Early registration $15
or $20.00 at the door
This is a business Technology and
Applications presentation, not a sales
presentation. You will not be asked to buy
anything. This is an information sharing
presentation by a local communications
company that works with and integrates
all of the communications providers to set
up, install and service technology and
communications approaches that
specifically work for small businesses.
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Cascades Manor House
 1970 Kibby Road
8:00 am thru 11:00
TBA
Includes Breakfast
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Success Stories
A local heating & cooling company called PCS to order a replacement
battery for a cordless telephone. While there the customer was informed
of PCS's free technology review and took advantage of it. What was
discovered truly was amazing!
By redirecting their current spending, and without spending any more
money per month, the customer was able to get a new VoIP telephone
system, double their lines of access, bring in in-house call recording and
call reporting, new wireless telephones, double their internet speed, get
voicemail-to-email, automated routine processes, accommodate multiple
businesses, utilize automatic call forwarding, set yearly holiday schedules
for voicemail, utilize easy-to-use Windows based system programming,
obtain remote access, and much, much more.
This communications approach provides tools to manage field service
technicians with phone-in time reporting, real time schedule changing,
faster service, more billable time, as well as improved recording and
billing for parts used.
Heating & Cooling Company:
A local manufacturing company was presented with an ultimatum to
upgrade their current Groupwise email platform at a cost of $15,000 or
switch to the Microsoft Exchange Server email platform which was over
$25,000.00.
They contacted PCS to see if they had a solution and through Microsoft
Hosted Exchange, PCS was able to provide them the email solution they
truly wanted without spending $25,000 with no maintenance support by
their IT staff required, thus substantially reducing monthly support costs.
Manufacturing Company:
PCS sat down with a bail bonds company and discovered ways to save
them over $5,000.00 per month on their technology expenses based upon
new technology that had just emerged. Through virtual telephone
numbers, and Voice Over IP networking PCS was able to network 5
locations in 3 states with centralized voicemail for all locations, 4 digit
intercom dialing between sites, voicemail-to-email, enhanced call routing,
and more.
All locations use the same toll free number and incoming calls are auto
routed to the nearest bail bondsman providing fast response and
increased business with less cost and time involved.
Bail Bonds Company:
PCS established a relationship with a local Manufacturing company,
providing them with an IP Telephone Solution. Shortly after, they had a
fire in their building that caused thousands of dollars worth of damage and
they looked to PCS to provide them with a solution to oversee their
operation 24/7.
The business owner lives out of state and believes that if there would
have been a way for him to monitor the activity of the shop (after hours),
then the damage from the fire could have been much less. He could have
alerted fire personal from his VPN phone that is tied directly to the phone
system in Jackson, MI. By calling 911 the call would register as the street
address of his shop in Jackson, MI.
PCS was able to provide a video surveillance system with over 30 high
quality, high resolution cameras along with 2 high capacity DVR recording
units, each having 1 terabyte of storage. This system records activity and
provides the ability to view any camera from anywhere in the world.
Now the owner can not only overhead page his employees in the
Jackson, MI shop from his VPN phone, but also see what is going on in
over 30 areas of the shop.
Manufacturing Company:
Demystifying the Technology of Communications