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. But what options are there in this ever-changing market?

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:

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 taken care of by many of the current PBX systems. At the most basic level, these "Auto Attendant" features includes options such as allowing the caller to brows through a touchtone activated menu, reach specific extensions or access information recordings. Now if only they had a PBX 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, especially when blended with modern technology. For example, 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.

In the world of business phone systems, standout devices are manufactured 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.

Avaya (formerly a branch of Lucent) systems 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. One thing is certain though, communications will forever be the core of any successful business. 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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