We’ve been seeing this trend for years – enterprises moving away from traditional voice networking to virtualized solutions, which take advantage of SIP trunking and the benefits of real time communications services delivered via the cloud.

The larger your network footprint is geographically, the more intense your computing and connectivity requirements become as the digital transformation of all industries accelerates, and the more diverse different Communications Service Providers’ (CSPs) offerings become, the harder it is to not only choose the right mix, but manage the right mix.

Whether it’s a Request for Proposal, Request for Information, or a Request for Quote, the time-honored tradition of enterprises sending out multiple requests to multiple vendors and service providers may be more important today than every before given how competitive the markets for connectivity, cloud, security and applications have become.

There is no question cloud computing has reduced costs for enterprise IT, with the obvious savings in eliminating complex, expensive and nearly unmanageable on-premise and data center physical infrastructure.