Aria Telecom is leading customized telecom solutions provider in India with corporate office in New Delhi and 100 business partner all across the country and outside the country.
Moving on up: how agile telephony makes for a better businessClaranet UK
Missed calls can lose businesses surprisingly large amounts of money. They’re bad for morale and customer retention too. The features of modern telephony systems allow you to provide a much better customer experience
Aria Telecom is leading customized telecom solutions provider in India with corporate office in New Delhi and 100 business partner all across the country and outside the country.
Moving on up: how agile telephony makes for a better businessClaranet UK
Missed calls can lose businesses surprisingly large amounts of money. They’re bad for morale and customer retention too. The features of modern telephony systems allow you to provide a much better customer experience
Stay Connected with the Right Phone System for Your Business Business.com
A variety of modes of communication exist to help us connect with clients, customers, and each other, but few can take the place of the telephone. They help us connect with people from all over the world in real-time, and next to an in-person meeting, are the best way to communicate with one another.
Companies small and large alike rely on telephone systems to help them do business, and thanks to new and emerging technology, there are more options than ever to choose from.
When choosing a phone system solution for your business, it’s vital that you identify the needs of your company and its clients before shopping. Depending on your needs, a variety of telephone system functionality exists, including features like automated directory, call forwarding, music on hold, and speed dial, to name a few.
Though traditional phone systems are still prevalent, a new system has recently emerged to provide even more telephone functionality at a lower cost. VoIP systems, or Voice over Internet Protocol systems, use high-speed internet to connect parties on both ends.
The Business.com Guide to Telephone Systems was created to educate you on the types of phone systems available, and assist in identifying which kind will work best for your business.
How Small Businesses can grow faster using Cloud Communications and TelephonyKnowlarity
SMEs and SMBs are often hailed as the backbone of emerging market economies. Traditionally they have relied on outdated technology and systems which have limited their productivity and prevented them from realising their true potential. However, an increasing number of SMEs are beginning to adopt technology that can help them jump to the next level of evolution.
Cloud telephony is one such technology that the SME and SMB space is embracing with a certain degree of alacrity as business owners begin to understand how it can help them enhance customer retention, loyalty and decrease operational costs. Enlisted below are six of the most business benefits of cloud telephony for SMEs and SMBs.
Customer care for Telecom operators: from management headache to source of co...Value Partners
As fixed and mobile markets mature and approach saturation, customer care is rapidly becoming a strategic priority for telecom operators: customer satisfaction and loyalty are critical to enhance the top line, while maximum efficiency in cost-to-serve
is imperative to sustain the bottom line. Traditional models are however ill equipped to deal with the present challenge as they hinge on the perennial trade-off between quality and efficiency, thus forcing management in deadlock. Over the past 18-24 months Value Partners has supported operators to design and deliver paradigm shifts in their customer care models, generating consistently higher customer satisfaction while achieving substantial cost efficiencies. In one example, our client shot from being a distant #3 to a clear #1 in
independent quality ratings and concurrently reduced costs by 17% in the first year. By Davide Tesoro Tess, senior manager of Value Partners Milan, and Max Parry, consultant of Value Partners Hong Kong.
INFOGRAPHIC: The Importance of Retail Failover and OOBMWestbase.io
Retail IT teams are under increasing pressure to build and maintain a flexible, scalable network which can support the latest retail technologies – at the core of which is a reliable, secure and superfast connectivity solution. In this infographic, Westbase takes a look at the real cost of downtime and the importance of retail failover and Out-Of-Band Management to minimising this.
Innovation Spotlight: The First Universal Solution for Hirers, Agencies, Wor...TALiNT Partners
Drey Francis, Director, Engage
The powerful new platform that’s changing the way hirers and recruitment agencies work. Engage enables the entire supply chain to work together seamlessly without duplication and inefficient process. Engage removes the need for multiple expensive back office solutions and instead replaces them with cutting edge technology that will streamline the entire recruitment process
Is hosted PBX worth it for a small business?Puneet Kapoor
Hosted PBX is becoming popular among businesses of all sizes. In this SlideShare, we’ll discuss some of the most useful features of this cloud solution
The best ever mobile service for business usemParticle
smartnumbers completes the enterprise mobility story by joining together compliance, productivity and security applications and business mobile number in a single, easy to use service.
Stay Connected with the Right Phone System for Your Business Business.com
A variety of modes of communication exist to help us connect with clients, customers, and each other, but few can take the place of the telephone. They help us connect with people from all over the world in real-time, and next to an in-person meeting, are the best way to communicate with one another.
Companies small and large alike rely on telephone systems to help them do business, and thanks to new and emerging technology, there are more options than ever to choose from.
When choosing a phone system solution for your business, it’s vital that you identify the needs of your company and its clients before shopping. Depending on your needs, a variety of telephone system functionality exists, including features like automated directory, call forwarding, music on hold, and speed dial, to name a few.
Though traditional phone systems are still prevalent, a new system has recently emerged to provide even more telephone functionality at a lower cost. VoIP systems, or Voice over Internet Protocol systems, use high-speed internet to connect parties on both ends.
The Business.com Guide to Telephone Systems was created to educate you on the types of phone systems available, and assist in identifying which kind will work best for your business.
How Small Businesses can grow faster using Cloud Communications and TelephonyKnowlarity
SMEs and SMBs are often hailed as the backbone of emerging market economies. Traditionally they have relied on outdated technology and systems which have limited their productivity and prevented them from realising their true potential. However, an increasing number of SMEs are beginning to adopt technology that can help them jump to the next level of evolution.
Cloud telephony is one such technology that the SME and SMB space is embracing with a certain degree of alacrity as business owners begin to understand how it can help them enhance customer retention, loyalty and decrease operational costs. Enlisted below are six of the most business benefits of cloud telephony for SMEs and SMBs.
Customer care for Telecom operators: from management headache to source of co...Value Partners
As fixed and mobile markets mature and approach saturation, customer care is rapidly becoming a strategic priority for telecom operators: customer satisfaction and loyalty are critical to enhance the top line, while maximum efficiency in cost-to-serve
is imperative to sustain the bottom line. Traditional models are however ill equipped to deal with the present challenge as they hinge on the perennial trade-off between quality and efficiency, thus forcing management in deadlock. Over the past 18-24 months Value Partners has supported operators to design and deliver paradigm shifts in their customer care models, generating consistently higher customer satisfaction while achieving substantial cost efficiencies. In one example, our client shot from being a distant #3 to a clear #1 in
independent quality ratings and concurrently reduced costs by 17% in the first year. By Davide Tesoro Tess, senior manager of Value Partners Milan, and Max Parry, consultant of Value Partners Hong Kong.
INFOGRAPHIC: The Importance of Retail Failover and OOBMWestbase.io
Retail IT teams are under increasing pressure to build and maintain a flexible, scalable network which can support the latest retail technologies – at the core of which is a reliable, secure and superfast connectivity solution. In this infographic, Westbase takes a look at the real cost of downtime and the importance of retail failover and Out-Of-Band Management to minimising this.
Innovation Spotlight: The First Universal Solution for Hirers, Agencies, Wor...TALiNT Partners
Drey Francis, Director, Engage
The powerful new platform that’s changing the way hirers and recruitment agencies work. Engage enables the entire supply chain to work together seamlessly without duplication and inefficient process. Engage removes the need for multiple expensive back office solutions and instead replaces them with cutting edge technology that will streamline the entire recruitment process
Is hosted PBX worth it for a small business?Puneet Kapoor
Hosted PBX is becoming popular among businesses of all sizes. In this SlideShare, we’ll discuss some of the most useful features of this cloud solution
The best ever mobile service for business usemParticle
smartnumbers completes the enterprise mobility story by joining together compliance, productivity and security applications and business mobile number in a single, easy to use service.
IIT RTC 2016 Telecoms is now DemocratizedAlan Quayle
highlighting that the words Telco and Telecoms are different. I gave lots of examples of how the democratization of telecoms is enabling a DIY movement across enterprises and services providers in solving problems in their businesses. All based on telecom app development. I then highlighted the challenges Telcos (network operators) have faced in harnessing this movement.
Reality: You are using SaaS every day. Through the Internet boom technology advancement of the communications grid positioned us in the new millennium to introduce complex technologies as Web-based services:
ICT eGuide: Switching to cloud phones and UCaaSNiamh Hughes
Business communications systems are not just evolving, they’re being revolutionised. This guide highlights how hosted, cloud based telephony and unified communications systems offers your business competitive edge, streamlining and joining-up communications across devices. Equipping your team with the best communications tools will assist collaboration, operational flexibility, efficiency and productivity, ultimately enhancing client service levels.
Get ahead – or risk being left behind
More than half of Top 100 firms have either recently delivered or are underway with projects to implement key “foundation” technologies, demonstrating how critical IT has become to the sector. PWC Law Firms Survey Report 2019.
Is your contact center solution entering its end of life stage? Are you faced with budget constraints and are worried about making another massive investment to upgrade your solution?
Contact centers based in the cloud are a cost-effective way to mitigate your investment. With cloud-based solutions, you can continue to use your existing hardware while layering in new features at the network level. You can also seamlessly add in tools like Skype, Google, SIP, and Salesforce. Not only do these solutions make your life easier by managing everything from one place, but it also inherently enables a virtual workforce and provides an effective business continuity solution.
For any brand, customer experience (CX) is the top priority and in this scenario, accurate & robust billing can help a telecom service provider to earn the respect of their customers. Remember, organizations that invest in CX strategies for the entire customer journey can improve satisfaction levels by up to manifolds.
Talking SIP empowers the MVNA, MVNE and MVNO to excel in all areas of their telecom offerings with a platform that converges mobile and VoIP. This significant level of convergence positions the mobile operator to provide a complete suite of mobile voice, data and SMS services along with compelling VoIP services for redundancy and cost reduction for the consumer, enterprise and M2M markets.
Similar to BT smartnumbers helps you deliver mobile innovation and reduce costs (20)
Helping brands to foster deeper customer relationships mParticle
A brief introduction to the mParticle Customer Data Platform. In 5 mins learn how mParticle's API-powered consumer data platform is used by customer-centric organizations to fuel amazing Customer Experiences and improve Customer Lifetime Value.
Alex Kesaris
akesaris@mparticle.com
+447400999957
Useful article published by Hogan Lovells - MiFID II requires firms to keep records of transactions and will require firms to retain additional information on transactions,
based on a list of the minimum records to be retained by firms
MiFID I allowed member states discretion as to whether they required firms to record telephone calls and electronic communications that resulted or might result in transactions
Under MiFID II, it will become a mandatory obligation for firms to record telephone calls and electronic communications.
The third generation of mobile voice recording smart guidemParticle
If you're looking for a network independent mobile voice recording service that works everywhere, please read our eBook which highlights what a 3rd generation solution needs to look like.
2. Introductions…
“A business mobile identity on a virtual SIM card
that enables financial enterprises to exceed
business objectives around cost control,
compliance, collaboration and the customer
experience.”
3. Mobile
Networks
• BT
• Vodafone
• EE
• O2
• Three
• All MVNO’s
Operating
Systems
• iOS
• Android
Applications
• EMM
• MDM
• CRM
• IP clients
Mobile
ownership
• Corporate
• Personal
• Loan units
Integrations and compatibilities.
5. Phase out corporate devices and instead enable the business
mobile number on personal devices.
• CAPex reduction – Up to £500,000.00
Leverage consumer ‘unlimited’ tariffs
• eliminate domestic business call charges
Reduce mobile roaming call spend by up to 90%
• pay <10p / min when in US, India, China
User rental from £8.25 per month
Compliant mobile voice recording only £10 per user per month.
• Unlimited global usage.
6. Mobile TCO – Corporate devices or BYOD?
*Estimated pricing for illustrative purposes.
*Graph assumes 100% BYOD uptake.
*We recommend ‘data roamers’ retain a corporate device + SIM
8. Enhance the MobileIron strategy
“Why pay for corporate devices, when business
mobile numbers can be securely enabled on
personal smartphones as a separate identity?”
9. Improve the resilience of the mobile estate
Hosted mobile service
Incoming call to mobile
“Eliminate poor mobile reception issues
by routing calls to landlines or
IP clients for free”
10. Optimise investments in fixed line recording
Capture all mobile communications
with no latency during the call.
Securely hand off mobile voice and
SMS communications to the fixed line
recorder using forced TLS.
Enable the same archiving, search and
analytics capabilities to mobile
communications.
11. Enhance the CRM strategy.
Every call, SMS and voicemail automatically
appears in the relevant CRM account. No
manual input required.
Teams collaborate better.
Sales managers manage better.
Disputes get resolved quicker.
New recruits learn faster.
12. One business inbox for everything.
Receive incoming SMS, voicemails
and personal mobile recordings in the
corporate user email inbox.
Improve team collaboration and client
responsiveness by picking up other
colleagues’ enquiries when they are
unavailable, sick or on annual leave.
Optimise the user experience and maximise
investments in email, UC and collaboration tools.
13. Optimise call flows. Improve client experience.
Create teams of mobile workers
and assign team numbers.
Check availability of colleagues in real time.
Route incoming calls to mobile teams like
a hunt group on a phone system.
Employees can log in and out as per
company policy or rota.
15. Allocate mobile numbers to new starters in seconds.
Revoke user access in seconds.
Invoke disaster recovery plans via an online portal.
Eliminate mobile calls expense claims processes for BYOD users.
Manage call handling policies from any secure web browser.
Instantly enable compliant mobile voice recording on existing users.
Reducing the corporate mobile footprint results in
fewer queries into the helpdesk.
Benefits unique to BT smartnumbers.
16. A more efficient and cost effective support model
Operational costs
with
smartnumbers/BYOD
Without
smartnumbers/corporate
Expenses administrator to process employee work call
costs
£0 £25,000
IT administrator to process faulty corporate devices, SIM
swaps, tariff changes
£0 £20,000
Facilities helpdesk to support on/off boarding, DR
planning
£0 £10,000
18. One size does not fit all.
Mobility model
Who is liable
for payment?
How is device
used
Is
smartnumbers
compatible
What needs to be done
during implementation?
Must I keep my
existing corporate
airtime contract?
Typical user profile for
this model?
COPE Business
Business &
Personal use
Yes
1)Move business numbers
to smartnumbers
Maybe, depends
who will be paying
for the SIM
Executives
1)Get new number on the
business SIM (for call
delivery purposes)
COBO/CYOD Business
Business use
only
Yes
1)Move business numbers
to smartnumbers
Yes
People who consume
lots of data outside of
the office/home
1)Get new number on the
business SIM (for call
delivery purposes)
BYOD Flexi
Personal &
business use
Yes
1)Move business numbers
to smartnumbers
No
People impacted by
FCA, Dodd-Frank,
MiFIDII, Desk based
employees, remote
workers and CRM users
1)Cancel corporate mobile
contract
19. Thank you for your interest
email alex on
a.kesaris@btsmartnumbers.com
and request your free license that
comes with its own mobile number
to try out for yourself!