BWI: Aspect Joins with Dell Services to Deliver Unified Communications Solutions for Next-Generation Customer Contact Centers

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Aspect Software
Monday, February 27, 2012 01:21 PM IST (07:51 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Business services, Information technology; Technology
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Aspect Joins with Dell Services to Deliver Unified Communications Solutions for Next-Generation Customer Contact Centers


New Delhi, Delhi, India, Monday, February 27, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- Aspect, a leading provider of customer contact and Microsoft platform solutions, today announced a go-to-market relationship with Dell Services to deliver Microsoft-based Unified Communications solutions for the contact center and across the enterprise.

Many large organizations view contact centers as a primary customer engagement point and increasingly as a revenue generation engine. However outdated telephony infrastructures or poorly connected contact centers can result in missed or dropped calls and negatively impact customer service. This can result in missed sales opportunities and potential damage to a company's brand.

The Aspect-Dell relationship provides customers the technology, services and contact center expertise to deliver dynamic and effective customer interaction solutions from a single source. The relationship also gives customers the flexibility and scalability to tailor their private branch exchange (PBX) and contact center solution to best fit their needs.

Golfbreaks.com, Europe's leading golf tour operator, is implementing a Microsoft-based unified communications solution including a full multimedia contact center infrastructure to replace its aging PBX platform. When their telephony platform could no longer keep up with the service demands of its customers, the company sought out a contact center solution built upon an open, capable and affordable software platform delivered by Dell and Aspect.

"With more customers than ever booking with us, we required a way to meet the challenge without increasing headcount, and to do more with less," comments Steve Hemsworth, Managing Director at Golfbreaks.com. "Our customer service is why people keep coming back to us, but as demand increased, the lack of channel integration was putting a strain on our agents and systems, increasing administration time. Customer preferences for the way they contact us are changing, as are the times at which they choose to contact us. We have already extended our opening hours by more than 30%, hopefully the new support for SMS and email - as well as integration with our CRM system - will make booking with us easier and quicker than ever."

"With more than eight million available seats across the globe, unified communications in the contact center is a growing and untapped market opportunity," said Mike Sheridan, executive vice president of worldwide sales, Aspect. "Aspect's relationship with Dell will provide our customers with a truly comprehensive Microsoft Lync-based Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) solution."

"Our relationship with Aspect will allow customers worldwide to acquire end-to-end next-generation unified communications solutions incorporating hardware, software, services and support from a single vendor," said Kevin Jones, vice president and managing director, Infrastructure and Cloud Computing for Dell Services. "We believe customers that share our joint vision of a software-powered communications ecosystem will find great value in this."

Aspect solutions are available immediately as part of Dell's Unified Communications portfolio world-wide. For more information, visit www.aspect.com and www.dell.com/unified.

About Aspect

Aspect builds customer company relationships through a combination of customer contact software and Microsoft platform solutions. For more information, visit www.aspect.com.

Follow Aspect on Twitter at @AspectUC. Read our blogs at http://blogs.aspect.com.

Aspect, Unified IP and Aspect Software are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Aspect Software, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries. The names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.


CONTACT DETAILS
Jayanta Bhattacharjee, Aspect, +91 (124) 4897081, jayanta.bhattacharjee@aspect.com
Sneha Singh, Text100, +91 9971568911, sneha.singh@text100.co.in

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CONSUMER, BUSINESS SERVICES, IT, TECHNOLOGY

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