The year was 1987.An odd cartoon called The Simpsons made its debut. The average cost of a new house was $92,000. The Ford Escort was the #1 selling car. Millions of moviegoers flocked to see Lethal Weapon, Robocop and Dirty Dancing (“nobody puts baby in a corner”). Baggy dresses were all the rage for women, while a disturbing number of men donned suspender pants.And one more thing happened in 1987 that is more monumental than all of the above: a new telephone feature dubbed Caller ID arrived on the mainstream, and has been with us ever since. However, just as (thankfully)...

(SATPRNEWS, May 16th, 2018) To improve source-to-contract cycle performance in the Worldwide business VoIP market, the report provides actionable insight. It helps sourcing professionals develop better category strategies, understand supplier, enhance savings, market challenges, and best practices implementation. This report provides an in-depth research about the condition of global business VoIP projects and market and an overview of its overall growth in the market. It also provides the important elements of the market and across extremely important global regions in detail. A number of primary and secondary data has been carried out, just to collect data for concluding this specific report....

At Carolina Digital Phone, we’re proud and proven cloud phone system solution specialists. And that means “one-and-done” customer relationships don’t fit with our business plan. For us to succeed and grow — which we’ve been doing for nearly 20 years — we need our customers to succeed. It’s not an option for them, and it’s not an option for us.And one of the ways that we ensure that our customers get full value from their cloud telephone system is by implementing a comprehensive quality assurance (QA) framework. Here are some of the best practices that drive our QA approach and...

(Market Research Future) May 2018. Cloud technology is gaining popularity among various business sectors and aimed at achieving an effective and cost-efficient means of performing multiple jobs. The communication technology has also been upgrading with the assistance of cloud technology. Cloud PBX can now deliver all the basic elements of a customary PBX and effectively substitutes the on-site PBX hardware. According to Market Research Future report, there has been a growing demand for VoIP and cloud PBX and it is going to be larger than ever in the future. Irrespective of their size, every business seems ready to shift from the...

The strongest and most successful businesses aren’t those that out-spend their competitors. Rather, they out-smart them by knowing when taking a do-it-yourself (DIY) approach makes strategic and financial sense — and when it’s a really bad idea.What does this have to do with cloud phone systems? It’s this: there are some mass market cloud phone system vendors in the marketplace that want businesses to think that a DIY cloud business phone system is easy, smart and cost-effective.However, if you ask an overwhelming number of businesses that have been misled by this hype, you’ll discover that the experience is tedious, disappointing...

The SIP trunking services and VoIP access market has maintained its pace to become the default source of connection between on-site consumer platform and the PSTN (public switched telephone network). They are also expected to hold their stance prominently in supporting the efforts of a large number of revolutionary businesses towards digital transformation. The next generation voice access services include: Basic VoIP Access Services: These are congregated access lines linking with basic low-end structures or primarily with telephony endpoints usually via ATAs (analog telephone adapters). VoIP Trunking: These are joined access lines linking through TDM (time division multiplexing) enterprise telephony...

Cloud phone systems offer many enterprise-grade calling features such as voicemail-to-email, video conferencing, live call forwarding, direct-inward-dial, and the list goes on. However, the one that most businesses instantly fall in love with — and wonder how they managed without — is auto attendant. Here are the key benefits:1. Full CustomizationAn auto attendant is more than just an answering machine. It’s a functional and customizable 24/7 digital receptionist that lets callers quickly connect with the right individual or team, instead of having to go through a live operator or run the risk of getting “bounced around” because someone made a...

It doesn’t matter whether a business sells professional services, cool gadgets, delicious meals or anything else: while all employees have an important role to play, the fact is — and always will be — that the gateway to organizational success is sales.Indeed, without sufficient revenues, businesses cannot achieve their objectives or targets. And while sales numbers typically rise and fall due to cycles and other marketplace variables, a sustained drop in revenue inevitably — and terrifyingly — leads to layoffs, scale-backs, and in extreme cases, bankruptcies and shut downs.Given the importance of sales, it makes sense that successful businesses around...

(GL Communications Inc. 3rd May 2018) The GL Communications Inc. announced today its new ED-137 Voice Recorder Emulator software also known as MAPS ED-137 Recorder Emulator. The CEO of the company Mr. Vijay Kulkarni said, “Air traffic control centers need to provide continuous ground/air and ground/ground voice communication recordings along with replay, flight release data, air traffic incident, audits, chronology, training, and statistics. The new ED-137/4B shows inter-operability standards for the advance generation VoIP Air Traffic Recorder. The advance generation recorders are designed for all local and international control towers to simplify the recording, playback of voice communications, archiving. He also said that...

In an article for the New York Times, Craig Pfeiffer, CEO of the association representing the investment advisory solutions industry noted that: “the financial advice profession is under pressure to continue to move aggressively from a sales- and product-driven focus to a more comprehensive, advice-driven model delivering a personalized, streamlined experience to investors similar to what is happening in other industries.”As with disruptive shifts in any field — such as legal or healthcare — some financial advisory firms are successfully navigating this new client-centric landscape, while others are struggling. And it’s not surprising that many firms that see the future...