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Technology Unwrapped

The most important technology concepts, strategies and actions uncovered for your business.

TOSHIBA phone systems end of life – now what?

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Topics: Equipment Purchases, Phone Systems

Refresh Your Technology With These 4 Considerations

With the click of a button, technology streamlines business operations that can save time, energy, and money. To take technology further, there comes a time when every business needs to take inventory of what they use, and how they can upgrade outdated technology to produce more and faster.
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Topics: Equipment Purchases, Phone Systems, Manufacturing, Outsourced IT

Navigating the Nextiva Desktop App

With more companies than ever working from home, business owners and managers—like you—need to find a way for staff to bring phones anywhere so they don’t miss calls from anyone. With a softphone provided as part of a Nextiva cloud phone system, you’ll ensure seamless voice communication across your entire organization, no matter where you or your employees are located.
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Topics: Cloud, Phone Systems

How a Cloud-Based Phone System Improves SMB Customer Service

Quality customer service is crucial to the longevity of your small or medium-sized business. Providing excellent service retains customers and builds value, and when customers are satisfied, they bring in more customers. One important component of your business’s customer service strategy you might not have considered is the quality of your business phone system. Is yours making the cut? If not, a cloud-based business phone system will make a positive impact on your organization. With the range ...
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Topics: Cloud, Phone Systems

Toshiba End of Life: Why Upgrading your Toshiba Phone System is so Important

(Updated February 2023) Back in 2018, we wrote about Mitel’s (owner of Toshiba phone systems) announcement to phase out Toshiba CIX and IPedge product lines. Since that writing, the company has since stopped selling new Toshiba equipment and add-on hardware.
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Topics: Phone Systems, Technology Planning

Microsoft Teams and Nextiva Cloud Together Make One Unified Communication Solution

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt traditional ways of doing business, a lot of companies have taken advantage of working from home. But working remotely brings up new challenges and problems to solve, and organizations are particularly concerned with how they can communicate with customers, vendors and coworkers. Because even when working from home, phone calls are still a crucial component of conducting business.
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Topics: Cloud, Trends, Phone Systems

How a Cloud-Based Phone System Generates a Positive ROI

A cloud-based (hosted) business phone system can provide a number of benefits compared to traditional on-premise solutions. Not only does a cloud-hosted phone system offer numerous useful features, but it also comes with significant cost savings. While saving money might be what sparked your initial interest in this type of phone system for your business, let’s talk about what you get for the money you do put into your cloud-hosted system.
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Topics: Cloud, Phone Systems

Navigating the Mitel Connect Desktop App

Mitel phones are a great fit for any small to midsize business. However, with all the features included on the desktop phones themselves, the Mitel Connect application can often get overlooked. The Mitel Connect app is available for your PC as well as your cell phone and can be used with both the Cloud and on-premise platforms. With this application, managing your desk phone could not be any easier. The connect app (AKA connect client) acts as an extension of your desk phone. Having the app on ...
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Topics: Cloud, Phone Systems