Fax - an essential medium for companies

Fax is the second most used means of written communication in companies after e-mail. Communicating by fax is a reliable method of exchanging documents in a simple and direct way. In addition, fax communications are cost-effective and the fax medium is widely available in company communications.
Many sectors of activity depend on faxes to send data. In effect, fax is integrated in application processes, with applications sending and receiving large volumes of faxes. Insurance companies, estate agents, banks, legal professions, government departments and health-care organisations are some of the companies where faxes are used frequently.

Problems brought by fax machines

But the fax machine is now obsolete: it takes up the users' time since they have to print a document, go to a fax machine, wait their turn, fax the document, wait for the acknowledgement of receipt and then manually archive the fax and its acknowledgement of receipt. The employees are obliged to follow a long and painstaking procedure, which has a considerable impact on their productivity. Moreover, incoming faxes must be distributed manually, the information is not immediately available and confidential information cannot be sent by fax. Finally, the users are often hindered by equipment breaking down or by a maintenance technician's visit.

Online fax: simple, efficient, economic, ecological

Online fax allows users to send and receive faxes from their work station, without leaving their desk. All the traffic is automatically archived on a server. Technical problems (breakdowns, paper jams) are eliminated and telecommunications costs can be optimised. Employees no longer waste time with faxes, so productivity is improved. The cost of unwanted problems such as SPAM by fax is also reduced. In effect, even if an unwanted document is received, it isn't printed and therefore no consumables are used.

Online fax is both economic and ecological : faxes are not printed systematically, which means you can save tons of paper and contribute to protecting the forests. Consumables and paper use reduced, fax machines eliminated, paper archives replaced by digital archives,... these all contribute to respecting the environment and at the same time allow you to make real savings

RTE Network has developed fax solutions that allow professionals to increase their efficiency and productivity, significantly reduce their costs and still retain the highest possible level of security.

FaxBox, the no-installation e-mail fax sending and receiving service