MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA; February 23, 2013 -- The value of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools is without question. Increasing your understanding of your customers and prospects greatly increases your ability to meet or exceed their expectations and to keep their satisfaction levels high.
That is, so long as your staff actually uses your CRM tool.
And that, as scores of analysts and technology journalists have long reported, is a major flaw in CRM solutions that require hands-on action by employees. When people get busy, the extra work required by the CRM tool is frequently dropped. Many reports put resulting information losses as typically 40 percent or more as customer contact details fail to make it into customer records, and thus, severely limit the quality of the customer understanding the tool is supposed to be providing.
In many cases, expensive CRM tools are never really adopted by staff and wind-up joining the closet full of once-promising software that ends as unused "shelfware." The solution, of course, was automation capabilities that dutifully collected and cataloged information about customers without adding to the work of existing staff. Instead such automation, found in sophisticated and expensive enterprise tools such as Seibel or PeopleSoft, actually made life easier for staff by making important information about customers instantly available anytime the customer called or was contacted.
Voicent Communication aimed for the same kind of sophistication in its highly affordable call center business software. The company"s latest software release includes an automated Customer Relationship Management tool specifically designed for call centers. Dramatic improvements in the way Voicent software uses computing resources have enabled the popular communication tools to achieve professional Call Center-grade scalability. The improvements, included in Voicent"s version 8.5.0 released today, enable a single, ordinary laptop or desktop computer to handle thousands of in-bound and out-bound calls while maintaining excellent call quality.
Voicent"s Call Center CRM automatically captures and stores contact history, buying history and preferences of individual customers, then instantly displays the information in an easy-to-read window that pops up on the screen desk top whenever the customer calls or when a dialed call is answered by the customer. Remarkably, this capability is available even for call centers employing remotely-located or home-based agents. Jerry Scharf, Voicent"s director of marketing, says the automation of Call Center CRM is only part of the software"s great value. "The ability to instantly get customer information in front of agents can have a dramatic impact on customer satisfaction scores and in sales effectiveness," Scharf said.
Call Center CRM provides automated efficiencies in resource usage, call distribution and even regulatory compliance. http://voicent.com/call-center-crm.php