A good business phone system is critical for day to day operations at educational institutions. The best system will streamline tasks, offer advanced features, unify communications, and connect staff, students and parents. The right solution will save money by being less costly than a traditional phone system.
At InterGlobe, we provide a full range of solutions for unified communications. A small school retaining their existing phone hardware might find that our basic VMAX™ Business Phone Service fits its needs perfectly. A large school system might want our IPMAX®, a complete IP-PBX system for the best performance. Those wishing to avoid upfront purchase costs, maintenance expenses and ongoing updates might choose one of our cloud-based systems: Hosted VMAX™ or Hybrid Hosted VMAX™.
Your school is unique. Among the thousands of products available, it can be confusing to identify the best solution for your school. Your advantage when working with InterGlobe is our White Glove Service. You’ll have a team of telecommunications professionals dedicated to your account. Our team will meet with you, learn about your requirements, and do an in-depth analysis of your system and needs. We’ll propose solutions and install a system that fits your budget and brings you to the forefront of communications technology.
It’s easy for your school to be swamped by bills and invoices for multiple services from different carriers. To help streamline your administrative duties, we offer unified billing. We’ll give you one bill that covers everything—a single invoice, with all services listed for each location and each carrier, with every item clearly explained.
To help reduce your costs, we participate in the E-Rate Program. We’ll set up your account to meet the guidelines of this federal program and if your school qualifies, you may be eligible to receive reimbursement for a large portion of what you are billed.
Our business phone systems have a wealth of advanced features. You can use these features to enhance communications among staff, take advantage of the benefits of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems, get detailed call reporting, and much more.
Because schools change over time, our systems are scalable. You can start small, and easily add more users as your school grows. With an InterGlobe system, you’ll never be locked into a communications choice that can’t keep up as your requirements change.
For optimum performance, your school might benefit from customized changes to the software that controls your system. Because we’ve designed proprietary software for our products, we have full control over all features. If a custom change will enhance your system’s performance, we’ll make that change for free when we install the system. If you enroll in our maintenance contract (free during the first year, monthly fee thereafter), while you’re enrolled we won’t charge a “change cost fee” to customize our software or an annual licensing fee to maintain that change (as some of our competitors do).
We guard the privacy of your data and voice traffic with multiple layers of security, including the use of a firewall in our IPMAX® and Fail2ban intrusion prevention software. On the network level, our telecommunications engineers can design private networks that connect one location directly to another and transmit data securely, but are invisible to the outside world.
To operate effectively, educational institutions need dependable communications. Because reliability is critical, we make sure that you stay connected—our systems have an uptime of 99.99%. We’ll provide you with a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that describes how we’ll respond in the unlikely event of an issue, and we’ll keep you informed every step of the way. We can even design a redundant system by using multiple carriers for your communications – if one carrier goes down, the other will keep working.
Learn how we helped an early childhood development school system with 7 locations update their equipment, cut costs and simplify their billing when they chose Hosted VMAXSM from InterGlobe.
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