CLEAR ARGUMENTS
The most important
question for you should be: what do I need a server-based fax solution
for? First of all, you need it to save time. You probably don't want to
have to go to your fax machine for each fax. It's also important that you
can be reached 24 hours a day without having to continuously run several
PCs with modems. Of course, the software must be easy to use and it should
help you to control your fax costs.áá
Delayed transmissioná
A real fax solution
should allow for delayed fax transmission. With FaxWare you can define
the time of transmission in several ways. Of course, you can send each
message immediately, no matter how expensive this will be! However, the
user can also make FaxWare determine the cheapest time of transmission.
This might be some hours later when the cheap night tariff is in force.
Another alternative is to determine a specific time for the fax transmission.
In the above-mentioned cases, FaxWare will carry out the fax job at the
time defined, giving users complete peace of mind.áá
Redials and
status reportsá
You'll probably
be familiar with this situation. You try to send a fax and receive an error
message such as ╗No response from distant station½ or ╗Communication Error½.
With FaxWare you can forget about time consuming redials. Simply create
your fax and leave the rest to FaxWare. When the specified number of dial
attempts has been completed or the job has been sent successfully you can
be notified by a broadcast message to your PC or have a copy of the fax
with delivery status details automatically printed out.áá
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Creating fax
mergesá
Compare the
costs of a fax merge to the costs of a postal mail-shot. The differences
are huge! It would make more sense to use an intelligent fax solution to
generate a fax merge and to send it automatically at a charge-optimized
point in time. With FaxWare you can do just that, quickly and easily. Create
your fax jobs as a broadcast or in an individual form (fax merge). Adding
extra lines to FaxWare is easy, allowing you to rapidly send thousands
of faxes.áá
Cheap fax
transmissioná
A good fax solution
should not just save you time but also money. To date, fax has become the
most important medium for quick transmission of information. Of course,
large telephone costs will occur if faxes are sent during the day at peak
charging rates. Generally, all countries have certain times when faxing
and calling is particularly cheap. ╗It is not important how much it costs,
but how much you can save with it!½ This should be your motto!áá
Check how much
money you can save if you make your fax transmissions a little more ╗intelligent½.
Think about how much money is lost when faxes are sent five minutes before
a cheaper tariff comes into force. In many countries there are especially
cheap night tariffs. Therefore, you'll save money if you send faxes at
night. When sending few faxes then of course the savings will be small.
If you send hundreds, you will save an enormous sum.áá
Now you may think
that there is consequently only one way to save costs, namely to ╗educate½
your employees. However, this really isn't necessary. Believe us! Your
employees should continue working as normal and not have to worry about
costs. FaxWare will take care of this for them. FaxWare is an intelligent
solution. By using its charges database it can work out what the likely
cost of a fax will be and can then ╗plan½ the fax transmission accordingly.áá
The FaxWare
5 charges tableá
FaxWare has
a charges table which you can extend and adapt to your local telecom environment.
This table contains all areas with their area codes and the corresponding
tariffs. For each entry different time units can be entered. Of course,
the difference between weekdays and weekends is taken into account. Holidays
with special reductions can also be entered.áá
When a FaxWare
user creates a fax job, FaxWare will determine the probable transmission
costs by means of the fax number. If necessary, it will suggest a cheaper
point in time. For example, this may be one day later if a weekend follows
and if the fax is to be sent at the cheapest point in time. The fax job
will then be transmitted automatically at the selected time. Afterwards,
the real transmission costs which have occurred will be displayed in the
user's send log. Let FaxWare handle your fax costs. By the way, you can
also analyze the results. A utility included as standard allows you to
generate reports from the send log according to the user, period of time,
line, error status, etc. ...áá
Least Cost
Routing with Tobit MailGateá
If you combine
FaxWare with Tobit's MailGate, Least Cost Routing (LCR) of faxes is possible.
Least Cost Routing is very interesting for companies with several offices.
Tobit MailGate is an E-mail to fax (fax to E-mail) gateway for FaxWare.
An E-mail with an attached fax image is sent to Tobit MailGate, which then
determines which office can transmit the fax at the least cost. Then, it
passes the fax image to the FaxWare server at the corresponding office
for delivery. This way, for example, you can send faxes at local call rates
reducing your transmission costs substantially.á |