
Compare ShoreTel ECC and CISCO UCCX Contact Centers!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical ManagersAs Contact Center implementation consultants we get to work with both ShoreTel ECC and CISCO UCCX. The fact of the matter is they are both really excellent solutions and very similar in many respects. Historically, ShoreTel has had a…

New ShoreTel ECC and CISCO UCCX feature - Text Messaging?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical ManagersWe continue to focus on call center strategies that optimize the caller experience by reducing or eliminating wait time. Now clearly, you have to be in a business that actually cares about customers, we don’t expect the IRS will be implementing…

New ECC Feature - Smartphone based "Visual IVR"!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Technical Managers, Telephony ArchivesImagine that you go to a restaurant, ask for the menu and the waiter hands you a phone? You lift the handset and hear "Thank you for coming to our Restaurant home of great food and fine dining. For breakfast, please dial one; for Lunch…

Will Technology Kill the Call Center?
Business Managers, Company & Perspectives, Industry PerspectivesWe recently posted a blog on how smart phones could be used to bypass automated attendants and deep dial into a call center with a Smartphone visual menu. This blog received a lot of interest and the follow on questions clearly indicated…

The Hosted VoIP Telephony with 'the most bang for your buck'
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Telephony ArchivesBusinesses communications technology is at the heart of every business but can be difficult to manage and expensive for SMEs. James Passingham at business communications provider, Foehn, thinks cloud and hosted telephony could be the answer.
From…

Compare ShoreTel and 3CX - Part 1 License Strategy
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor TelephonyThe trend in the Unified Communications industry is to charge a "per seat" license for access to VoIP Business Phone Solutions. In large part a legacy "flat tax" from the old TDM world, phone system suppliers continue to license based on…

Backing up your iPBX Call Center, what is your plan?
Business Managers, Cloud Services, Resilience & Recovery, Technical Managers"The Check is in the Mail";
"I gave at the office";
"The software if fully tested and bug free";
"We are working on the documentation";
"Go ahead tell me, I promise I won't get mad";
"Yes we backup our data every day, off site".
These are just…

An iPBX in an Amazon Cloud? A disaster recovery story!
Business Managers, Cloud Services, Resilience & Recovery, Technical ManagersDid you every think that your company would be physically unavailable, the building not accessible and the phone system unmanned? The issue of business continuity and disaster recovery is on your 'to do' list and hopefully you can get to it…

ShoreTel - Does a "single image" deployment always make sense?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersWe continue to be a major fan of ShoreTel solutions, but that does not mean that they we accept everything without question. One of the most touted advantages of the ShoreTel architecture is the concept of a "single image" solution with no…

Compare ShoretTel and CISCO Part 3 – Users and phones
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical ManagersAll of the architecture "geek speak" aside, CISCO and ShoreTel have fundamental "cultural" differences that defines their approach to the entities of a "phone" and a "user". Simply stated in the ShoreTel world a phone can not exist…

Compare ShoreTel & CISCO Part 2 - System Admin Portal
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical ManagersAll telephone systems have to deal with the same key architectural issues regardless of who manufactured the equipment. All phone systems have to provide for the definition of a system "dial plan"; trunk groups, call flow options, phone…

Deploying ShoreTel - A project managers notes!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersHaving deployed literally thousands of phone systems of all sizes and levels of complexity, we have distilled a set of rules and check lists that work. (see our "network readiness check list" and our "VoIP planning guide") When phone systems…
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