Keeping Things Simple

March, 2016

Managing campaigns and setting up work queues; contact centers need to be mindful of the personal touch.

Do you ever struggle to understand the jargon in our business? Well, we are probably all guilty sometimes of using marketing terminology to dress up our offerings, put one over the competition – and confuse our customers in the process. This applies particularly in that space where multimedia and agents collide. At any point in time customers will have a preferred medium of choice, be it voice or email etc. And they also want to be taken seriously, which ideally means communicating with an agent who they know, or who at least is equipped with their session history and able to respond easily to them.

So how does this fit in with what contact centers are trying to do? In simple terms, contact centers just do two things.

Firstly, they manage campaigns for their customers where many agents may be assigned to handle material work volumes. For example, a campaign handling customer service, where customers call in to place orders and may be assigned to any agent depending on agent skill and customer profile. Or, it might be a chat campaign where agents offer help to people browsing a company’s website.

Common to these interactions is the fact that there is no direct link between the contact center agent and the customer. Does it matter? Well most times it does. Customers are likely to buy or interact positively when they are talking to someone that they have a relationship with. Perhaps less important, or unlikely in the case of chat, but definitely a big plus in the case of that inbound call.

Secondly, call centers set up work queues for their agents, where contact center interactions are personalised and the agent has the opportunity to build up rapport with customers.

So do call centers have a preference as to what kinds of work they want their agents to handle? Too darn right they do! Without exception they should all be clamouring for agents to manage their own work queues. Or to put it differently, they should all be bringing the personal touch to their communications.

How much time should agents spend on impersonal campaigns as opposed to their own work queues? That’s a subject for another day.

What We Offer

Sytel Limited develops and supplies Softdial Contact Center® (SCC) – multimedia, multichannel, fully blended cloud contact center solutions.

Available by subscription as CCaaS, fully managed and supported by Sytel, or for quick and easy deployment by partners and enterprise users.

All Sytel cloud components are secure, resilient and scale seamlessly from 10 agents to 10,000+, whether local, mobile or remote.

Flexible Contact Center Software

Softdial Contact Center™ – rich functionality, all-in-one, designed to deliver at scale

  • Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)

    CCaaS for subscribers – global service​, with no upfront costs

  • Contact Center Platform – CCaaS Partners

    Build your own CCaaS business using the power and flexibility of Sytel software

  • Contact Center Platform – Enterprise

    High performance platform to drive contact center productivity – cloud, on-premise or hybrid

Blended Media Desktop

Fully customisable, multi-channel, multi-session workspace

Work Anywhere

Browser-based tools, no software installation required

Customise, Localise, White Label

Design all user interfaces to individual requirements

Integration via APIs

‘Swap out’ components and integrate with 3rd party apps

World Class Development

Continuous evolution pushing technical boundaries

Capabilities

Softdial Contact Center™ (SCC) is designed to be flexible, extensible and scalable, integrating with any legacy equipment, and meeting the most complex of requirements.

All Media Channels

Voice, chat, email, social, etc – fully integrated and blended

Agent Multi-Tasking

Work with multiple live contact sessions of any media channel

Dynamic Workforce Management

Optimise agent usage and balance workloads in real-time without human intervention, across all media channels

Predictive Dialing

Best-of-breed performance under compliance

Optimised Inbound Routing

Smart rules and ‘best-available’ decisions to drive great customer service

Agent Scripts

Help agents achieve and maintain excellence

Voice and Screen Recording

See and hear exactly how agents are interacting

Analytics and Data Feeds

Measure and evaluate performance at every level

IVR, Bots & Conversational AI

Design effective automated flows or integrate with 3rd party providers

Customer Journey Tracking

Stored customer contact history, to aid routing and add context to conversations

Modules

Drive operational efficiency, increase customer satisfaction & improve agent performance

Softdial One™

Highly flexible unified web UI for agents, supervisors and administrators

Softdial Scripter™

Create complex process flow scripts for agents, IVR, chatbots and other applications

Sytel AI Dialer™

Maximum predictive dialing performance, under any compliance rules

Softdial Pathfinder™

Precise routing rules for ‘best available’ connection

Softdial Media Server™

Core telephony functions to manage all inbound/outbound SIP calls

Softdial Reporter™ 5

Fully customisable performance stats, charts and reports, across all channels

Softdial Publisher™

Comprehensive data output to build your own reports

Softdial Recording Monitor™

Audio and screen recording of agent activity to ensure the highest standards

Softdial Campaign Manager™

Automation to optimise any outreach strategy

Softdial Repository™

Central storage and configuration of common resources

Sytel Global Compliance™

Flexible ‘no contact’ rules to protect contact center and consumer

Solutions

Performance and efficiency for a wide range of business applications

By Business Type

Enterprise

A full featured contact center software solution, designed for optimum performance at scale

Small/ Medium Business

Options for SMBs to subscribe to our full-featured cloud service managed and hosted by either one of our partners or by Sytel themselves

By Industry

Customer Service

Connect quickly to well equipped agents

Market Research

Best-of-breed predictive dialing with CATI integration

Debt Collection

Automated inbound/ outbound blending integrated with any debt management app

Sales & Telemarketing

Maximise agent productivity with best-of-breed predictive dialing

Healthcare

Secure, highly-configurable multichannel communications for excellence in patient care