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NEC’s Recommended Remote Working Communication Solutions

MEC Updates — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 05:42:48 +0000

Remote employment was a bizarre concept several years ago. It was only accessible as a customized agreement in certain circumstances. However, as telework technology rapidly advanced, remote setups flourished, and many establishments prospered. Remote working is becoming common everywhere, and developing a remote workforce is an urgent necessity.

Remote working, when managed effectively, may provide several benefits, including:

a cutting-edge concept for smart business management
the potential to reduce overhead expenses while increasing production
the potential to increase staff productivity
the potential to make employees happier
can lead to improved client experiences and profits

In essence, there is nothing that makes greater sense in the modern era than remote work, and businesses only need to use it if they have the communications, collaboration, and gadgets that allow teams to work together smoothly. NEC, a pioneer in the communications sector, is providing a range of solutions to help businesses keep up with the times.

Maximize Technology for Effective Remote Work Experiences

Remote working has become a widely acknowledged and implemented practice in enterprises all over the world as a result of the tremendous improvements in communication technology and high-speed internet access. Modern smart communications tools have made it possible for businesses to implement remote working successfully and effectively. Employers have seen significant cost savings from implementing remote working policies, and employees now have more freedom to work at their own pace and convenience.

In the face of a crisis, remote working has also shown to be a significant asset. With remote work, employees may carry out their responsibilities while safeguarding both the general public’s health and the ongoing success of the company from harm. In this approach, technology-enabled remote working benefits both enterprises and employees.

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NEC: 7 Advantages of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) for Your Business

MEC Updates — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) can also be known as hosted or cloud-based UC. This continues to be known for its productivity benefits as it becomes more widely adopted. Its capabilities include premises-based IP telephony, integrated audio and web conferencing, mobility, collaboration, video solutions, and business application integration features delivered as a service.

The advantages of UCaaS go beyond simply transferring expenditures from capital to a predictable operating expense.

7 Reasons to Consider Cloud-based Unified Communications

1. Enterprise Agility

Many IT firms are overworked and unable to strike a balance between everyday operations and strategic projects. One of the benefits of UCaaS is the flexibility and speed with which it can be deployed. Businesses can install UCaaS without the time and resource commitments that come with a traditional deployment method.

Additionally, maintenance and support time is decreased because system updates no longer need to be planned and implemented. UCaaS enables rapid cloud updates, allowing a company to deploy new applications to all users and departments as soon as they are ready. Upgrades may be accomplished without disrupting the system, giving the IT team better flexibility with the communications system.

2. Greater Efficiencies

Hosted Unified Communications services deliver enterprise clients the communication solutions they need without the accompanying capital costs of conventional on-premises systems and the expenses related to management and support. All of this boosts both budgetary and IT resource efficiencies. With a reduced budget barrier, enterprises can evade the upfront capital outlay with UCaaS. Furthermore, the predictable monthly cost allows companies to plan more efficiently.

The IT’s efficiency also improves as there is no need to support and keep physical systems on-site. Eliminating time-consuming assignments for IT personnel helps the organization allocate resources to core competencies and provide strategic value to develop the business.

Having your communications solution in the cloud helps bypass outdated technology and the time and resources required with a large-scale technology rehaul. Cloud-based communications will provide you with a system that scales quickly. It will also be flexible enough to grow alongside your ever-changing business.

3. Enhanced Reliability

Hosted Unified Communications providers drive their UCaaS offerings forward via the cloud. The best providers have dependable data centers that are repeatedly configured and geographically separated to ensure continuous service even when catastrophic events come. They also have Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that provide uptime guarantees.

Each company’s data and user settings are backed up and reflected in various sites, producing a disaster-proof backbone for your enterprise communications. Hosted Unified Communications providers also give all-day monitoring and the latest encryption and security protocols. These will assure you that your data is safe and protected.

4. Ready for Any Calamity

In a crisis or disaster, a UCaaS service provider can quickly adapt to your altered circumstances without making you spend more. Most companies possess a Disaster Recovery Plan to guarantee that data and records vital to the company’s operations are duplicated or secured in off-site storage repositories. UCaaS now gives the capacity to ensure that your communications system is integrated into a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Plan.

5. Better Mobility

UCaaS is a powerful enabler for the mobile worker, the BYOD explosion, and remote/home office worker. It authorizes the access of users to all business communications features from any registered user device, including a smartphone, laptop, desktop, and, of course, desk phone. Organizations can facilitate users’ smartphones to transparently bridge calls from the company’s Wi-Fi networks to cellular networks and back again. This keeps on-the-go and location-agnostic users connected.

Desktop client software can turn any networked PC into a virtual desktop phone and unified messaging terminal. Users can travel with their extensions, use video conferencing, and access advanced call forwarding and web browser dialing. IT companies often have difficulty with managing applications across multiple devices. With UCaaS, users download the device application from the app store, and IT can effortlessly handle their access. Another user benefit is that the experience is identical across all devices.

6. Improved Collaboration

Real collaboration means anywhere, anytime access on any device. UCaaS gives your workers access to applications that will allow them to immediately chat, set up on-the-fly conferences or meetings (both video and voice), share and exchange documents, and engage with customers in real-time. This will not only improve the capability of your workforce to be flexible but will also boost customer satisfaction.

7. Advanced Customization

UCaaS converges enterprise-grade voice qualities with refined Unified Communications and Collaboration applications and hosts them in the cloud. UCaaS also gives the flexibility to select the deployment model and applications to fit your specific requirements. It also offers you the option to grow or recede as your business requirements change.

NEC can give you the key to experiencing all of these benefits today. We’re eager to point you to cloud-based solutions that are perfectly tailored to your current business needs and future goals.

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NEC Univerge ST500 Mobile Client

MEC Digital — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:08:59 +0000

Smart mobile extension for your smartphone

NEC’s UNIVERGE ST500 Mobile Client brings greater dexterity and heightened control to call management by making an Android or Apple® smartphone an employee’s point of contact. Able to transition between the company network and Wi-Fi as needed, the UNIVERGE ST500 promotes workforce confidence that important calls won’t be missed when out of the office or away from an assigned workstation.

A mobile device and video client for your smartphone

NEC’s UNIVERGE ST500 was developed for Apple iPhone, iPad, and Android smart devices. It lets you leverage native contact lists to make and receive voice and video calls. Simply connect to Wi-Fi or use your mobile data (3G/4G) to handle your calls. The ST500 simplifies your operation by one number, merging your call history and work voice mail.

Video Call

Voice Call

Contacts

History

Application Features:

Integrated into your smartphone contacts
Complete call history (group by contact)
Hands-free mode
Bluetooth headset support
Video Calling
Localized dial plan

Call Features:

Make / Answer calls / Call waiting
Hold / Transfer / Conference
Call park
Call pickup
Call forward (All, Busy, No Answer)
Call hunt groups

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NEC Mobility Unmanned Check-In Solution

MEC Digital — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 18:10:15 +0000

Smart Hospitality for the New Normal

Make Your Hotel A Place Where Guests’ Safety is Your Priority

NEC Mobility Unmanned Check-In Solution realizes hotel guests’ self-check-in and check-out process with face recognition technology. A light touch and highly personalized solution for the new normal.

Using the highest accuracy and real-time precision face recognition technology, the check-in, and check-out kiosk terminal allows guests to quickly complete the registration process and get into their designated rooms without fuss. Hotel staffs are also protected as interaction is reduced and manpower resources can be redeployed to serve other guests’ needs.

The Benefits

● Ease of Use for Guests

◦ Speedy check-in process enables short time spent in the lobby area.

◦ Convenient F&B reservation and integrated facility & phone bills.

◦ Payment can be made at the kiosk before checking out.

● Highly Accurate Biometric Technology is used for the check-in and check-out kiosk process.

● The contactless feature takes care of guests’ safety concerns such as reducing queues and exposure to health risks and making the registration process fuss-free.

● 24/7 Reception. Hotel staff reachable and contactable immediately to help or meet requests.

● Improved Customer Experience. Personalized & Targeted advertisement.

● Seamless Interface with Major PMS including Opera and Infor.

This smart hospitality solution can be scaled to further enhance the guest experience. Using the same face ID captured during registration*, hotel staff can do breakfast entitlement matching when guests walk into restaurants, give access to hotel facilities like gym or pool, and instantly recognize VIPs at hotel lounge or executive club; guest can even use face ID to make payment at shops or restaurants in the hotel

* Subject to guests’ approval for use of face ID outside of the registration process; and only for use in the hotel premises during guests’ stay.

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NEC Recognized As No.1 Worldwide Leader In The SMB Call Control Market

MEC Digital — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 03:15:55 +0000

NEC, a global leader in Communications & IT solutions, for six years in a row, is recognized as the global #1 for SMB (Small and Medium Business) Communications Systems. This success underscores the strength of NEC’s portfolio, the company’s commitment to expanding its global enterprise communications footprint, and the ability to serve customers to the fullest satisfaction.

NEC has a long history and legacy in communications for over 120+ years and remains committed to the Unified Communications market for SMB and Enterprise with, at the core, its UNIVERGE communications portfolio SL, SV, 3C premise-based solutions and its new generation UNIVERGE BLUE UCaaS cloud-based solution offering.

Pillars of Success

MZA’s (www.mzaconsultants.com) reporting on the global Call Control market shows that NEC has led all manufacturers in global shipments in the SMB segment for the last 6 years^*. With a present market share of 17%, NEC is well ahead of all other companies in that segment.

Expertise and innovative strength combined with the company’s dedication, reliability, and financial viability are fundamental pillars to NEC’s success with business partners as well as end customers.

Value For Money

NEC offers a broad range of enterprise communications solutions – ranging from small to very large systems – that effectively support Enterprise and SMB customers whose requirements span from traditional to full IP and 100% software-based solutions, and from premises-based to cloud deployments.

Directed at smaller and mid-sized businesses, NEC’s renowned UNIVERGE SV9100 and SL2100 communications servers, together with their powerful range of terminals and business applications including e.g. IP DECT, are intelligent cost-effective communications solutions that pack affordability, efficiency, and enterprise-grade functionality into one. Localization, local language support, and ease of installation are additional benefits that prove crucial for customers and resellers to benefit from the rich functionality of NEC’s solutions.

About NEC

NEC Corporation has established itself as a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies while promoting the brand statement of “Orchestrating a brighter world.” NEC enables businesses and communities to adapt to rapid changes taking place in both society and the market as it provides for the social values of safety, security, fairness, and efficiency to promote a more sustainable world where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential.

Learn more about our current NEC offerings, connect with us.

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NEC: Placing Dynamic Communications At The Center Of Business

MEC Digital — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 05:32:08 +0000

Inaccessibility and non-responsiveness aren’t any longer acceptable in today’s business setting. It isn’t prudent in winning or retaining client loyalty; it doesn’t foster internal teamwork; nor does it aid in building a sustainable brand reputation. Plus, from a technology perspective, there isn’t an excuse for extended lags in responsiveness, productivity or collaboration.

Unified Communications (UC) with its integrated approach to advanced voice, mobility, messaging, video, and audio collaboration, and communications apps allows organizations of all sizes to effectively manage the how, when and where of their connectivity. However to make such an accessible and dynamic work setting, having the proper foundation is crucial. A communications platform that’s capable of reliably and quickly facilitating and right-sizing however, when and where regarding its accessibility across and on the far side the enterprise.

NEC has been recognized by industry experts as having one of the very best levels of client satisfaction among UC vendors and providing client solutions with one of the lowest total costs of ownership within the market. So what performance factors verify the company’s extremely reliable and virtualized UC environments?

Operational & Service scalability

Interoperability and accessibility are central to agile enterprise operations from an operational and client service standpoint. Communications systems need to be dependable, sizable and adaptable. but they also should stay manageable.

Collaborative & User Accessibility

Openness and transparency and the capability to react quickly define what it means to be highly-connected manpower. Through improved access to essential apps and by knowing when and how to best reach somebody, tasks get completed faster and more easily. once complete suits of user-centric UC and collaborative apps are consolidated into one extremely available client, cooperation becomes efficient.

Brand sustainability

Brand memorability depends on the experiences provided. Each and every interaction – whether interpersonal or electronic – has the potential of enhancing or detracting from an organization’s reputation. As a hub for so several apps, communications systems are often instrumental in understanding that applications and devices are promoting or impeding brand loyalty and worker productivity. Intuitive, feature-rich call accounting systems will give complete visibility into UC usage and the means to effectively assess performance.

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NEC’s New Vision for the Smart Enterprise

MEC Networks Corporation — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:39:03 +0000

As the enterprise surroundings change, it’s up to technology partners to produce tools and keep pliable to assist support those businesses. NEC features a wide breadth of core UC and IT products and everyone stands on its own to assist solve common technology dilemmas. Our NEC good Enterprise encapsulates those multiple solutions into one powerful enterprise approach to satisfy the stress and sophisticated desires of today’s finish users and IT executives.

With Paul Kievit expanding his role to SVP of Enterprise and a new Frost & Sullivan report, we’re building out a new vision for NEC’s Smart Enterprise. In a trial to reply to market forces and remodel Enterprise operations across each land and EMEA, NEC is happy to announce that Mr. Paul Kievit, Head of EMEA Enterprise Solutions, can assume the extra role of Senior vice chairman of Enterprise for inflammatory disease Corporation of America.

Under Paul’s leadership and fervor, his team helped develop the inflammatory disease good Enterprise go-to-market message and approach, that has been adopted by inflammatory disease businesses globally. Paul’s vision for inflammatory disease good Enterprise is to still develop and sell solutions around the client experience:

Addressing unmet customer needs
Implementing best practices
Creating excellence in the customer purchase experience
Building brand equity and adopting NEC solutions to customer demands

NEC Smart Enterprise Explained

Built on four key objectives, NEC Smart Enterprise helps executives face the complex needs of enterprise users head-on:

Architecture flexibility
Software-defined anything
Business continuity
Internet of things

These elements allow businesses to improve how their employees communicate and collaborate, as well as improve the security of the information that is shared throughout the organization.

Moving to the Cloud

As IT executives adopt cloud-based IT and communications services, they hope to solve the challenges of data storage and scalability, maintenance requirements, and multi-vendor platform integration. Decision-makers, concerned with quality control, security risks, reliability, and installation challenges, need to work with a provider and cloud model that addresses their unique needs. Hybrid cloud architecture can combine the best of a public and private cloud, allowing the organization to control where they need it and outsourcing other components. Customizing the cloud environment strategically adds architecture flexibility and prepares for future business needs while improving business continuity and compliance.

Meeting the Workforce Where They Are

Business agility helps a mobile workforce respond to customer and business challenges on the go. The legacy focus on hardware has given way to a more flexible architecture of software services. Users and applications expect to work together in an ecosystem that should be available everywhere at any time. Virtualizing networks, through software-defined-anything, relieves the burden of time, real estate, and manned resources and therefore decreases the cost to the enterprise. The benefits of software-defined environments are simplified management, security, ability to scale, and less staff requirements with business continuity built-in.

Preparing for the Worst

While IT departments can “pray for the best” during their primary activities of rolling out new technology or resolving end-user quandaries, business continuity is not just an option anymore. Traditional business continuity solutions involved red tape and budgetary challenges to pay for the expensive hardware requirements. We have finally reached an era of business continuity/ high availability (BCHA) affordability through nearly always-up service level agreements, and users are demanding nothing less. Today’s enterprise technology partners must provide reliable data access through a variety of elements such as virtualization, load-balancing server software, fault-tolerant servers, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), scalability, security, and threat management.

Improving Security

The internet of things (IoT), while adding a layer of security through connected devices and biometrics, can also build business value through the analysis of the captured data. Law enforcement, higher education, and enterprise organizations leverage video monitoring and multi-factor authentication to prevent theft, monitor crowds and create more secure areas and access control. Retail, hospitality, and healthcare also rely on video and biometric recognition to increase customer loyalty, improve record accuracy and reduce operational costs. Executives want to invest in IoT technology and need a partner who can maximize the benefits while easily accessing the data through reliable servers with nearly unlimited storage capacity.

The NEC Approach

The Frost & Sullivan vision of a technology partnership that solves enterprise challenges is reflected in NEC’s capabilities and product solutions. Our fault-tolerant servers, the full line of general-purpose storage products–including our high-end HYDRAStor product which scales to almost unlimited data, work together with NEC’s SDN and UC solutions to build a quality Smart Enterprise solution for the enterprise marketplace. By condensing the amount of data center space required to run critical applications, and including biometrics into the mix, the new vision for NEC Smart Enterprise reduces costs for organizations and continues to add value, even to existing infrastructure.

NEC offers hybrid cloud solutions customized to best fit the need of the enterprise, even those with regulatory and compliance challenges.
An industry leader in the SDN space, NEC’s open architecture enables a flexible and simpler approach to network design and provides business agility to the workforce.
Disruptions to business, planned or unplanned, can be damaging to any size business in today’s climate. NEC’s secure fault-tolerant servers–as well as Active-Active communications with multiple software instances balancing the load in real-time for high availability, provide true business continuity, even in hybrid environments.
NEC’s facial recognition, biometrics, and behavioral analytics solutions create the ability to gain business intelligence and maximize IoT solutions, creating a forward-thinking smart enterprise.

With new focused guidance and leadership, our NEC solutions for Smart Enterprise and passion for improving the customer experience helps to meet and exceed the needs of technology leaders, preparing them for the future.

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NEC: Why We Need High Availability Unified Communications

MEC Networks Corporation — Mon, 06 May 2019 07:00:44 +0000

Recently we’re hearing increasingly more about worker mobility patterns and consistently open unified communications frameworks, about high-accessibility servers, and the significance of remaining associated consistently. So for what reason is it such a major ordeal? All things considered, for a certain something, the world has developed into one enormous commercial center where everybody is by all accounts progressing, and having answers and data readily available, day in and day out, has turned into a flat-out need – or there will be consequences!

With the developing requirement for representatives to have the option to get to their work and team up with colleagues wherever they are, and whenever, unified communications applications are presently ordinary. Truth be told, UC has turned out to be such an essential business concern, that 56 percent of big business associations as of late studied by IDG Enterprise intend to update or put in new UC arrangements inside the following year, and 66 percent of little and medium measured organizations are likewise effectively anticipating up and coming UC enhancements.

What’s driving the expansion in UC ventures?

With the expanding mobility of workforces today and a developing number of telecommuters, it’s not astounding that the IDG Enterprise review additionally uncovers that 43 percent of the associations detailed their UC upgrades were driven by the requirement for an improved joint effort between their representatives. The capacity to determine issues rapidly, to share data, the quickness of innovative conceptualizing, and communitarian critical thinking; are a portion of the advantages of these amazing specialized devices.

So also, 33 percent of the organizations explicitly credited the up-and-coming redesigning of their UC to their requirement for expanded adaptability for on-location representatives and for versatile faculty. Empowering their representatives to work from anyplace, and whenever, and to access and know when a collaborator is accessible and have the option to rapidly interface, these capacities have a genuine incentive to organizations overall businesses.

One of the top helpers for improving their UC was clear in the 42 percent of associations who intend to introduce or redesign for reasons of expanding their general profitability—picking up the productivity that outcomes from streamlined activities and the quick data sharing among offices and staff.

What is high availability?

What does the high availability of your unified communications have to do with the achievement or disappointment of an association? For what reason is it so basic? All things considered, how about we take a gander at what this term really implies.

*Gary Audin states that in its realm, the term High Availability alludes to “a framework or segment that is persistently operational for a long time span.” To rehash, that implies always working, with no breaks or vacation, giving unified communications that are “constantly operational.”

Normally the capacity of a representative to adequately carry out their responsibility expects them to get to the framework to submit or adjust their work. On the off chance that the client can’t get to the framework, at that point it is named “inaccessible.” This sort of personal time weakens efficiency, and causes work process wastefulness and lost income. It has turned out to be basic for the UC arrangement of any estimated association to be quickly available, without any aggravations or interferences, for ideal business progression.

What are a few dangers of being without a high availability UC arrangement?

Your unified communications is mission basic, and openness is the very soul of a fruitful association, anyway, these speculations can endure blackouts if not on a high availability framework. Without solid excess and backup, you chance your kin and your clients being cut off from data, specialists from the work process, and everybody from collaboration with one another. The loss of UC, for even a couple of hours, can mean a considerable misfortune to an undertaking.

What sort of misfortunes would we say we are discussing here? At the point when your foundation falls flat for any period of time, alongside lost profitability that clearly impacts income, organizations endure the sharp abatements in consumer loyalty levels, the number of business connections and clients lost, a harmed notoriety, and the high expenses of recouping that notoriety.

In fact, the Ponemon Institute reported some interesting 2016 average costs associated with system outages:

Business Disruption – $256,000
Lost Revenue – $209,000
End-User Productivity – $138,000
IT Productivity – $62,000

In Conclusion

So what is the major ordeal about High Availability UC? It ends up apparent that the danger of bringing about a portion of the misfortunes that go with broken communications and business disturbance can turn into a major ordeal. For Smart Enterprises, UC has turned into a noteworthy concentration for their key spending arranging since it is a major piece of the accomplishment of their association, and a basic factor for future development.

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NEC Philippines and MEC Networks Corp. Partner Launch

MEC Networks Corporation — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 03:07:26 +0000

MEC Networks Corporation and NEC Philippines officially launched their partnership last February 21, 2017 at the Makati Diamond Residences. Through the partnership, MEC is now an official distributor of NEC’s wide range of unified communication solutions such as voice communication platforms and applications in the Philippines.

NEC delivers smart business communications to small, medium and large sized organizations. With easy-to-manage innovative solutions that include core software, phones, wireless handsets and robust applications such as contact center solutions and a suite of mobile capabilities, NEC’s communications solutions adhere to industry standards, offer the highest reliability and unprecedented freedom and flexibility to empower today’s workforce for greater IT-enabled connectivity and mobility.

About NEC Philippines, Inc.

NEC Philippines was incorporated in January 11, 1996, though prior to this, NEC was already present in the Philippines through its Manila Representative Office since the 1960s. NEC Philippines is primarily a sales, marketing & services company engaged in the supply of telecommunications equipment, computer systems, network, IP and Data Networks, ICT Integration, IT solutions and services, among others. NEC Philippines also recently launched NECare Center, its 24×7 support center that not only provides after sales and warranty support, but also offers other services like IT integration, project management and other IT- and networking-related services.

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