Showing posts with label unified communications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unified communications. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Voice in the cloud

There is no doubt unified communications facilitates a more integrated form of communications encompassing various components of communication. Jive communications created a product that deserves recognition. The company itself is privately owned and their product is the Cloud voice. Basically, this product is targeted at enterprises or organizations aimed at unifying their communication processes lowering costs incurred in communications expenses. The product can be described as organizations’ unified communications solutions in the cloud. Cloud voice is a product that offers affordability and great features. 

Cost effective 
On matters pertaining to costs Cloud voice charges are based on the number of users therefore giving the organization an opportunity to scale their systems up and down with a billing format that changes in real time. The cloud voice initial set up will be lowered especially if you have an already established network system in place. The systems works with any services provider’s equipment as long as it’s compatible with the cloud voice. The Voice in the cloud systems enhances the use of networks ensuring that both data and voice communication are carried through a single network freeing the excess lines for backup or eliminated entirely.

Great reliability 
Typically, traditional communications solutions can be regarded as the predecessors of cloud voice solutions and notable improvements are best expressed in reliability. For example, the infrastructure in cloud voice is professionally managed by service providers instead of on site. Due to the hosting of data on voice in the cloud in various remote locations all over the world, there is no interruptions in case of emergencies. In addition the disaster management is reliable since the cloud voice solutions can be re-routed to other wireless connections such as another company, location, and home phone or a third party phone receiver. 

Enhanced productivity
The unified communications features offer enhanced productivity. The user can customize the system to fit into the organization specifications in any location with access to the internet. Some of these customized features include the voicemail to email and fax to email, dial-in conferencing, visual plan editor, and auto-attendant and find me-follow me. All these features are built on making voice cloud communications more effective. Furthermore, enhancing these features does not require a lot of training and it can be achieved within a short time. 

Simplicity 
The modifications of settings, addition of users or making any changes have been made easier with the voice in the cloud. The changes can be made through a mobile device or point and click interface. It can be easily accessed through mobile devices on applications created to make desktops phone features available on the phone. In case of an upgrade, the organization can have a faster and reliable upgrade. The upgrades are conducted by the services providers in a timely fashion. The cloud voice solutions eliminate boundaries that could have been created by telephone lines since access can be made on any location due to the remote settings of the cloud solutions. 
The virtual voice solutions offer an all inclusive pricing that reduces the cost of implementations which is incurred especially in the traditional means of communication such as the telephone. 

Conclusion
Notably, cloud voice is a great alternative form of communications especially with its unified communications offering and lower pricing. In addition, it is cheap and a reason it is emerging as one of the most favored unified communication service providers.

Stay tuned for more Unified Communication articles and how ALTTRIX Cloud serve you better with email, voice, security, storage, back up, office applications, fax and much more.