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intelligentApplications

intelligentApplications™ (iApplications™) is a library of application modules that have been built up over many years of contact centre operations experience.  These application templates come with pre-configured screens, workflow, database structures and reports.

Examples of intelligentApplications are:

  1. Blended inbound/outbound campaigns (iCampaigns)
  2. Appointment systems, resource allocations and live calendars (iCalendar)
  3. Credit card processing applications (iCredit)
  4. Trouble ticket and case management (iTicketing)
  5. Ordering systems (iOrders)
  6. Messaging services. (iMessaging)

iCampaigns

The Campaign Manager helps the contact centre operate at its maximum potential by careful management of different priorities and contact media. It is unique because it can manage and prioritise all mainstream media types in a single universal queue as well and balancing inbound and outbound communications. The Campaign Manager differentiates between:

  • Multimedia Sequential Outbound (Prioritised list of contacts with no appointments)
  • Multimedia Scheduled Outbound (Outbound call appointments)
  • Multimedia Inbound (Queuing communications with skills based routing)

 

Typically, these contact types are prioritised by placing all scheduled outbound calls at the front of the queue and all sequential calls at the back of the queue. This drives maximum customer satisfaction whilst ensuring all available advisors are busy whenever possible. It is possible to change the relative priority of these contact types or just use one of the customer management approaches.

intelligent campaigns process

The diagram above shows how blended marketing campaigns can be managed. Traditional telemarketing or “Outbound Sequential Campaigns” are driven using a marketing contact list. As this is loaded into iContact using the iData module, it can be de-duped and augmented to existing information within the campaign. iData can also be used to dynamically change priority of the outbound calls during the execution of a campaign. In addition, contact centre advisors can set active appointments to call specific customers at specific times and this can be blended into the universal queue as shown on the right. Using the same method, inbound contacts can be prioritised and managed. All events are controlled in single queue for easy management and reporting. Skills based routing is used to pass the contact events to the appropriate advisor.

Key Benefits

  1. Tight control of scheduled outbound calling ensure customers are always called on time
  2. Priortise inbound call types for minimum queueing
  3. Automatically switch to campaign calling in quiet times
  4. Central control of all call types to optimise customer satisfaction and business performance
  5. Maximise advisor productivity

Key Features

  1. Marketing list management
  2. Dynamic data creation and clensing tools
  3. Scheduled or immediate data import
  4. Data blending for list updates
  5. Fully balanced universal queue
  6. Integrated mission control and reporting

 

iCalendar

The appointment system allows the definition, creation and use of appointment, scheduling and diarising applications such as:

  1. Personal diary systems (where agents can function as PAs)
  2. Appointment booking systems (e.g. field sales visits, restaurant/showroom/meeting room bookings, training course scheduling and event attendance)
  3. Rental systems (e.g. cars, hotel rooms, marquees, catering equipment, facilities)
  4. Duty rotas (e.g. on-call engineers, medical staff, wardens).

As well as the high degree of flexibility within this application, it is made all the more powerful by the fact that a range of integrated search and query mechanisms are available for use in iDesktop. It also manages contention for bookings or timeslots across all users of the application and not just across operators in a single contact centre.

intelligent calendar screenshot

Key Benefits

  1. Use of templates to quickly build custom solutions
  2. Lower risk as tried and tested
  3. Best practice business processes

Key Features

  1. Drag and drop configuration tool
  2. Control and change control
  3. Object oriented approach

 

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