Sistem News
April, 2002 - Telephony Edition

Why Invest in Yesterday's Technology?
By Rick Rekkerth

Rule Number One: It’s all about Communication.

When you are playing phone tag, missing calls (not to mention opportunities), when you are unprepared for a sudden big fish on your line, when you must continually read the fine print to use your communication tools, well … you are sunk.

Rule Number Two: Service, service, service.

Customers like to be heard, responded to, and remembered. The faster, the better. When a company provides intelligent, consistent attention, it is rewarded not only with dollars, but also with loyalty.

Rule Number Three: Keep it simple.

The system should be designed to streamline communication so you can spend less time being phone guy/software engineer/computer expert/conflict resolver/baby-sitter, & more time doing whatever you do best in this world. It’s as easy as point-&-click in Windows

 

Historically, smaller businesses have been intimidated by complicated, multi-system solutions that are difficult to manage and extremely expensive. Therefore, the challenge is to implement a single communications system that is easy-to-use and yet powerful. It must improve customer service, increase employee productivity and be able to expand in size and functionality as the business grows.

Selecting a phone system is one of the most important decisions facing small businesses today because it serves as the nerve center for communications with customers, suppliers and employees alike. A traditional phone system will quickly become obsolete in this new Internet era where the way we communicate is constantly changing. Today, you need a scalable, feature-rich phone system that enables you to compete effectively, along with the flexibility to easily add more advanced capabilities as your needs change. Fortunately, recent advancements in technology make it possible to provide a system that's affordable to small businesses

Taking the leadership position in providing the next generation platform, AltiGen is the first to deliver a cost-effective communications solution that actually combines the attributes of a network server and telephone system into a single platform. AltiGen expands the computer telephony horizon even further by providing Mixed Media, or Unified, Messaging and Global Computer Telephone Integration via incorporation with the Internet.

AltiGen products are designed to grow in size and functionality. A company can start with a small, simple system and expand, as customer needs dictate. Because the company is working with a single platform, installation, configuration and ongoing maintenance is much easier and takes less time. System administration is easy, even for non-technical staff, with simple graphical user interfaces (GUIs). No need for expensive proprietary telephones, use any standard single line telephone available, including cordless phones.

Each user on a system has a personal mailbox and the system itself has up to 2000 virtual mailboxes that are useful for traveling employees, etc. Any Mixed-Media Message can contain voice annotation, voice mail, fax, e-mail, audio files, data files or anything in file format, all bundled into a single parcel. Messages can be distributed anywhere in the world to anyone with an Internet address. Additionally, remote users with multimedia computer capability can retrieve Mixed-Media Messages, including voice mail, via a local Internet access number, saving valuable time and money.

An AltiServ system provides out-of-the-box PBX and voice-processing features and can be integrated with LANs to deliver sophisticated computer telephony functionality. Now even smaller and midsized businesses can also enjoy powerful features beyond basic PBX switching.

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716 or 585?

Rochester, NY is undergoing an area code change from our old code of 716 to the new 585. The change began on 11/14/01 and the 716 area code will continue to function until 8/16/02. After that time 716 calls will receive a recording reminding them of the change.

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