Our company is in preliminary stages of searching for a centralized voicemail solution to meet the needs of a large, multi-location enterprise. We are looking at the obvious Avaya and Cisco products, of course, but would like to know if there are any other alternatives these days.
Our company has two corporate offices and over 250 locations in north America. our distributed offices average about 250 voicemail accounts. We would like to leave the PBX's in the field and "bring in" the voicemail service to a central server at corporate, thereby eliminating the need for the voicemail servers in the field. Avaya's centralized solution is not a good fit for us as they still require both a centralized voicemail server and voicemail servers in the field. This is a disappointment to us because this increases our cost and complexity. The driving initiative behind this is to reduce cost.
My question is simple: Are there other players in the voicemail market that can meet the needs of a large enterprise we should consider? If so, who are they?
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