Demand This on Your Contract | Deploying Microsoft Teams for a Large Company

Your company is in the market for a new phone system and you’re looking into Microsoft Teams Phone. If you’re a large company you need to demand this one thing on your contract.

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Mike Smith has been helping companies select the best telecom, WAN, security, and cloud services since 1999. He founded AeroCom in 2003, and has been the recipient of numerous business telecommunications industry awards, including being recognized as one of the top 40 business people in tech-heavy Orange County, CA. Follow Mike on YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit and SpiceWorks.

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You work for a large organization that’s in the market for a new phone system and Microsoft teams phone is an option that you’re considering. Well, being an I.T, you’re probably not if you’re watching this video and the thing you’re thinking about probably is how are we going to implement that? That seems like a gigantic project. And what, you know, what should we be thinking about in terms of implementing Microsoft teams phone system across the entire organization?

Well, it’s a good thing to think about because there’s no way you can do it all at once, right? You can’t take every single user across a national or global organization with thousands of users and, you know, have them install Microsoft teams phone on the same day. You know, they’re just even if there weren’t any contractual issues or different phone systems at different sites, just, you know, the manpower to do that install phones and answer all the questions and train people all at once is impossible.

But on top of that, obviously with a lot of sites, you probably have different phone systems in different regions or every different site. And with that you have different telecom providers at different sites. Some are in contracts, some aren’t, some are already on cloud phone systems, some aren’t. Some are ready to transfer today. Some need another year. Sometimes some sites might not be able to transfer for two years from now. Some sites are ready right now. Right. Well, I’ve got something that you need to make sure that what you do that will help you with all of this. And I’m going to talk about it in this video.

My recommendation

But first, if you like, my recommendation on the best vendors to quote for teams phone system, you should be looking into things like operator connect or direct routing as a service as you can watch my other videos on that. But if you’re looking at that stuff, reach out and contact me. Send me an email or give me a call (714.593.0011). I’m a broker for all the major vendors out there. I will help you make a better decision in a fraction of the time. More information on that at the end of the video. Also, don’t forget to go to our web Aerocominc.com. You can search cloud PBX vendors by feature like teams phone system integration.

You can also watch videos on the providers, read about them, look at customer reviews, all that good stuff. And don’t forget to like the video, hit the subscribe button, ring the bell. And more than anything else, leave me a comment. Tell me what you liked about the video. Tell me about what questions you have, what things you’d like to see in the future. I try to reply to every single comment, so let me comment. I’d love to hear from you.

What is a Coterminous Agreement

All right. Like I said in the beginning, your company has a lot of locations, a lot of people. You work for a large organization and you’re looking to transition to Microsoft teams phone system. But you’re wondering, hey, how do we do this all at once?

Well, I’ve got another video that you want to check out, too, on implementation for large organizations, some of the things that you need to do. But one of the things I didn’t cover in that video that I want to cover here that you need to make sure you get a coterminous agreement. So what that means is that no matter when you implement all of your different sites, you have the same contract expiration date. So if you implement some of your sites right away, like within the next month and you implement, you don’t install other sites for like two years, you add them to your   service two years from now, because maybe they’re stuck in a contract right now, or maybe it takes you two years to get to that project because these are your global sites and it just takes a while to implement this whole thing.

Make your contract agreement expire on the same day

You have thousands of users that that site that you install two years from now is going to be on the same contract with the same expiration date that you have for your services that you installed a month from now. It’s called a coterminous agreement. And if you have a lot of employees and a lot of users, it’s something you can negotiate into your contract.

Now, that’s not something you can negotiate. If you have ten users, a provider is never going to agree to that. But if you have thousands of users, the service providers want your business bad enough so that they’re going to agree to a coterminous agreement. And it only makes sense, right? Because otherwise it’s impossible to get out of the agreement down the road. If you have a lot of different contract expiration dates, it becomes, you know, the problem you have today of all these different expiration dates and all these different contracts all over the globe, you don’t want that moving forward. Let’s fix that once and for all with one provider with a coterminous agreement. So it’s definitely something that you want to ask for and it’s something that you can get if you have thousands of employees.

Still confused? Reach out and contact me

All right. I hope that was helpful. Don’t forget, if you’d like my recommendation on the best service providers to quote from Microsoft teams phone system which operator connect vendors you should be quoting which direct routing service providers you should be quoting. There are definitely good ones and bad ones, especially there’s good ones with great reputations. There’s ones with bad reputations for service quality.

There’s ones who have better feature functionality fit for your organization. There’s definitely difference between them and you need to know and there’s like 100 different ones out there. You need somebody like me to help you reach out. Send me an email or give me a call (714.593.0011). I love to help you. It’s the reason why I do these videos. And if you got something from the video, it’s a nice way to say thank you to me is ask me for a quote.

I’ve been a broker in this industry for over 20 years. I know all the players inside and out. And based on your companies requirements, I can tell you which handful of service providers you should be quoting and why I can match up with the best salespeople at those organizations, and I can oversee the whole coding process to make sure that it goes smoothly, it goes quickly, and you get the best pricing from your vendor of choice. And the nice thing is, on top of all that, you your company doesn’t have to pay me anything. The service providers actually pay me my broker fee. So there’s absolutely no excuse not to at least see what I might have to say. All right. So do that for sure. Give me give me a call. Send me an email.

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Let me know what questions you have. Let me know what other videos you’d like to see. I’d really love to hear from you. Thanks for watching and I’ll catch you on the next one.