Unified messaging helps people better manage all their messages, be it voice, text, or fax. Unified messaging will not reduce the number of messages, but will centralise your messages, allowing for the same quantity of communications to be received, reviewed, and enabling them to be responded to in less time. Also, unified messaging serves to better organise information and facilitate access. Unified messaging is defined as the means to access and retrieve all types of messages via one or more interfaces (such as computer, phone, etc.) regardless of how they arrived, whether by phone, fax, or email.