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Global News
24-Apr-2012

The Australian arm of electronics company Acer has chosen a Drishti Ameyo solution to upgrade its inbound customer service.

cer Australia said it required a solution to handle all interactions from customers and its wide-spread channel partner network by providing the right information to its agents in a unified screen for fast query resolution. "We were looking for a solution that could integrate with our backend system to provide appropriate information to agents, thus maximising their productivity, something which our previous solution was not forthcoming with," said Acer's Dan Balachandra.

Acer says the new solution provides the company with enhanced agent productivity, real-time monitoring of performance levels and allows management to make changes when required. "Providing our customers and channel partners fast and quality support can be a daunting task if our agents have to access disparate applications at the same time," Balachandra said. "Dristhi provided us with a comprehensive technology that integrated seamlessly with the ticketing system of the back-end CRM, and displaying a unified interface to our agents."

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National News
26-Apr-2012

Garuda Indonesia will introduce the Amadeus Altea Customer Management Solution to upgrade its airline passenger service processes.

The solution will manage Garuda Indonesia's domestic and international reservations, inventory and departure control processes. "Upgrading to Amadeus' cutting-edge technology will enable us to further enhance our existing customer service offering, introduce more automation and flexibility for our customers and help us refine our customer-facing business processes," said Garuda Indonesia's M. Arif Wibowo.

"Today, technology is a critical component of an airline's infrastructure, and the Amadeus Altea system will ensure we remain competitive with world-class airlines in the region," he said. The technology upgrade is part of the Garuda Indonesia Quantum Leap program, which has seen the airline modernise and expand its fleet with new A330 and Boeing 737-800 aircraft, relaunch services to Europe and also announce its intention to join the SkyTeam global alliance.

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Welcome to DragonCall, yet another blog from the Fifth Quadrant crew, this time from Senior Consultant, William Dieu. Get the latest statistics and keep up-to-date with trends and issues within the service industry across Asia....

Dragons and Headsets
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Welcome back everyone to the first DragonCall blog of the new year, the year of the Dragon (how appropriately named is my blog!). 

While you recover from the excessive eating and drinking over the new year celebrations, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all good luck, prosperity and health in the year ahead.

Now to other important matters...

Recently I came across a white paper, How Can I Help You?, which talked about how having the right headset can improve agent performance and customer satisfaction.

This is indeed quite interesting because headsets are not really top of mind when organisations think about purchasing technology in the contact centre, typically it is the big items such as ACD, IVR, CRM, WFM and Knowledge Management. 

After reading the white paper it makes sense to place a higher level of priority on headsets – the values of headsets presented in the white paper include:

  1. Multi-tasking ability – especially in the emerging multi-channel environment
  2. Ergonomics – assists in ease of hot-desking, posture, and allowing freedom of movement of agents who are on the phones all day long
  3. Noise cancellation – high quality audio and blocking out the noisy contact centre environment
  4. Mobility – allows agents to easily move around the office to access additional information that may help with resolving the customer’s query
  5. Multi-device – ability to connect to different devices such as desktop phones, soft clients and mobile devices
  6. ROI – improved agent performance through the above values
The point that is most interesting to me is how multi-device, multimedia, wireless headsets can enable the coming of the multi-channel agent and contact centre. Agents can be more equipped than ever, allowing them to efficiently and effectively perform their role. When agents are well equipped they will be more engaged and we know from our own research that agent engagement is a statistically significant driver of customer engagement, meaning happy agents deliver a better level of service to customers than unhappy agents.

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