Thursday, December 27, 2018

Without Voice Over IP Houston Businesses May Find Themselves At A Disadvantage

By Christine Ward


The modern international business environment is not for those that are timid. It is a highly competitive world and only those at the very edge of technology and service will prosper. Communications play a vital role. Consumers have become extremely sophisticated. They have more options than they ever had and they demand superior service. This requires superior communications abilities. With voice over IP Houston companies can actually meet this demand and reap many other benefits too.

VoIP is not a new concept and it has been slow to become popular. The main reason for its initial failure to capture a large market is the fact that it is internet based. In days now gone, internet access was not as readily available as it is today and in the early days it was not reliable at all. This has changed, of course, and now one can get access from just about everywhere in the world.

For the majority of companies moving to VoIP, the initial bait was the promise of huge savings on their communication bills. They do indeed save and some large companies have reported savings of more than half of the previous bills. Quickly, however, new users find out that VoIP offers many benefits that enhances productivity and that improve their ability to satisfy their clients. Improved customer satisfaction eventually reflect on the bottom line.

One of the biggest benefits offered by this technology is the fact that it truly frees employees to be where they are needed most. With older, traditional telephone systems, users could only make and receive calls if they were physically present at their desks. This is not the case with VoIP. Users can communicate wherever they are, as long as they can access the internet. This benefit alone should be enough to motivate companies to switch.

Then there is the fact that VoIP users are not obliged to use a specific device to use the system. They can use any device they want, as long as it is able to connect to the internet. The same device does not need to be used all the time either. All the communications records of every user is stored in the cloud and is therefore available at all times.

Savings on the telephone bill is just the beginning. Older systems needed hardware, in the form of switchboards, to be installed and maintained at each and every one of their branches and sites. This is extremely expensive, even more so when one think of the cost of maintenance and the additional cost of employing switchboard operators. With VoIP none of this is necessary. There is only one installation and it is maintained by the service provider.

Users of VoIP quickly fall in love with the may features that these systems offer. Suddenly, they not only have traditional voice mail, call holding and call transfer capabilities, but they can also send files, hold voice or video conferences and enjoy voice to email or fax benefits. These features are not there for show. They can have a serious impact upon the productivity of the users.

Experts are confident that this technology is the future of communication systems. Not only does it offer extremely economical communications solutions, but it also offers superior benefits. New users frequently say that they simply do not know how they ever coped before.




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