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Eyretel Reinforces Importance of Customer-Centric Quality Recording and Monitoring at 2001 ICCM - Call Center Management Conference

By moving quality assurance from agent monitoring to customer-centric, closed loop improvement, companies can dramatically improve their contact centers' return on investment.

 CALVERTON, Md., & ICCM 2001, CHICAGO, Booth #1201, July 30 / --
Eyretel, a global provider of voice and data recording, quality monitoring,
and analysis systems for customer experience management, today reinforced the
importance of customer-centric recording and quality monitoring as companies
increasingly invest in multi-media contact centers.  As the 2001 ICCM - Call
Center Management Conference opens, organizations from around the globe are
attending the world's largest and most comprehensive event for call center
professionals in the call center, e-commerce, and customer service arenas.
Using the sophisticated recording and data mining capabilities available today
allows companies to understand and improve the customer experience for
competitive differentiation and long-term profitability.
   For the last three years Eyretel has pioneered the transition of contact
center quality assurance from agent monitoring to customer-centric, closed
loop improvement.  While quality monitoring is an important element of the
modern contact center's processes, the return on investment associated with
taking action on insights gained from a contact center's interactions with its
customers eclipse those of monitoring the mean performance of an agent.
   "The fundamental architecture of the Eyretel system allows us to monitor
calls from the customer's perspective," said Elliot Cohen, technology and
support manager, Canon ITS, an Eyretel customer.  "Using the Eyretel solution,
we are able to monitor the complete customer transaction, not just the agent
interaction portion."
   "We felt it was critical to be able to record and have access to ALL
customer transactions.  When there's a potential quality issue, World Class
organizations don't cop out by saying they didn't have access to a call
because they do random sampling," said Wendy Welser, Director, Global Service
Assurance Call Center Integration, Global Crossing, an Eyretel customer.

   Pool of Calls Approach
   Eyretel's recording, monitoring, and analysis solutions allow users to
record all customer interactions and then focus their quality efforts on
problem areas identified through call outcome or visual analysis tools.
Recording based on random or business rules information known only at the
start of a call will miss critical calls.  In a sales call center, for
example, the manager may want to analyze all calls lasting more than ten
minutes that did not result in a closed sale.  Or a customer service manager
may review all unresolved customer complaints.  In both cases, it is
impossible to predetermine which calls will fit the criteria.

   Short-term and Long-term Analysis
   Every organization wants to develop successful, long-term relationships
with its customers.  This is possible with technology that can store contact
interaction data for longer periods of time, taking a minimum of hard disk
space by writing to a RAID array storage for shorter-term use and a DAT tape
for long-term archiving.  RAID storage gives immediate availability of the
total customer interaction, including voice and screen activity.  A manager
would be able to research all of the calls for a lost customer - not just the
last one - to develop a timeline and find trouble areas in the customer
service process.  A supervisor could track the training progress of a new
agent or uncover a successful sales script.

   Integration and Usability
   At ICCM, Eyretel is demonstrating its recording, monitoring, and analysis
suite.  Eyretel's systems provide customers with the best technology to
achieve ease of integration and to retrieve and analyze actionable
information, including:

   -- Integration with automatic call distributor (ACD), computer telephony
      integration (CTI), interactive voice response (IVR), and voice over
      Internet telephony (VoIP).
   -- Recording of e-mails, agent screen activity, web sessions, and text
      chat sessions.
   -- Good system performance during recording because of digital recording
      and RAID storage capabilities.
   -- A clear migration path to VoIP recording while protecting recording
      infrastructure investments.
   -- Integration with best-in-class third party applications such as
      eLearning, workforce management, and CRM.
   -- Usability for supervisory, administrative, and IT staff.

   About Eyretel
   Eyretel is a global provider of voice and data recording and analysis
solutions for customer interaction centers.  Its comprehensive suite of
recording, quality monitoring, and analysis products and services support and
enhance the customer experience management (CEM) activities of contact
centers.  Eyretel develops, supplies, and integrates software and hardware
systems for both traditional and IP environments that allow the complete
recording and analysis of all electronic customer communication and
interaction, including telephone calls, e-mail, web chat, agent assisted web
browsing and desktop computer activity.  Traded on the London Stock Exchange
(EYR), Eyretel's North American headquarters are in Calverton, MD with
corporate headquarters located in Leatherhead, Surrey in the UK and offices in
London, mainland Europe, Hong Kong, and Australia.  Eyretel's worldwide
clients include The Regence Group, Canon ITS, Natsource, Global Crossing, The
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, ANZ Investment Bank, CGU, and HCA-
The Healthcare Company.  For more information, visit the Eyretel web site at
http://www.eyretel.com


 
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