Technology

Cost Reduction Options

SchoolMessenger CommSuite is a hosted solution that provides massive calling capacity for super-rapid, extremely secure and highly reliable delivery of notification calls. Some less time-sensitive routine calls, however, don't really need the full capacity of our Network.

That's why SchoolMessenger offers some unique product configurations that can lower the cost of ownership. For example, SchoolMessenger SmartCall is an add-on to SchoolMessenger's hosted CommSuite service that lets you send non-emergency notifications affordably over your own idle phone lines, while all time-sensitive notifications still quickly route over the massive capacity of the SchoolMessenger CommSuite hosted network. SmartCall is an evolution in cloud-based notification products, and the first to help you easily control notification costs by using the idle capacity in your existing phone system for non-emergency calls. The experience is transparent to users and recipients.

School districts currently using SmartCall with SchoolMessenger CommSuite are saving an average of 50% off subscription notification fees by affordably routing non-emergency calls over their own phone lines.

And if your telecom infrastructure includes Cisco Unified Communications, you can take advantage of SchoolMessenger for Cisco Unified Communications, the only parent notification system to be certified by Cisco, and the only one with a plug-and-play interface with Cisco Unified CallManager.

Since all configurations share a common user interface and migration between applications is seamless, this approach means that school districts can achieve the best service utilization at any budget level. In most situations, leveraging existing infrastructure can lead to substantial savings.