Budget restraints, limited IT expertise, and unwillingness to undertake large capital expenditures are all drivers for Communications as a Service.
Allowing customers to pay per-user-per-month or per-application-per-month for full lifecycle support enables them to deploy advanced Unified Communications, IVR and Contact Centre solutions quickly and affordably.
One of the biggest issues with CaaS is that the market is still in its early stages, and most providers have not rolled out a full portfolio, TeleWare has been providing hosted communications services since 1997 and offers a feature rich communications portfolio with all the applications available to on-premise customer also available under the hosted service model. Forrester analyst Elizabeth Herrell says “we recommend that infrastructure and operations executives consider CaaS's role in their infrastructure plans."