In a world of ever changing technology and advancing communications needs, it's important for your business to stay on top. Communication is the key to profit, 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 what keeps communications open between employees, offices, and the outside world. It can be difficult to determine what sort of business phone system you need, though.

You should ask yourself some questions: What sort of internet connectivity does your PBX need? Will you need to have your service handle multiple physical locations, and possibly forward calls to other remote locations?

Answering some of these questions can be vital to finding the perfect fit for your business, and its PBX. To help you find those answers, here's some food for thought...

These days, the internet does just about everything. Why not take advantage of voice over IP to link together your business phone system? It's one of those little modern technological wonders which can really provide a huge boon to your business. On the local level, this allows you to use your existing computer network to manage and route calls, and still link to the normal outside phone system. At wider scales, you can leverage the same technology to transfer calls between your offices or employees around the world. You can even link to existing SIP technology, allowing you to place all your business's calls through inexpensive, reliable internet means.

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.

No one can say for certain how their business will grow over 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 immediately 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.