An international intellectual property law firm, Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP, announced that they have implemented the award-winning C4 IP hosted VoIP and unified communications solution from Cypress Communications. Its unified messaging capabilities and the inherent cost savings of a hosted delivery model is what determined Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel to choose C4 IP.

Till the beginning of 2008, Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel operated as a part of a larger law firm in Philadelphia but became a separate entity that focused exclusively on intellectual property law after that. IT manager at Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel, Timothy Back, stated: “We considered buying and maintaining the phone system we had been using at the larger firm, but the total cost of ownership was way too high. Just the annual maintenance was cost prohibitive at $48,000 a year.” He added: “Plus we needed unified messaging, and our premises-based system just couldn’t deliver this functionality.”

Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel, with the decision to ditch their former phone system solidified, faced a major time crunch; they needed a provider who could deliver all of their feature requirements — and deliver them fast.

Cypress Communications provided Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel with an enterprise-class hosted VoIP and unified communications solution that features soft phones, desktop phones, integrated voice and data access, unified messaging and cutting-edge multimedia applications such as Microsoft® Outlook integration, chat, real-time presence, collaboration, as well as audio, video and Web conferencing, called C4 IP. There’s no ongoing maintenance fees, no capital investment, and no need to hire and train additional IT staff to manage the infrastructure, since C4 IP is a fully hosted VoIP solution, saving firms substantial costs in time, money and personnel resources.