While there are countless benefits of upgrading your old phone system to a new VoIP I wanted to focus on my top 3 favorites.
# 1 Cost Savings:
While there are many other significant advantages the cost savings that are related to deploying and using a VoIP phone system are in my mind the most substantial.
While many people immediately think of long distance savings, and those can certainly be substantial, they are one piece of the overall benefit to a VoIP phone system.
Intel published a study that indicated that the initial purchase was typically 55% less than purchasing a traditional PBX. Most of this savings comes in the reduction of hardware required. VoIP systems are typically small servers or appliances that are smaller, cost less to purchase and cost about the same as a light bulb to run.
# 2 More Cost Savings
Intel also stated that "Based on Mac’s (Moves, Adds and Changes) in a medium size-site, we concluded that VoIP provided a 52 % Savings Per Year over a standard, circuit-based PBX.” So a VoIP Phone System costs less to buy and about half the cost to maintain vs. traditional technologies.
# 3 Even More Cost Savings
As they say: Time is Money. Sage Research recently concluded that the average user of a VoIP phone system will see a huge productivity gain! They demonstrated that the average user gains 2.7 days in productivity over a traditional phone system. This is because a VoIP business phone system is so much faster and easier to use. With integrated access to Email, Voice Mail, Fax, Video and collaboration between users a VoIP phone system delivers.
Sage also concluded that two thirds of VoIP Users said that IP Telephony was giving thier companies a competitive edge.
VoIP phone systems like ShoreTel, Cisco, Mitel, are great solutions but our personal favorite is the Zultys. Although there are great features on all of these systems the Zultys offers the benefit of using the industry standards vs. proprietary communication protocols. Thus you are able to leverage all of the cost saving advantages of a VoIP phone system and not get locked in to a proprietary platform such as the Cisco, ShoreTel and Mitel systems.
To learn more about how VoIP can dramatically reduce your costs. Contact Intellisys at 800-752-6110.