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Cloud communications has eclipsed traditional PBX

Businesses of all stripes can benefit from a cloud based communications infrastructure. Traditional PBX now commits the double edged sin of being expensive and ineffective. Is your communications system weighing you down?

This short case study shows how a moving and storage company deployed UC to improve flexibility and create saving. Learn how an IP infrastructure provided the following benefits:

  • Elimination of third party maintenance costs
  • Productivity improvements for employees
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    Cloud Communications solutions have emerged as a highly desirable collaboration option for organizations of all sizes and locations. Legacy PBX systems are no longer up to the task, and are costly to boot. Cloud communications have become the natural replacement.

    This guide covers the ways that cloud based tools lower the total cost of communications in enterprises. You’ll see the 5 top budget efficiencies that can be gained by implementing cloud communications over your legacy equipment.

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    What’s coming down the pike in cloud-based communications? In short, it’s massive adoption. Don’t get left behind.

    Learn 3 ways that cloud communications technology is changing, and the impact that those trends will have on your business operations. This short resource lays out the ways that web real-time communications (WebRTC) will change the way that organizations move forward.

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