Technology Insights Blog: Phone & Collaboration

When you operate a small business, every dollar counts. While it’s often easy to identify large, unnecessary expenditures and prioritize addressing them, sometimes you also need to sweat the small stuff. Smaller expenses might go unnoticed, but they can add up over time. In addit…

It was truly incredible to witness how quickly many businesses were able to adapt to remote work when the initial waves of the pandemic hit. New digital tools were found to do the same work; in many cases, they have proven themselves to be easier to use and more secure than their…

Technology is right up there with marketing when it comes to the industry’s fondness for acronyms. If you’d like to decode these two easily, as well as many, many others, “aaS” stands for “as a service.” For example, Cloud as a Service is abbreviated CaaS, Disaster Recovery as a …

Cloud computing is all about connection — connecting with employees, clients, data, and other business applications. Cloud computing gives your staff the flexibility to collaborate in real-time from anywhere, on any device. This technology is at least partially responsible for ke…

FCC order 19-72A1 allowed telecommunications companies to abandon outdated copper POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) lines. It also mandates that end-users must switch to an alternative before August 2nd of this year. This order was issued back in August of 2019, and quite a lot …

To put it simply, hosted voice is a phone system that’s managed in the cloud. But while that’s the easiest way to explain what it is, it’s not the best way to understand what it actually does. In this blog, I’ll give a basic overview of how hosted voice works, and what that actua…

It’s an exciting time to talk about phone systems for small businesses. Features that were once only accessible to large companies are now available to small and midsize businesses, and cost much less each month than a traditional landline system.

Technology is moving faster and faster, and that’s given us many incredible things. It’s hard to think about where many businesses would be without modern communication and collaboration tools during the past few years.  Rapid innovation is an inherent byproduct of strong competi…

When it comes to phone systems, these days there’s no shortage of options. However, if you’ve already been researching this topic, you probably know that deciphering which system is best for you isn’t always easy. The right phone system can save you money and drive productivity; …

Sometimes we human beings need that extra push. Most of the technology necessary to accommodate remote work was available years ago, and workers had been asking for more flexibility for quite some time. It took a global pandemic for remote and hybrid work environments to become c…