subject: What Are The Advantages Of A Vpbx System [print this page] This new species of business exchange allows employees to communicate seamlessly and effectively, across what used to be the boundaries of different technology. Ones first thought, when encountering the awesome power of the vPBX for the first time, is: who needs to have a phone conversation with an email account? Its all communication and all the virtual PBX system does is to streamline that communication into its most appropriate form. It is, certainly, more appropriate to have an answering message left via email because it can be read and digested properly but why not route the call recording through a business email account? Thats exactly what this technology can do. And it does it easily, because everything is routed through the same server.
The Virtual Private Branch exchange manages your phone calls, which sounds simple for the user, but utterly bewildering in terms of the amount and type of variations one can use. A simple voice to voice call, of course but how about routing that voice through the Internet, and chatting hands free in the office or indeed conferencing the call to multiple workstations? Then theres the vPBX function for diverting the call to a mobile number or even translating it into text and having it conducted through a form of online messenger service. With virtual PBX, the options are as endless as the technologies.
Virtual Private Branch Exchange is basically software technology that converts existing hardware (i.e. phones and computers) into a more streamlined animal and costs very little. One would think, looking at the multiplying applications of the virtual PBX, that it would set one back hundreds of thousands of pounds: in actual fact, it costs as much as the licenses one needs to have the software installed on ones business computers. Getting a virtual business exchange installed is no more costly or time consuming than updating ones operating system on the business PCs and laptops. In fact, thats a very good way to think about it. vPBX is basically an operating system upgrade for the business phone system feature packed, user friendly, and cheap.
This is the latest in multimedia technology, with the same kind of cross application capabilities as one of those modern phones. The ones that can get onto the Internet, have touch screens, have all these astonishingly powerful application? Yes, you know the ones. A vPBX is like that, but for a whole business. And then some. The virtual PBX makes domestic, or non business oriented multi application communications technology look like one of those old wooden telephones on wheels.
It sounds like a particularly futuristic leap to convert to a vPBX system : until one considers that virtual PBX is an Internet based, all singing all dancing bit of communications software that allows seamless integration between all types of business messaging by means of your own business switchboard.
