Hybrid Unified Communications Delivers Business Flexibility

As 2018 begins, we know that many organizations are looking for ways to increase revenue and improve productivity and efficiency. These are especially goals important if you’re expanding and need to open new branch offices, respond to seasonal spikes in demand, or want to be innovative in your area of business. You want your phone system to easily expand with you and give you communication tools that will make your staff and business more flexible and productive.

As you consider ways to increase the flexibility of your business, think about your phone system. It’s a communications tool that can help you as the needs of your business flexibility evolve. Here’s how.

1. Improve Speed to Market

If your company is expanding quickly and speed to market time is critical, you need to be able to add locations and employees quickly.

A hybrid unified communications (UC) solution – such as Mitel Connect HYBRID – gives you the ability to ramp up a new office phone system with immediacy by adding new sites in the cloud, even if your headquarters is using an onsite system. Your staff will be up and running in days, versus weeks. Top cloud solution providers also enable you to get new employees like contact center agents up to speed quickly.

That means you and your teams are up and running faster and producing revenue even more quickly than ever before.

2. Create Financial Flexibility

With a hybrid solution, you can provide access to applications on a per-user or per-month basis and turn on or off this subscription-based service as needed. This eliminates the Capex of a legacy phone system during seasonal business shifts when you are staffing up roles like customer service, support or even interns. Depending on the number of staff you have, capital requirements can be a big investment.

3. Increase Productivity

Being nimble is a key part of today’s business environment. ShoreTel Connect HYBRID phone system can help you manage the many demands of your business by helping you improve your speed to market, giving you increased financial flexibility, and improving team productivity. ShoreTel Connect HYBRID can give your business flexibility in ways you’ve never imagined.

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