Unifying phone systems across a multi-branch enterprise
- Customer profile
- A large organization operating a head office and multiple branches in different cities, previously running separate, aging phone systems at each location.
- Industry
- Enterprise with a distributed, multi-branch footprint.
- Region
- Saudi Arabia, with sites in more than one region.
- Challenge
- Each branch had its own PBX, its own numbering and its own maintenance arrangement. Calling between branches went out to the public network, extension numbers overlapped, there was no shared directory, and reporting had to be collected site by site. Adding a new branch or a new employee meant a separate project every time.
- Starting environment
- A mix of legacy on-premise systems of different ages and brands, connected to traditional lines, with inconsistent internet links between locations and no central administration.
- Objectives
- Consolidate every branch onto one platform under a single dial plan and directory; enable free internal calling between sites; centralize administration and reporting; make adding a branch or user a configuration step rather than a new deployment.
- What ECOLOR delivered
- ECOLOR ran a discovery of every site and its connectivity, designed a single 3CX deployment sized to the organization’s simultaneous-call needs, migrated numbering onto SIP trunks, built a unified extension plan and shared company directory, and configured queues, IVR menus and central reporting. Handsets were standardized on Fanvil and Yealink devices, and staff and administrators were trained.
- How the project ran
- Delivered in phases: assessment and design first, then a pilot at one site to validate call quality and the dial plan, followed by a staged rollout branch by branch so daily operations were disturbed as little as possible, and finally handover with documentation and support.
- Integrations
- SIP trunks for external numbers; standardized IP handsets; central reporting. Further integration to business systems was scoped as an optional later phase.
- Security & data residency
- Deployment model, hosting location and data-residency options were confirmed during solution design to match the organization’s policies; access to administration was restricted and documented.
- Qualitative outcomes
- Consolidated multiple separate branch systems onto one platform with a single directory and dial plan; internal calls between branches no longer traversed the public network; administration and reporting moved from site-by-site to one central console; adding a new branch or user became a configuration change rather than a fresh project. The organization gained one accountable partner for the whole estate instead of several disconnected maintenance arrangements.
- Technologies
- 3CX · SIP trunks · Fanvil · Yealink · IVR · queues · central reporting
