Introducing Xima Chronicall Agent Dashboards

Xima Software is pleased to announce the upcoming general availability of the newest Chronicall module: Agent Dashboards.

Agent Dashboards bring Realtime data to every user’s desktop with customizable widgets, pop-up notifications, DND/logout reason codes, CRM integration, user chat, and more.

Agent Dashboards are scheduled to be released on Monday, December 2nd, 2013

With Chronicall’s revolutionary Agent Dashboards module, you can take Realtime data out of the web browser and onto the desktop. Agents can keep track of customized Realtime data with desktop widgets. Pop-up notifications provide information and tagging options for inbound and outbound calls. Chronicall Presence offers an easy way to see the status of other Realtime agents and send them chat messages.

Once an agent logs in to Dashboards, they’ll be able to view live call data with a desktop widget, customized with Realtime values that fit their needs. Agents can monitor statistics about themselves, their hunt groups, or the entire system without opening Chronicall or looking at a wallboard; everything they need to know is available on their own screen at all times. The Dashboards window can be resized or docked for maximum flexibility, while multiple animation settings allow agents to choose the style they like best.

Dashboards also generates helpful pop-up windows for the agent whenever they make or receive calls, set themselves on DND status, or log out of their extension. These windows allow them to see who is calling and where they are calling from, assign account codes and hunt groups to calls, and give a reason why they are stepping away from the phone. All of this information is stored in Chronicall’s database and can be used to generate detailed reports.

Chronicall Presence is another Dashboards desktop utility that lists the current status of each Realtime agent, along with their agent image, extension, and current call details. Through Presence, agents can even chat and send files to each other or to customers throughout the world. Every chat message is stored within Chronicall and can be reviewed or reported on later.

Take some of the work out of teamwork. Turn each agent’s desktop into a powerful and connected Chronicall workstation with Agent Dashboards.

To see how Chronicall can make the most of your time and energy while improving the accuracy and efficiency of your call data, contact ECS to sign up for a free 14-day trial today.

For more information please visit www.ximasoftware.com/chronicall or www.GoECS.com

About Xima
Xima Software was formed by a group of telephony engineers and tech support personnel. After several years and hundreds of phone system installations, Xima’s founders identified a growing need for inexpensive, accurate, and easy-to-use call reporting and recording software. They needed a reporting suite that would only take a few minutes to install, would show the details of every event that happened on a call instead of just a vague summary, and could report on all users, groups, and trunks without licensing headaches. With those principles in mind, they developed Chronicall.

In 2007, Xima spun off from its parent company and began aggressive development on Chronicall. The name Xima was chosen as a modern derivation of the romantic word “cima,” meaning “the top” or “pinnacle.” The name Chronicall represents a strategic merger of accurate and detailed time-keeping with call reporting.

About ECS
ECS, located in Auburn, WA & Portland, OR is a team of experts ready to help businesses with the important and often complicated decision of finding the best communication solutions for their company, from voice to data. Servicing Washington & Oregon, ECS is a “one stop shop” for network infrastructure needs. ECS designs & installs flexible cabling infrastructures that support multiple voice, data, video and multimedia systems regardless of their manufacturer.

What do your customers hear when you place them on hold ?

Your customers should hear – About You, Your Products, Your Services, and/or Your Promotions when you place them on hold !

Most of us are familiar with music on hold playing through phone systems. Playing generic “Music” only or embedded music provides something for callers to avoid irritating silence.

Today, often times our customers prefer to have an on hold program created specifically for their company.  This is usually referred to as “On Hold Marketing”.

Having your customers hear on hold marketing has numerous benefits and might not be as difficult or expensive as you would think.

An independent survey was conducted for the “On Hold Messaging Association”.  This survey questioned customers that currently have custom on hold marketing messages playing for their callers put on hold.  Over 1,500 individual companies responded.

HERE ARE SOME SAMPLES OF THE RESULTS:

From a pure marketing perspective, which of these statements best describes how you feel about the role of your On Hold Messaging Program in your overall marketing mix?

It’s a useful marketing tool that adds value 85%

Why did your company purchase On Hold Messaging?
To build image and professionalism –  74%
To promote the sale of products/services –  72%
To avoid silence on hold  – 58%
To provide callers with entertainment or useful information while waiting  – 56%
To prevent callers from hanging up  – 31%

Clearly, users of on hold marketing feel this is an important part of their business and can see the benefits associated with a custom on hold marketing program over a standard music only option or worse, silence on hold.

About Woodstock Media group
Established in 1987 by a twenty-+ year radio executive, privately owned Woodstock Media Group (for over 24 years known only as On-Hold Concepts), today, includes a team of administrative, media, sales and production personnel, many with over 20 years experience in their chosen field, and some who have been with the company since near its’ beginning over 25 years ago. In addition, our staff includes a senior copywriter with 15+ years experience, and Radio/Music Industry veterans. With our roots in broadcasting, we enjoy relationships with many professionals, some that voice exclusively for us scattered from coast to coast and abroad.
http://www.woodstockmediagroup.com
Toll Free:  800.864.6828
Local:  253.566.1675

About ECS
ECS, located in Auburn, WA & Portland, OR is a team of experts ready to help businesses with the important and often complicated decision of finding the best communication solutions for their company, from voice to data. Servicing Washington & Oregon, ECS is a “one stop shop” for network infrastructure needs. ECS designs & installs flexible cabling infrastructures that support multiple voice, data, video and multimedia systems regardless of their manufacturer.

Avaya IP Office R9.0 Mobile VoIP client – one-X Mobile “Preferred”

Mobile VoIP client (one-X Mobile “Preferred”)
The one-X Mobile “Preferred” mobility client that launched with Release 8.0 delivered a rich and unique Unified Communications (UC) experience on mobile devices for IP Office customers. This mobility client worked in call-back telephony mode only i.e., when a user initiated a call from the mobility client, the IP Office initiated a call to the caller’s mobile phone and then dialed the destination. This mode offered cost savings to users where incoming voice calls are free or for users who have cheaper unlimited voice plan as compared with a data plan.

With Release 9.0, Avaya is enhancing the one-X Mobile “Preferred” client to work in a Voice over IP (VoIP) mode. In the VoIP mode, the mobility client can make calls over Wi-Fi/3G/4G data networks. The mobility client using its underlying SIP stack will register with the IP Office over the data network and thus will function as your office extension on the mobile device.

The mobile “Preferred” user can use the mobility client to perform all telephony features including mid-call features such as:
• Incoming and Outgoing VoIP calls
• Supervised/ Unsupervised Transfer
• Hold / Unhold
• Mute/ Unmute
• Multiple simultaneous call sessions
• DTMF

The availability of both Call-back and VoIP modes on the mobility client will enable users to toggle between the modes based on their network connections. This will empower end-users to make a choice of the appropriate mode based on their voice/data plan as well as availability and quality of the data connection (WiFi/3G/4G).

For example:
• The mobile user may choose the Call-back mode when he/she doesn’t have Wi-Fi access and the 3G data connection is not providing good quality for voice.
• The mobile user may choose the VoIP mode when in office/home/mobile hotspots where Wi-Fi data connection is available OR when the 3G/4G data connection is good.

One-X Mobile “Preferred” mobility client will support the VoIP mode on both iOS and Android devices.

The information below explains the one-X Mobile “Preferred” mobility client with VoIP mode for iOS and Android devices:

The following mobile OS versions will be supported:
• iOS 5 and above
• Android 4 and above.

Note that the VoIP mode has been tested and certified to work with acceptable acoustic performance for the following devices only:
• Samsung Galaxy S3
• HTC One-S
• “Best effort” VoIP support will be provided on other devices but may present problems such as echo problems, voice disruption, Difficulty switching between handset, speaker and Bluetooth, inability to change volume levels etc.

The VoIP mode will be available with the “Power User” profile. Users with “Mobile Worker” license can avail of only the Call-back mode in the mobility client.

The following features are available only on the Android mobility client:
• Ring tone selection for the mobility client
• Selection of high-bandwidth or narrowband codecs based on the network connection (WiFi versus 3G/4G)
• Mobility client can be configured to automatically use Bluetooth headset for controlling audio (only) on VoIP calls when available
• Conference screen user experience enhancements

The following features are now available to align iOS client with the Android client:
• Ability to select the contacts phone number
• Voice mail priority indicator
• Swipe support for IM on home screen
• Group action support
• Emoticons
• CLID lookup in contacts for calls
• Send voice mail as WAV in email
• User interface changes for easier access to commonly used functions

In addition to the VoIP mode, the following enhancements have been made to the call-back mode:
• Ability to do call transfer (unsupervised) to another contact or arbitrary phone number.
• Ability to Enable/disable mobile twinning (simultaneous ring)
• Ability to Enable/disable DND (send all calls)
• Call log information (incoming/outgoing/missed calls) is shown for both modes. Call log information is combined with Voicemails in the Event history tab.
• Call monitoring on the mobility client gives the user ability to see and interact with all calls the user makes or receives through IP Office.
• Addition of Dial Plan for the VoIP mode for iOS to align with Android.

About Avaya
Avaya is a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, contact centers, data solutions and related services to companies of all sizes around the world.

About ECS
ECS, headquartered in Auburn, WA, is a team of experts ready to help businesses with the important and often complicated decision of finding the best communication solutions for their company, from voice to data. Servicing Washington & Oregon, ECS is an Avaya SME Expert Business Partner focusing on the IP Office platform and specializing in Voice over IP. For more information contact ECS at (253) 886-5400 or visit us on the web at www.GoECS.com

Want to learn more?
www.avaya.com/sme
www.youtube.com/user/Avaya
www.GoECS.com

Avaya one-X Mobile “Preferred” for IP Office R9.0

Overview

Avaya one-X Mobile Preferred for IP Office R9 is an application that works with the IP Office R9 suite to provide enterprise communications on mobile phones.

The one-X Mobile Preferred client provides enterprise dialing, transferring, and conferencing capabilities, which the corporate communication network uses to seamlessly extend services to the mobile phones of employees.

The one-X Mobile Preferred client provides a number of additional features that include:

• Presence information for users and for the contacts of the users.

• Geo-location presence and tracking using the on-board GPS of the mobile phone.

• Instant messaging with contacts and user groups defined on the IP Office server and also with external contacts.

• The capability to play voice mail messages, pick-up incoming voice mail messages, view current presence of the voice mail caller, and return calls.

• Rich conference controls with click-to-conference for users and groups, entry and exit notifications, and the capability to view and manage conference participants.

• Integration with Microsoft Exchange Server to provide information about the availability of users.

• Real-time notifications of communications arriving on the server, such as new voice mail or instant messages, changes in the availability of contacts, and conference participants dialing into a conference bridge.

System Architecture:
The Avaya one-X Mobile Preferred client leverages corporate infrastructure with IP Office and IP Office applications to deliver enterprise communications to mobile phones.

The IP Office server pushes the Contacts list to the mobile phone. Users need not configure the Contacts list.

The one-X Mobile Preferred client architecture uses the XMPP server that integrates with Avaya one-X® Portal and Microsoft Exchange Server and offers the following advantages to the mobile user:
• Corporate instant messaging and presence information through integration with the XMPP server.
• View calendar information of contacts and share calendar information with other contacts by integrating with Microsoft Exchange Server.

Related documentation:
Because Avaya one-X Mobile Preferred integrates with IP Office and IP Office applications, you must gain access to the IP Office documentation suite to administer this application. The following related documents are available on the Avaya Support website at support.avaya.com:
• IP Office Manager
• Administering Avaya one-X Portal for IP Office
• Implementing Avaya one-X Portal for IP Office
• Implementing Voicemail Pro
• IP Office Application Server Installation and Maintenance for Linux deployments

System Requirements:
Avaya one-X Mobile Preferred integrates with IP Office and IP Office applications. When you deploy one-X Mobile Preferred as part of an IP Office solution, the system requirements depend on the server where the IP Office applications, such as Avaya one-X Portal and Voicemail Pro, are installed. With the appropriate licensing, you can deploy IP Office applications on Windows Servers 200x and also Linux servers.

Following is the licensing and application requirements for the one-X Mobile Preferred client.

Licensing:
The Avaya one-X Mobile Preferred client for IP Office has the following licensing requirements:
• Preferred Edition system license
• One Mobile Worker or Power User license per client

Application requirements
IP Office Release 9.0+ supports the Avaya one-X Mobile Preferred client. The system requires trunks that support clearing supervision, which include the following:
• PRI
• SIP

Preferred client network requirements
The Avaya one-X Mobile Preferred application must be able to connect through the Internet to Avaya one-X Portal and to the IP Office system, using either a 3G network or an external Wi-Fi service. Your network setup must support this capability and cellular voice connectivity.

Supported Platforms:
The one-X Mobile Preferred client is available for most Apple and Android mobile phones.

About Avaya
Avaya is a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, contact centers, data solutions and related services to companies of all sizes around the world.

About ECS
ECS, headquartered in Auburn, WA, is a team of experts ready to help businesses with the important and often complicated decision of finding the best communication solutions for their company, from voice to data. Servicing Washington & Oregon, ECS is an Avaya SME Expert Business Partner focusing on the IP Office platform and specializing in Voice over IP. For more information contact ECS at (253) 886-5400 or visit us on the web at www.GoECS.com

Want to learn more?
www.avaya.com/sme
www.youtube.com/user/Avaya
www.GoECS.com