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Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Features Of A Hosted PBX System That Can Enormously Help Firms

By Jada K. Klocko


The hosted IP PBX is the best way to lower bills each period in a business. This system allows a company to reduce the number of staff it uses for the phones, and instead put them to better use elsewhere in the company. Training and purchase for the equipment is not compulsory, adding to the rewards of this type of option. In an industry where there is an ongoing pressure on departments to reduce costs, this is a huge opportunity to do so.

The hosted phone system replaces far more weighty and expensive machinery and processes. Without it, a company would need a secretary or switchboard to answer the calls, take the information and divert them through to lines manually. Even though the process of answering and forwarding a call is straightforward, previous hardware needed to do this was not. Furthermore, these workers would have the added stress of transcribing messages for staff and being responsible for mistakes that inevitably get made. The ramifications of something going wrong in this manual system can be major.

Things have come a long way for phone switchboards, and there is a new movement underway. A hosted IP PBX is a virtual service that can be controlled and configured by anyone logging in to an online portal. As an outbound call reaches the hub, it is filtered through a series of menus or criteria until it reaches the right place. This system is fully customizable so that a large call center can use a voice menu, whereas smaller companies can set it to ring directly at the customer care desk. This process happens so swiftly that it can seem like the number they rang calls straight through to the right department.

The best part of the hosted phone system is that it is included with many VoIP phone packages. It would be impossible to conceive such an idea ten years ago, let alone find it for the price that is charged now. Most companies will add in the handset, pre-configured with menus and settings, free of charge. Once the equipment is delivered, the customer just hooks it up and can expect it to be functional in minutes. All that is required from the user is to follow the included guide to get it operational.

Firms are getting rid of their old phones with good reason. When there is something fast, affordable and useful being offered in place of something slow, expensive and unhelpful, people should take it. There is research to back up the statistic that up to three quarters of offices are now working on or considering a VoIP network. This demonstrates the validity and value of the system.




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