In our day and age, it’s becoming increasingly important to maintain an edge over your competition. Thanks to emerging communications technologies and the increasing quality of cloud based enterprise solutions, companies can now benefit from productivity enhancing / cost saving solutions at a low risk.

Here are few key reasons people have been adopting the hosted model:

• Service providers host the solution in their top-tier data center(s). Since most SMB’s have limited IT resources, outsourcing the management of their communications infrastructure reduces cost while increasing resiliency and reliability.
• As for any business related technology purchase, initial CapEx is an important decision making factor and hosted solutions typically cost 30%-60% less than premise-based solutions.
• By migrating your telecommunications to the cloud, you pay a flat monthly predictable rate while saving up to 50% on international calling.
• Hosted telephone platforms come with a variety of features and functionalities such as eFax, Voicemail2Text, Remote access, Virtual office, application integration, FMC, and Unified Communications with presence based call routing – amongst a long list of other features that enhance overall productivity.
• Remote access enables all users to modify their services from anywhere they have an Internet connection! Need to forward a number to your cell phone? Do it on your internet enabled smart phone!
• Have offices in multiple locations? A hosted solution is able to manage your intra-office communications much more efficiently than having a premise-based solution.

In addition to all of the above points, we at Cohere still like to say: “that what you don’t get with our hosted service is sometimes more important than what you do …”

NO maintenance contracts, NO additional costs for on-site resident technicians, NO software support contracts, NO upgrade mandates, NO MAC tickets, NO wasted time negotiating rates, NO expensive disaster recovery plans, and NO multiple invoices.  Our service packages are set on a per user basis and scale with the “right sizing” of your organization…  you only pay for what’s in-use, without penalties or fees – ever.

Bringing VoIP to Small Businesses

http://dupont-solutions.com/attachments/article/81/Bringing%20VOIP%20to%20SMBs.pdf

When do hosted VoIP Solutions Make Sense for Large Offices?

http://www.focus.com/questions/when-do-hosted-voip-solutions-make-sense-large-offices/