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Applications for Unified Queue Management

Skills based routing has been the backbone of ACD based call routing. Multiple Agents and Multiple Queues are matched by the ACD to route individual calls to the most appropriate Agent. Queues require skills to handle calls and Queues have priority. Agents are assigned skills with skill levels. All agents are automatically logged into all the queues for which they have the required skills. This can be extended to other media type as well.

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Modern technology stack drives faster Call Center Software development

Modern contact center platforms are built on top of powerful technology stack. The underlying stack makes it simpler for the developers of call center software to focus on the building functionality around the two main aspects of voice customer contact, namely the Dialer and the ACD Engine. I am not ignoring the growth in the use of social media and chat within inbound centers for live customer contact. A good ACD should treat be able to all media types and queue them in a similar fashion using skills based routing and queue prioritization.

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Web Services API for Asterisk based ACD

The dominance of Asterisk in the hybrid PBX market is unquestionable. So is the use of Asterisk as a primary telephony platform for contact centers around the world. Customer contact operations also require a powerful ACD and Dialer. Larger operations require more automation and standardized method of integration for the administration and management of the contact center software.

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Asterisk telephony with complementary ACD

Asterisk is one of the most flexible and powerful hybrid PBX available for building out an IP telephony platform, whether it is a premise based setup or a cloud based install. With rapid rise in the deployment of Asterisk, vertical application builders are looking for a fully developed ACD to complement Asterisk. Q-Suite ACD has been built grounds up to fit this particular need. Q-Suite is a unique full function ACD that can scale to multiple Asterisk servers. It is available for deployments in applications where customers require complete control over Call-flow and Queue management on top of the standard skills based routing.

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Building a Cloud Contact Center using Asterisk

Technological innovations are driving growth and productivity in the contact center industry and  one way to tap into the technology advancement is by building out a cost effective Cloud Contact Center with Asterisk as the PBX. Cloud setup in a reliable data center provides instant scalability and does away with the need for large capital investment and capacity planning. Availability of reliable infrastructure and bandwidth at reasonable cost and the option choosing VoIP and SIP for Telco connectivity are added reasons.

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Integrating CRM and ERP Applications To Phone Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software record, unify and manage the business processes. It is usually industry specific and highly evolved. In most cases, there is a close relationship between phone services and CRM. The need to integrate phone services with a CRM or an ERP application is growing and presents an unique opportunity for CRM/ERP vendors to enhance product offering and increase productivity for its end-users. Phone service integration with sophisticated ACD and Dialer features will enhance the usability of the CRM and ERP software. Continue reading “Integrating CRM and ERP Applications To Phone Services”

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ACD requirements for improving efficiency through Contact Center Queue Setup

Effective use of Queues and IVR (Interactive Voice Response) within a back office phone system or call center ACD (Automatic Call Distributor) will have positive impact on the overall efficiency and productivity. A versatile ACD capable of supporting flexible queue arrangement and call handling is essential to meet the queuing demands and requirements of modern inbound contact center operation.

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Asterisk CTI integration with Q-Suite API

Introduction of VoIP has created a paradigm shift in telecommunications where reliance upon one mature and reliable protocol (TDM) is being replaced with VoIP, which enables the unification of voice and data over a single network. Asterisk as a hybrid telephone switch allows seamless interoperability of TDM and VoIP impacting everything from the choice of telephony switch to the way CTI integration and call control are implemented. As a result, different business domain applications have an extremely cost-effective migration path to an IP telephony platform.

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Migrating to Asterisk for Call Center setup

The Flexible and Scalable Solution For Migrating to IP Telephony

The world of telecommunications is moving away from one mature and reliable protocol (TDM) to a new and more flexible (VoIP), primarily due to the unification of data, voice and all other media over an IP (Internet Protocol) infrastructure. We all understand the importance of acquiring a new or next generation contact center technology platform for improving productivity. More important is the need to successfully migrate to a superior contact center platform that can be a competitive differentiator. Continue reading “Migrating to Asterisk for Call Center setup”

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Capacity planning for large call centers using Asterisk

Last updated: August 10, 2016

The architecture of a large call center setup shown below with Asterisk as telephony platform, includes web servers for serving agent web screens and a common database server. A high end Asterisk telephony server can handle over one hundred concurrent channels with compression and voice recording. High-end call center softwares are feature-rich and offer sophisticated agent screen scripting. The demand on the Web server will increase with increasing agent seats. The Web server will have to scale ahead of the Asterisk server.

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