Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the enterprise. Now that so many professionals are more skilled than ever in operating and maintaining their devices, key decision-makers are recognizing the competitive edge that tech investments can provide. This is especially true in terms of growing consumer bases and revenue streams. In fact, according to ZDNet Editor-in-Chief Larry Dignan, more funds are being allocated for technology investments than have been historically.
Dignan cites a recent study from Forrester Research, which indicates that 31 percent of all technology spending will be business-related by 2017. This signifies a great deal of interest in enabling staffers with modern assets. Workers, after all, have to have their unique strengths and abilities fostered in order to gain more customers and bring in higher revenues. One such way this can be accomplished is by converting all communications channels into IP-based platforms. A lot of people have found success in this process with their voice connections, but another important outlet to consider is the fax machine.
"Moving phone and fax to the cloud can be accomplished now that IP technology enables calls and fax to travel over the Internet; voice-over-IP (VoIP) enables a business phone system to work through a BYOD device as easily as it works on an office phone, and fax-over-IP (FoIP) lets employees send and receive faxes as if they were email," wrote TMCnet contributor Mae Kowalke.
Faxing is an important technology, even if the hardware that has historically facilitated it is somewhat obsolete. By converting to fax over IP, or FoIP, businesses can enjoy secure document transmission that is inherently mobile – and ready for the cloud.
Cloud-based fax helps send, receive and protect
Fax machines have fallen out of vogue in some offices, but in others, they are required by law. Healthcare is a good example – patient records are of the utmost confidentiality, and their exposure carries legal and financial consequences. Yet email attachments are still commonly leveraged to send files of this nature, just for the sake of convenience. For many people, this is the only way they know how to simultaneously enable access across various devices.
But cloud-based faxing over an IP connection solves this issue neatly. The concept behind the fax over IP services is that fax is re-imagined as a smartphone app. Documents can be sent and received with greater ease, even if the other party is still using legacy fax systems. Not every professional has a fax machine, but chances are that they have smartphones, and enabling them to engage in protected faxing is a powerful way to improve productivity.
Mobility is key in the modern day
The physical office has become somewhat of a relic. Younger staffers, especially, have found themselves enabled by the cloud in personal experiences and expect their employers to pick up on new advancements. Working from home, for example, is no longer a hard-won privilege or a special exception – it's getting to be the status quo. Many professionals choose to complete their tasks remotely several days a week, and for organizations that still rely on fax, this might once have been a problem.
Cloud-based faxing is one of the best investments that a company can help workers accomplish more. There is an increasing amount of funding being used to procure new technologies that ultimately influence the bottom dollar, and cloud-based fax is one of the wisest ways to spend it.
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