Unveils Its Latest Contact Center Innovations and Momentum in Platforms, Tools and Cloud Delivery Designed to Keep Customer Service Ahead of Accelerating Business Transformation
ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwired - Mar 7, 2016) - Enterprise Connect 2016 - Booth #1707 -- Avaya, a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Contact Center Infrastructure for 15 consecutive years, today unveiled customer engagement innovations that meet customer expectations where the rules of the game have changed:
At Enterprise Connect starting today in Orlando, FL., Avaya will reveal key innovations that redefine the customer experience battleground and keep companies ahead of the curve, based on technology that supports more than 5 million agents globally. The Avaya Customer Engagement solutions -- which can be implemented through a fully hosted or hybrid cloud model to help ease the transition between existing and new technologies for digital business, deliver:
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Gary Barnett, SVP and GM, Avaya Engagement Solutions, said:
"The competitive battleground has shifted, requiring a new type of solution and means to respond to digital customer behavior. Customer expectations today will not wait for old contact center technology to get its act together. Speed is the new currency for business transformation -- businesses need to understand, predict and respond to customer needs in less time than it takes for a spark to burnout. Avaya is the only company that can rapidly elevate the customer end game without the disruption typical of massive technical change."
The benefits of Avaya's approach include:
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"Frontier Communications is going to see its contact center requirements double this year. As a result, we needed a way to deliver an advanced contact center solution that could scale rapidly in a very short amount of time. The Avaya Pod Fx gave us all the advanced contact center features that we needed -- multichannel, IVR, workforce optimization, Avaya Breeze, in a scalable, full stack, turnkey solution that will reduce our costs by 25% over our previous appliance-based model and reduce internal IT effort and expense through integrated management and support."
Kelly Morgan, SVP and GM, Frontier Secure and Contact Center
"Achieving the new bar set by customers for context-rich customer experiences is a major component of corporate digital transformation. It is no longer acceptable to offer customers limited self-service options and static websites that can't easily escalate to real-time interaction with a contact center agent. Companies that have invested in updating their systems to support modern-day customer care requirements are already reaping the rewards."
Sheila McGee-Smith, president and principal analyst, McGee-Smith Analytics
Additional Resources
Read the Blog: Winning on the Customer Experience Battleground
Infographic: Customer Experience is the Battleground
Tags: Avaya, customer engagement, business communications, digital transformation, unified communications, contact center
About Avaya
Avaya is a leading provider of solutions that enable customer and team engagement across multiple channels and devices for better customer experience, increased productivity and enhanced financial performance. Its world-class contact center and unified communications technologies and services are available in a wide variety of flexible on-premises and cloud deployment options that seamlessly integrate with non-Avaya applications. The Avaya Engagement Environment enables third parties to create and customize business applications for competitive advantage. The Avaya fabric-based networking solutions help simplify and accelerate the deployment of business critical applications and services. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.
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i Gartner
ii Avaya-BT Autonomous Customer Research, 2015
iii Gartner 2015