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ICS recognizes that businesses are evolving their contact center strategies in order to streamline
their operations. The key drivers motivating businesses are to reduce cost, gain efficiencies, and
improve customer service. Yet, the contact center is a complex silo that has customer interaction
touch points that need to be considered.
ICS vision is one where the application is the center of the customer experience not the legacy
equipment. ICS strategic vision is customer focused and utilizes industry standards and directions.
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The next-generation architecture utilizes a converged infrastructure supporting application services
as a distributed technology. Understanding the significant emerging technologies and their revolutionary
implications to today's contact center environment is critical for a customer's strategic planning.
Technology Highlights
Business Virtualization, Unified Business Logic, and Customer Contact IP Strategy are
initiatives being considered by businesses in today's challenging environment.
Enabling Technologies
Business Process Management (BPM), MPLS, SOHO Connectivity, VoIP, and Softswitch
technology are examples of a few of the paradigm shifts that are affecting the
future customer contact solution.
Benefits
Provider independence, business mobility, Enterprise availability, and Geographically
independent application framework are a few advantages of the ICS solution.
Financial Considerations
Reduced voice costs, shared platforms across business units, plus options such as managed
application outsourcing are some unique advantages that the next generation contact center
design is presenting to companies.
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