Today, mobile communications is a strategic corporate tool for enabling competitive edge customer service and achieving lean and streamlined business processes. All employees have individual needs and behavior. Communications solutions must be intuitive, simple to use, and adaptable to the user's needs. Being mobile releases a great deal of user stress and reduces the sense of not being in control, since the user can be updated on the spot and access needed information. Usability and simplicity are key words.

The Aastra One Phone Concept embodies fixed-mobile convergence for both voice and data services, which enables fixed and mobile phones to seamlessly integrate into the corporate communications and IT system. For an enterprise, this provides an excellent means of stepping up customer service while fully capitalizing on the power of mobility for enhanced employee efficiency. Regardless of location, users can have full access to telephony services like conferencing, automatic call backs, call transfer, hunt groups, and attendant services, as well as data services such as mobile e-mail, contacts, and calendar updates. It is built around real and dynamic employee needs so that enterprises actually move up to new heights of achievement.

It is actually as simple as it sounds. With Aastra One Phone Concept, each employee will have one phone that can utilize all the functionality in your corporate communications system as an integrated part of the shared, consolidated IP communications infrastructure. It could be a mobile phone, a PC client, or a fixed phone. It can handle voice only, or a number of voice and data applications. Every phone is tailored to each employee's specific needs.

The Aastra One Phone Concept can be realized on any communications platform, Aastra or non-Aastra.Consequently, every enterprise can equip each employee with a personalized solution and at the same time improve results, both in terms of daily operations and on the balance sheet. The Aastra One Phone Concept leads the way toward the future of corporate communications.

Let us give you some examples on how the Aastra One Phone Concept can be implemented to fit individual needs:

Employee A is an on-campus employee, who rarely works in the field. He or she is equipped with a fixed or mobile phone, depending on his/her needs for in-house mobility.

Employee B spends more than a day a week outside the office. He or she uses a mobile phone complemented by a client phone for a lap-top, and is able to work from e.g. home, a hotel or airport lounges.

Employee C is part of the local management team and needs to be available regardless of time and location. He or she uses a smart phone with all telephony and additional mobility functions such as push e-mail and calendar updates.

The proven benefits of a full-fledged implementation of Aastra One Phone Concept are improved employee efficiency, enhanced customer satisfaction, strengthened competitiveness and, above all, significantly reduced total cost of ownership.