Is Your Wireless Network as Fast as Your Best People?

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With the proliferation of Wi-Fi enabled devices, every business is adapting to keep up with more devices, access points, bandwidth, and the latest high-speed IEEE 802.11 standards. Secure Wireless LANs allow your employees and visitors to work anywhere in your building or campus, with convenient, worry-free access to the Internet or your local IT resources.

The freedom of a wireless workplace is critical to the success of businesses today. TCI eliminates the consequences caused by a poorly performing wireless network by implementing it right the first time, and providing the ongoing support you need to maximize the potential of your network connectivity.

We work on your behalf to guarantee the seamless functionality and resilient performance of your wireless infrastructure. From growing offices, to large corporate enterprises, we can design, implement and maintain the wireless network that will keep your business connected and running strong.

We make wireless easy

TCI delivers WLAN network projects on time, tested and ready to support seamless mobile access. Our experts manage all the details…

  • Wireless Site Surveys
  • Wireless Coverage RF Testing
  • Optimized Coverage Maps
  • Access Points | Placement and Cabling
  • Wireless Security
  • Testing and Certification

Whether you need Wi-Fi in a new building or across your campus, TCI has the experience and expertise to get your busness where it needs to be.

Have questions about how to make wireless technology work for your business? Contact us today at (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

How to Make the Most of Your Communication Investments

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Technology is constantly changing, and at an ever increasing pace. When it comes to unified communications and collaboration (UCC), your investments should be positioned for whatever the future brings. Here are some tips for making the most of your UCC investments that will ensure a better path forward for your business.

Keep communications seamless

The mobile workforce is not a trend that will go away anytime soon – in fact, it will accelerate. About 70% of mobile professionals will do their work on portable devices in 2018. This means communications and collaboration tools should be designed with mobility in mind so users can have a consistent in-office experience across all devices, no matter where they happen to be working.

Improve financial performance

A mobile collaboration strategy can continue to pay dividends year after year through significant cost savings. Working with TCI to develop a “mobile first” vision can transform your business and improve your profit margin without having to stake everything on a big sales win.

Engage and retain the best talent

A recent poll of 1,500 technology professionals revealed that 37% would take a pay cut of 10% if they could work from home. A mobile strategy can create a truly collaborative environment by improving employee morale, while enabling connections with colleagues on the road and in remote offices. It also permits your business to more easily tap into a global talent pool and should be part of your employee retention plan.

Improve customer engagement

Today’s customers will no longer wait in line or hang on hold. They want to connect with you through their preferred media – social networks, web chat, video and SMS – and they want to do it instantly. To gain a competitive edge, reach out to TCI for multimedia solutions that will improve customer engagement.

Protect your investment

Partnering with TCI provides the flexibility to change and grow at your own pace. Whether you have a premises system today, putting everything in the cloud or testing the waters with a hybrid arrangement, your communication infrastructure should easily scale as your business expands.

Trust a partner that delivers

From how your employees innovate to how you engage with customers, reliable communications in a rapidly changing environment is a critical business need. Take your team collaboration and customer experience to the next level by partnering with TCI for support you can count on today and tomorrow, no matter what the future brings.

Have questions about how to make your technology investments work for your business? Contact us today at (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Practical Business Realities Drive Adoption of Hybrid & Cloud Computing

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IT systems and data networks should move a business forward, not hold it back. That’s why companies in every industry are looking to the cloud. By using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than the traditional local servers they might have on-site today, businesses can reap the advantages of high performance, reliability, affordable prices, easy collaboration, and secure data access.

And that’s not all… Hybrid and cloud arrangements offer a number of practical bottom-line benefits:

  • Deliver secure remote access to employees: Ensure your employees receive a consistent, high-quality user experience to rely on for secure access to the apps and data they need – no matter what type of network connection they use.
  • Provide employees with flexibility to work anytime, anywhere: Work is no longer a place – it’s something you enable with the greatest security and flexibility. Use app and desktop virtualization to embrace workforce mobility and empower your employees to work anywhere, anytime, on any device.
  • Empower mobile users without compromising security: Having sensitive business data stored on employee devices increases vulnerability. By virtualizing your apps and desktops to keep data secure in your datacenter or the cloud you don’t have to worry about lost or stolen devices.
  • Make managing desktops easier and more efficient: Implement app and desktop virtualization to automate and centralize management. You can stop patching and updating your employees’ desktops on an individual, manual basis – saving you time, money and frustration.
  • Get new employees up and running in minutes: Use any available devices – aging legacy PCs, thin clients, laptops or mobile devices – and reduce new employee time to productivity.
  • Keep employees productive during business disruptions: Empower your employees to work remotely during business disruptions – anywhere, anytime, on any device – with secure access to the apps and data they depend on.
  • Reduce IT costs: App and desktop virtualization significantly reduce your IT costs, management time, and complexity compared to traditional desktop management.

Many businesses are still under the impression that the Cloud is a one-size-fits-all solution. That’s why having a trusted technology partner who can work with you to develop a cloud roadmap and strategy is so important.

Have questions about what IT platform and cloud deployment option is best for your business? Contact us today at (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

5 Ways to Take Your Customer Experience to the Next Level in the Digital Age

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There’s a lot of pressure to provide a great experience each time customers interact with your brand. Businesses are responding by prioritizing the Customer Experience as a competitive differentiator.

Your business needs to consider the full range of your Customers’ Experience: not just the call they make to sales or support, but all the different departments and technologies that your customers interact with to make a sale or resolve an issue.

Here are five ways to deliver exceptional Customer Experience in the digital age:

  • Be holistic – Review your current Customer Experience; it doesn’t start and stop with one phone call. It’s important to take a 360-degree view, including chat, social media, direct messages and beyond.
  • Respond immediately – To avoid customer frustration with misdirected calls, a unified communications and collaboration system can allow your agents and staff to collaborate on customer issues without leaving the call.
  • Consider IoT – Implementing IoT automated responses to certain triggers can prevent problems before they take place. For example, a customer’s air conditioning unit can signal your business when the unit is not running properly so you can arrange a tech visit. The customer can respond within their own messaging app.
  • Go beyond voice – When you’re looking at your own contact center, make sure you’re not relying too heavily on voice call metrics; factor in responses and workflows via alternative media.
  • Push for high availability – Your Customer Experience doesn’t stop when there is a disaster or system malfunction. Push for high availability by keeping a physical or virtual replication of your main contact center server.

Let’s talk about using new technology to boost your Customer Experience. Contact us today at (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Goodbye Silos… How TCI Advantage Brings Everything Together

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There are a lot of companies out there selling standalone communications solutions, but many miss the mark, falling short when they fail to get to know your business in depth – your user environment, business requirements or history.

What sets our approach apart is that the TCI Advantage starts with a holistic suite of capabilities, combined with a fully trained, customer-focused and experienced staff of professionals. We wrap all of that with a Discovery and Assessment Process that ensures EVERY client engagement exceeds expectations.

TCI’s comprehensive portfolio is designed to cover every aspect of Business Communications, Networking, Support, Infrastructure, and Security…

TCI Host: Our Enterprise-class Cloud Communications Solution features UCaaS, bringing together the power of Mitel’s VMware-supported, feature rich software into a high availability Cloud environment. Paired together, this solution delivers the flexibility and reliability of the Cloud with all the advanced UC features you need to connect your business. Learn more

TCI Connect: Providing a three-pronged approach combining our comprehensive Net360 Network Assessment, Remediation & Onboarding Process, and SLA-based Maintenance and Network Monitoring, we ensure your Network Infrastructure is not only ready for your deployment, but will operate as expected for years to come. Learn more

TCI Manage: We release you and your overburdened teams from day-to-day network monitoring, backup, reporting and management tasks. At the same time, we’ll increase the performance of your network – while uncovering savings too. Learn more

TCI Secure: Rest easy with our multi-layered security solutions. We manage a broad array of Next Generation Firewall and Management products from SonicWall, End-point Security from Cylance, as well as Patch Management, Wireless Security and Backup/Recovery from industry leaders. Learn more

Find out how TCI Advantage breaks down the silos and brings everything together to simplify your life and empower your teams. Contact us today at (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

6 Easy Steps to Prevent Phone Hacking

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Phone hacking, also known as “phreaking” costs businesses billions of dollars every year.

Decades ago, hackers accessed the public telephone network using a series of tones input via a “blue box” to fool Ma Bell into allowing them to make free long distance calls.  Now hackers can access phone systems through voicemail ports to make free international calls.

The good news is that there are simple measures you can take to ensure your phone system stays well protected.

  • When installing new equipment, always change the access credentials from the default settings.
  • Never use easy passwords such as 1234.
  • Routinely review itemized telephone invoices for any anomalies.
  • Ask your service provider about their fraud monitoring policy.
  • If you have more than one administrator accessing the telephone system, make sure they use unique access credentials.
  • Whenever staff members leave the organization, immediately disable their access credentials.

Your phone and IT systems are essential to your daily operations. Set up time with TCI to talk about implementing best-practice security measures for your business.

Ready to learn more?  Contact us today at (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Mitel Speakerphone: MiVoice S720 brings Bluetooth Simplicity & HD Audio to Your Meetings and Conference Calls

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A perfect solution for office side-table and small meeting room conferencing, the MiVoice S720 can instantly transform any space into a conference room. Thanks to its 360° microphone pickup and omni-directional HD Voice audio all attendees can hear and be heard.

Mitel adds flexibility and performance to Conference Call gatherings…

  • Bluetooth connectivity enables you to connect in seconds to your MiVoice 6900 IP series phones.
  • Never run out of battery and talk all day with up to 15 hours of talk time. Battery powered with USB charging.
  • While hands-free, participants can take notes, share files and continue to work during calls.
  • Play music from a mobile phone with auto stop when an incoming call goes to the desk phone.
  • Functionally integrated with desk phone: volume / mute sync, pulling call to / from conference phone.

Portable design for the road warrior

Featuring a lightweight design, the S720 comes with a protective travel pouch so users can take the speakerphone on the road with them and leverage the Mitel MiCollab Softphone for hotel room or other on-the-go conference calls.

Make your meetings easier. Contact us today at (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

A Fresh Look at Skills-Based Routing in your Contact Center to Improve the Customer Experience

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The concept of skills-based routing has been around for as long as there have been call centers – connecting in-bound callers directly to the subject matter experts that can get the job done right on the first call.

New considerations driven by Digital Transformation

Historically, when businesses thought about skills-based routing in their call centers, they typically would organize their groups, and their skills, based on the line of business that the agent would be answering for, or the product line that the agent had expertise to handle. But, in fact, there’s a wide variety of skills that also need to be considered, such as:

  • Business skills like ordering, fulfillment, support and services
  • Industry skills like specialized training or certifications
  • Language skills
  • Passive soft skills
  • Authority for escalations

The Essential Role of Text, Email & Social Media in your Contact Center

In addition to connecting customers to the right people, you’ll want to enable your team to interact with customers over their preferred media. You can exploit new digital communication technologies to improve the customer experience by adding email and web chat interactions, as well as SMS and social media messaging. Of course, all of this adds layers of complexity as you begin enabling new tools and programming routing workflows.

Let TCI simplify the process

Our experts can show you how holistic skills-based routing – enhanced with the latest digital communication technologies – can empower your call center to serve your customers better than ever. Contact us today at (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Hey, Did You Know TCI Can Perform a Complete Network Assessment & Performance Analysis for Your Business?

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Do you know what’s on your network today and how well everything is performing?

If you haven’t conducted an assessment recently, you may not know…

  • If your network is operating at peak performance.
  • What systems or applications are hogging resources.
  • How to prioritize traffic so apps run smoothly.
  • To what extent unauthorized software and apps have been added to your systems.
  • If your current systems and networks are still meeting your business goals.

Before we get into the technology…

We want to meet with you and learn all about where your business is heading and the challenges you face. Then our engineers will perform a comprehensive review of your systems and networks. Along the way, they’ll look for ways to make things better, smarter, and more secure.

We’ll give you an unbiased assessment of what’s working, what isn’t, and what needs to change for you to achieve your goals, including a technology roadmap your business can follow to stay up to speed.

Don’t put up with business as usual. Contact us today at: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

TCI Host – Powered by Mitel – 6 Reasons to Bring Your Communications & Collaboration into the Cloud

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Bring your communications and collaboration platform into the cloud for better mobility, quality, simplicity and reliability – all at a lower cost than a premises-based system.

Add offices, users and features easily to grow and customize your communications for a true competitive advantage. And there are more practical business reasons to make the move to TCI Host…

1. Be more productive
Bring all of your communications tools into one cloud and one application for a seamless experience on any device – anywhere in the world. Easily manage voice, email and IM from a single screen to reduce management complexity and boost productivity.

2. Get more done – from anywhere
Access the same rich phone and collaboration features you enjoy from your office anywhere. Seamlessly transition from the office to the airport, the golf course, or your kids’ football practice without missing a single interaction.

3. No hardware, no headaches
Say goodbye to capital expenses, maintenance and service fees with a hosted business phone system. You get great call quality, industry-leading reliability and an easy-to-manage phone system with no upfront costs – everything you need for one low monthly price.

4. Free up IT resources
Don’t waste valuable IT resources on aging PBX hardware – let us manage the hardware hassles and put your people to work on the projects that matter most. With TCI Host, you enjoy new features faster, you can add or remove lines in minutes, and you always stay up to date with the newest upgrades automatically.

5. Pay as you grow
With premises-based PBX systems, you pay the price for less-than-perfect capacity planning by having too little or paying for too much. With TCI Host, you always have just the right amount of capacity at the right time to ensure you’re paying for what you need and not a penny more.

6. Keep your business running
TCI’s cloud-based hosting platform can deliver ultra-high reliability and seamless disaster recovery so you always stay connected to colleagues and customers.

Get the tools your people need to serve customers better. Contact us now to schedule your TCI Host demo: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.