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The Synertel Sentinel
Online Edition 
December 2008 -  Issue 146
In This Issue
Just 26 days left - Cash in today!
Don't miss calls
Proactive IT Savings - Synertel Managed WorkPlace
A Holiday Gift for our Client!
Welcome New Clients
New Payment Address 12/1/08
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Greetings!
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All of us at Synertel  extend to you our warmest holiday greetings!
 
Moving?  Expanding?Reconfiguring?
 
Let us help you plan ahead, control costs, and avoid last minute hassles. Call us today for Project Management, Carrier moves, Cabling, Tellecom &IT relocation - we do it every day  -- so you don't have to!
 
If your business needs a technology improvement, ACT NOW - while the Economic Stimulus Act benefits are active, and  before the California sales tax increase!  Synertel will ensure you get the best possible telephony, network, email, or video security solution -- and we'll help arrange financing if needed, too!
 
As always, we are interested in your feedback, kudos, and suggestions for improvement. Feel free to contact me at any time!
 
Ben Stiegler, CEO
415 746 1811
 
BOOST YOUR 2008 Tax Rebate - Improve your Voice & Data  Systems now!

 
The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 temporarily increases expensing amounts for small businesses. This means that before the end of 2008 a business can immediately deduct up to $250,000 in new equipment and technology investments. Below, we outline several scenarios that illustrate how investing now makes good business sense!

REDUCE REAL ESTATE EXPENSES
Upgrading to an IP phone system allows you to reduce costs through office consolidation and "home-shoring". Down-size 1 office - or consolidate locations while allowing employees to work from home.   
 
ACCELERATE DECISION MAKING
IP communications allow you to reach people faster and communicate better. Synertel collaboration servers permit desktop sharing and virtual meetings - without monthly Webex costs!

IMPROVE NETWORK SPEED AND PERFORMANCE
Speed up your network, improve management and monitoring to gain greater uptime!

HAPPIER CUSTOMERS
Get your customer-facing teams working smart with instant screen-pops that display customer data and orders.

This is a temporary stimulus plan. Take advantage of it!  Let's put technology to work to grow your business!   Call 415 746 1801, or email sales@synertel.com.

New IP Wireless Handset for your Toshiba System - roam freely!
Toshiba 8002 SIP wireless handset

 
Always wanted to walk anywhere in your office or on campus and get your calls? Now you can! The Toshiba 8002 handset operates over existing 802.11b/g networks using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), registering directly to your Toshiba Strata CIX system without requiring a gateway.
 
This is an ideal solution for health care, warehouse, campus, industrial, and education environments,

The 8002 handset provides a wireless extension to your existing Strata CIX or CTX system solution, providing interoperability with Strata CIX features. The 8002 includes quality-of-service standards-compatibility, 4-line backlit display, four (4) softkeys for up to 16 programmable functions, and support for other advanced CIX features. 
 
Don't have a CIX yet? We can help with that, too!  For all the details call 415 746 1801 or sales@synertel.com

 
Synertel Managed WorkPlace -Proactive Recession Cost-Cutting!
 
When times are tough, businesses look to control operating costs and reduce risk. Synertel Managed Workplace is a powerful tool for proactively detecting and avoiding network, server, printer, and workstation problems - BEFORE they impact productivity.  SMW provides monitoring, alerting, proactive network tuning, plus remote and onsite services to detect and solve problems before they become catastrophes.
 
Monitoring can detect hundreds of things - and make as big or little a deal about them as you want.  Examples include
 
- low disk space,
- printers about to run out of toner
- security patches that didn't apply
- viruses found and quarantined
- LAN traffic jams,
- if your website is ever down
-   if an employee installs personal software on a company PC.
 
 
SMW can serve as a radar screen for your existing IT staff - with all alerts and tickets flowing to your staff, or we can take shared or full responsibility for monitoring, managing, and intervening.  Every minute of IT downtime costs your organization in lost productivity -- even before the cost of solving the problem.
 
 
If you think network management is a luxury in tough times -- you may be thinking tactically, not strategically! A small wise investment in proactive monitoring avoids larger (and more variable) costs of being reactive.
 
SMW can even monitor your telephone system and voicemail!  For more details, call 415 746 1811 or email smw@synertel.com.
 
Our Holiday Gift to you - Special Offer for Professional On-Hold Production!
 
 MICSynertel offers Professional Voice Recordings and Message-On-Hold services to enhance your phone system and improve your company's image!
 
Whether you'd like a new main menu, or up to date on-hold programs describing the benefits of current services and products, our studio of talent is standing by to help.  Click below to audition more than 30 voices, then select your music, and either upload a script - or let our scriptwriters craft one for you.
 
Simply visit www.mohstore.com and use Promo Code DRSYNCCS08 at checkout to receive additional savings!

Welcome -- New Clients!
   
Thank you  for entrusting us with improving your IT and telephony!
Center for Independent Living - Berkeley
FireMaster - Burlingame
West Coast Reporters - San Rafael
International Quarters - San Rafael
Law Offices of Rodney Johnson - San Rafael
Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation - San Francisco
Susan Shub Financial Services - Oakland
Law Offices of Christopher E Grell - Oakland
California Sun Power - San Francisco
Young Family Trust - Portola Valley
Fordham Properties - Emeryville
Outsource Consulting - Oakland
MonierLifeTile - locations nationally
Hamilton Square Baptist Church - San Francisco
Rebel8 - San Francisco
 
For a complimentary assessment of your organization's IT and Telecom spending and resources, call Ben Stiegler at 415 746 1811 or email ben@synertel.com
Synertel Goes Greener - adios bank courier, hello Lockbox - please update your records!
 
envelopeEffective December 1st, 2008, please send payments to our new lockbox: Synertel, PO Box 1400, Suisun City CA 94585-4400.
 
We eliminated 3 bank courier runs each week, reducing traffic congestion,  gasoline consumption, and  CO2 emissions.
 
Using our bank's lockbox service means:
- your payment will be received and posted more rapidly
- we will receive an electronic copy of it at our main office
- energy is saved, global warming reduced!
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FREE INSTALL OF SYNERTEL EFOLDER AUTOMATED BACKUP ON 1 SERVER OR WORKSTATION. 
 
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Offer Expires: December 29, 2008