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How a Regulated Buyer Should Run a UCaaS Evaluation

How a Regulated Buyer Should Run a UCaaS Evaluation

For a regulated buyer, the sequence of an evaluation matters more than the criteria. A requirement discovered in stage four can cost weeks of rework. The same requirement discovered in stage one costs a paragraph. I have watched this play out from the vendor's side of the ...

How to Choose a Business Phone System When You're Regulated and Multisite

Most business phone system comparisons start with a feature list. After 29 years on the vendor side of the table, I can tell ...

What to Ask About Implementation Before You Sign

Implementation is the phase that determines whether a communications platform succeeds. Yet most buyers take it up only ...

Business Number Porting: What to Ask Before You Switch Providers

Number porting is the part of a phone system switch nobody wants to think about until it goes wrong. Your main line, your ...

What a Healthcare Contact Center Actually Does, and When a Practice Needs One

A healthcare contact center is a system for routing, queuing, and measuring patient conversations across phone, voicemail, ...

Microsoft Teams Phone System Alternatives: When to Look Beyond Native Calling

Microsoft Teams phone system alternatives are worth knowing about — not because Teams is a bad platform, but because Teams ...

Bilingual Virtual Receptionist: Why Bilingual Is Not the Same as Qualified

Most organizations shopping for a bilingual virtual receptionist are solving an obvious problem. Callers ring in speaking ...

SOC 2 vs HIPAA: What Each One Proves About a Vendor

You asked a vendor if their service is HIPAA compliant. They sent you a SOC 2 report. The SOC 2 vs HIPAA mix-up starts right ...

HIPAA and Telehealth Video: What Changed When Enforcement Discretion Ended

The HIPAA enforcement discretion that let providers use consumer video apps for telehealth expired on August 9, 2023. It ran ...

Voicemail to Text: How Voicemail Transcription Works and What to Look For

Voicemail to text converts a voice message into readable text, so the message can be scanned in a few seconds instead of ...

Missed Calls Are a Clinical Problem, Not a Front Desk Problem

Most practices count a missed call as a staffing problem, a schedule gap rather than a care gap. The phones rang harder than ...

What Happens to Your Calls During a Microsoft Teams Outage

A Microsoft Teams outage is no longer a rare event that IT teams plan for theoretically. Since August 2023, Microsoft Teams ...

What an AI Receptionist Costs in 2026 (vs. Hiring vs. a Live Answering Service)

An ai receptionist costs less per month than a part-time employee and more per month than voicemail. That is the easy part ...

How to Choose Contact Center Software: The Evaluation Scorecard

Most contact center software evaluations go wrong the same way: a forty-row feature spreadsheet, every vendor scoring well ...

Omnichannel Contact Center: What It Means and How to Evaluate One

An omnichannel contact center handles customer conversations across voice, email, SMS, chat, and social in a way that treats ...