Two Ways to Protect Your IT Investments While Leveraging the Cloud

You’ve spent years building a rock solid, reliable and secure communications framework. Your business environment today demands that you continue to be smart about your IT investments, delivering the latest technologies within budget.  One of the challenges you may be facing is how to maximize your current phone system while addressing demands for expansion and requests for additional features.

A hybrid communication system may be the answer. Here are two ways you can protect your IT investment while leveraging the cloud.

1. Maintain financial flexibility

A world class hybrid communication system lets you leverage your current IT investments and quickly add new communication features without significant capital expense or additional headcount. It enables you to consolidate vendors and increase visibility while you’re making a gradual transition to the cloud. That’s what ShoreTel Connect HYBRID does for you.

A ShoreTel Connect HYBRID solution gives you the ability to easily add users and locations as your business grows. Because it leverages cloud technology, you don’t need massive investments of time or money to do it. That leaves you able to focus on your more strategic IT and business initiatives.

To give you maximum financial flexibility, you get to choose if you want to add business communication services as a capital or operational expense. Meaning no significant capital expenditures or staff investments, and faster deployment and updates. It gives you a flexible way to place applications and other services where they’re needed then pay for them as you go.

The end result is a flexible, adaptable and strategic approach to how you deploy your phone system technology with control over your financial strategy of transitioning from capital to operational expense models.

2. Maximize your investments

You’ve already invested heavily in infrastructure, so you want to leverage your current data center. But you also want to reduce your team’s workload within a fixed budget. How can you maximize your investments? One way is to combine your current onsite communications system with hybrid applications. It eliminates the need for application upgrades and maintenance, saving you money.

A ShoreTel Connect HYBRID solution is also less complex than other unified communication systems. With a hybrid cloud communication solution, you are giving your staff the same ShoreTel Connect user experience at all locations, no matter if their call control is in the cloud or onsite. That simplifies the user experience and reduces complexity for you and them.

You gain efficiency because it’s so easy to use that your users will adopt the full capabilities of your phone system without time-consuming training. Another bonus? Administration of a hybrid cloud communication solution is significantly simplified.

Protecting current investments while leveraging the cloud

The point is that you want IT to be in lock step with business demands with minimal impact on your own resources. With a ShoreTel Connect HYBRID solution, you can do this. You select what you own and what you delegate to the cloud with increased financial flexibility.

No kidding. ShoreTel Connect HYBRID gives you the ability to maximize the investments you’ve already made while giving you the ability to grow with the business, letting you mix and match OPEX and CAPEX to give you full operational flexibility. If you know that a combination of onsite and cloud technology is the right future for you company, then that equals smart investing.