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February 2009 - News from Syntellect 

 Contact Center Solutions, Contact Center Software

 

Call Recorder Released for Syntellect CIM

Call Recorder

Syntellect Call Recorder for CIM combines call and screen recording technology with quality assessment scorecards to improve agent performance, aid in compliance and capture the complete customer experience.

Call Recorder is scalable to meet the needs of the Enterprise and the SMB market, and the release and integration of Call Recorder enables Syntellect CIM users to:

  • Record calls and screens for training, quality monitoring, sales resolution, dispute verification and compliance
  • Configure the recording process based on their contact center rules
  • Identify workflow and agent performance issues to increase First Call Resolution (FCR) and improve call handling times
  • Easily customize web-based score-cards and evaluation forms for training
  • Review recorded calls directly within iVault, providing quick and easy access to the entire customer interaction history

CLICK HERE to learn more about Call Recorder or email Account Management to schedule a demo.


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Contact Babel's 2008 U.S. Contact Center Operational Review

Contact Babel

Contact Babel has produced its 2nd annual study of the US contact center industry with hundreds of US contact centers taking part in the confidential study.

"The US Contact Center Operational Review" is 300 pages in length, and looks in depth at salaries, attrition, training, multimedia, IP, self-service, strategies, outsourcing, planning and many other elements that are key to understanding how contact centers can best be run. Results have been segmented by industry sector and contact center size, so that readers can compare their own operations with those that are most similar.

CLICK HERE for a free download of the IVR/Self-service portion of the Contact Babel study.

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Syntellect PhoneLink for Salesforce 2.2 Released

Syntellect PhoneLink for Salesforce Version 2.2 includes a large number of new features and enhancements that have been developed in close cooperation with Syntellect customers and partners based on the needs and requirements of contact centers.

PhoneLink for Salesforce Version 2.2 contains the following new features:

  • Support for multiple-call appearance phone sets enables multiple calls on a single PBX extension.
  • New calls on a phone have no affect on the display or control of a call that is already active.
  • Extended Salesforce query for screen pop allows an application to construct an Extended Salesforce SOSL Query and attach it to a call before it is routed to an agent.
  • This query restricts the Salesforce contact database search triggered by the call arriving at the agent.
  • Screen pop prevention prohibits contact details from being automatically displayed when a single record is found for an incoming call.
  • New Case button provides an easy method for agents to create new cases with pre-populated fields during inbound or outbound calls

To learn more about Syntellect PhoneLink 2.2 for Salesforce please email info@syntellect.com.

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Trying to Uncover Contact Center Savings?
Let Syntellect Business Consulting Services Investigate

Syntellect

Your contact center is the primary point of interaction with your customers and a significant lifeline to your organization’s financial well being. In today’s volatile economy, your ability to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and make informed business decisions that impact the customer experience are more important than ever. In your current attempt to uncover contact center savings, ask yourself some of these questions:

  • How much could you save if you reduced agent call volume by 2% or agent handling time by 30 seconds?
  • Do your current business processes and contact center organization maximize agent productivity?
  • Are you taking full advantage of your contact center technology that’s already in place - to partially automate or fully automate customer interactions
  • How can you lower costs while maintaining high levels of customer experience?

The Contact Center Operation Analysis from Syntellect Business Consulting Services answers these questions and more, providing you with a thorough assessment of your contact center to help you make more informed decisions that improve the bottom line. Here are some of the examples of contact center cost savings opportunities recently uncovered for our clients:

Large regional US bank with 15 million annual call volume

  • Identified $787,000 in cost saving from self-service (IVR) application improvements
  • Identified $467,000 savings from increasing CSR efficiency by screen-popping calling information from IVR to desktop

Major US Mortgage originator/servicer with 2.75 million annual call volume

  • Identified $431,000 in annual cost savings from self-service (IVR) application improvements

Home division of a major children’s book publisher with 2 million annual call volume

  • Uncovered $233,000 in annual costs saving by identifying and authenticating callers using IVR and popping information to CSR

Major global charitable organization with 250,000 annual call volume

  • Identified $203,000 in annual cost savings by deploying customer self-service

Major US web & catalog athletic retailer with 6 million annual call volume

  • Identified $270,000 in cost savings from increasing CSR efficiency by screen-popping caller information from IVR to desktop

To find out more about how Syntellect Business Consulting Services’ dedicated team of consultants leverages our 25 years of contact center experience, knowhow and insight to help you reduce costs and improve efficiencies while enhancing the customer experience, please email info@syntellect.com.

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     Syntellect Support Center Released for CIM

Support Center

Syntellect Support Center automates the installation and management of Partial Release Cycle (PRC) updates. This Java-based program eliminates the manual process of applying software patches and provides Syntellect CIM users a level of assurance that each update has been installed properly on the server. Support Center will display release notes, validate the update is being applied to the correct version of Syntellect CIM, ensure the server environment is prepared for the update, perform file back-ups and more. There is no additional cost to add Support Center to any current Syntellect CIM solution.

To learn more about Syntellect Support Center for CIM visit www.syntellect.com/supportcenter.


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Syntellect's Interactions 2009 Keynote Speaker Announced

 

Daniel Hong

Daniel Hong, senior analyst for Datamonitor, has been announced as the Interactions 2009 Keynote Speaker. Mr. Hong's keynote address will discuss "Speech Solutions in Today's Economic Climate." Mr. Hong is the author of numerous reports that examine the current opportunities, relevant issues and future direction of the global voice business market. He has also written several industry white papers and engaged in numerous consultancy projects for companies in the voice business and outsourcing markets.

Interactions 2009 is less than a month away! Register by February 23rd and save $600 off the regular conference price using discount code INTERACT09. Interactions 2009 sessions will focus on improving your operational efficiencies while reducing your contact center costs. Don't miss out on Syntellect product reviews, training and networking with your peers.

Click here to visit Interactions 2009.

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Upcoming Events

 

Call Center Demo & Conference
February 25-27, 2009
Miami, Florida

Interactions 2009 User and Management Conference
March 9-11, 2009
Scottsdale, Arizona

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