With a cloud delivery model, organisations no longer need to invest in substantial amounts of capital investments for expensive on-site equipment and hardware, and they have access to communication features like auto-attendant, call forwarding<\/a> or call screening. The cloud makes it easier for smaller organisations to access enterprise-level features through a pay as you go model that not only reduces costs but also give them the flexibility and scalability they need as they thrive and grow.<\/p>\n\t Learn about how RingCentral can provide your business with a single communications platform.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\tLearn more<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\n The great thing about cloud phone systems is that it makes your business seem bigger than it already is. This is not to say that you are misleading your customer base. Rather, you want to project the legitimacy and professional image that is usually associated with big organisations.<\/p>\n With a cloud solution like RingCentral Office<\/a>, you can give off that professional image by having a phone system that automatically answers all calls and routes them to the correct departments or extension, instead of having an actual person answering the phone and manually transferring it to other lines.<\/p>\n Having the right phone number can also help you project a bigger image. A toll-free number, for example, can help you establish a national presence, while an international number can help you build a presence in a different country.<\/p>\n And because it is cloud based, you do not even need to have actual physical offices around the globe. You can expand your reach virtually instead.<\/p>\n Another benefit of cloud communications is the ability for small businesses to support remote and mobile workers<\/a>. By virtue of being delivered via the internet, users can access their company\u2019s business phone system from virtually anywhere as long as they have an internet connection<\/a>.<\/p>\n This also opens up the possibility of hiring remote workers for small and medium-sized businesses. They are no longer limited to hiring within the city or locally. They can now hire people from all over the globe. This means access to more talents for the company.<\/p>\n Another advantage given by a cloud-based communications solution is its ability to adapt to the economic condition of the company.<\/p>\n If your company is growing, adding new users with new phone numbers and virtual extensions would only require a few taps.\u00a0And if the company is facing some struggles and would need to downsize, removing users, phone numbers, and virtual extensions is just as easy.<\/p>\n Another advantage of cloud-based technology is that it usually plays nice with other cloud-based apps<\/a>. RingCentral\u2019s cloud-based phone system<\/strong>, in fact, has its own\u00a0App Gallery<\/a>\u00a0featuring different integrations to different cloud apps. These integrations increase productivity by adding a communications component right into some of the most popular business apps.<\/p>\n Each integration can have different functions including:<\/p>\n Some of the RingCentral integrations include:<\/p>\n You can also add a communications component on your customised solution through\u00a0RingCentral APIs<\/a>\u00a0if you are not using any of the apps in the gallery.<\/p>\n These are some of the key benefits that cloud communications offer to small businesses and help them remain competitive in a fast-moving environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Find out how RingCentral can help your business<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t
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