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A New Approach to Communications as a Service (CaaS)

CaaS with Local Control
Donald E. Brown
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Software as a service (SaaS) is exploding in popularity. Organizations of all types love the ability to treat software much as they do electricity – a service that they plug into and pay for monthly. In recent years, the SaaS model has been applied to all sorts of software – CRM, HR applications, sales force automation, etc. The advantages of SaaS are obvious and include,

• Little or no capital expenditure
• Predictable monthly costs instead of a large up‐front payment
• Less information technology overhead

CaaS

With the advent of voice over IP, this same delivery model can be applied to various communication services including contact center automation. This utility‐like model for communications is often referred to as Communications as a Service (CaaS). Unlike data services such as CRM, communications services have special considerations. Communications services are often considered even more mission critical because they involve personal contact with customers. Temporary loss of access to CRM can be a major inconvenience, but inability to take calls from customers can threaten the very existence of a business. This is why many organizations have been hesitant to trust any CaaS provider with their critical communications. The many disadvantages of CaaS for communications services include

• Extreme business disruption in the event of a service outage
• Variable call quality that can make customers think they’re dealing with a shoddy off‐shore operation
• Loss of control over valuable data
• Lack of security for both voice and data

Even the public power grid has disadvantages with its variable quality, intermittent spikes, and occasional blackouts, some of them severe enough to last for hours or even days. Organizations have learned to mitigate these problems with surge protectors, uninterruptible power supplies, and emergency generators. Clearly what’s needed is a similar hybrid model for communications services – one that combines the best of remote service delivery with local control.

CaaS with Local Control

Interactive Intelligence has found a way to offer organizations the advantages of Communications as a Service while providing the functionality of an in‐house communications system. The approach is simple

• Keep your current telecommunications vendor
• Attach your phone lines to a voice over IP gateway that sits on your network
• Connect a local call management device to your network
• Install an MPLS connection between your network and an Interactive Intelligence CaaS data center
• Deploy VoIP phones
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