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Eliminate-your-fax-infrastructure-whitepaper
1.
White Paper Five Reasons
to Eliminate Your Internal Fax Infrastructure The operational efficiencies of moving enterprise fax services into the cloud
2.
Executive Summary Situation: IT
Infrastructure Upgrades Now Warrant Solution: Cloud-based Fax Services Provide Revisiting Enterprise Fax Services Complete Control at Lower Costs For most IT organizations, maintaining an enterprise-wide Thanks to economies of scale, cloud-based fax services fax server infrastructure represents a significant financial now provide the same level of quality and control commitment in software, hardware, and the administrative traditionally associated with an internally-managed global resources necessary to ensure undisrupted service on a fax infrastructure. Since cloud-based fax services (also 24 x 7 basis. For corporations with a global presence, the referred to as on-demand fax services) eliminate the additional requirement of maintaining regional telecom extensive costs associated with acquiring, implementing, providers adds another component of management deploying, and managing fax servers and regional complexity and expense to the fax service equation. telecom providers, enterprises can realize considerable cost savings using an outsourced cloud computing The expense and logistics of regularly scheduled upgrades model. to communications infrastructure has compelled many organizations to consider the alternative of outsourced A “pay as you go” transaction model commonly associated fax service providers. As with any outsourced service with cloud services allows the enterprise to pay for only model, enterprises face the challenge of delivering the fax services that are used. a consistent level of flexibility, control, and uptime equivalent to their own internal service model. Result: Reallocation of IT Resources, Flexibility, and Greater Cost Containment Problem: Maintaining Internal Fax Servers/IT Support Has Become Far Too Costly With a detailed reporting option, cloud fax services allow an IT organization to move from a cost-centered model Recessionary business cycles have forced many global to one where costs are allocated departmentally based enterprises to reconsider their return on investment of on specific fax usage. As a result, the IT organization their dedicated, internal fax infrastructure. Companies maximizes its use of existing financial and personnel that use fax as a critical business tool can easily spend resources in a way that better supports new revenue- hundreds of thousands of dollars of an annual IT budget generating initiatives around the globe. managing system functionality, capacity planning and uptime. At a time when expenditures are being slashed to the bone, every IT dollar must be focused on projects that drive new business opportunities for generating incremental revenue. As with similar outsourced IT initiatives such as network and data services, enterprise application provisioning, and help desk/support functions, many organizations are moving their internal fax capabilities to an external cloud computing delivery model in order to satisfy new budgetary and productivity requirements. © 2010 EasyLink Services International Corporation. All rights reserved. EasyLink is a registered trademark of EasyLink Services International Corporation. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
3.
Introduction: The Evolving
Enterprise Fax Environment The wide variety of proprietary technology platforms, functions, many enterprises are now considering an applications, and data standards introduced during the external cloud-computing model for fax. As evidence 1980s and 1990s required IT organizations to enforce of this growing trend, leading industry analyst Gartner strict internal controls over all information services in an predicts that enterprise cloud services will grow from effort to enable greater productivity, fewer conflicts, and approximately $46.4 billion in 2008 to over $150.1 billion less downtime. One of the information services that fell by 2013, a threefold increase in five years. Of this figure, under this policy was the controlled deployment of fax the market for Internet fax services is expected to double communications. from a total of $750 million in 2008 to almost $1.5 billion by 2013.2 For most enterprises, maintaining an internal fax infrastructure required an extensive financial As companies approach server upgrades, many are commitment, which typically included the implementation using this opportunity to shift from maintaining an internal and maintenance of internal fax servers, an array of fax infrastructure to one that incorporates a cloud-based support and help desk personnel, regional telecom computing model that provides global fax services at a contracting and provisioning, and redundant data significantly lower cost in a more scalable and secure systems on a 24 x 7 basis. For global enterprises, the environment. These savings allow enterprises to recoup necessity of maintaining separate telecom providers on a larger share of their IT budgets and reallocate those each continent or in each region added an additional funds in support of more business critical initiatives. layer of expense for the deployment and management of worldwide fax services. For enterprises facing this decision, this white paper will “The market for Internet Over time, the high costs associated with maintaining an provide a valuable comparison fax services is expected enterprise fax infrastructure has led many organizations of the many challenges to double from a total of to reconsider their investment. According to one associated with maintaining $750 million in 2008 to multi-national enterprise, maintaining an internal fax an internal infrastructure, as almost $1.5 billion infrastructure costs approximately 37 cents per fax page, well as describe the various by 2013.” based on its own internal cost analysis. With hundreds benefits associated with using of thousands of pages faxed by this organization, the cloud-based service providers Davidson Consulting cost for maintaining an internal fax infrastructure easily for fax and related services. July 2009 translated into millions of dollars per year.1 Using this information, both business and technology Today, the impact of a recessionary business cycle executives can validate the cost/benefits gains that can has forced many global enterprises to reconsider their be realized by enabling a cloud computing strategy for existing policies of maintaining internal control over fax the delivery of fax communications. services in favor of a less costly, outsourced model. Like similar moves to outsource other essential IT services, such as enterprise applications and help desk/support 1 Source: Internal EasyLink case study, 2009. 2 Source: Davidson Consulting, “Fax Service Markets, 2008–2013,” July 2009. 2 © 2010 EasyLink Services International Corporation. All rights reserved. EasyLink is a registered trademark of EasyLink Services International Corporation. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
4.
The Challenges of
Maintaining a Global Enterprise Fax Infrastructure During the past several decades, the IT decision to For the global enterprise with offices across several install centrally-based fax servers was considered a continents, the issue of maintaining a corporate-wide fax cost-effective alternative to the previous practice of infrastructure brings an additional set of costly resource- deploying fax machines for each business department, intensive challenges that include: which according to one study was estimated to cost in excess of $3 per page.3 Unfortunately, much of this 1. Managing a Global Infrastructure – Enterprises expense was attributed to the personnel and labor costs with a centrally-based IT organization have a greater associated with manually sending a fax document. number of challenges in managing IT infrastructures across different continents. Such tasks require managing While the deployment of centrally-based enterprise multiple IT resources across regions, each with its fax services lowered the average per-page cost for fax own hardware, software, telecom, and organizational delivery, this strategy also came with its own unique set infrastructures. Issues such as hardware placement, data of expenditures that included the following: center space management, local telephony requirements, contractual service requirements, and continuity planning for redundancy not only add considerable cost to an IT The capital investments in fax servers and budget, but they also increase the level of management redundant backup systems complexity. When periodic enterprise-wide server An array of telephony costs and fees, as well as upgrades are scheduled, this complex resource mix periodic capacity assessments creates a logistical nightmare that can lead to regional Personnel costs related to administration, help problems and subsequent productivity downtime. desk, and support functions 2. Maintaining Robust Security and Compliance – Regularly scheduled hardware and software Depending on the industry, many enterprises must upgrades comply with a series of federal regulations such as Long-term maintenance and service level contracts HIPAA in the healthcare sector, Sarbanes-Oxley for publicly traded businesses, and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) for financial services organizations. These As a result of these infrastructure costs, it is estimated regulations stipulate that sensitive corporate financial that the cost of sending one fax page was reduced to and personnel information must be secured while between 37 and 50 cents per page.4 being managed within an enterprise While this represents a significant cost information infrastructure. Hard-copy savings over manual fax methods, documents left on departmental fax Enterprises with a enterprises that send and receive printers can result in unauthorized and hundreds of thousands of fax pages per centrally-based IT insecure access to sensitive personal year can easily incur costs of millions of organization have a and financial information. Such dollars to maintain an extensive global greater number of regulatory breaches can result in costly fax infrastructure. challenges in managing penalties, litigation, and ultimately IT infrastructures across damage to business relationships and different continents. the corporate brand/image. 3 Source: Davidson Consulting, May 2009. 4 Source: Davidson Consulting, “Fax Service Markets, 2008–2013,” July 2009. 3 © 2010 EasyLink Services International Corporation. All rights reserved. EasyLink is a registered trademark of EasyLink Services International Corporation. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
5.
3. Ensuring an
Effective Disaster Recovery Plan – business cycles. As a result, corporations are now more Disastrous effects of severe weather and other “acts conscious of their use of paper products, recycling of God” can wreak havoc and destruction to business practices, and hazardous material disposal and are operations. Every global enterprise must have a disaster constantly exploring new ways to reduce overall power recovery plan in place that will provide for the ongoing consumption. Maintaining a global fax infrastructure continuity of mission-critical business functions across that relies on banks of fax servers and departmental each business region should a catastrophic event occur. fax printers to produce hard-copy documents not only increases operating costs, but it also detracts from green To ensure consistent service uptime, enterprises must environmental initiatives. make a significant investment in regional data centers and geographically dispersed backup systems. These While the model of an internally-managed fax backup systems must also provide similar scalable infrastructure made sense 20 years ago, the high costs performance levels equivalent to primary systems to and complex operational challenges associated with handle traffic volume spikes. In addition, backup systems this practice now pose a distinct liability, especially at must also be upgraded along with primary systems to a time when many enterprises must grapple with cost ensure peak readiness and compliance. As a result, containment policies. an enterprise’s investment in an effective recovery and data backup plan can be significant, yet still fallible if not In an effort to achieve a balance between cost and implemented and maintained correctly. operational effectiveness, many enterprises have turned to cloud-based outsourced IT services. Using this model, 4. Recovering and Allocating Operating Costs – organizations can realize several operational benefits Most enterprises treat fax services as a cost center along with considerable cost savings as compared to an and therefore, IT departments may absorb the entire internally-managed fax infrastructure. expense associated with managing a centrally-based fax infrastructure. Unfortunately, such a strategy does not provide an easy way to reallocate fax service costs based on departmental usage. This makes the task of determining the true cost of fax services on a departmental basis more difficult for subsequent IT budget planning. As the costs associated with managing Most enterprises treat fax services internal fax services escalate, these expenditures reduce as a cost center and therefore must the amount of funds available for other mission-critical absorb the entire expense associated business initiatives. with managing a centrally-based fax infrastructure. 5. Enabling Environmental Sustainability – The topic of environmental responsibility and the use of energy- related resources has now become an important directive for many enterprises. Besides generating positive public relations by indicating that an organization is “green,” sustainability policies generate greater energy and material savings that help the bottom line during slower 4 © 2010 EasyLink Services International Corporation. All rights reserved. EasyLink is a registered trademark of EasyLink Services International Corporation. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
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The Five Key
Benefits of Cloud-based Fax Services for the Global Enterprise Cloud computing strategies leverage shared network This reduces the need to dedicate an IT infrastructure resources that enable convenient on-demand information and operational staff for these responsibilities - freeing services that can be rapidly provisioned with a high the IT organization to refocus valuable internal resources degree of flexibility and scalability. toward other mission-critical business areas. Using a pay-as-you-go model, the enterprise pays for only the fax Using the shared resources of strategically placed network services that are used. data centers, cloud-based enterprise fax services provide the equivalent service levels of an internally-managed fax 3. Platform Agnosticism – Under a cloud-based infrastructure without the associated resource-intensive model, the IT organization is no longer responsible for costs. As a result, many enterprises are revisiting their managing, maintaining, or upgrading existing platform internal fax strategies and moving to a cloud-based fax and application standards. Any client or mobile platform service model, the benefits of which include: using SMTP will work under a cloud-based fax service model allowing each enterprise department to choose 1. Dramatic Cost Reductions – Outsourced cloud- the best solutions to meet its business needs. As based fax services eliminate the need to acquire, deploy, new business requirements justify the addition of new and maintain a massive internal fax infrastructure. solutions, such as multi-function devices (MFDs) or The costs associated with acquiring, implementing, mobile devices, these new devices are easily integrated deploying, and managing fax servers, telecom lines, into the cloud-based fax model. and administration/support personnel are eliminated. Using a transaction-oriented pricing model based on 4. Flexible, Seamless Integration – With a cloud- the number of fax messages transmitted, cloud-based based model, fax service can be added seamlessly to fax services reduce the total cost of transmitting a an existing enterprise e-mail system. This allows all fax page by as much as 70 percent, compared to the enterprise users to send and receive faxes directly from internally-managed fax model.5 Whereas an average their existing e-mail accounts leveraging the enterprises enterprise-managed fax page may cost between 37 and existing e-mail infrastructure and allowing users to act 50 cents to transmit, businesses using a cloud-based on information immediately from anywhere around the model spend, on average, less than ten cents per faxed globe. page. High-volume fax enterprises have the potential to save between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars 5. More Extensive Services – The cloud-based fax per year. services model allows both internal and mobile employees to realize many benefits without incurring costly and 2. A Simplified Infrastructure – With the cloud- time-consuming IT planning and/or implementation based fax model there is one source of contact for all requirements that were previously associated with an administrative, management, help desk/support, and internal enterprise fax infrastructure. Additional services reporting functions. At any time, complete monitoring of can be added or removed at any point in response to fax use on a global, departmental, or individual basis is changing business and user requirements. available. 5 Source: Internal EasyLink business case study, 2009. 5 © 2010 EasyLink Services International Corporation. All rights reserved. EasyLink is a registered trademark of EasyLink Services International Corporation. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
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How Cloud-based Fax
Services Solve the Challenges of Enterprise Fax Delivery Solving the Challenges of the Global Enterprise Full Disaster Recovery with Consistent Uptime Cloud-based fax services provide the enterprise IT Cloud-based fax service providers use multiple redundant organization one central external resource for all global data centers located around the globe to provide support and IT functions. These include application consistent 24 x 7 fax service uptime and redundancy provisioning, multi-tier help desk/technical support, should a major disaster occur that severely impacts redundancy, service level auditing, reporting, and a primary IT location. This eliminates the cost and scalability. The cost and complexity associated with complexity associated with maintaining data centers and managing multiple telecom providers for each geographic redundant systems. In the event of a local disaster, the region is eliminated, since a single vendor can support enterprise experiences no disruption of their fax services service delivery to any continent or country. Network or any sign of performance degradation. operation centers manage the entire service on a 24 x 7 basis, identifying and preventing technical issues Greater Cost Recovery/Allocation before they can lead to network downtime and disrupted customer service. Cloud-based fax services provide complete reporting and accountability for each user/department. This allows Worry-Free Compliance with Robust Security the IT organization to monitor fax usage levels and allocate costs to those departments, based on their Outsourced cloud-based fax services provide complete usage history. Rather than treating fax service as a cost security auditing and reporting to ensure full compliance center, expenses can be distributed to each department, with all industry-specific regulatory requirements. Under providing effective cost recovery and control for the IT a cloud-based fax model, leading fax services vendors organization. As a result, IT budgets can be reallocated maintain strict security policies that include: to support more critical projects that drive revenue. Annual or biannual site audits in compliance with Enables Green Sustainability client security guidelines Since fax messages are originated electronically at the Periodic SAS 70 compliance audits that meet rigid desktop for sending, and are delivered to individual e-mail security standards6 inboxes as electronic documents, they eliminate the need Optional secure message connectivity along with for any on-premise fax infrastructure. Messages can be point-to-point message encryption viewed on-screen or printed on-demand, generating a Background checks and screenings of employees more efficient use of toner, paper, electricity, and waste management. This enables the enterprise to contribute to greater environmental responsibility while both utility and materials expenses are decreased. 6 American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), “SAS No. 70, Service Organizations,” http://www.aicpa.org/Professional+Resources/Accounting+and+Auditing/Authoritative+Standards/auditing_standards.htm 6 © 2010 EasyLink Services International Corporation. All rights reserved. EasyLink is a registered trademark of EasyLink Services International Corporation. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
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Fax Servers and
Hosted Fax Services: A Comparison Fax Server Solution Hosted Fax Solution Capital Investment Server hardware, software, telecom None (Infrastructure) services Planning and Implementation Four-to-twelve weeks for design, Less than a day - often within hours purchase, installation, deployment, and testing Ongoing IT Investment Hardware, client and server software None upgrades; monthly hardware and software maintenance fees Ongoing Telecom Investment Monthly T1 /E1 line fees, DID numbers, Low monthly rental fee for DIDs only taxes, and surcharges Transaction Cost Cost per minute for long distance Fixed cost per transaction Reliability Often, no redundancy or effective High availability (99.5%+), geographic monitoring. Adding redundancy and redundancy, and 24 x7 worldwide monitoring can more than double the network operations center monitoring initial capital investment. Scalability Restricted based on existing hardware On-demand scalability for capacity and telecom configuration. Can be peaks or corporate growth increased with additional capital investment and significant implementation time. Disaster Recovery Often, no disaster recovery capability. Dispersed and redundant data centers If available, redundant servers are for business continuity frequently co-located in the same data center, and lack the same level of support and maintenance as production servers. IT Knowledge/Support Resources required 24 x 7 with Little to no internal resources required; knowledge of fax server hardware, support is provided by outsourcer’s software, and telecom services customer support center Administration Administration performed from fax server Internet-based administration or client workstation Reporting Reporting capabilities vary with extent of Company, department and user-level configuration. activity reporting Total Cost of Ownership High Low - often half the cost (or less) of a fax server infrastructure Green Corporate Technology No - expanded hardware and telecom Yes - elimination of all on-premise fax footprint and higher energy consumption hardware and consumables Data Security Level of security dependent on key Comprehensive information security areas, including IT security expertise, with technical and administrative environment (LAN/WAN/VPN), controls to protect customer data and user access control (UAC), and critical infrastructure and maintain communications architecture regulatory compliance Physical Security Dependent on physical security controls Hardened data centers with advanced deployed throughout the enterprise security and access controls 7 © 2010 EasyLink Services International Corporation. All rights reserved. EasyLink is a registered trademark of EasyLink Services International Corporation. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
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Case Study: Cloud-based
Fax Services at a Global Pharmaceutical Enterprise The Problem: The Solution: With more than 500 locations and tens of thousands The company began exploring alternatives to of employees worldwide, one of the world’s largest on-premise servers and, after a thorough review, chose pharmaceutical companies determined that it was complementary services from an outsourced cloud- spending a fortune using an on-premise fax infrastructure. based fax service provider that included: Its use of a total of 24 fax servers supported thousands of users in an obsolete environment that posed a number of DESKTOP MESSAGING allowing employees to send financial and operational issues: and receive faxes directly within their existing e-mail accounts The company found that it was overspending on the support and maintenance of its fax servers and PRODUCTION MESSAGING providing a straight- all its required “hot” redundant backups. through processing (STP) solution that automated the creation and delivery of outbound transactions originating The IT team was devoting so much time to in back-office systems managing the servers that other vital technology initiatives were being put on the back burner. Using a cloud-based fax service model, the company The fax servers were impossible to manage quickly began decommissioning its fax servers and centrally, creating a fragmented fax function that associated telecom infrastructure. The hosted model could not be aligned with the company’s overall proved to be much more affordable, eliminating the need communications strategy. for capital equipment costs while enabling a transaction- The servers were always either undersized (in an based payment system where the company paid for only attempt to save money) or oversized (extra ports in the fax services that were used. anticipation of peak periods) but never “right-sized” for their exact needs. The Result: Employees in remote areas around the globe could Cost savings of $1 million+ a year not be supported by their existing servers and Average savings per fax of 70 percent therefore had no fax capability at all. The entire fax function was offloaded from the Users were periodically experiencing downtime company’s IT team and functional issues that were unacceptable for a Alignment of fax services with corporate business global pharmaceutical leader. strategies and goals The company was looking at a major upgrade Superior record keeping, auditing, and archiving that to its fax server infrastructure, and since support provide the company with a complete audit trail for was being discontinued, it was faced with a costly every transaction that passes through its network forced upgrade. 8 © 2010 EasyLink Services International Corporation. All rights reserved. EasyLink is a registered trademark of EasyLink Services International Corporation. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
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Summary Given current economic
conditions, every global enterprise IT organization must now find new ways to reduce its operating expenses without sacrificing the quality of service for both employees and customers. While the need to maintain internal control over a centrally-managed fax infrastructure made sense in the past, the growing costs associated with implementing and managing hardware, software, personnel, and telecom services has made many global enterprises reconsider these strategies in favor of leveraging outsourced cloud- based service providers. Today, cloud-based fax services provide great cost savings, levels of administration, support, data security, scalability, and redundancy equivalent to what an internal fax infrastructure could provide. There are three unique business advantages associated with implementing cloud-based fax services for the global enterprise infrastructure: Greater Cost Reductions – Cloud-based fax services lower the total cost of fax delivery by leveraging external economies of scale that result in a pay-as-you-go pricing model. IT Resource Allocation – Cloud-based fax services reallocate the costs of a central IT fax infrastructure to the division/department/user level. Improved Business Processes/Greater Automation – Cloud-based fax services facilitate business processes by seamlessly integrating fax capabilities into the global enterprise information infrastructure. 9 © 2010 EasyLink Services International Corporation. All rights reserved. EasyLink is a registered trademark of EasyLink Services International Corporation. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
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About EasyLink Services EasyLink®
Services is a leading provider of fax Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for large organizations that utilize fax as an essential part of their communications with customers, business partners, and vendors. EasyLink offers a suite of outsourced fax solutions that eliminates the cost and support inefficiencies of fax server hardware and software management, while providing enhanced levels of scalability, security, and redundancy. EasyLink fax and related services allow companies to reduce costs, meet security and compliance regulations, and reallocate IT resources to more strategic initiatives. Fax Solutions: Desktop Messaging allows users to send and receive faxes within their e-mail client with no hardware or software required leveraging the e-mail infrastructure already deployed across the enterprise. Production Messaging automates delivery of batch communications (statements, invoices, reports, forms, notices) from back-end systems including host, legacy, CRM and ERP, for delivery as fax, e-mail, SMS, or EDI. Production Messaging streamlines operations and improves security while reducing costs. Document Capture and Management (DCM) converts variable form information into useable digital data. EasyLink receives and converts information from forms into electronic data such as EDI, XML, ACORD XML, or more than 100 other electronic data formats. DCM accelerates the time it takes to process critical data into business systems and eliminate re-keying errors. For more information about EasyLink fax services, please visit our website at www.easylink.com or e-mail us at sales@easylink.com. EasyLink Services International Corporation is a leading global provider of on-demand electronic messaging and transaction services that help companies optimize relationships with their partners, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders. The company provides a 100% outsourced solution for both on-demand business messaging and supply chain services, creating attractive economies of scale with unparalleled quality and a single point of accountability. At the heart of our hosted services is the industry- leading EasyLink Business Integration Network, a reliable, secure,and fully redundant global infrastructure that supports millions of transactions daily for our customers. Corporate Headquarters International Headquarters 6025 The Corners Parkway Bishopsgate Court Norcross, GA 30092 4 Norton Folgate London, England E16DB 1 (678) 533 8000 44 (0) 20 7551 8700 1 (800) 828 7115 © 2010 EasyLink Services International Corporation. All rights reserved. EasyLink is a registered trademark of EasyLink Services International Corporation. All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
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