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In a previous incarnation as a technology writer for publications like Red Herring and Telephony, I had the privilege to cover voice-over-Internet-protocol, VOIP, during Internet telephony's early days in the mid to late 1990s. At the time, the pundits were predicting, but it was by no means certain, that VOIP would sweep the nation as a highly disruptive technology in the telecommunications industry, bringing lower prices and greater transparency to consumers.
Later on, a few years later fresh out of treatment and having landed a little early sobriety job as the Business Editor of the tiny Boca Raton News, a report crossed my desk that got me quite excited. One of the critical problems with VOIP had always been that it was very clumsy from an ease-of-use perspective, requiring that consumers master specialized software while dialing in from their computer using a microphone. The report I read just after starting at the Boca Raton News was from a company that said it had taken out the clumsiness of VOIP, offering a "plug n' play" solution that let consumers just plug their ordinary phone into an adapter to enjoy the benefits of Internet telephony. I’m proud to say that I'm one of the first reporters to write about a then tiny unknown company named Vonage - beating the New York Times by many months - that has led a now famous revolution in the telecommunications world, prompting cable companies to challenge phone companies and bringing vastly lower prices and market transparency for millions of consumers.
I write about this here because we believe that Valley Hope Software is going to lead a similar, though obviously much smaller, revolution in the addictions industry enterprise software market, bringing a highly affordable "plug n' play" IT product to thousands of centers that heretofore could never afford comprehensive IT. And "plug n' play" Valley Hope Software certainly is. All consumers need to do to find out how much it will cost is go to the company website - www.vhaimcss.com - go to their price calculator under "Pricing" plug in the number of expected users and, presto! you will know exactly the cost. You cannot get any easier than that and we urge all centers that need IT to call Valley Hope Software at 785-877-5111.
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