Sometimes companies feel they have to make difficult choices in regards to technology and communications. While all businesses would like to find ways to improve communications and collaboration, some are reluctant to implement unified communications solutions, often due to concerns about the cost of initial investment.

In reality, unified communications and collaborations technology can lower costs while at the same time streamlining processes and enabling workers to achieve new heights of productivity. But in tough economic times, any new deployment of this nature can be daunting, especially when companies consider the amount of time, expertise and hours required to implement these solutions.

But there is an option out there for companies who want to implement UC&C but are concerned about these barriers to adoption. Businesses can take advantage of hosted or cloud-based UC&C solutions that have the same features as a traditional on-premise approach, but that can be deployed faster and easier. Hosted solutions eliminate large up-front costs and offer flexibility and communications continuity.

For IT managers or CIOs interested in learning more about the benefits of hosted unified communications and collaborations solutions, there will be a free webinar on the topic at 2:00 pm EDT on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Entitled “Hosted Unified Communications and Collaboration: Fulfilling the Promise,” the webinar will be co-hosted by Sprint (News - Alert) and Cisco.

Attendees will learn: how to leverage a hosted UC solution to support a growing mobile and virtual workforce, how to reduce the total cost of ownership while extending communications to all employees, how centralized management can streamline business processes, how to determine organizational needs, and how application performance, reliability and security are supported by an IP-network foundation.

For more information on the event or to register, click here.

To find out more about SPRINT, visit the company at ITEXPO West 2012. To be held Oct. 2-5 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX, ITEXPO (News - Alert) is the world’s largest technology and communications event. Visit SPRINT in booth #1119. For more information on ITEXPO West 2012, click here.