Addressing the unique needs of the finance industry
The financial world has dramatically changed in recent years and is at present without question one of the most challenged industry sectors. Increasing the productivity of staff and ensuring the security and availability of services is vital if financial institutions are to improve their efficiency, enhance their business effectiveness and provide timely and consistent customer service.
Communication Challenges for Schools
Solutions for Schools
Schools of any size face a variety of challenges on a daily basis. From the 'telephone rush hour', risk of toll fraud attacks, mobility and security of staff to name a few. Getting the right communication solution in place can be critical to your operations.
Comtel systems are trusted by hundreds of schools globally empowering teaching staff, pupils and parents.
Information on demand
Cloud computing, big data and mobile apps are empowering administrators and educators, while distance learning has extended the reach of student access to quality education. Information needs to be highly available, as well as secured and managed consistently for privacy and liability concerns. Messaging applications improve community involvement and combined with emergency notification systems put students, staff and school safety first.
Solutions for education
Comtel offers a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade solutions tailored to the unique needs of higher education. From public and private universities to community colleges and trade schools, institutions of all kinds can rely on Comtel’s communications and IT solutions to support campus needs and keep them at the forefront of knowledge delivery.
Shifting Circumstances
For firms in the finance sector it can no longer be business as usual.
Customers increasingly expect organizations to fit into how they live and want to conduct business.
Millennials lack loyalty to traditional institutions making them a challenge to attract and retain. Then there is the rise of web-based competitors who promise convenience and economy due to their online business model.
To be and remain competitive, finance sector organizations must retool and embrace:


Unproven Business Models
Support new and untested revenue and service opportunities while quickly resolving and amending potential legacy system limitations.

Real-Time Visibility
Assimilate into a shifting environment shaped by ready accessible, connected devices, real-time apps and online competition.

Cybersecurity
Defend against detrimental situations to ensure business continuity by quickly identifying potential service and reputational disruptions.
Adaptive Collaboration
With our collaborative solutions highly-connected organizations are created where internal talent and resources can respond quickly to customer inquiries and internal queries. Our messaging and collaboration solutions result in a smarter more responsive environment by helping to:
Optimize performance
Synchronized services are realized with end-to-end workflows capable of linking services and information between dispersed organizational and geographic locations. Our trusted cloud-based solutions deliver advanced, self-service automation with billing certainty and advanced integration.
Redefine accessibility
Robust voice features and sophisticated unified communications and collaboration applications enable workers to self manage how, when and where to be reached while flexible call routing dispatches callers promptly and accurately.
Distribute insight
Data gathered from centralized and disparaged systems become time-sensitive alerts for better insight into customer needs and services being provided.


Infrastructure Management
Through our data management solutions information becomes protected yet accessible. Our data technologies provide the reliability needed to support information-intensive workloads by helping to:
Manage information
Large volumes of data become securely stored and backed up using our scalable, resilient and highly efficient grid and SAN storage or cloud-based infrastructure as a service solutions.
Simplify control
Automation and simplification of network administration becomes possible and easier to monitor and manage with our software-defined networking controllers and switches.
Assure continuity
Critical information becomes highly available when supported by our modular five 9's redundancy server hardware components.
Security Measures
Creating an environment that is safe for personnel while also guarding against the potential loss of valued assets is achievable with our advanced recognition systems and our infrastructure solutions. Our technologies enable the protective practices needed by helping to:
Monitor individuals
By tracking on-site activity our technologies enable individuals to be monitored as they enter and move about corporate facilities and publically accessible locations.
Protect staff
Should employees find themselves at risk our notification solutions identify their precise location enabling immediate and appropriate action to be taken.
Safeguard assets
Loss prevention of critical assets becomes possible through our solutions capable of storing mission-critical data and monitoring and managing mission-critical infrastructure.

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