InVox, a provider of business telephony offerings, has launched free hosted business phone system service PBXPlus for startups and small and medium businesses (SMBs). InVox will provide business telephone systems and enable productive business telephony using the latest speech technologies, under the new service.

The company claims that with PBXPlus, setting up a phone system is quick and easy using the patent pending drag-and-drop visual designer which eliminates the need for the user to know technical details of phone systems.

According to InVox, cloud-based PBXPlus allows users to access and change the phone system settings from any computer with Internet connection; and offers businesses to get a free number with unlimited extensions, unlimited inbound calls, unlimited call forwarding, voicemail, transcription, and speech recognition.

In addition, it enables business owners to add voice applications to their phone systems; and ready-made voice applications include integrations with Salesforce, Google Talk, Skype, MSN Live, Google Calendar, Zoho, Sugar, Intuit.

Manohar Chapalamadugu, CEO of InVox, said: "Most SMBs need a simple and powerful phone system in few clicks with no additional learning curve. Voice applications involving speech recognition are traditionally reserved for organisations with large budgets.

"PBXPlus now offers several value added voice solutions and out-of-the-box integrations with popular third party services to increase caller satisfaction and employee productivity."