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Vendor Landscape: IP Telephony
Take a SIP from your glass, then call your boss from your smartphone's app. No one has to know you're at the beach anymore.
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Your Challenge
- Recent technological advancements have significantly changed the IP telephony vendor landscape, evening out the playing field and causing vendors to find new ways to differentiate their solutions.
- Vendors tout highly comprehensive, end-to-end communications portfolios. But what does your business really need?
- This Vendor Landscape isolates key vendor strengths and challenges, and provides resources to help accelerate your selection process.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- Many enterprises engaged in IP telephony evaluation struggle with internal biases and vendor allegiances, clouding what should be an unbiased analysis based on the company’s needs.
- Understanding key vendor and product differentiators will help evaluators deliver a thorough and objective take on the leading players in this space.
- IP telephony and core unified communications features deliver invaluable flexibility, helping to support trends in bring-your-own-device and increased teleworking.
- Reach a shortlist and final recommendation on IP telephony vendors in an accelerated timeframe.
- Instill confidence that you are selecting a partner that will deliver on current and future needs.
Get to Action
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Evaluate leading IP telephony vendors
Arrive at a shortlist of vendors for further analysis.
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Select the best fit vendor
Isolate vendors that best meet requirements and make the right selection.
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Make the Case for IP Telephony
Listing the benefits is easy, but communicating business value is not.
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Get past vendor hype and technical complexity to get the most out of Unified Communications.
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Other Solution Sets in Telephony & VOIP
1. Make the Case for IP Telephony
Listing the benefits is easy, but communicating business value is not.
Listing the benefits is easy, but communicating business value is not.
2. Vendor Landscape: IP Telephony
Take a SIP from your glass, then call your boss from your smartphone's app. No one has to know you're at the beach anymore.
Take a SIP from your glass, then call your boss from your smartphone's app. No one has to know you're at the beach anymore.
4. Build My IP Telephony Project Plan
Take a phased approach to implementation or risk major disruption.
Take a phased approach to implementation or risk major disruption.
5. Select the Right Hosted VoIP Provider
If you've made the decision to go hosted, isolate providers that can deliver the level of service you need.
If you've made the decision to go hosted, isolate providers that can deliver the level of service you need.
6. Develop a Hosted or Hybrid IP Telephony & UC Strategy
Leverage the cloud to maximize communication flexibility.
Leverage the cloud to maximize communication flexibility.
7. Inventory and Optimize the Telecom Environment
Inventory existing assets and contracts to ensure optimal tracking.
Inventory existing assets and contracts to ensure optimal tracking.
