Cost savings offering return on investment of less than 2 years from increased productivity, time savings and ability of staff to work flexibly can be achieved by deploying a unified communications solution within your organisation.

In today's business environment, professionals are constantly bombarded with time and mission-critical information, most of which comes in the form of email, voice and fax messages. An employee's ability to handle and respond to these messages can mean the difference between a company that effectively communicates with its key audience, and one that is out of touch with those most critical to its success. The average employee now spends a substantial amount of the working day managing this information, rather than using it to advantage.

A recent industry study found that, by utilising unified communications, mobile users experienced a time saving gain of 70 percent when compared to the traditional means of checking messages.

Unified communications is designed to address four big communications challenges:

• Managing multiple communications tools and devices
• Putting an end to voicemail frustrations
• Improving call connect ratios, particularly outside of the traditional office
• Integrating mobile communications with the fixed line enterprise telecommunications infrastructure