Please introduce ULTATEL to our audience. What’s your story and how have you evolved so far?
I’m pleased to introduce ULTATEL:
ULTATEL enables people to work together and get the information they need to do their best work, anywhere they are. ULTATEL’s cloud platform brings together phone, video, messaging, SMS and business apps, allowing people to connect, meet, and exchange information on any device. ULTATEL uses its technology and experience to help businesses address the challenges that matter to them, with an enterprise-grade platform that delivers exceptional service to an entrepreneur and scales to the largest multi-national organizations.
Our evolution has been guided by 3 principles:
The User Experience
Inequality between in-office and remote workers. ULTATEL creates a level playing field with one app across all devices that creates a uniform work experience and uniform access to needed capabilities.
Ease-of-use. The ability to fully utilize the capabilities of the system without difficulty. 89% of remote workers wasted more than 30 minutes per day dealing with software and connection issues.
Simplifying and/or eliminating IT Admin requirements
Application sprawl creates a disjointed work experience, lost time, lower productivity, Application sprawl – or software sprawl – refers to a ballooning number of applications deployed in a company. These applications may overlap or be duplicative, eating up limited IT resources and leads to inefficient operations and higher costs. ULTATEL’s platform combines communications and collaboration capabilities into one unified system that is easier to use, and at a lower cost than having multiple systems.
Keeping data secure, ensuring endpoint security: Our data centers complete the SSAE 16 SOC1 and SOC 2 Type II audits with a nationally recognized accounting firm . ISO 27001 (known as ISO/IEC 27001:2013) is an international standard outlining best practices for an information security management system (ISMS). ULTATEL provides Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) encryption between all endpoints.
Rapidly deploying changes, scalability: All aspects of ULTATEL’s cloud platform can be changed, literally in seconds, from anywhere, on any device. Users can be added, deleted, call routing, any advanced calling or routing feature can be changed from the ULTATEL app.
Securing personal devices: The ULTATEL app ensures that company information is separated from personal information.
Financial – cost optimization and reduction
Controlling costs. All ULTATEL plans are flat rated with Unlimited Everything. Costs are stable, easily managed, and forecastable.
What services do you offer and who is your main target market?
ULTATEL offers cloud business communications and cloud contact center services. Our cloud platform is designed to offer easily customized services right out of the box. This means we can address the needs of businesses from an entrepreneur to a multi-national organization, regardless of the type of industry.
We offer 4 business communications packages and 3 contact center packages. These packages are designed with features to meet varying levels of business requirements — from simple one location businesses to more complex multi-location, multi-national enterprises.
All ULTATEL plans include:
Unlimited Everything (unlimited phone, video, meetings, SMS/texts, chat and messages)
Desktop and mobile apps
24/7 live support
Free white-glove onboarding.
ULTATEL offers 40+ features that provide business phone, team productivity, meetings, quality assurance, analytics and reporting, system administration, contact center, integrations, SMS survey and more.
Plan summaries for business communications:
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Ignite |
Professional |
Premium |
Ultimate |
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Unlimited EverythingSM: unlimited phone, video, messages. Local numbers Extensions Auto-attendant Video conferencing, up to 10 participants Ring Group Call Forwarding Visual voicemail Voicemail-to-email Calling features Music on hold Greetings Caller ID Unlimited inbound faxing Advanced call analytics & reporting HD video meetings & screen sharing HD audio conferencing Team presence Team messaging & file sharing Texting, SMS & MMS |
Everything in Ignite, plus: No limit on the number of users Unlimited Auto-attendants Unlimited ring groups Advanced call handling Microsoft Teams Video conferencing, up to 20 participants Desktop Phones Advanced reporting & Analytics Voicemail Transcription 24/7 support |
Everything in Professional, plus Video conferencing, up to 100 participants Call Queuing Voicemail Drop Call Recording Call Monitoring Call Whispering Quality Assurance Customized Reports |
Everything in Professional, plus Video conferencing, up to 100 participants Call Queuing Voicemail Drop Call Recording Call Monitoring Call Whispering Quality Assurance Customized Reports |
Plan summaries for Contact center:
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Contact |
Plus |
Ultimate |
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Fully-Managed Cloud PBX 24/7 Live Customer Support Unlimited Calling for US & Canada Keep Existing Number – Free porting Video Conferencing Video Conference Bridges Transcribed Voicemail to Email Voice, SMS & Fax on the same phone number Auto Attendants IVR Menus Unlimited Internet Faxing Call Presence Customized music on Hold HD Voice Works with Desktop, Softphone or Mobile App Graphical Call Flow Audio Conferencing Unlimited Ring Groups Call Forwarding, Caller ID, Call Waiting Call Parking Group Paging Intercom Greetings Call Blocking Call Notify Advanced Call Analytics and Reporting Web Management Portal Call Queuing Call Recording Call Monitoring Call Whispering Advanced Queuing Features Skills Based Routing Microsoft Teams SBC Toll Free Number* Toll Free Minutes* ($0.03 per minute over) Advanced IVR Features |
Everything in Contact, plus: Voicemail Notification New Voicemail Drop New Advanced Queue Analytics & Reporting Quality Assurance Module Customized Call Scoring Templates Quality Assurance Analytics SMS Messaging platform |
Everything in Plus, plus Salesforce Integration Microsoft Dynamics Integration Pipedrive Integration Zoho Integration Zendesk Integration Customized Reports LDAP Corporate Directory Multi-Project Conference Service Queue Callback |
What makes you stand out from the competition?
There are about 7 ways we set ourselves apart from our competitors:
First and foremost is our relentless dedication to maintaining an exceptional customer experience.
We measure customer experience and perceptions of our service through our own CRM system. We use our results to engineer, guide and measure day-in-day-out service levels to exceed what most in the industry deem acceptable. For example, we guarantee our uptime to five nines (99.999% uptime, the highest level guaranteed by anyone in our industry). Our average time to answer support calls is 20 seconds, and our first contact resolution rate has been averaging 95% and has been inching upwards throughout this year. Our onboarding is at the top of our industry with multi-level project management, no service interruptions, and its free for all of our clients. As a medium-sized company we have the agility to exceed the general service expectations set in our industry.
We focus on understanding how technology can improve workflow.
Consequently, ULTATEL has built pre-packaged capabilities that can be customized to allow business to create the work experience they want.
ULTATEL’s Cloud platform is device and location independent/agnostic — which means our platform delivers 100% functionality regardless of location or device, or variable functionality based upon our clients requirements. Communications systems have to conform to the user’s desired work experience and device profile. This dramatically increases productivity and eliminated the cost of device replacement.
Our cloud platform is designed to support the creation of a work experience our clients require, as opposed to creating a work experience around the platform’s requirements. In practical terms, this means our cloud platform supports endlessly customizable hybrid work environments.
Hybrid work (1) allows businesses to experiment and find the right balance between remote and in-office; and (2) reduces employee turnover and increases productivity by allowing each team member to choose how they want to work in and around the office and anywhere else. This means the communications system should work the same on any device and deliver the same functionality regardless of device and location.
Analytics to optimize and manage communications.
Analytics enable our clients to understand how their technology is impacting workflow.
Facilitation of omnichannel collaboration.
The new hybrid-virtual office essentially revolves around team collaboration, where workers can easily access and utilize messaging, text, voice, and video tools. These collaboration tools provide a convenient and familiar means for employees to connect with both individuals and the information they require.
Integration with critical business/CRM apps.
To provide people the information they need to do their best work, wherever they are. We are pioneer integrators, were one of the first providers worldwide to offer Microsoft Teams integration, and have out of the box top CRMs integrations
Can you give us an overview of how you have built your website and what tools are you using to promote it?
We’ve built our website on WordPress with Elementor Pro with custom code to achieve better speed and security. The website is promoted through Google Ads and Gartner Markets.
How do you envision the future of your industry?
We see the future unfolding as essentially an extension of our own evolution:
Continued focus on the end-to-end customer experience, for our clients and the customers of our clients. Adding additional automation, insight, and intelligent features to meet customer needs quicker and more effectively.
Continued focus on making life easier for IT administration.
Continued focus on integration and developing APIs deeper into our clients’ core business systems. This enables businesses to be more productive, optimize their cost structure and reduces workflow complexity.
Aggressive Verticalization. Our cloud platform was designed and built for customization. Leveraging this allows us to deploy high-impact applications for industries that have their own business standards, regulation, and specialized customer and supply-chain requirements.
Lastly, any exciting news or developments that you would like to share?
Yes, we are currently working on incorporating the power of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and NLP (Natural language processing) into our platform offering to utilize their powerful features in enabling businesses of all sizes better understand their conversation with their customers. Call and meeting summarization, action items and call sentiments will be some of the applications of these technologies that we are currently implementing.
