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Keeping your best people

Introducing unified communications

 

Skilled, expert people are the lifeblood of every organisation but how do you keep the finest?  How do you give them the freedom to work where and how they want within your organisation? Keeping the best is a challenge but it’s more cost effective than finding and training new employees.

 

Boxout graphic 6With today's networks, you can afford to be flexible, to accommodate changing working practices and life-style preferences and make it easy for your experts to stay with you. Fast communications networks have shrunk distances, making geographic location irrelevant - time and money spent travelling to and from meetings can be avoided, while employees can still talk face-to-face wherever they are working from.

 

A single IP network can be used for all data, video and voice needs, meaning an employee with an IP connection has access to both voice and data applications through their PC or a new range of advanced feature phones. Unified communications offers incredible functionality, including sending and receiving instant messages or data files in parallel with a voice or video conversation, audio and video conferencing, managing address books and checking the availability of colleagues online. This isn't just an improvement to communications - it's a whole new way of working. Here's some of the benefits it can bring to your employees.

 

Unified communications

Many of us find ourselves having to deal with the increasing complexity created by the sheer range of communication methods in today's workplaces; phones, email, instant messaging, mobile phones, voicemail and conferencing applications. The outcome is all too often that email is sent to people that are out of the office and inboxes are overloaded. Decision making gets bogged down and productivity is damaged. Unified communications solutions integrate voice and video along with collaborative working, conferencing, messaging and mobility applications to meet the video and communications needs of today's offices and workplaces.

 

Realtime working

Business today places employees under a lot of pressure to respond immediately to the latest text, email or phone call. All too often the outcome is that employees get distracted from important tasks and it becomes difficult to stick to key priorities. Tying all these applications into a single system (by converging voicemail and email inboxes, for instance) makes communications easier and simpler to manage all round.

 

Remote working

Employees will benefit from the flexibility of being able to work from home and other locations via secure internet connections and other offices on the internal network. They will be in far greater control of their time, improving their work-life balance and productivity. Incoming phone calls can be automatically routed, irrespective of where they are connected to the network. By taking their laptop and soft phone with them on a trip, they can receive incoming calls and make calls wherever they can connect to the Internet.

 

Solutions for keeping your best people

  • Converged Solutions: Our IP Multimedia solution is ideal for remote and flexible working, allowing employees to take their personal phone number with them wherever they go as well as offering a single joined up way to manage voice, video and data communications.
  • LAN Solutions: The bedrock of today’s advanced communications solutions is a rock-solid, properly designed and implemented LAN (Local Area Network). Our LAN Solutions offer support for security, wireless networking and unified communications.

 

We can also help with your other needs; to find out more, please contact us.