Taifun Software GmbH

Efficient Workflow with the innovaphone PBX

TAIFUN Software GmbH, with its headquarters in Hanover and branch offices in Bischofsheim (Germany) and Wiener Neustadt (Austria), has been developing business software for the skilled crafts and trade sector as well as the retail sector for more than 30 years. The clientele mainly includes medium-sized crafts and trade enterprises as well as larger companies in Germany and Austria. It was easy to connect the TAIFUN software to the new innovaphone PBX telephone system via the common SOAP interface.

The core business of TAIFUN Software GmbH covers all aspects of business software, from enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to document and e-mail archiving and mobile applications. Crafts and trade companies from a wide range of areas, from plumbers to painters, roofers or electricians, benefit from software solutions, including order processing, cost calculation, financial accounting and inventory management, which are also available as mobile solutions on smartphones, notebooks or tablets.

TAIFUN uses its own in-house developed ERP software in the support department as well as in all other departments at the company’s three sites. It was this software, which is part of the company’s product portfolio, that needed to be integrated into the new telephone solution. The existing telephone system was technically outdated and only partially VoIP-capable. During the company’s search for a new telephone system with a suitable interface, TAIFUN became aware of innovaphone AG through the recommendation of a partner company after TAIFUN’s initial attempts to connect to the PBX of another manufacturer via a different interface proved to be laborious and prone to errors. The innovaphone PBX VoIP telephone system has a SOAP interface which offers almost unlimited possibilities for integration, in contrast to common interfaces such as TAPI and CAPI. Christian Furchert, system administrator at TAIFUN Software GmbH, underlines, “The SOAP interface used here has rendered connecting to our in-house software very simple and straightforward. The innovaphone queue management as well as the evaluation possibilities are indispensable for daily operations in our support and sales support teams". Support enquiries are processed efficiently, and in a customer friendly manner using innovaphone Reporting and the innovaphone Operator, which accesses the innovaphone PBX queues. TAIFUN customers who also use innovaphone, also use the SOAP interface for simple connection to the TAIFUN software openBusiness and TAIFUN software Handwerk, tailored to crafts and trade companies, and therefore also benefit from the multiple customer support advantages.