A Cost Effective Next-Generation Contact Center Technology Platform

It is an exciting time for the contact center industry with the non-stop innovation and evolution in technology and telecommunications. The economic shift from ‘bricks and mortars’ to ‘clicks and online’ over the last decade has tremendously increased the technological needs of modern day contact centers. Rapid changes in telecommunications technology have brought critical opportunities – opportunities to make significant improvements in productivity while greatly reducing operating costs. 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.

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Taking advantage of New Technologies to realize healthy ROI on contact centers

Technological changes have dramatically impacted the cost of doing business in the call center industry. The World Wide Web (WWW) and Internet Protocol (IP), evolution of next generation call center software, as well as advances in hardware and open source development, have unleashed unparalleled change that has significantly altered the industry. The importance of contact centers industry have grown due to global e-commerce. The sophistication and capabilities of the contact center technology platform have increased exponentially, while the cost per seat has gone down annually.

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Selecting your Call Center ACD software

The functionality and features within your contact center technology platform has a direct impact on the efficiency and productivity of your call center. Vendors are touting VoIP (Voice over IP) platforms with remote distributed architecture as a strong alternative to the legacy systems with TDM (Time Division Multiplexing). Ultimately it is the sophistication of the features like Automatic Call Distribution (ACD), Interactive Voice Response (IVR), feature-rich IP PBX functionality, call recording, predictive dialing, Agent Scripting and a host of other features and reporting that will determine if your next-generation VoIP contact center can provide the competitive advantage that you are seeking.

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Integrating CRM and Custom Applications into your Call Center

Rapid growth in communication technologies over the past years has presented call centers with an unprecedented opportunity to support complex customer interactions. Independent applications, tailored to manage the business process of customer interactions, have an increasingly important role in daily call center operations and are used extensively to perform crucial duties that significantly improve productivity.

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Call Center Software for Asterisk telephony

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.

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A Cost Effective Next-Generation Contact Center Technology Platform

For most call centers and office ACD systems, the rapid changes in telecommunications technology have brought critical opportunities – opportunities to make significant improvements in productivity while greatly reducing operating costs. Cutting-edge Internet Protocol (IP) based phone and contact center technology platforms have evolved to the point that highly reliable and full-featured systems are available to businesses of all sizes.
The widespread use of VoIP can be seen daily (we are all familiar with the likes of Skype). However, the availability of such high-grade, quality software is not limited to simply placing and receiving calls. Next-generation phone systems and call center ACD software, capable of supporting both TDM and VoIP, is available and is delivering groundbreaking advancements to office phone systems and 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.
Technology managers now have access to this sophisticated and leading telephony platform for their call centers. It is a great time to evaluate the available contact center technology solutions and to build out a cost effective, sophisticated, next-generation call center technology platform. The right telephony platform with the right call center ACD software will deliver the competitive edge you require.
Any Asterisk Call center software must meet the existing demands placed upon modern call centers. Q-Suite 5.0 from Indosoft, 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.
Q-Suite 5.0 provides more than just a full-featured solution. The ease of system management and administration of the product throughout its lifecycle reduces the cost of running the system and substantially reduces ongoing overhead. Interoperability is another benefit inherent to Q-Suite 5.0. Its class of standards-based API allows you to easily support the functioning of existing business applications that utilize tried and true CTI
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.
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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”

Call center migration to Asterisk

Unification of data, voice and other forms of media in communications has generated a push to IP telephony. We all recognize that TDM is mature and reliable, but it is gradually giving way to IP telephony. This is largely due to the flexibility that comes from using IP (Internet Protocol) networks. When it comes to acquiring a new technology platform, folks in the contact center industry understand the importance of acquiring call center ACD to improve immediate and near-term productivity. Equally important considerations are the changes happening in the technology world which will have serious impacts on the economics of the call center.

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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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Large call center setup with Asterisk

In the last decade, organizations have established large contact center operations with the total number of call center agent seats exceeding one thousand. Such large capacity contact center operation requires robust, feature-rich and flexible call center ACD. Many of these systems are TDM based and expensive. With the current push for migration to VoIP, technology officers are evaluating and exploring different options.

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