services to customers and partners for a better business communication. The offers include SIP Trunking, Cloud PBX services, MachCloud, Office 365 Reselling services and Calling in Teams with Direct Routing. Not only the services are easy to deploy, the pricing and plans are also pocket-friendly and win-win for both customers and Resellers. Whatever the business size, MachCloud has got you covered.

Get started with MachCloud and find the Right digital cloud business communication solution for your business for better cloud based business productivity.

 

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5 Ways a VoIP system can reduce your business phone bill | A Digital communications strategy

In VOIP
November 22, 2019
3 Min Read
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The old adage “Communication is the key” still holds true especially for cloud businesses. A decent digital business communication infrastructure (like VoIP system or SIP Trunking solution) is indeed the backbone of any cloud business in which operations are carried out within the cloud space. Gone are the days when a traditional business phone system was setup and maintained amongst heavy clutters of wiring, digital communication in the cloud is the trend of today.

Amongst so many options, a smart choice of digital communications strategy is a VoIP. Let’s have a look why.

  • Lessened hardware costs

With VoIP, you don’t have to boil the ocean.  With a decent provider and a digital communications strategy, you get the power of a modern business communication with less investment costs and minimal maintenance cost which eventually brings down the costs you spend on your communications within the business. There are some VoIP providers who offer free hardware and others charge a little fee initially, it is still a lot better than the traditional business phone systems.

  • Pocket-friendly phone calls

Not only the infrastructure, but the phone calls also don’t burden your budget. Providers offer decent digital communications strategy and bundle deals for your cloud business which eventually save you big bucks on your budget. Monthly subscriptions are there that you may or may not continue the next month, depending upon your business needs. Furthermore, if you have international clients, you’d need to make frequent calls abroad; you only have to pay for what you use.

  • Scalability in cheap rates

Either you wish to scale up or down your cloud business, a digital communications system can adapt to your business scalability. No need to add more clutter and cost to the office business phone lines. All you have to do is add users in the cloud and utilize the power of scalability in the VoIP system.

  • Stay up-to-date always

With a VoIP system right in place, the updation of the system and infrastructure is the responsibility of the Provider so you don’t have to deal with out-dated systems anytime. The provider is there to roll in the new changes whenever they are available.

  • Save time

Providers know the importance of your time. When you are mostly busy with technicalities of a traditional phone line, theirs is less chance you’d be able to focus on your business tasks for the day. Providers take you out of that and let you focus on your cloud business operations to save you time and money.

ALSO READ Basics of VoIP Plans that can benefit your cloud business

MachCloud – Industry’s best Digital Communications Provider

At MachCloud, there is something for everyone. It is a robust digital communications platform offering SIP Trunking, Cloud PBX, and Reselling of Office 365 services.  MachCloud offers free calls mixing different technologies and makes the customers save more costs on their communications expenditure. Experts at MachCloud know the importance of your time and take the burden off from your IT team regarding communication infrastructure management.

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Hosted PBX – Cloud Based Virtual PBX for your Cloud Business | A Guide

In Cloud PBX
October 31, 2019
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With virtual PBX, hosted PBX, providers offering Cloud PBX, SIP trunking and many other options available at low rates, every cloud business provider thinks of opting a digital business communications solution, sooner or later. Digital communication solutions are provided by many providers that are replacement of existing business phone lines. But, where to start from?

To be honest, here are many options. One major option is a Hosted PBX, a cloud-based, virtual PBX phone system.

You can monitor the call related activities; facilitate your business from a modern communication infrastructure   and all types of communication mediums like text, voice, and video.

Broadband Capacity in Hosted PBX

If your organization has a few hundred employees and running smooth in business operations then Hosted PBX is the option for you. In modern times, Hosted PBX uses around 100Kbps both up and down in order to carry out one phone call with no latency or interference. So, you got a rough idea of the broadband capacity needed for one phone call. For more lines, say ten lines for one setup, you’d need a capacity of around 1MB both up and down.

There’s absolutely low latency with a setup offered by a Hosted PBX provider. So, you can stay hassle-free regarding the call quality.

Find the Right Broadband Service

For a virtual PBX, there are a couple of options on which technology to choose from. ADSL2+ is one option. It offers download speed of 20Mbps and an upload speed of 1Mbps. The quality of call operations depend upon the distance of premises from the exchange. Furthermore, there’s an option to opt for Fixed Wireless Broadband that can accommodate up to 30 telephone lines. It offers symmetrical speed (meaning both upload and download speeds are same). The ideal system offered by a Hosted PBX Provider is the Fiber Broadband. It offers extremely low latency and fine symmetrical speeds. However, out of the three, Fiber broadband is the most expensive setup. For companies having both voice and data requirements, Fiber Broadband are the way to go and with the right Hosted PBX provider, the transition process is quite simple and uncomplicated.

ALSO READ Features that make MachCloud stand out from other UC providers

MachCloud – Trusted Cloud PBX Provider for Digital Communication Service Delivery

MachCloud is a globally trusted one-stop digital communication services Provider that provides best-in-line infrastructure needed for effective communication across the business space. With MachCloud, you get reliability of services. Its Cloud PBX Solutions are simple and secure integrating all the key features of PBX-UC and can be integrated with web services, mobile client, wall board and call center functions. The quick setup and attractive tariffs make MachCloud’s Cloud PBX Solution a popular one amongst Cloud Providers.

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Time is Money: Invest in Digital Communications Solutions for your Cloud Business in time

In Business Communication
October 28, 2019
3 Min Read
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The Cloud has automated process like no technology before. Cloud automation is now a norm. There is a simple rule of thumb: if the business processes are automated, the employees can get more time to focus on higher value areas of the business.

The bottom line is: the more time staff members spend on petty everyday tasks, the less time they are spending over customer care and serving the business vision. Automating critical-but-time consuming business processes not only saves time but also add more value to the business. When planning for longer term benefits, the ROI of automation is promising than manual cost to implement issues.

Streamline your business

In order to streamline business, the processes have to be analyzed carefully to attain maximum perfection once the automated business process is in action. A fully integrated system is needed for a comprehensive insight towards the automation of whole business. This can not only automate business processes but also streamlines them for efficient outcomes.

Ease out the pain points of your employees

With cloud automation and better communication, employees don’t have to do follow routine tasks every day. Many business communication related tasks like reports after a video conference, camera focus on the speaker during a video conference

Modernize your workplace with Digital Communication Solutions

The trend for adopting cloud-based digital communications amongst Cloud businesses is increasing. Since the past 5 years, Gartner reports, the trend for UC communications is increasing and approximately 20% of companies opt for digital communications. Companies now understand the importance of a cloud-first strategy and opt for cloud based communications. Solutions like VoIP, IP telephony, Skype for business Server and Microsoft Teams are widely adopted. This not only opens a gateway to staying globally connected with clients but also makes the company grow steadily. A Modern workplace requires digital communications solutions so that all your employees are always on the go.

ALSO READ Ways Cloud Voice can boost cloud computing for business productivity

MachCloud’s best-in-line Digital Communication Experience

MachCloud is a full-fledge digital business communication platform with a cloud-first approach offering services like MachCloud and Office 365. MachCloud is the Industry-leading digital communications provider where there are pocket-friendly pricing plans that fit every business type. It’s Calling via Teams is a fruitful offer for cloud businesses. With updated infrastructure, MachCloud makes Digital Transformation an easy and promising task.

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