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18 Ways to Help Your Business Limit Disaster Damage
- November 9, 2015 | 4 minutes to read
Wind speeds approaching 200 mph. Storm labeled as “one of the worst on record.” Have you read headlines like this lately? Realizing your business in…

The Tool That Helps You Determine Root Cause Without Leaving Your Desk
- October 26, 2015 | 3 minutes to read
A large global financial services group was having problems with their Avaya UC VoIP solution running on a Cisco data network. As soon as they…

Customers Who Use This Tool Are 73% More Likely to Avoid an Outage
- October 19, 2015 | 2 minutes to read
Ever mutter to yourself, “Yeah, well, let me just get out my magic wand, and take care of that for you?” I know I enjoy…

Remote Connectivity: The Trick to Getting the Most Out of Avaya Support
- October 12, 2015 | 3 minutes to read
If there’s one “trick” to getting the absolute most value out of your Avaya support coverage, it would be enabling remote connectivity. Allowing a trained…

How Switching to Proactive Customer Service Could Save You More Than $500,000
- October 6, 2015 | 3 minutes to read
This first week of October is recognized as Customer Service Week. I’ve previously written about how delivering excellent customer service is in our DNA here…

Avoiding Power Outages: Keep Your Services On
- September 23, 2015 | 2 minutes to read
Let’s face it. At first glance, there’s nothing particularly exciting about preventing power outages. Keeping the lights on isn’t nearly as cool as sniffing out…

Remote Monitoring: So Good, It Virtually Needs No Human Intervention
- August 24, 2015 | 3 minutes to read
Have you ever done something so well that others struggle to believe it’s true? On a recent Sunday afternoon, after mowing the lawn and finally…

Top 8 Considerations When Looking for a Cloud Services Provider
- August 17, 2015 | 3 minutes to read
My recent blog on the top 12 reasons to invest in the cloud generated a lot of interest, and so I wanted to continue the…

Avoiding Network Outages: When the Cost of Doing Nothing is Everything
- August 13, 2015 | 2 minutes to read
What does downtime mean to you? Time, productivity, money? Likely, you’re nodding at all three — and you’re not alone. According to Aberdeen Group, the…

Top 6 Communications Services Trends of 2015 – Midyear Review
- August 4, 2015 | 5 minutes to read
In October 2014, we assembled a team of five service experts led by Mike Runda, Senior Vice President and President, Avaya Client Services, and asked…

How to Prevent the 5 Most Common Communication Outages
- June 24, 2015 | 5 minutes to read
While Governor Jerry Brown calls for water conservation in drought-stricken California, Oklahoma and Texas face record rainfalls, and Tropical Storm Ana hits South Carolina almost…

Engaging in Multi-Vendor Collaborative Support
- March 10, 2015 | 2 minutes to read
Periodically, in my personal life, I will use video conferencing technology on my PC to talk with family and friends. I’ve recently been having problems…

5 Steps to Service Simplicity and Transformation
- March 5, 2015 | 4 minutes to read
Mergers are picking up again. Staples announced that it is going to buy Office Depot. Halliburton is in talks to buy Baker Hughes. This year’s…

How Avaya Augments the Work of its Support Engineers
- February 9, 2015 | 3 minutes to read
In late January, Microsoft announced a virtual reality project called HoloLens. The reviews of the prototypes have been positive, and I can see why: Virtual…

The 5 Reasons Why I Joined Avaya Global Support Services
- February 3, 2015 | 4 minutes to read
A couple months ago, I found myself around the family kitchen table attempting to explain to my wife why I was considering leaving my current…