
5 Ways Cloud Telephony can Transform your Small Business
Boasting a huge variety of convenient features, and allowing for seamless connectivity, cloud telephony is free from site infrastructure, clunky hardware, and time-consuming IT problems. Cloud phone systems can supercharge your team’s productivity in so many ways, meaning you can shift your focus onto what you do best.
Here are five of the biggest differences a cloud telephony system can make to a small business.
Easy Set-Up
With cloud phone systems, all you need is a strong internet connection. This removes the need for engineers to install cables and infrastructure, which can be disruptive and costly. All you need to do is find the right package with your chosen provider, and make sure you have compatible desk handsets and/or headsets and/or mobile devices.
Team Flexibility
Cloud telephony systems can remotely connect to employees’ computers and mobile devices so they can work from anywhere. This means that travel, family life, and other personal factors doesn’t have to get in the way. With agility becoming more of a priority for businesses everywhere, there’s no better time to switch to cloud phone systems. It gives businesses more options for hiring new staff, as barriers such as distance and lifestyle constraints are removed.
Lower Running Costs
The great news about cloud telephony is that running and maintaining it is far more cost-effective than other cable-based systems. Flexible short and long term subscriptions available, pay your provider’s fixed, regular fee. Call bundles can be added to cover outbound calls to standard UK landline and UK mobile numbers, international bundles are also available.
With minimal hardware, there is less risk of phones malfunctioning, and requiring repairs, as everything is run off site.
Better Security
Cloud phone solutions come with in-built security measures to increase the safety of sensitive data and protect your employees. With advanced data encryption functionality, cloud telephony systems ensure that data and even voice transmissions are kept safe from hacking, and unwanted listening.
Providers are required to keep up to date with security, to keep up with developing threats. Plus, with highly secure data centres, physical and digital threats are kept at bay. This means greater safety and peace of mind for employees and customers.
Sustainable
By making the switch to digital, your business can reduce energy consumption, dramatically cut electronic waste, and reduce the need for employees to travel. It empowers businesses to communicate without any paper, to help reduce demand for paper, as well as dramatically cutting down on waste.
Here at s3 Communications, we offer fully managed Cloud Telephony services. Click here to find out more information.
