The evolving demands of digital-savvy customers have a deep impact on the contact center. In today’s highly connected society, customers are relying on other people around them to find information to solve issues. They consult online resources, form online communities, and look to endorsements from total strangers to form opinions on products and services. While these channels provide customers with the information they need, the contact center remains a predominant channel for customers to seek support when they truly need something done.
Despite playing such a crucial role in customer engagement, contact centers don’t always get the attention they deserve. Customer experience today is often discussed in a marketing or branding context—through the events and promotions driven by marketing as well as spaces and packages defined by branding. In reality, the last mile that makes or breaks the customer experience lies in the contact center. More importantly, most unhappy customers will simply give up after failed attempts at getting through to a contact center or an unhappy experience speaking with an uninformed customer service agent.
The age of social has promoted the behavior of instant gratification. Customers today want an always available service and they want their calls answered quickly, by an informed representative who can help solve their issues. With so many devices on their hands, and so many channels to engage with brands, customers also expect agents to know the history of their past interaction, regardless of whether it is an email, a phone call, or a visit to a branch or store. Most customers also understand that there may be periods of high service calls, but they expect to have alternatives, in the form of call backs or self-service options. In short, the contact center of today must be demand based and software driven.
All of this points to a future contact center that must be a lot more integrated to the business, intelligent in anticipating and sieving out customer needs, and channeling the right customer to the right platform to shorten call queues. Avaya has a full suite of award-winning customer experience solutions that help businesses transform their contact center in the era of digital.
We have been working with our customers across the Asia Pacific to provide cost-effective, integrated, personalized customer experiences with our world-class contact center and unified communications technologies and services.
Recently, Frost & Sullivan put the spotlight on Avaya’s focus on innovation and supporting our customers’ business needs in enabling an omnichannel approach to customer service and experience with a slew of awards at Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Best Practices Awards 2016.
We were named leader in 5 categories including:
Asia Pacific Inbound Contact Routing Systems Market Share Leadership Award
Indonesia Contact Centre Market Share Leadership Award
Philippines Contact Centre Applications Vendor of the Year
Southeast Asia Contact Centre Applications Vendor of the Year
Thailand Contact Centre Applications Vendor of the Year
The Awards spotlight our focus in providing a seamless, omnichannel customer engagement platform that enable our customers to achieve their business objectives.
The way in which we use contact centers today is changing. Technology has essentially given it a facelift and elevated its importance in the customer relationship journey. From the realms of large businesses, where contact centers are meant to handle the highest number of calls at the lowest cost, contact center technology today is sought after for the intelligence it can provide. This can be in the form of client-drive routing, automation, tracking responsiveness, call routing, screen pop-ups, workforce collaboration, speech analysis—the list goes on.
As technology continues to advance, expect more features powering the call center, perhaps even robots that can literally access all the information customers need at their fingertips.
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