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For those interested in learning how much IP Fax can save your business after moving away from traditional fax, Sagemcom (News - Alert) provides an IP Fax return on investment (ROI) calculator. It is designed to help users to undertake cost comparisons between traditional faxes and XMediusFAX fax server based solutions.

Here’s how it works:

Users will enter various kinds of data. For instance, users can input the number of fax machines used by an organization; fax machine leasing costs a month; and cost for a single phone line a month.

“By simply inputting your company’s current specific faxing criteria (i.e., fixed costs, inbound and outbound volumes), you can determine approximate costs as well as derived savings when migrating to XMediusFAX,” the company explains on its website. “Depending on your faxing volumes, the calculator will determine which of the XMediusFAX editions (Service Provider, Enterprise, Express, or AXP) is most suitable for your faxing requirements and perform the respective Return-On-Investment (ROI) analysis. As well, the ROI analysis can also be extended to system configurations that require redundancy and/or remote branch survivability as part of an organization’s faxing landscape.”

Costs associated with traditional faxing include long distance calls, electricity use, toner, paper, and labor.

These costs can add up quickly. Consider that some 100 billion fax pages are transmitted each year. Invoices, purchase orders, and legal documents are among the most common types of documents that organizations fax regularly.

But with XMediusFAX, a business can see cost savings of over 90 percent, the company says. That’s because users avoid manual faxing expenses and long-distance fax charges are lessened thanks to Least Cost Routing. The solution also offers 90 percent more productivity when coupled with desktop faxing and fax broadcasting. Moreover, there the solution also includes unified messaging, where faxes use the same inbox as e-mail and voicemail.

So for those interested in making the switch, ease your doubts with the ROI Calculator.