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Push Notifications is a technical term that doesn’t immediately tell the story of the enhanced user experience provided by the feature. Let’s break it down further. If you’ve ever had the score of your favorite team pop up on your screen, if you’ve ever been reminded that you have 2 items in your shopping cart, if you’ve ever been called by a former roommate on Skype while they’re visiting Portugal, you’ve been push notified! Push notifications look...

Humans are a relationship-oriented species - even if it is with an electronic device. The more interactive the device is, it seems the more addicted we become. And we can easily become obsessed. With the launch of the iPhone in 2007, touch became the primary way we interacted with a device. Texting has become a world-wide obsession. So much so that researchers have become concerned about normal child development. It is not abnormal to see two people sitting next to one...

Dear Amazon: Please add SMS capability to your customer service 800 number to greatly improve your customer experience and lower your costs. I have been a happy customer of yours for many years. I opted into Amazon Prime a little over a year ago. Sorry to be late on that one. After joining the Anti-Cable TV rebellion 10 years ago and beginning with Netflix, I needed a new group of programs and movies to view. Amazon Prime was the natural service. I got hooked on speedy...

Can Apple’s late entrance to the world of business chat differentiate itself enough to drive the engagement that companies have been craving for so long? Recently Apple Inc. announced the upcoming launch of its new iMessage integration called Business Chat. Apple is positioning it is a “Powerful new way for your customers to get answers to their questions, learn about and purchase your products, and engage with your existing support channels.” Perhaps Apple...

If you are a customer or partner of Broadsoft this SMS enablement message is for you. Telestax is about to launch a new service we are calling RestcommONE Message Exchange. Put simply, Message Exchange is about to rock your world by allowing you to send and receive SMS messages outside of UC One without ever leaving the environment! Why is SMS Enablement important to a UC (Unified Communications) or UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) customer? First let’s...

RestcommONE Marketplace Partner Blog Series For the past year I’ve had the privilege of being embedded with the Telestax team as they’ve built and launched the RestcommOne Marketplace. As with any product launch (at least the ones I’ve been a part of), it’s had its share of wins and losses (or strikes and gutters if you’re a Big Lebowski fan), but it’s come a long way since the public announcement in May. I’m in a unique position. I’ve been on the...

RestcommONE Marketplace Partner Blog Series In today’s blog post, let’s look at appointment scheduling and appointment rescheduling. Ben Franklin famously observed in his 1748 piece, Advice to a Young Tradesman, that “time is money.” If you’ve been idle, he explained, you’ve “spent, or rather thrown away,” the money you could have made. I like to think of it as having failed to create the value for others that you might have created. ...

Enterprises across the world are beginning to deploy new types of communication services that significantly increase organizational effectiveness. These services offer the the ability to communicate in real-time, at anytime and from anywhere. At the core of these new real-time services sits CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service). But enterprises have had to overcome some challenges to fully adopt CPaaS. Real-time services have been difficult to implement or access...

RestcommONE Marketplace Partner Blog Series Not very long ago, telecom providers had a nice, high wall around their customers and no one could steal any market share away from them. But today, those walls haven’t just been breached, they have been obliterated. Telco companies are now faced with shrinking profit margins. CPaaS providers and application based competitors have arrived on the scene to offer high-value services that improve business processes and enhance...

"Cloud" has become the business world equivalent to kale or chipotle over the past few years. It’s the hot new thing that everyone MUST have. In this blog, I’d like to discuss the REAL benefits of using a cloud based deployment for Telestax RestcommONE platform. Imagine that you see business growth potential outside of your current offerings and you’d like to to launch SMS Enablement, Voice API, Chatbot Enablement or any CPaaS service. One of the key decisions...