Introduces new tools that improve the customer experience,
operational and employee effectiveness and helps enterprises address
GDPR requirements
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE:AVYA) today introduced a new version of the
Avaya Workforce Optimization suite, which improves service quality,
operational and employee productivity and data privacy with a series of
new features and tools. This major software release helps companies
transform customer engagement and comply with existing and emerging
industry regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR).
IDC research commissioned by Avaya found that employee productivity is a
key driver of digital transformation - a necessary step that sets the
groundwork through which enterprises are better prepared to achieve the
higher revenue growth associated with a better customer experience.1
While optimizing the customer experience and service delivery is
critical to winning and keeping business, only 28 percent of companies
believe they integrate customer communications with fulfillment and
delivery extremely well.
“While more and more companies understand that providing a great
customer experience is good business, many have a long way to go to
bringing all the parts together that make that a reality,” said Chris
McGugan, Avaya SVP, Solutions and Technologies. “Customer experience is
a function of fully integrated, customer-facing, efficient and effective
workforce support and back office processes. Avaya Workforce
Optimization helps ensure that the employees engaged in service delivery
meet the standard of excellence that customers expect and deserve, and
helps drive business profitability and growth.”
Avaya Workforce Optimization also addresses a key concern of enterprises
and customers around the world today: securing personal data and keeping
it private. Driven by the European GDPR requirements, Avaya strengthened
data privacy with the newest features to help securely record, process,
archive, and protect customers’ personal data to reach compliance goals.
Other notable features included in the latest Avaya Workforce
Optimization release enable enterprises to:
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Improve operational effectiveness and accuracy with real-time speech
analytics – Calls can be monitored in real-time to detect words and
phrases of interest and to drive interactions to better outcomes.
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Improve customer and employee satisfaction – Supervisors and quality
managers become better coaches and improve employee engagement through
automated quality management, speeding scoring for some or all
questions on evaluation forms.
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Improve data privacy and regulatory compliance – Enterprises can
safely record, archive and protect personal data through advanced,
256-compliant encryption, Payment Card Industry Security (PCI), data
identification and tagging and identify consent/no consent situations
to help ensure GDPR compliance.
“Our quality assurance staff can now quickly adjust to customer needs,”
said Michael Lazarus, Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Manager, HomeChoice. “If people struggle to access something on our
website or think that a feature is not user-friendly, we hear about it
immediately from calls, surveys, and quality assurance scores, and can
start to implement the desired changes straightaway. Because we are able
to provide better service, our customers are even more satisfied than
before.”
Read the HomeChoice case study
here
.
1 IDC research, commissioned by Avaya, 2018.
About Avaya
Avaya is a global leader in digital communications software, services
and devices for businesses of all sizes. Our open, intelligent and
customizable solutions for contact centers and unified communications
offer the flexibility of Cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployments.
Avaya shapes intelligent connections and creates seamless communication
experiences for our customers, and their customers. Our professional
planning, support and management services teams help optimize solutions,
for highly reliable and efficient deployments. Avaya Holdings Corp. is
traded on the NYSE under the ticker AVYA. For more information, please
visit www.avaya.com
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