Company Fax Server
Fax Servers praise all business units in one form or another. They convert documents from their native format into Black and White Tiff G3 or DCX format. Fax Servers can integrate into any application, Email system, ERP, CRM or operating system in the world. Fax Server technology has been around since the late 1980’s. Even though all fax servers are not created equal, there are fax servers available for every platform i.e. Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux. The most reliable fax servers primarily support intelligent fax cards such as Brooktrout, Eicon, Pika Technologies or Natural Microsystems.
Depending on your organizations needs, infrastructure and budget, there is a fax server solution out there for you. Every company needs a fax server for the following reasons:
1. Competitive necessity. The faster business documents transmitted by fax, either sent or received, reach the proper destination the higher probability of increased organizational efficiency.
2. Increase employee productivity. Fax Servers allow users to send/receive faxes from their computers without leaving their desks. These faxes can be sent either from thin, thick or internet based fax client (Microsoft Internet Explorer) or email application such as MS Outlook/Exchange, Lotus Notes, Novell Groupwise. The most common operating systems used are Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows 2000.
3. Minimize consumable costs such as paper, toner. The typical fax transaction first requires the document to be printed to a printer and delivered to a fax machine via sneaker net. Documents that are transmitted via fax server start electronically as word processing documents and end electronically as digital images at the recipients’ destination.
4. Documents transmitted via fax server are recognized as legal documents in a court of law. Once a document has been transmitted by fax, information about the fax transmission is recorded during the process, including date/time of transaction, duration and total # of pages.
5. Improve Customer Relationships and Find New Opportunities. Fax documents are always read or at least perused. Many fax savvy organizations use fax for newsletters, press releases, billing, product announcements and expedited contract delivery.
6. Email Alternative. Business conducted with these types of documents typically occurs via fax machine or fax server.