2010-07-14
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ContactCenterWorld.com
Customer Feedback or How to Make Customers Happy
(by Bernhard Wagner, Director Sales International, ASC telecom AG)
The role of contact centers in today’s economy is clear – "make customers happy" – a more demanding goal than many realize. For a long time, companies around the world have eschewed investing in their contact centers as an important segment of their business. This attitude has changed, and contact centers are now upgrading their infrastructure by implementing quality management, speech and content analytics, e-learning, recording, WFM and CRM.
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2010-06-07
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ContactProfessional.com
Eight Reasons Why Your Contact Center Needs
Business Process Optimization
(by Katrin Henkel, PR & Communications Manager, ASC telecom AG)
Business process optimization (BPO) is an emerging technology, primarily for contact centers, encompassing five key components: communications recording, quality monitoring, speech analytics, eLearning and workforce management. Its enterprise-wide impact on business processes, human resources and executive decisions differentiates contact centers using it from those that don't.
Here are eight reasons why your contact center needs BPO and its inherent value for your future growth...
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2010-05-21
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ContactCenterWorld.com
Business Process Optimization for Supervisors
(by Patrick Salg Director of International Sales, ASC telecom AG)
Historically, supervisors have used communications recording systems with quality monitoring to improve agent performance. Today, however, business process optimization is creating a sea change in supervisor capabilities, providing deep insights into their agents’ activities to increase operational effectiveness.
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2010-04-12
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ContactCenterWorld.com
Hosted Solutions and SaaS
(by Andre Riemekasten Business Development Manager, ASC telecom AG)
Business markets are undergoing transformational change, and product cycles are becoming shorter. This presents a challenge for global companies, as well as small and medium-sized enterprises, and requires a flexible IT infrastructure to respond to each change in a dynamic manner.
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2010-03-18
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ContactCenterWorld.com
Customer Care in the Era of Social Media and Web 2.0
(by Katrin Hansel, Business Development Manager for Contact Centers, ASC telecom AG)
We are living in a world where social and cultural changes influence the requirements of customer services and customer communications. The generation of the so-called "Digital Native" demands a new approach to customer care.
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2010-02-16
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ContactCenterWorld.com
Business Process Optimization for Contact Centers
(by Matthias J. Haupt, Vice President Global Sales, ASC telecom AG)
What are the key success benchmarks driving the use of quality monitoring (QM) in contact centers in Europe? And what are the main challenges in its implementation?
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2009-12-08
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TMCnet.com
The Use of Quality Monitoring in European Contact Centers
(by Michael Schwartz, Channel Manager, ASC telecom AG)
What are the key success benchmarks driving the use of quality monitoring (QM) in contact centers in Europe? And what are the main challenges in its implementation?
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2009-11-19
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TMCnet.com
Sales Opportunities for Quality Monitoring
(by Ralph Roesel, Product Manager, ASC telecom AG)
Today, voice recording is included in most dealer portfolios either to help the customer meet financial compliance regulations or simply to verify telephone transactions. Another common driver occurs when the customer migrates to IP telephony and must deploy IP recording software. However, the real profit margin today involves pro-active selling of broader solutions with recording as the core.
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2009-10-14
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TMCnet.com
Voice Data Compression in Recording Solutions: A Blessing or a Curse?
(by Peter Schmitt, Director Research & Development, ASC telecom AG)
Compression of voice data is widely used for digital recording solutions in analog and digital telephony environments to reduce the storage footprint for recorded audio. For VoIP, compression is required for low-bandwidth network links; however, recording solutions normally store the audio data in the same format as it is received over the network.
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| 2009-10-05 |
ContactCenterWorld.com
Key Technologies for Contact Centers
What are the most common applications for speech analytics software?
1. Emotion detection to filter calls with anger;
2.Gender and age spotting to segment calls, to measure campaign efficiency or for routing to suitable agents;
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Keyword and phrase spotting to categorize and classify calls automatically, to sort by topic and to verify adherence to call scripts; and
4. Speech-to-text transcription for semantic analysis on root causes or to enable the VOC (voice of the customer).
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2009-09-16
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TMCnet.com
The Role of Communications and Networking in Driving Change
(by Bernd Ottow, Product Line Manager, ASC telecom AG)
Let's do some time travelling. Jump back a few thousand years and consider the development of mankind. Our ancestors' lives remained pretty much the same from the end of the Stone Age, about 7000 BC, until the dawn of the New Age in 1500 AD. Progress has occurred in quite a static way until the last two centuries, when we've been beset by an exponential explosion of dramatic life-changing inventions.
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2009-08-06
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TMCnet.com
Financial Contact Centers of the Future
(by Marc Wildner, Director Business Development, ASC telecom AG)
Financial institutions have relied on communications recording and quality monitoring in their contact centers for decades for a variety of purposes including verification of transactions, compliance with government regulations, protection from liability and improvement of agent performance and customer service.
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| 2009-07-20 |
TMCnet.com
Excellent Service Isn't Just Luck
Risk management has become more necessary than ever due to the current financial crisis. Important transactions must be documented by tamper-proof recording to protect financial institutions and trading floors and avoid monetary loss or damage to an institution’s reputation.
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2009-07-03
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COMMSDEALER.com
Margin in QM solutions
(by Mike Murley, Sales Director, ASC telecom UK Ltd)
The 'real' margin opportunity in call recording is achieved through selling a broader range of solutions with recording at the core, according to Mike Murley, Sales Director at ASC Telecom UK. Voice recording is now part of many dealer portfolios, but Quality Monitoring (QM) applications are a rarer breed, despite the significantly higher margin opportunities they offer.
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| 2009-07-01 |
Computer TELEPHONY (Japan)
Quality Monitoring with INSPIRATIONpro in Japan
published in the Computer TELEPHONY Magazine
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2009-06-09
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TMCnet.com
VoIP Recording Saves Lives
(by Andreas Potyka, Product Manager, ASC telecom AG)
The centrality of effective VoIP recording solutions is widely acknowledged, especially for emergency and other critical situations. However, the adoption of VoIP communications can pose many problems during the transition period, and the best recording systems must migrate smoothly from TDM to IP to prevent the loss of essential interactions.
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| 2009-04-30 |
TMCnet.com
Value Proposition for Workforce Optimization
Workforce optimization (WFO) has been touted for some time now, but many contact center managers have delayed in fully adopting its technology.
You have to measure something if you want to improve it. If you want to measure the quality of your agent’s performance, or if you want to verify compliance, you must track relevant customer interactions.
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2009-04-14
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TMCnet.com
Communications Recording: 10 Questions to Ask
(by Andreas Potyka, Product Management, ASC telecom AG)
Communications recording has become indispensible to enhance customer service, increase productivity, fulfill documentation requirements, increase security and reduce costs. The following list of questions will facilitate finding the vendor best for you.
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2009-04-03
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9-1-1 Magazine
The Two Major Roles of Public Safety Recording Systems
(by Michael Sauer, Vice President Operations, ASC telecom AG)
Recording Systems for public safety agencies may be viewed from different perspectives: their performance during an event and their performance after one. During an emergency, the protection of lives and property eclipses all other needs.
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2009-03-02
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TMCnet.com
Using SIP for Flexible Integration in Call Centers
(by Berthold Hofmann, Chief Technology Officer, ASC telecom AG)
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) establishes and terminates multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video over IP. It is rapidly becoming the standard telephony protocol in contact centers because it facilitates the integration of third-party applications, enables encryption and avoids the need to invest in expensive proprietary hardware. SIP also lets call centers protect their previous investments by helping to incorporate existing infrastructure with new solutions.
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2009-02-13
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Contact Professional (January/February issue)
Embracing the latest Features of Monitoring and Recording Solutions
(by Ralf Roesel, Product Manager, ASC telecom AG)
Although many contact centers still focus on traditional telephony models, most have become convinced of the multiple advantages of Voice-over IP (VoIP) because it uses the same network infrastructure for both data and speech, thus reducing investment and maintenance costs dramatically.
It is easier managing VoIP systems because their browser-based configuration tools work for both IP phones and PBXs.
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2009-02-11
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TMCnet.com
Evaluating PCI DSS Compliance in Call Recording Solutions
(by Peter Schmitt, Director Research & Development, ASC telecom AG)
PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is rapidly becoming the international standard for credit card safety in contact center environments. Recent failures to protect financial data provided in customer interactions have resulted in legislation to protect the consumer, with a direct impact on the selection and operation of call recording solutions.
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| 2008-12-11 |
Telecom Reseller Magazine (October/November 2008 issue)
Benefits of bulk recording
(by Richard Zeno, Solutions Architect, ASC telecom Inc. USA)
Compared to selective recording typically used in contact centers and related organizations to improve agent performance, evaluate customer service and support quality monitoring, bulk recording encompasses a fundamentally different paradigm with unique goals and purposes.
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| 2008-11-26 |
Telecom Reseller Magazine (September/October 2008 issue)
Understanding the power of SIP
In contact centers, the quality of agent/customer insteractions play a vital role in your company's success. Quality Management (QM) software addresses the execution of these interactions and serves as an integral component of workforce optimization (WFO), which encompasses e-learning and performance management analytics.
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2008-10-31
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Telecom Reseller Magazine (August/September 2008 issue)
Quality for the SMB World
(by Ralf Roesel, Product Manager, ASC telecom AG)
In contact centers, where communications serve as the sole business driver, companies must deliver quality costeffective service to differentiate themselves. Recording and quality monitoring are becoming prevalent to fill the knowledge gap of what is really going on.
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| 2008-09-29 |
Telecom Reseller Magazine (July/August 2008 issue)
Integrated communications recording
A communications recording solution must be integrated into an organisation's network and telecommunications structure to avoid a plethora of difficulties. When choosing a recorder either for traditional telephony or VoIP, carefully analyze compatibility with the company enviroment as well as product features.
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2008-09-03
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Telecom Reseller Magazine (June/July 2008 issue)
The global demand for recording and quality monitoring
(by Katrin Henkel, PR & Communications Manager, ASC telecom AG)
Recording customer communications is used for a plethora of reasons. In contact center, recorded conversations serve as the foundation for comprehensive quality monitoring solutions and systematic improvement of customer service.
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| 2008-06-19 |
9-1-1 magazine (June 2008 issue)
New Trends in Voice Logging: 2008 and Beyond
Voice logging recorders have become a misnomer in recent years because new trends have transformed them into complex, multi-faceted solutions. These trends may be grouped into three major categories: compatibility, new features and auxiliary systems.
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2008-06-10
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Telecom Reseller Magazine (May/June 2008 issue)
The power of speech analytics
(by Ralf Roesel, Product Manager, ASC telecom AG)
In contact centers, where communications serve as the sole business driver, it is critical to deliver quality and cost-effective service to differenciate your company. Recording and quality monitoring help by filling the knowledge gap of what is going on.
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2008-06-06
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Telecom Reseller Magazine (April/May 2008 issue)
New developments in Quality Monitoring
(by Katrin Henkel, PR & Communications Manager, ASC telecom AG)
Monitoring solutions facilitate continuous quality improvement in contact centers by making customer contacts more professional and adding value to contact center infrastructures.Today’s oversaturated markets make enduring customer relationships essential. The fierce competition in many industries means product features, often very similar for high-end solutions, are secondary to customer retention for ensuring sustained growth.
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2008-05-06
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Telecom Reseller Magazine (April 2008 issue)
On-demand services
(by Michael Sauer, Vice President Operations, ASC telecom AG)
Have you ever thought of running your own power plant? Probably not. Instead, you buy electricity on a payper- use basis. This approach may soon become a reality for information technology. Cost reduction and innovation are the two main challenges for any industry.
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2008-04-24
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Telecom Reseller Magazine (March 2008 issue)
The Impact of VoIP Encryption
(by Patrick Salg, Director of International Sales, ASC telecom AG)
The growth of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) transmissions represents one of the most important trends in the communications industry today. Unfortunately, this technology may be abused by people searching for confidential information. VoIP vendors quickly recognized this dark side of an otherwise beneficial technology.
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2008-01-15
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Telecom Reseller Magazine (January 2008 issue)
Call Recording for larger companies, Part III
(by Ralf Roesel, Product Manager, ASC telecom AG)
Even though companies rely on communications to prosper, the content and quality of customer interactions are often unexamined. In contact centers, where communications serve as the sole business driver, it is critical to deliver quality and cost-effective service to stand out from the competition. Call recording and quality monitoring fill the knowledge gap of “what is really going on” by monitoring crucial business processes and changing agent communications from a phantom to a valuable data resource.
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2007-12-13
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Telecom Reseller Magazine (December 2007 issue)
Call Recording for Larger Companies, Part II
(by Martin Komm, Product Manager, ASC telecom AG)
Today, traditional TDM communications are being replaced by the rapid growth of Voice Over IP (VoIP), a powerful, new technology used to send audio signals over electronic networks. Larger companies need voice recording systems that incorporate both TDM and VoIP.
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2007-12-13
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Article published in the 9-1-1 Magazine
Migration from TDM to IP in Public Safety Environments: The Challenge for Voice Recording
(by Andreas Potyka, Product Management, ASC telecom AG)
VoIP communications are becoming commonplace, and the best IP recording solutions can migrate from TDM to IP to provide investment protection for public safety organizations in transition between the two technologies.
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2007-12-10
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Article published on TMCnet.com
The Latest Trends in VoIP Recording
(by Bernd Ottow, Product Line Manager, ASC telecom AG)
The world is changing. New technological innovations occur every day, impacting the way we work and live. Only a decade ago, people would have been stunned at the prominence of the Internet in almost every home for information, commercial transactions and communications.
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2007-11-06
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Telecom Reseller Magazine (November 2007 issue)
Call Recording for Larger Companies, Part I
(by Martin Komm, Product Manager, ASC telecom AG)
Companies record customer interactions for a variety of reasons. Some, such as banks, trading floors or insurance companies are required by law to document business transactions. Others, especially organizations with call centers, use recording for quality monitoring, to supplement agent training programs and provide optimal customer support.
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