SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--inContact, Inc., a NICE company (NASDAQ:NICE) and the leading provider of cloud contact center software that unifies omnichannel routing, workforce optimization and analytics, today announced the details of its Spring 2017 release. Updates to the inContact Customer Interaction Cloud improve the customer experience with comprehensive omnichannel journey management, increased contact handling speed and accuracy through analytics-based routing and boosts the value of customer interaction data with new cloud storage services.
“Providing a complete solution, including integrated omnichannel routing, workforce optimization and analytics, is crucial for success in the customer service industry,” said Paul Jarman, CEO of inContact. “Our purpose-built solution helps contact centers achieve their business goals and meet the rapidly evolving needs of the modern customer service industry.”
Deliver Great Customer Experiences through a Complete Omnichannel
Journey
With this release, inContact makes it possible for
contact centers to deliver a superior customer experience through a true
omnichannel experience across the customer journey, while providing
greater efficiency and detailed reporting for contact center leaders. Increase
agent utilization and efficiency by enabling agents to
simultaneously handle multiple contacts across multiple channels, while
empowering agents to increase customer satisfaction and
first-contact resolution with the ability to elevate from a
single-channel customer interaction to a true omnichannel session.
Unlike other contact center providers, this new omnichannel journey
functionality is available to inContact customers at no additional
charge. It is delivered natively within the My Agent eXperience™ (MAX)
agent interface and includes:
- Omnichannel Session Handling: Increases agent utilization by supporting concurrent handling of multiple customer interactions across all digital channels for a true omnichannel session.
- Omnichannel Session Elevation: Agents may “elevate” a single-channel customer interaction to an omnichannel session by adding channels to a live interaction, such as adding voice to an existing chat conversation. Only inContact routes and tracks these additional channels through the automatic contact distribution (ACD) process, enabling an added voice conversation on customer’s device of choice, unlike other solutions that can only add voice via WebRTC on a PC browser.
- Omnichannel Workload Throttling: Agents now can control new contact flow to maintain quality and responsiveness, especially if a contact with a text channel elevates to voice. This provides greater utilization than other ACDs which only view agents as “busy” or “available” for new contacts.
- Omnichannel Session Reporting: All reporting and dashboards have been updated to reflect customer sessions that include multiple simultaneous channels and agents that handle multiple customers across channels – providing true reporting on the omnichannel customer experience and the productivity of agents.
Gain Speed and Accuracy with Industry’s First Analytics-based Routing
The
Spring 2017 release delivers a first-of-its-kind intelligent routing
innovation, made possible by inContact’s 2016 acquisition of Attensity,
a leading provider of text-based analytics. inContact is the only
contact center provider to offer native analytics-based routing that
combines natural language understanding and analytics with a
sophisticated skills-based ACD to improve contact routing accuracy and
speed. inContact customers can now expect to significantly improve
customer satisfaction, increase agent productivity and
reduce agent attrition through the routing of
text-based interactions directly to the appropriate agents through
topic, priority and sentiment analysis. Detailed examples of this new
functionality include:
- Topic Routing: Analyzes content to determine the topic being discussed in an interaction and routes text-based interactions to the appropriately skilled agent based on the product or service mentioned.
- Priority Routing: Analyzes content to classify an interaction as “priority” or “non-priority”. Emails from dissatisfied customers are flagged for priority routing to specifically-skilled, or more senior, agents for handling.
- Sentiment Routing: Uses sentiment analysis to classify an interaction into four categories: negative, mixed, neutral, and positive. Delivers positive and standard-topic emails to new or less-experienced agents while sensitive interactions are routed to veteran agents.
Retain and Search Every Customer Interaction
New cloud
storage services increase the value of data by allowing inContact
customers to easily store their data for long-term retention and execute
richer, more targeted searches for improved analysis. Automated
retention and data archiving processes improve the reliability of
data by eliminating common errors associated with manual file
management and data transfer processes. inContact Cloud Storage Services
deliver:
- Native Storage Options: Reduce or eliminate the need for data transfer of storage, maintenance of storage infrastructure, and/or outsourcing to third-party solutions with integrated active storage, long-term storage and automated archiving policies.
- Metadata Search: Provides the ability to execute a targeted search via metadata tags on all files contained within long-term storage.
- Optimized Data Management: Define time-to-live to determine how long each file type is retained and when a certain file type is moved to long-term storage, allowing for granular data administration and reduced storage costs.
The inContact Spring 2017 release advances and strengthens its complete cloud contact center solution with advancements designed to boost efficiency and flexibility for the modern contact center. With these latest innovations, inContact expands its enterprise-level, global Open Cloud Platform, built with the future in mind and capable of evolving with customer growth and the rapidly changing landscape of the customer service industry.
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About inContact, a NICE company
inContact is the cloud contact center software leader, with the most complete, easiest and most reliable solution to help organizations achieve their customer experience goals. Recognized as a market leader by Gartner, IDC, Frost & Sullivan, Ovum and DMG, inContact continuously innovates in the cloud and is the only provider to offer a complete solution that includes the customer interaction cloud, an expert service model and the broadest partner ecosystem. inContact is a part of NICE (Nasdaq: NICE), the worldwide leading provider of both cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions, helping organizations of all sizes deliver better customer service, ensure compliance, combat fraud and safeguard citizens. Over 22,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 80 of the Fortune 100 companies, are using NICE solutions. For more about NICE, visit www.nice.com. To learn more about inContact, visit www.incontact.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release
contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking
statements, including the statements by Mr. Jarman, are based on the
current expectations of the management of NICE Ltd. (the Company) only,
and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause
the actual results or performance of the Company to differ materially
from those described herein, including but not limited to the impact of
the global economic environment on the Company’s customer base
(particularly financial services firms) and the resulting uncertainties;
changes in technology and market requirements; decline in demand for the
Company's products; inability to timely develop and introduce new
technologies, products and applications; difficulties or delays in
absorbing and integrating acquired operations, products, technologies
and personnel; loss of market share; pressure on pricing resulting from
competition; and inability to maintain certain marketing and
distribution arrangements. For a more detailed description of the risk
factors and uncertainties affecting the Company, refer to the Company's
reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F. The
forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as
of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no
obligation to update or revise them, except as required by law.
