National systems integrator NSC Group will from today sell its Breeze managed unified communications service that will cost business customers about the same as a coffee a week per user.
As reported by CRN last February, the service stemmed from a collaboration with US communications specialists Shoretel, which supplied the assets, to provide layers of functionality depending on the contracted terms, said NSC managing director Craig Neil.
Customers could choose to run it on their own premises or through the cloud as a managed service while choosing their own carrier.
Neil said that Breeze would compete with services such as Telstra’s T-Suite and Cisco, which is making a lot of noise in the UC space.
Based on the entry cost of 60 cents a day a user, a small business signed on with Breeze could provide, say, 15 staff with their communications needs for about $3000 a year, reducing after tax by about a third because it fell under the category of an operating expense.The price included third-party headsets and handsets, Neil said.
He added NSC was considering rolling in Microsoft’s UC platform, Lync over the next few months.
NSC will take Breeze straight to market before offering it to resellers.
Neil said because Shoretel's involvement meant NSC could offer it to customers on interest-free finance.
Providing support at the back end was the data-networking business of industrial-automation provider ZI-ARGUS, that NSC bought yesterday. In March, NSC bought Perth PABX Service Group for an undisclosed amount, believed by CRN to be less than $1 million.
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