Migrating to Asterisk Telephony
We are witnessing a critical change in the history of telecommunications, with a move away from one mature and reliable protocol (TDM) to a new one (VoIP), primarily due to the unification of data, voice and all other media over an IP (Internet Protocol) infrastructure. This paradigm shift has a great impact when acquiring a new generation contact center technology platform for improving productivity. Indeed, successfully migrating to a superior contact center platform can often be a competitive differentiator and should be of critical importance for large call centers. Cutting-edge Internet Protocol (IP) based contact center technology platforms have evolved to the point that highly reliable and full-featured systems are available to businesses of all sizes.
Next-generation call center software, capable of supporting both TDM and VoIP, is available and is delivering groundbreaking advancements to call centers around the world. Many of these advances are due to the superiority of the telephony platform supporting the next-generation software. For example, the use of Asterisk, the leading powerhouse of IP PBX systems and VoIP gateways, is so pervasive that it can be considered omnipresent. Asterisk has experienced universal acceptance and is a market leader in delivering an enterprise-grade telephony platform at a fraction of the cost compared to the available proprietary telephony systems.
With so many clear benefits to be had by utilizing Asterisk, the next task is to identify and deploy a feature rich ACD that is capable of functioning with Asterisk’s advanced switching capabilities.
Q-Suite 5.0: Advanced Call Center Software for Asterisk
Any Call center software must meet the existing demands placed upon modern call centers. Q-Suite 5.0, a very high-end call center ACD software solution for Asterisk, delivers the Full-Functionality requirement to call centers. It is feature-rich, scalable, out-of-the-box software that comes with a powerful ACD and predictive dialer. It has detailed reporting capabilities and is bound to satisfy the functional requirements of most advanced call centers. With Q-Suite 5.0, you can switch to Asterisk with the right contact center technology solution and migrate seamlessly to IP telephony. Q-Suite 5.0 offers reliability, required for your daily operations. It offers High Availability, with ability to ensure that you do not loose existing calls due a single failure, and Full-Functionality, the availability of industry standard features comparable to the any of the high-end proprietary peers in the contact center technology domain.
Feature set of Q-Suite 5.0 – Call Center Software for Asterisk
Inbound Features of Call Center Software
Availability in Q-Suite
ACD with Skills Based Routing & Queue Prioritization
YES
GUI based IVR Setup Tool
YES
GUI Dialplan Builder
YES
Powerful WYSIWYG GUI Script Builder for Agent Client Interaction
YES
Hot-Desking
YES
On-Hook and Off-Hook Agents
YES
Time of Day, Day of the Week Scheduling
YES
Flexible Queue Setup with Periodic Announcements
YES
Live Reports and Wallboard
YES
Call Detail Pop-ups
YES
Ability to do Database Dips
YES
Remote and Home Agents
YES
Quality Monitoring – Recording, Listening and Barge
YES
Call Recording
YES
Outbound Features of Call Center Software
Availability in Q-Suite
Preview, Agent-Ready and Predictive Dialing
YES
Sophisticated List and Campaign Management
YES
Do not Call Management
YES
Powerful WYSIWYG GUI Script Builder for Agent Client Interaction
YES
General Contact Center Features
Availability in Q-Suite
TDM & VoIP Connectivity
YES
Multi-tenant
YES
Real-time Reporting
YES
Historical Reporting
YES
Voice Recording
YES
Quality Monitoring
YES
Web Agent Interface and Native Client
YES
API for CTI Interface (.NET and Socket)
YES
Asterisk Telephony
YES
Hosted & Premise Based Installs
YES
High Availability for Redundancy
YES
Mid-call Recovery for Fail-over
YES
Full Featured GUI for PBX setup
YES
Migrating to Asterisk Telephony
The paradigm shift in technology has opened an unprecedented opportunity to enhance your call center platform, lower your cost and provide much more functionality. There has been never such an opportunity to compete and grow with industry leaders. In order to take full advantage of what cutting edge technology can deliver, a close analysis of Asterisk and Q-Suite 5.0 should remain central to your search for a next-generation contact center technology platform.