A Mobile First communications strategy involves making mobile phones into the primary communications tools for employees.
“It is all about changing working practices – staff are a lot more agile and flexible. They may be working for clients or working from home. And offices are now more open-plan, and with hotdesking the use of landlines is something we just don’t do any more.”
PwC is a high-profile example of companies that are increasingly turning to mobile devices to enhance worker productivity and operational efficiency.
The Mobile Unified Communications Foundation
A key aspect of making the change to Mobile First communications is to ensure that employees on mobile devices can operate business communications features and the more advanced communications applications that Unified Communications makes possible.
Mobile Unified Communications is the strategy of turning mobile phones into the equivalent of in-office UC phones and can be a central component of a Mobile First program.
Mobile-X from Tango Networks is a key enabling service for modern business communications, including Mobile Unified Communications, mobile workforce communications, and programs for remote working, work from home, telecommuting and business continuity. The service brings next-generation fixed mobile convergence technologies to communications for the distributed workforce.
Picture Mobile UC use cases such as:
These are examples of how mobile-enabled UC can significantly change how companies operate. Now communications and operational efficiencies are no longer dependent on an employee’s presence at a desk.
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