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4 Compelling reasons to adopt unified communications in the cloud business

In Unified Communications
August 13, 2020
3 Min Read
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Modern Unified communications is a way to streamline core business operations and increase productivity. With a state-of-the-art business phone in place, your employees can collaborate better and manage project communication much more eloquently via email, chat, phone, text, voicemail, audio conferencing and video conferencing. Having the right Unified communication setup lets you have an improved relationship with your customers too.

What are the few UC Solution options?

Modern born-in-the cloud PBXs are best to opt-in to a business. There are options to go for a SIP Trunking solution or a Hosted PBX system. In addition to this, Microsoft Teams is also a lucrative and emerging unified communication trend that satisfies most businesses’ communication needs. It offers Direct routing capabilities in which you can experience Teams Calls via your existing PBX.

What are the Major benefits of unified communications?

Apart from better collaboration, Unified communications provide many other benefits. Let’s have a look:

  • Top-notch infrastructure

With cloud communications, you get top-notch infrastructure at your hands to carry out inbound and outbound calls within your office. Cloud communications also provide geo-redundancy which inherently provides your business communication structure, resiliency against any disaster, or more specifically against a pandemic.

  • Improved business flows

Well-crafted unified communication solutions of today are designed to keep People’s communication in mind. Either they are your customers or employees; you’ll have to deal with people at the end of the day. With improved people communication your business processes eventually improve that gives you all the productivity needed for a growing business.

  • Reduced Shadow IT effects

In modern workspaces, it is getting difficult to combat the effects of Shadow IT. With a centralized cloud communication solution, you can stop shadow IT in its tracks. This keeps cyber criminals at a bay.

  • Better customer experience

Once you’re internal and external comm channels are better connected, you get faster response time. This makes things easier for the sales team or the customer support people to tackle customer things. 

Also read: A GUIDE TO DEPLOY MICROSOFT TEAMS DIRECT ROUTING

MachCloud takes your business to the next level

With MachCloud, your organization can get a modern communication system within no time. MachCloud provides best-in-line solutions for business communication. With services like Cloud PBX, SIP Trunking, Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, and Calling in Teams, MachCloud stands out from others. The Calling in Teams Solution can be obtained via MachCloud Solution for Microsoft Teams Solutions. In addition to this, there is a MachCloud Voice solution for better Calling options.

Keep your business communication updated with the latest MachCloud offerings and take your business phone to the next level.

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

In Digital Communications, Unified Communications
February 6, 2020
4 Min Read
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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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How MachCloud can help you in avoiding internal telephone usage cost?

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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Digital Communication Tools & SIP Trunking for a Positive ROI in Hybrid Cloud | An insight

In SIP Trunking
December 10, 2019
3 Min Read
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Gone are the days when various digital communications tools were used for business communication purpose. Now is the time of Integrated systems and hybrid cloud approach where SIP Trunking and many other Digital communication approaches integrate to one digital communication system comprising of all the necessary digital communication tools in place.

With Hybrid cloud approach. Enterprises can streamline their digital communication solutions by utilizing a few functions from the cloud and keep the data and other proprietary stuff on-premises infrastructure. But, in reality, any enterprise would only accept a new system if it can deliver more with less. In business terms, a new system is only acceptable if the system results in a Positive ROI (Return on Investment). Let’s analyze the Return on Investment for a digital communication tools and techniques over a hybrid cloud deployment

Digital communication tools impact on Hybrid Cloud

With Unified digital communications, there are 8 cost factors:

  • IT Staff: with efficient digital communication tools, IT staff can be decreased. This reduces cost of IT staff
  • Data Centers: With a hybrid cloud deployment, the infrastructure costs are reduced.
  • Maintenance: since some of the functionalities are handled in the cloud, there is lesser maintenance than in an on-premises setup. So you save on this one too.
  • UCaaS Licenses: for licensing, its different for different provider, there are less chances of saving cost on this one in a hybrid deployment. (If you plan to shift to a cloud based UC Solution, you’ll save huge on licensing too)
  • Internal Network: The internal network of the company remains unchanged, so, this is a constant factor.
  • Network Access Bandwidth: This is something that changes with technology; however, you are going to get cheaper alternates to Internet access technology already in your company.
  • Endpoints: this remains constant as well.
  • Cloud Contract: this is an increased cost. The cost of service is offset by decrease of costs in other factors.

The overall costs of a hybrid cloud deployment with a standard digital communication solution define it is good to go. However, this is where SIP trunking comes into play. IF you add SIP Trunking to the equation, things get interesting. The initial setup costs on SIP Trunking may be added to the factors but it gets reduced with time. The best part is the overall communication costs for local and international clients are greatly reduced. This means you get more international clients without having to pay huge for the international calls.

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MachCloud Cloud based SIP Trunking for a Smooth Business Communication

MachCloud is an industry-leading digital communications platform offering SIP Trunking services to Partners. With flexibility in migrations and on-demand number porting, you can offer unified solution for existing PBX equipment, contact center, Skype for Business, Cloud PBX and calling via Microsoft Teams. The SIP trunking based on MachCloud’s Service Management and Communications Delivery Platform is going to get your business going in a smooth direction.

Head over to MachCloud for a robust SIP Trunking platform, beneficial for your business with a positive ROI.

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How MachCloud can help you in avoiding internal telephone usage cost?

In Unified Communications
May 15, 2019
3 Min Read
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With more and more businesses opting for Unified Communication Solutions, companies can benefit from cost optimization. Call accounting is a process which captures, records and keeps track on telephone usage events within the origination. Cost optimization is very necessary for businesses and therefore, companies implement cost optimization software’s and adopt them to make sure their digital business communication costs are streamlined.

How are internal telephone usage costs discovered?

Telephone Usage cost

With effective call optimization solutions in place, quite recently companies have realized that there are irregular internal telephone usage costs that are caused by using different vendors. In essence, keeping two vendors give you benefits of both types of solutions like PBX and Microsoft Teams. This gives rise to internal costs and the costs outweigh the benefits. Let’s make it clear: 

Harry and Alice both work in different branches of the same company that has opted IP Telephony networks. Harry has adopted PBX at one branch and Alice has adopted calling via Microsoft Teams. Over a period of time, when the company performs call accounting, it is made visible that due to differences in vendors (Cloud PBX and Microsoft Teams) there is an increase in internal telephone usage costs.

The solution to internal telephone usage cost

 

Internal Telephone Usage cost with machcloud

Like every problem has a solution, the problem of increase of Internal telephone usage costs also has a reliable solution: MachCloud Unified Business Communication Solutions.  With a MachCloud SIP solution in place, employees can make use of different telecom technology causing no extra internal costs to the company. That said, with a MachCloud layer in place, Harry can keep using PBX via SIP trunking and perform all the necessary business communication with Alice who is using calling via Microsoft Teams through SIP trunking and there are “absolutely no” internal telephone usage charges. This is by far the biggest benefit of MachCloud from all other SIP trunking providers and UCaaS providers in the market.

 

MachCloud: Ultimate UC solution for a progressive business

MachCloud not only provides solutions for internal telephone usage costs, it is a complete Service Management and solution delivery platform. It also provides services that facilitate Resellers in all aspects like enabling them with profitable margins, no costs for becoming a partner to resell Office 365 services, better client management and best-in-line technical support that is there for you 24/7. MachCloud is indeed your gateway to a successful digital business communication service that adds more value to your business, cuts costs on telephone usage and increase the flow of revenue for your business keeping you content with your business proceedings and making you explore new areas of making revenue.

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The Future of Unified Communications: What to Expect

In Unified Communications
April 29, 2019
3 Min Read
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Unified communications have changed the way people do business. With a guaranteed unified communication solution in place, you can approach your customers better, perform inter-office collaboration in a better way and experience better team management for projects. The shape of unified communications as we see today has come a long while with technological advancements from simple phone systems to VoIP solutions and finally the Cloud PBX and SIP Trunking.

But what is beyond that?

Pertaining to the nature of changing technology there is little chance that all-in-one Unified Communication tools will stay for long. In fact, in future, something more dynamic is expected in the field of UC.

Experts predict that in future, the AI aspects of unified communication solutions would include features like facial recognition in video conferencing, intelligent speaker tracking in a meeting, automated identification and authorization of meeting members, finding useful content related to meeting agenda, generating meeting minutes, Intelligent recommendation system on which employees should join a meeting. Here’s an insight to what expert suggest that the future of UC business solutions would include:

1.      Improved Collaboration

Since remote work is on the rise, UC business solutions are likely to become improved collaborative tools in future. Collaborative tools would soon be incorporated into UC solutions so that customers can utilize maximum benefit from communication infrastructure. Through this approach, remotely working employees can get seamless access to documents and important project files stay involved in monthly meetings, provide the company with digital marketing services and many benefits that lead to more potential within the business environment.

2.      Increased Mobility

In the present era, businesses demand mobility. Gone are the days when workspaces where confined to business locations. With increasing Mobility demands, UC communications play a role to meet these increased mobility demands. This is especially necessary for Teams members and coworkers in a project as it makes them notified and keeps up with the project on-goings in real-time. The nextGen UC business solutions are expected to be integrated smoothly with development environments to facilitate users with optimum collaboration while being in different geographical locations.

3.      Hybrid UC Solutions

A typical hybrid scenario is when an on-site hardware implementation is used in combination with integrated cloud-based UC services which offer cloud based features like inbound and outbound calling, nationwide dial tone, competitive long distance rates and international call rates and many more. Hosted Voice solutions would be more in demand in future hybrid scenarios than ever before.

ALSO READ: How modern Digital Communications can open up significant new opportunities for resellers

UC solutions are here to stay. In future, there would be many more streams of UC business solutions needs which we might be overlooking at present. For this, Cloud UC solution providers must possess infrastructures that have the potential to scale up the business in future. MachCloud offers all the flexibility needed for a business to implement UC solutions in different combinations like using Teams, Skype4Buisness, SIP Trunking or Cloud PBX. With this freedom of choice, the nextGen UC Solution needs can be met in a timely manner along with unlocking various market opportunities for streamline revenue. Smart resellers foresee the future UC solution needs, because flexibility is what makes the future of UC business solutions promising. All the resellers out there have a choice to opt for Providers providing top-notch UC solutions that serve the purpose of current UC business needs or go for top-notch providers who foresee the future needs of UC business solutions with flexibility and market opportunities.

 

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