If you have been in business a while, you have been through economic cycles. Blue Chip has some strategies you might want to consider when times are tough. It may not be obvious to some, but this may be the time to invest in your company. Interest rates are low and if we can provide better productivity without adding staff this will help you now and in the future. We can only reduce costs so far, but if you can increase each persons output our cost for our labor is reduced proportionately to the increased output.

You may also be able to reduce IT costs. One way is reducing the cost of your data and voice circuits. Today’s technology allows these two areas to be combined into one. Though there is significant up front investment, costs of maintenance and infrastructure will be reduced.

Enterprises have committed to IP telephony, and completing the conversion to VoIP is just a matter of time and money. VoIP equipment sales surpassed TDM in 2003, and Infonetics projects that 89% of worldwide enterprise voice lines will be IP-PBX based for calendar year 2008. However, while IP telephony is moving into its second decade with enormous momentum, most users are still waiting for full convergence and voice-enabled applications. Increased network efficiencies have been the primary benefit of IP telephony to date as enterprises struggle with infrastructure and organizational issues. These first-generation benefits have been considerable, but the focus is now shifting to converged applications, with the initial spotlight on Unified Communications (UC).

Learn more about Unified Communications and how users and businesses can achieve next-generation benefits.

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Blue Chip will review assess and analyze all of your communications expenditures as follows;

• Maintenances and repair costs
• Cost of Moves, Adds and Changes (MAC)
• Local Carrier Service and savings
• Long Distance Carrier Services
• Internet Service and savings
• Audit existing Service Bills and Cost Recovery
• Tariff Analysis and Contract Review

Upon reviewing your costs above we will help you decide what the best alternatives to your present communications are and a project with a Return on Investment