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Access Mitel’s Entire Pallet of Tools via TCI Host – Your Customized Cloud Voice Service

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TCI Host service is all about flexibility

Add new cloud-based tools to your existing business phone system, and when you’re ready, migrate your platform to the cloud and reduce your overall telecom costs.

Cloud communications isn’t an all-or-nothing endeavor

There are several deployment models you can choose from depending on your business’s unique situation, and you can shift from one approach to another over time. Managing a multi-site business? TCI Host brings offices closer together.

Powerful Capabilities

Explore some of the collaboration features your users can tap with their mobile or desktop phones. With access to these Mitel-powered tools, your work will no longer be a location but an activity that can be tackled from anywhere:

  • Persistent workspaces for team meetings, conversations, content review and project management
  • Point-to-point Video calling
  • Multi-point Video Conferencing
  • Scheduled and ad hoc conferencing and webinars
  • Participant management
  • Desktop application sharing
  • Public and private chat
  • Web based collaboration
  • Document management
  • Conference recording
  • Integration to other business applications such as: Outlook, Lotus Notes, IBM Sametime, and Google
  • Presence Tools
  • Mobile Softphone
  • Web Client
  • Unified Messaging, including fax via email
  • Remote control of desktops
  • Outlook client plug-in
  • Message retrieval from one synchronized message store

Deploy the tools your people need to serve your customers better.  For a single, low monthly price, upgrade to advanced mobile-enabled, desktop phones (like Mitel’s 6900 series) and access Mitel’s award-winning features to improve your Customer Experience.

Contact us today to schedule your TCI Host demo: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Mobilize Your Enterprise With Mitel’s MiVoice 6900 Premium Desk Phones

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Mitel’s MiVoice 6900 series desk phones enable you to become more mobile with one-touch Bluetooth pairing and seamless integration with your mobile phone.

Not only can you stay productive by easily switching calls between your desk phone and your mobile phone, you can have mobile and desktop contacts automatically sync between your devices.

6900 Series Video Introduction [44 sec.]

Mobile phone users can leverage the exceptional HD audio and comfortable ergonomics of the 6900 series phones for both IP and cellphone calls. The 6900 phones deliver crystal clear audio through a unique corded or cordless voice-optimized handset and high performance hands-free speakerphone.

More MiVoice 6900 Series Phone Features…

  • High resolution color displays
  • Support for Mitel Teleworker, ACD agent and supervisor, hot desking, MiCollab Client and more
  • Secure encrypted voice communication
  •  Quality of Service support
  • Dual 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports (LAN/PC), powered USB 2.0 Host port, sidecar expansion port, dedicated 4-pin modular headset port convertible to DHSG/EHS capable
  • Bluetooth wireless interface

The 6900 series also offers a broad array of add-on user installable accessories that enable the phones to be tailored to specific user needs.

Ready for the convenience and productivity that come from adding mobility to your desk phones? Contact TCI today: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Internet of Things: How Mitel is Giving Machines a Voice

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Connecting devices allow businesses to operate more efficiently. The IoT’s ability to automate tasks like monitoring, sensing, and data collection is driving its adoption across many industries.

A new IoT innovation is being enabled by Mitel – giving connected devices a ‘voice’ to alert people who can interact and address whatever situation a device is reporting.

For example, airports are innovating to give IoT a Voice… an airport outfitted its automated external defibrillator (AED) cabinets with sensors to trigger messages to medical staff whenever a cabinet door opens. In the past, opening a cabinet would simply sound an alarm, but what the alarm was for, or who was responding to it wasn’t necessarily clear. With IoT, the appropriate personnel receive the alert, and they can notify others that they’re responding.

Giving IoT a Voice was also extended to maintenance processes. Environmental sensors monitor temperature and carbon dioxide levels throughout the airport. When, for example, the temperature of a certain part of a terminal exceeds a set threshold, sensors trigger messages to maintenance personnel, who are dispatched to identify and repair the problem.

Think about your own business and how you use devices… In addition to building management, security, healthcare and hospitality, virtually any industry will find applications for this technology, especially those looking to speed customer response.

Ready to give your devices a Voice? Let’s discuss your unique communication and networking needs. Contact TCI today at (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

 

Mitel CloudLink Streamlines App Development to Empower Business Transformation

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Businesses are continually looking for ways to streamline and automate workflows and increase productivity to the point where all elements of their organization – people, processes, data and things – can connect and communicate seamlessly to enable growth.

Mitel addresses these needs with CloudLink, an application development and delivery platform that allows businesses to leverage existing assets, while adding and extending new capabilities accessed from the cloud.

Why Mitel CloudLink? 

  • Businesses can move toward cloud services using their existing systems.
  • A hybrid cloud approach is easy to deploy and use.
  • Open architecture and APIs accelerate the creation of tailored apps.
  • Tailored applications help future-proof and create “sticky” customers.
  • The subscription model, plus rapid app creation capabilities, open more revenue streams.

CloudLink Components

  • Gateway – Simple, secure and affordable to deploy, this core technology connects on-site call control platforms to Mitel’s open cloud platform. It provides access to next-gen applications and allows businesses to leverage what they already have so they can move to the cloud at their own pace.
  • Platform – Intuitive tools are offered that speed application development while optimizing costs. With no development knowledge required, the platform simplifies delivery of immersive and customized communication experiences.
  • Applications – Leveraging Mitel APls and microservices, CloudLink apps are tailored to the specific communication needs of various industries and verticals. The applications are continuously developed, rapidly deployed, simple to manage, and delivered in real time.

Mitel CloudLink offers a streamlined environment for building and delivering software. It makes your developers more productive, maximizes your IT investments, and enables faster innovation. Bottom line: CloudLink has the power to drive meaningful transformation of your business.

In the coming months, TCI will delve more deeply into various aspects of Mitel CloudLink. Meanwhile, if you are wondering how cloud technology can benefit your business, contact TCI today: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

How MiCloud Service Makes Business Voice Easy

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What sets Mitel’s affordable, all-in-one MiCloud voice service apart is the friendly, local TCI team that comes to your office to set everything up. Here’s what else your business gets when you sign up:

Mobile integration – Remote workers have access to the full feature set from their mobile devices anywhere they go, just as if they were sitting at their desks.

Easy to use interface – With a cloud-based interface, it’s easy for employees to talk, chat, and collaborate anytime, anywhere.

Instant updates – Upgrades are deployed through automatic software updates, allowing your IT team to stay focused on business.

Predictable monthly costs – By hosting a phone system over the Internet, you are charged on an “as needed” basis, paying only for what your business uses.

Scale up or down – Whether your business is growing, moving or sizing down, the MiCloud provides flexibility and scalability.

Maximize business continuity – MiCloud maximizes uptime and coverage through multiple, remotely hosted data centers, helping you avoid costly interruptions.


Learn how MiCloud simplifies your life.  Contact TCI today at (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

Get to know ‘CloudLink’… Mitel’s On-Ramp to an IoT and Cloud Future

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We want you to be ready when Mitel’s innovative ‘CloudLink’ comes online, so as news breaks look for more updates from us. ‘CloudLink’ will be a focal point of Mitel’s product roadmap moving into 2018, and we like what we’re hearing.

At a high level, the CloudLink vision is to provide:

  • A bridge to enable any Mitel call control platform to interface with cloud-based applications
  • Access to vertically-focused micro applications
  • An aggregation point for IoT sensors that can trigger communications actions or responses
  • APIs for third-party developers for use in creating applications
  • A zero-code application development environment that non-programmers can use to create apps
  • An integration point for third-party cloud apps like Salesforce, Zapier, and If-This-Then-That using call control signaling and notification in the workflow

CloudLink’s architecture has two elements: a CloudLink gateway device connected to the Mitel Next platform running in Amazon’s cloud (AWS). The gateway can be deployed either on-premises or in the cloud. CloudLink enables signaling protocols from a mix of PBXs – different makes and models – to be normalized so there is only one common signaling and messaging protocol between the gateway and the Mitel Next Platform.

Mitel CloudLink architecture showing integration with on-premises and cloud-based call control

What’s in it for me?

CloudLink will enable an instant on-ramp to cloud-based app consumption. You won’t be limited to using Mitel-created apps. With CloudLink, you’ll be able to build your own apps, communications-enabled processes, and IoT-enabled processes.

Interested in CloudLink? Let’s start talking about your technology roadmap for next year. 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.

 

Mitel’s Deal to Acquire ShoreTel – on the Heels of Toshiba Purchase – Creates UC Powerhouse

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Following its July 5th purchase of Toshiba Telecom, Mitel entered into a merger agreement with ShoreTel. This is big news for Mitel and its partners. As digital transformation accelerates customer demand for cloud-based solutions, Mitel is now positioned as the #2 global player in the UC market.

The acquisitions have also expanded Mitel’s leading portfolio of premises solutions and UCaaS – Unified Communications as a Service – offerings.

At TCI, we’re excited that Mitel is growing and that we can offer so many new solutions and applications to our customers. Mitel has also assured Toshiba and ShoreTel customers that their existing systems and services will continue to be fully supported.

Considering your transition to a cloud-enabled organization? Interested in exploring Mitel’s latest technology?

Lets’ talk about new ways to improve your business communications. Contact us today at (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Real-time, Anytime… How MiTeam for MiCollab Offers Your Teams an Easier, Better Way to Collaborate

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Mitel’s innovative MiTeam app integrates with your MiCollab online collaboration tools to provide a dedicated workspace for team-based meetings, conversations, and content sharing.

Designed for a workforce on the go, the embedded app seamlessly extends your company’s mobile reach to remote team members, and it connects teams of any size, even with real-time voice and video.

Everything relevant to your team is seamlessly synchronized into “Streams.” Each team’s workspace is archived continuously so everyone can access the history of messages, content, annotations, and tasks for future reference.

One of our favorite MiTeam advantages is that you can enable new team members to come up to speed quickly. They can see interactions with full context, gain access to shared documents, view recordings of meetings and track project tasks.

Check out this MiTeam video…

Let TCI help empower your teams with greater efficiency and productivity. With MiTeam for MiCollab, you can expect to increase business productivity by as much as 40%.

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