Our Cloud Communications solutions can take your productivity to the next level. Here are the answers to your frequently asked questions. Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) encompasses UC&C capabilities that are network-embedded services delivered via shared infrastructure, hosted by a service provider, and delivered in a cloud-based/as-a-service model. UCaaS is offered on a per seat basis and typically includes a standard suite of UC features as part of the monthly seat cost. (Source: IDC)
Designed to streamline internal and external business collaboration, UCaaS services can reduce the number of vendors by delivering multiple services from one source via the cloud. UCaaS allows companies easier access to all the separate collaboration components regardless of the employee’s location or device. Additionally, connectivity to other cloud-based applications is more streamlined, consumption is paid for via monthly subscription, and there is a stronger focus on capabilities and data that improve employee productivity. Services include:
Cloud PBX- Calling Features, Advanced Call Management, Conference Calling & Bridges, Anywhere – Single Number Reach, Call Reports, Direct Phone Number, Emergency Service, Voicemail to Email with Transcription, Number Porting, Unlimited Domestic Calling, and these additional Group Features. Additionally, we empower distributed workers with the Masergy Communicator comprising a Softphone, Desktop Sharing, Instant Messaging & Presence, Screen and File Sharing, MyRoom personal meeting space, and Connect applications for iOS and Android.
Leadership teams are increasingly being asked to drive a workforce evolution toward data driven decision making, with a focus on enhancements to customer experience and core capabilities. In the journey to digitally transform, organizations often prioritize communication technology investments due to their large datacenter footprint, and because silo-breaking collaboration is proven to increase execution of strategic initiatives
UCaaS gives organisations the opportunity to integrate multiple modes of communication through a single provider. You are able to move intricate phone systems such as Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and private branch exchange (PBX) to a provider’s cloud to minimize complexities and improve the business agility needed for digital transformation. As IT departments support less on-premise infrastructure, additional benefits include decreased infrastructure costs and targeted line of business functionality.
When it comes to line of business benefits, prioritizing UC flexibility delivers improved scalability, where companies can add or subtract services as needed by different business teams. Additionally, UCaaS allows teams to quickly adopt and integrate collaboration tools into their workflow without the technical heavy lifting frequently required when these services are located on-premise. From voice, video, instant chat and messaging, presence, and conferencing, enterprise IT can seamlessly deploy and integrate services up or down as appropriate for each team’s goals.
With so many services and underlying infrastructure that must all work together in UCaaS deployments— integration and seamless collaboration are one of your biggest and most challenging success factors. Masergy brings you more components in a composed and tightly integrated solution to tame all that complexity.
Additionally, Masergy delivers enterprise-grade, unified communications as an all-in-one cloud solution. With Webex technologies embedded into Masergy’s own software-defined network enterprises can prioritize global, reliable connectivity with industry leading collaboration functionality. Plus, it’s all surrounded with security services provided by Masergy.
Consider Masergy UCaaS for:
Best-of-breed UCaaS solution
Global coverage
Cloud communication applications embedded in our own software-defined network
Built for the global enterprise
Another reason organizations chose Masergy for their Unified Communication cloud migration is due to our prioritization of partnership with clients. Claimed by many but delivered by few, Masergy’s commitment to customer success is exemplified in our NPS score with an average of 65. From a thorough requirement’s workshop to day-one dedicated engineers and post sale support and training, our goal is to provide the visibility and consistent communication you need to migrate without the headache.
In the cloud, your communication solutions are only as reliable as the network that supports it.
Increasingly, that foundation is becoming a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). With better bandwidth efficiency and reliable performance visibility, SD-WAN has emerged as a key enabler of cloud communications.
Simply put, Masergy’s software-defined network is purpose-built for globally reliable communication services. Known for industry-leading performance, Masergy’s SDN platform provides service level agreements that guarantee voice and video communications across the globe with:
Nemertes Research found a direct correlation between the success of cloud communications initiatives and SD-WAN adoption: 63.4% of those who are satisfied with their UCaaS/CCaaS deployments are using SD-WAN versus just 21.9% of those who are unsatisfied with the performance of their cloud communications services. Their studies found SD-WAN supports UCaaS in four key ways:
But you don’t have to use our network!
You can use your own network, transport type or access methodology you want. We offer
According to ZK Research, 85% of companies want to use a hybrid cloud approach for unified communications.
UCaaS with Masergy includes unlimited domestic calling plans as well as:Cloud PBX- Calling Features, Advanced Call Management, Conference Calling & Bridges, Anywhere – Single Number Reach, Call Reports,Direct Phone Number, Emergency Service,Voicemail to Email with Transcription, Number Porting, Unlimited Domestic Calling, and these additional Group Features. The UC Overlay license includes the Masergy Communicator comprising a Softphone, Desktop Sharing, Instant Messaging & Presence, Screen and File Sharing, MyRoom personal meeting space, and Connect applications for iOS and Android.
Additional collaboration options include :
Yes! Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking has emerged as a popular method of facilitating voice communications over the Internet. SIP trunks are telephone line trunks delivered over the internet using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Using the SIP protocol, telecom service providers providing voice over IP (VoIP) can connect legacy PBXs and other voice hardware to Masergy’s global, software defined network.
Masergy’s Network Coverage includes:
IT decision makers are opting for managed services and bundled solutions that deliver on a wider array of their business needs. Statistics in a 2020 IDG report practically shout the importance of integrated network and security services:
These results further corroborate a 2019 Nemertes Research study which found a direct correlation between the success of cloud communications initiatives and SD-WAN adoption: 63.4% of those who are satisfied with their UCaaS/CCaaS deployments are using SD-WAN versus just 21.9% of those who are unsatisfied with the performance of their cloud communications services.
Additionally, respondents explained why they prefered a bundled solution:
Yes! Masergy’s solutions were designed to prioritize the needs of global enterprises, which is why we offer unified communications coverage across more than 120 countries.
People want to work from anywhere at any time. That’s why Masergy UCaaS empowers your teams to reliably access the same cloud collaboration applications in more places across the globe.
Global Service Coverage includes:
Team Collaboration is a project-based tool set that acts as a digital collaboration hub where group members can chat in an online forum, share files, work together within documents, schedule meetings, call members into a video conference call, share screens, and more. These virtual workspaces aim to unify communication channels and streamline collaboration across disparate apps.
Cisco Webex Teams and Microsoft Teams are two of the industry leading platforms delivered with Masergy.
You might be thinking, “But wait a minute, those capabilities aren’t new…”
You’re right. The individual tools have been around for awhile, but now they’re consolidated with other services like voice and video into a single toolbox. By making various collaboration options available in a single pane, end-users more easily adopt the functionality to improve project execution.
Team Collaboration serves as the next evolution of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) technologies. Its impact is significant because it unites communications tools into a project-driven framework, mirroring the way teams function in the real world. That simple redesign makes projects frictionless. For instance, it’s known to drastically reduce the volume of emails sent among team members, and improve engagement with remote teams.
Here’s how it makes meetings easier. Working under the philosophy that every project is “basically just a series of meetings and data,” Team Collaboration makes it easy to host multiple meetings and share reams of data. Traditionally, project managers have to work across multiple applications, individually creating each meeting and then updating all the files and attachments for each. With Team Collaboration, they just create one virtual workspace once and every file and team member is conveniently accessible. As a result, there’s far fewer instances of administrative time wasters like:
With communications tools packaged to more closely mirror your workflows, work silos are shattered. Inside a Team Collaboration project, users can streamline tasks because they don’t have to cross reference multiple applications that were never designed to work together.
Masergy is a Cisco Global Premier Partner, building Masergy Global UCaaS on Cisco’s cloud platform – the leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for UCaaS, and directly embedded UCaaS into Masergy’s high-performance software-defined network – the only visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Managed Network Services, Global.
As a Global Premier Partner, Masergy has been a Cisco strategic partner since 2004.
Masergy’s UCaaS solutions are powered by Cisco, which means we embedded their best-of-breed Webex technologies into our global software-defined network for reliable connectivity. That way, you can deliver trusted UCaaS applications alongside a world-class communications experience. Plus, you can add on Masergy’s security services for an all-in-one solution that covers more of your IT needs.
If it’s not a quality, seamless experience, you can build it but no one will come to use it.
When it comes to cloud communications, your video is only as reliable as the network that supports it. Making video and VoIP crystal clear comes down to one single thing: removing latency and jitter from the user experience. For real-time communications, network jitter and latency should be non-negotiable. Whether you’re using your own private network or Masergy’s own software-defined network service, high-quality VoIP and video connectivity require the following:
Second, creating a seamless end point experience requires tools on desktops, mobile devices, and in conference rooms that easily integrate and are simple to operate. A big step to achieve these goals is to incorporate cognitive collaboration into your video strategy.
Cognitive Collaboration integrates artificial intelligence, enterprise content, and data insights with analytics to provide contextual relevance to your calling, meeting, team collaboration, and contact center communications. It uses the power of the cloud and deep analytics to enable new levels of intelligence and insight to enhance human engagement and teamwork.
Masergy’s Cognitive Collaboration powered by Webex, delivers a fundamental shift in how people work together and leverage technology to foster relationships, improve customer experiences, and ultimately achieve team goals faster. Features include:
By integrating features like facial recognition and contextual analytics, participants can quickly discover who is in a meeting, learn about their roles, and enable fast access to shared content such as documents, video streams, or project management tools, or other business application data. The end result is more effective collaboration as task switching and data digging are nearly eliminated.
Cognitive Collaboration fosters deeper relationships with your team and customers as it:
Cognitive collaboration removes friction points and provides contextual intelligence throughout your collaboration experience. For example, cognitive collaboration provides relationship intelligence which gives you information like biographies, work history, titles and reporting structure and facial recognition provides in-meeting name labels to help you know who’s who in the room. Digital assistants help you easily carry out collaboration related tasks like joining a meeting, calling a contact and recording a call, and can proactively reach out when a meeting is about to start.
Cognitive collaboration extends throughout the collaboration platform so whether you’re in a meeting using a conferencing device, collaborating in a team space or making a call, you’re armed with the just-in-time information you need to take your collaboration efforts to the next level.
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