Businesses must constantly maintain contact with their clients, and employees.People are constantly interconnected and exchanging valuable, important information. Keeping these communications flowing, at the heart of your business is the PBX, ensuring employees and clients alike are able to stay in contact with one another. Before diving in though, there are a few things you should consider.

For the most part, home phone systems are simple to decide on, with very few options and a handful of providers to choose from. That's no big surprise, for individual use, there's not a lot of variety in terms of needed features or high tech abilities.

As with all else, the business world moves at a different pace. Features can make or break your PBX system, determining your ability to scale with future needs and expansion, your ability to leverage the power of the internet in your communications network (with technologies like VoIP,) and your ability to remain bulletproof and immune to services outages, with things like battery backup UPS systems and remote administrative capabilities. To give you an idea of just how crucial these features can be, consider how your business is impacted by this:

You might need to see if you have space for the unit you're considering. The central core of a business phone system can vary in size from tiny to huge. A dazzling array of features is no small comfort if you fail to account for the amount of space the unit will take up, especially if space is a consideration.

Not only that, but installation is a sobering topic. Many business phone systems will take special proprietary connections and wiring, extended networking, or wholly gutting your existing phone system to make way for the new. Others may be able to use a standard phone system, or even your basic computer network - though you may also end up sacrificing features for flexibility and convenience. Many times, the proprietary setups use their special connectors and wiring to deliver more data and extra features.

Not all the systems on the market are proprietary. Many commercial options are powered by an open source PBX package. The "Asterisk" project is a suite of high powered, feature rich software PBX tools, very popular with many businesses. The software runs on a standard PC, along with specialized interface cards to connect you to the outside phone system (including everything from standard phone lines, through ISDN or T1 lines.) Features are rich, including robo-dialing, auto-operator menu systems, voicemail, voice over IP, and much more.

Rather than run this yourself, you an also opt for devices powered by Asterisk, of which many can be found. This can give you many of the rapid development, security, and plugin benefits of Asterisk, without the chore and hassle of trying to install and manage the software on a computer, yourself.

"Can you hear me now?" isn't something you want your customers or employees to have to utter. Making sure you're able to keep in touch around the office, and with the outside world is a very real and serious demand of modern business. Your selection of a business phone system will ensure that you're not only able to keep voice communications flowing, but will also allow seamless integration with other modern technology, keeping your business agile and responsive to the market's demands.

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Why do I need SIP in my Contact Center?

When you add Avaya IP Agent with integrated Instant Messaging to your Contact Center, your agents have the tools they need to answer the tough calls. They re able to instantly see who is available to help whether that expert is some other agent within the Contact Center, a supervisor or manager, or an expert outside the Contact Center.

Now agents are able to immediately provide answers to hard questions from customers. And, it s a valuable learning experience for the agent. The agent gains knowledge and insight into how to answer the hard questions knowledge that would not have been attainable by merely transferring the call to someone else. Next time the agent will be able to answer these questions!

From a customer perspective, the end result of integrating SIP and presence into the Contact Center is a higher number of customers receiving first-call resolution. Increasingly, studies show that first call resolution is an important measure of customer satisfaction. Not only does it create a happier customer experience it reduces the load to your Contact Center. The number of call transfers is reduced , which saves the time it previously took for callers to re-explain their need to a new agent when transferred. You ll see a decrease in overall talk time, enabling you to make better use of valuable agent time. Agents will have more time available to answer other customers faster or to provide other value-added services. For example, agents can proactive contact customers to let your them know about new products or services.

Another popular suite is Avaya Distributed Office delivers rich communication, collaboration and mobility capabilities to branch offices. This centrally managed, SIP-based communications platform easily scales to meet the needs of large enterprises with distributed sites. Advanced applications, such as presence and instant messaging, can now be delivered to every branch, enhancing responsiveness to customers needs. In addition, mobility features support employees on the go, providing effective communications regardless of location. To reduce staff training requirements, Distributed Office offers an optional key system interface. SIP architecture makes scaling to thousands of sites simple, and Avaya can reduce on-site installation time by delivering pre-configured Distributed Office platforms directly to the branch site. In addition, enterprises can leverage intuitive centralized management tools to decrease set up time; manage updates and upgrades; and provision user moves, additions, and changes.