In a world of ever changing technology and advancing communications needs, it's hard to stay current, and in touch with your customers. Communication is the key to productivity, and the most important portion of that is your business phone system. What you're looking for is a "Private Branch Exchange," or PBX. These powerful and technologically advanced devices are the foundation of it all. It can be difficult to determine what sort of PBX you need, though.

While evaluating phone systems for business, it's crucial that you don't get locked in to a limited capability business phone setup which could stagnate over time could leave you in the position of having to spend more in the long run, upgrading an existing service - or maybe that's exactly the point you're at now. Consider some of the options that a modern business phone system can bring you, keeping an eye toward the future.

Employee salaries are the price of doing business. However, paying someone just to answer phones, or taking time away from an otherwise skilled employee to perform this menial task is really a waste of funds. You'll be glad to know that most of the same features can be overseen by many of the business phone systems these days, and usually can do it better than a human. At the most basic level, these "Auto Attendant" features includes options such as allowing your users to brows through a touchtone activated menu, reach specific extensions or access information recordings. Now if only they had a phone system that will brew a pot of coffee...

Having your phone system perform automated tasks can save you time and money. Auto-dialing provides a means for the system to place calls (and more) all on it's own. At the most basic level, many of us associate PBX auto-dialing with robo-calls, or telemarketing. However, the systems can do much more than that, with tasks like sending text messages to cell phones automated for instant and informative personal, departmental, or company-wide alerts and notices. Recordings or messages can be delivered as well, and many packages even provide text to speech for reading messages to the recipient, such as crucial e-mails, news or stock alerts, and more.

Among the most popular and powerful PBX systems on the market, are those delivered by Avaya and Nortel. They lead the market for a number of years, and their product lines range from small business targeted (though feature rich) low end systems, up through enterprise systems capable of handling thousands of phones, calls, and messages at once.

They are known for high quality VoIP integration, even in their entry level systems, as well as the high end systems. Among their offerings are the popular CS-1000 Meridian system, and the higher end CS1500 and CS2100 systems.

No one can predict the future, or determine how their business will change and expand in the coming years. However, your choice of business phone system will be one of the crucial factors in shaping those coming years of expansion. As you can see, the technology and flexibility of today's business phone systems is astounding. The PBX forms the nervous system of your company, extending into each nook and cranny, delivering vital messages. Without choosing a powerful and business phone system though, that nervous system is left lacking, and your business crippled. Power and expandability are critical in finding the PBX that's the right fit for you.

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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 get the tools they need to answer the tough calls. They re able to instantly see who is free to help whether that expert is another 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.