1. (NU) - Sponsored News - It
was bound to happen sooner or
later: the desk phone, once an
icon in any office, is now offi-
cially on its deathbed.
According to a recent survey
by Dialpad, a San Francisco-based
communications technology com-
pany, the trend of telecommuting
and employees who would rather
work anywhere but the office,
is rendering the desk phone all
but obsolete.
“Our survey reveals that while
the slow and painful death of the
desk phone has clearly begun, it
cannot happen fast enough for
many workers,” Craig Walker,
CEO of Dialpad, told VoIP Moni-
toring in an interview earlier this
summer. “The anywhere worker
movement is now evident in every
segment of every industry. This
significant trend will only acceler-
ate over the next few years.”
Should there be any question
about the ensuing death of the
desk phone, the results of the
1,000 respondents surveyed by
Dialpad about their communica-
tions, found that:
• 80 percent of companies
already rely on at least some
remote workers.
• 67 percent say their em-
ployees are allowed to work
from home.
“What we found out is the
world today is your office," Mor-
gan Norman, Dialpad’s vice pres-
ident of marketing, told ZDNet in
an interview. “That approach,” he
said, “is valid now in enterprise
and small-to-mid-size businesses.”
For its part, the five-year-old
firm has been grabbing the atten-
tion of large scale clients by offer-
ing a cloud-based platform for
communicating. Among its prod-
uct offerings are voice, video, in-
stant messaging, text, and online
meeting tools -- free from any on-
site servers or storage and without
any need for hardwired phones.
“The simple vision of Dialpad
was to help every business, mid-
size to enterprise, connect all their
employees and help them work
from anywhere,” Norman says.
In other words, added Vincent
Paquet, Dialpad's vice president of
product and strategy, in an inter-
view with ZD Net, Dialpad will be
there to fill a company's commu-
nication needs as the desk phone
becomes obsolete.
In addition, the company also
has 40 new enhancements to its
two products: Dialpad, which of-
fers voice, video and messaging
services for in and out of network
communications, and UberCon-
ference, an enterprise-grade HD
audio conferencing system. Dial-
pad says it's able to roll out sever-
alenhancementsatonceandquick-
ly deliver new releases thanks to its
reliance on the Google Cloud Plat-
form and theWebRTC framework.
“In three years from now, there
won't be a desk phone anymore,”
Paquet predicts.
For more information, please
visit www.dialpad.com.
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