UK EEA Hosted Unified Communications VoIP Telephony
UK EEA public, private, hybrid cloud hosted VoIP unified communications telephony. Migrate existing DDIs, call recording, agent performance, call queues, voicemail, simple moves adds and changes. Self/Wizards manage or combination. Choose any/all from conventional handset, PC/Mac softphone, FOC iOS/Android smartphone apps. Integrated video conferencing. Sip options saving money on calls!
Features
- Unified communications UK EEA public, private or hybrid cloud hosting.
- Intuitive management portal enabling self-management, Wizards management or combination thereof
- Simple, easy to use, access anywhere full featured voicemail
- Straightforward call recording options, in house, Wizards or hybrid management
- Sip choices mean call costs included or drastically reduced.
- Create, manage and report on call queues via management portal.
- Deliver to any/all deskphone, FOC PC/Mac softphone, FOC iOS/Android smartphone
- Connect central PBX to remote sites eliminating PSTN line costs.
- Migrate your DDIs ensuring continuity of service.
- Live reporting and management of calls answered and agent performance.
Benefits
- DDI migration which means seamless service delivery and easy transition.
- UK EEA public, private hybrid cloud hosting controls data location
- Unified Communications plus Sip choices means reduced/eliminated call costs.
- Intuitive management portal means options about how manage your phones
- Simple, convenient access anywhere full featured voicemail means satisfied users!
- Live reporting on call answering which means simple agent management.
- Desk/smartphone/softphone delivery flexibility enables user options over how they work.
- Moves adds and changes via simple management portal.
- Delivering PBX services to remote sites eliminates PSTN line costs.
- Intuitive management portal minimises staff training.
Pricing
£4.50 a user a month
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 10
Service ID
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Contact
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Service scope
- Service constraints
- There are no constraints on how Wizards service is delivered.
- System requirements
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- Bandwidth capacity! Each phone call requires c.150kbits/sec each way
- Desk phones need power blocks or power over Ethernet
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Email support 9-5 Monday to Friday 4 hour response though typically much quicker! Weekend support for emergencies only or by arrangement.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
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Over 20 years’ experience tells us that one size does not fit all. However the client chooses to manage their phone system, Wizards need to be involved from project definition through to delivery and implementation. In this way we understand your organisation, how you work and what you need from the project.
Wizards support is completely bespoke and built around client needs. As a bare minimum we would deliver phone support and 4-hour response email support 9-5 Monday to Friday. We are happy to extend that support into staff training plus any or all day to day management of the phone system. Wizards can build a hybrid service model with clients themselves delivering some services and Wizards owning the heavy lifting.
Charges are typically £800/day and we would be happy to negotiate a lower day rate for contracted regular work. - Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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Wizards are partners with a number of soft PBX vendors and are happy to provide onsite and online training for both end users and system administrators.
All user documentation is available via vendor websites. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
- Other
- Other documentation formats
- All PBX documentation is available via vendor websites
- End-of-contract data extraction
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All configuration files and voicemail files are client property and may be transferred as required by the client.
All phone numbers are of course client property and the same process by which they are transferred into the new soft PBX can be reversed by the client as required. - End-of-contract process
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Wizards do not levy end of contract charges.
Unless otherwise specified by the client, after the initial contract period services are delivered on a month to month basis.
Wizards are happy to entertain negotiations around terms for extending or renewing such contracts.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Using the web interface
- Our soft PBX offerings have been designed from the outset to be delivered and managed via a web GUI.
- Web interface accessibility standard
- None or don’t know
- How the web interface is accessible
- Our soft PBX offerings have been designed from the outset to be delivered and managed via a web GUI. Users are no need to use and are specifically excluded from the administrator interface.
- Web interface accessibility testing
- Users of assistive technology are well serviced by established existing third party external systems designed for use with telephony systems.
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- There is an API however it is not part of core service delivery.
- API automation tools
- Other
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
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- HTML
- Other
- Command line interface
- No
Scaling
- Scaling available
- Yes
- Scaling type
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- Automatic
- Manual
- Independence of resources
- System capacity is based on design arrived at following discussions with the client. Capacity can be added or removed as we see demand grow or shrink.
- Usage notifications
- Yes
- Usage reporting
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- Other
Analytics
- Infrastructure or application metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
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- CPU
- Disk
- HTTP request and response status
- Memory
- Network
- Other
- Other metrics
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- Available Sip channels.
- Call status.
- Time for calls to be answered
- Performance of call operatives.
- Numbers of lost calls.
- Reporting types
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- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Wizards value add is integration of services from multiple suppliers.
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Staff screening not performed
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Penetration testing approach
- In-house
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Data sanitisation process
- No
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Backup and recovery
- Backup and recovery
- Yes
- What’s backed up
- The entire system!
- Backup controls
- Backup routines are established following discussion with the client on setup. Should changes to those routines be needed we are happy to make appropriate adjustments. Users can also trigger additional backups as may be require.
- Datacentre setup
- Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
- Scheduling backups
- Users schedule backups through a web interface
- Backup recovery
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- Users can recover backups themselves, for example through a web interface
- Users contact the support team
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- Other
- Other protection between networks
- The system is delivered on dedicated connections to cloud service the user specifies. There is no connection between separate instances of Wizards hosted 3CX.
- Data protection within supplier network
- Other
- Other protection within supplier network
- We are happy to discuss the mechanics of the service, however the question is not relevant to the service Wizards provide.
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- Wizards hosted VoIP is routinely based on Google Compute Engine services and is delivered to their 99.5% SLA. We are happy to discuss both hosting alternatives to Google Compute Engine and a formal SLA as required.
- Approach to resilience
- Wizards hosted VoIP is based on Google Compute Engine with virtualised servers duplicated both within the datacenter and across other datacenters. Wizards hosted VoIP clients have to date not to be affected by any service outage.
- Outage reporting
- Email alerts to Wizards support which we would then manage.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication
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- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
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Tiered approach to the user interface with users default locked out completely and have no access to or use of the interface.
Wizards can either train clients to manage all their system completely with Wizards providing support or we can manage the entire system on your behalf or as an alternative we can use a hybrid approach with clients choosing what they manage. - Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
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- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Username or password
- Devices users manage the service through
- Directly from any device which may also be used for normal business (for example web browsing or viewing external email)
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- You control when users can access audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- You control when users can access audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- No
- Security governance approach
- Delivering a bespoke service means we can build the system that meets the security governance requirements of the client.
- Information security policies and processes
- Delivering a bespoke service means we can build the system that meets the security policies and processes required by the client.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
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Wizards hosted VoIP is delivered as a managed service.
System changes will be delivered in a manner and to a timetable agreed with the client. Configuration changes such as adding a user, altering a hunt group etc. are driven by client change management requests. - Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- Vulnerability management is an ongoing process with priority given to any security matters raised by clients and in house testing team pre-release and throughout the life of each version.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- Proactive monitoring is an ongoing process with priority given to any security matters raised by clients and in house testing team pre-release and throughout the life of each version.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
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Wizards hosted VoIP does not have common events.
Users report incidents via phone or email support and we respond accordingly.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Separation between users
- Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart
- Yes
- Who implements virtualisation
- Third-party
- Third-party virtualisation provider
- Google Compute Engine
- How shared infrastructure is kept separate
- Wizards host on Google Compute Engine with separate instances. Wizards hosted VoIP is not a multi tenant system instead delivers using a dedicated instance per client.
Energy efficiency
- Energy-efficient datacentres
- Yes
Pricing
- Price
- £4.50 a user a month
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- Live system trials are available with a limited number of seats for a period that suits our client.