If you are
intrigued by Cloud Telephony, you might be asking yourself a number of
questions. Those questions are likely to include: “What is meant by a Telephony
Platform as a Service (PaaS)?” “Is it for me?” “When and why would I use a Telephony
PaaS?” “What are the Telephony PaaS options?” Read on for some answers…
In
summary, a PaaS could be a server system or it could be a computer language
interpreter that enables bespoke applications to be written and deployed. The main benefit being that you can access ‘tools’
to help write and deploy an application, based on technology owned and managed
by someone else.
PaaS is
different from Software as a Service (SaaS) in that there is no pre-written,
configurable application.
In these days of twittering tweeps, social media,
e-mail and instant gratification, sorry, messaging, the use of fax as a
communication medium has greatly reduced. However, there are many businesses
out there that still rely on fax. It may be they have not embraced the new
technology, it may be that their customers have not made the move. It may be
that their business still relies on paper documents and to send a facsimile of
the document is the easiest way to share the information. It may be that fax is
a legal requirement. Whatever the reason, believe me, a lot of businesses, more
than you would credit, still have a fax requirement.
