Call Center Las Vegas 2003 Exhibitor Profiles.Business Editors/Technology Writers Call Center & CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. Solutions Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. 2003 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2003 Advanstar's Call Center Las Vegas convenes this week, Feb 10-13, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center The Mandalay Bay Convention Center is one of the largest privately owned and operated convention centers in the world. The 1 million square foot facility is owned by MGM Mirage. It is attached to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and adjacent to the Mandalay Bay Events Center. . For more information visit: http://vegas.iccm.com/. Listed below are profiles from Call Center Las Vegas 2003 exhibitors. New releases, advisories, and press kits are available at http://www.tradeshownews.com. Business Wire and Virtual Press Office are the official news services for Call Center Las Vegas 2003. Company: Agility Recovery Solutions Booth: 1120 Media Contact: Hunter Blankenbaker Phone: 212-725-4500 E-mail: hunter@schwartz.com Company URL: www.agilityrecovery.com Company Description: For the past 13 years, Agility has been a premier provider of onsite recovery solutions across North America. Formerly a division of GE Capital IT Solutions, the company has a long and successful history in the industry. Services include: Mobile Recovery, Mobile Satellite Solutions & ACD Capability, Guaranteed Technology Replacement and Consulting. Product Description: Our satellite solutions utilize dedicated bandwidth and advanced technologies to enable complete communications solutions virtually anywhere. When used in conjunction with our Mobile Recovery Services, Satellite Solutions can provide a fully networked data center, office space, telephone capability and Internet access. Company: AIM technology Booth: 1009 Media Contact: Michelle Diedrich Phone: 650-838-1180 E-mail: info@aimtechnology.com Company URL: www.aimtechnology.com Product description: AIMCall is an application that analyzes and reports on data from disparate data sources seamlessly, to provide a complete picture of contact center performance. Through real-time monitoring and analysis, AIMCall gives the user the ability to accurately assess and improve performance across many different measurements. AIMCall provides a consistent view of reporting, reducing the time spent by management and analysts compiling reports and investigating the data that your call/contact center systems provide you. The online analysis and comparison of business metrics from different areas of the business help you provide a more balanced view of contact center performance. Company description: AIM technology delivers enterprise analytic applications for contact centers. AIM technology's solutions provide actionable information from multiple data sources for increased profitability, performance management and contact center effectiveness. The AIM solution suite, along with AIM technologys Accelerated Solutions Approach, provides cost-effective analytical applications that are easy to use and focused on managing contact centers. Company: American Teleservices Association Booth: 1031 Media Contact: Kevin Brosnahan Phone: 877-779-3974 E-mail: ata@moinc.com Company URL: www.ataconnect.org Product Description: The ATA Online Membership Directory provides access to all ATA member companies, with full contact information. Available free to ATA members, this is one resource you cannot afford to miss! -The ATA Online Buyers' Guide helps connect businesses to those offering the products and services for which they search. A free to service to the public, only ATA member companies can receive the benefits of the referrals. Company Description: The American Teleservices Association (ATA) represents the call centers, trainers, consultants, and equipment suppliers that initiate, facilitate, and generate telephone, Internet, and email sales, service, and support. The ATA represents members' interests by advocating on Capitol Hill and statehouses nationwide, providing professional education opportunities, and acting as the industry's information clearinghouse. Company: Aspect Communications Corporation Ticker Symbol: Nasdaq: ASPT Booth: 321 Media Contact: Lakshmi Bakshi Investor Relations Contact: Carrie Kovac Phone: 408-325-2200 E-mail: lakshmi.bakshi@aspect.com Company URL: www.aspect.com Press Kit URL: http://www.aspect.com/news/presskit.cfm Product Description: Aspect's products help companies effectively manage multichannel customer communications and sales and service representatives in a single or multisite contact center operation. Software includes the Aspect Call Center, Aspect Contact Server, Aspect Customer Self-Service, Aspect Customer DataMart, Aspect eWorkforce Management, Aspect Web Interaction and the Aspect IP Contact Suite. Company Description: Aspect provides business communications solutions for companies seeking to improve customer satisfaction, reduce operating costs, gather market intelligence and increase revenue. A trusted mission-critical partner with over two-thirds of the Fortune 50, Aspect develops contact center software now managing more than 3 million customer sales and service professionals worldwide. Company: Banks & Dean Booth: 0928 Media Contact: Kathy Dean Phone: 262-240-9400 E-mail: kdean@banksanddean.com Company URL: www.banksanddean.com Product description: Integrated Staffing Solution: Web-enabled recruiting/hiring management system including online & IVR screening, communications assessment, predictive psychometric assessments: Quality Service Profile, Call Center Sales Profile, Management Potential Profile, Selection Partner (science, behavior-based interview and cultural fit component), Benchmark studies, team-building systems, call center leadership development and career pathing. Company description: Discover why Banks & Dean was awarded Best of Show Recruiting & Staffing Solution. We provide predictive assessments, systems, and strategies so you can hire and retain the best performers for customer service, call center sales and management. Our clients have: -- Increased sales & productivity -- Increased quality of candidate -- Reduced turnover Company: BTeLocations (British Telecommunications Plc's inward investment unit) Ticker Symbol: BT.L Booth: 839 Media Contact: Jenny Marks Phone: +44 (0) 1977 59 1892 E-mail: elocations@bt.com Company URL: www.bt.com/btelocations Product description: ventureSmart, a service which helps companies, entering the UK market, minimise financial risk and add greater flexibility and scalability to their call center operations; the BTeLocations Portfolio, a selection of UK business parks, pre-equipped with the latest fiber optic communications; and LocationSearch, helping companies find the right site for their call center businesses. Company description: BTeLocations specialises in finding the right location and technology solutions for UK-based and overseas companies, setting up a UK call centre. In addition to the products above, call center customers can also benefit from BT's portfolio of over 4,000 products and services, backed up by BT's 300 million Pounds Sterling per annum investment in research and development. Company: Call Center Learning Solutions (CCLS) Booth: 932 Media Contact: Ellen Greene Phone: 925-513-1010 E-mail: ellen@callcentertraining.com Company URL: www.callcentertraining.com Press Kit URL: Product Description: CCLS offers call center skills training for agents and their leadership teams. CCLS offers on-site training delivery, e-Learning online, and e-Books online. Agent Curriculum includes 20+ courses covering Customer Care, Call Center, and Sales skills. Leadership Skill Curriculum includes: CIAC Call Center Operations Management Certification, Communication, Team Performance, Compliance, and Diversity. Company: Castel Booth: 1022 Media Contact: Walter Elicker Phone: 1-877-630-6700 E-mail: babara.crean@verizon.net Company URL: www.castel.com Product & Company Description: Castel's DirectQuest is an enterprise contact management solution that seamlessly integrates to your existing platforms and can significantly reduce the cost of each contact. The resulting call efficiencies mean greater profits. DirectQuest also provides complete compliance to all state and federal regulations concerning, "dead air", abandoned calls, and the dynamic presentation of meaningful Caller IDs. Because DirectQuest communicates directly with the public telephone network at the command and control level, it delivers higher outbound capacity, greater performance, and enhanced accountability. This has an immediate, positive impact on your bottom line. Company: Centergistic Solutions Booth: 829 Media Contact: Susan Saldibar Phone: 714 935-9004 E-mail: ssaldibar@centergistic.com Company URL: www.centergistic.com Product Description: Award-winning AgentView(R) brings integrated, real-time alerts and reporting to contact centers. It collects and combines queues and information from ACDs, e-mail, web-service and others. It creates a single unified view on the desktop, to pagers, web sites, e-mail, plasma, TV or LED display. It also provides combined historical reporting. Company Description: Centergistic provides integrated real time information delivery systems that help companies dramatically improve performance throughout the enterprise. Our value lies in the ability to collect critical subsets from any system, application or database and combine them for targeted alerts and reports. Centergistic products are used by over 3,000 contact centers worldwide. Company: Contour Design, Inc. Booth: 215 Media Contact: Kim Adams Phone: 603-893-4556 E-mail: kim@contourdesign.com Company URL: http://www.contourdesign.com Press Kit URL: http://www.contourdesign.com/rollermouse.htm Product Description: The Contour RollerMouse is an innovative new option to a computer mouse and a remarkably simple solution to implement in your company. Its ergonomic design places cursor control just below the spacebar of any keyboard... making data entry faster, safer, and more comfortable for right- or left-handed computer users. Company Description: Contour Design, Inc. specializes in the development, research and design of top quality alternative computer input devices. Contour Design's devices can significantly reduce muscular discomfort while maximizing productivity. During the development stage, we rigorously refine our prototypes with extensive testing and continuous user feedback. We really go the extra mile improving and reworking not stopping until the product is perfected. Company: Cyber M@rketing Services Booth: 544 Media Contact:Sheri Greenhaus Phone: 201-505-1743 E-mail: info@crmxchange.com Company URL: http://www.crmxchange.com Product description: CRMXchange is the premiere place on the Internet for the exchange of information on customer relationship management, sales, and call center issues. The site offers a variety of resources for the CRM professional including access to information on products and services; white papers and case studies; job postings; and an on-line meeting place for suppliers and potential distributors. The site sponsors multi-vendor "Great Debates" as well as regular on-line sessions hosted by individual vendors. Company description: Founded in 1995 Cyber M@rketing Services provides vendors with integrated marketing programs designed to provide them with visibility in their market sectors, and to generate high quality leads. Company: DCC Booth: 107 Media Contact: Gina Graffius Phone: 800-723-3201 & 615-790-2882 E-mail: ggraffius@dccusa.com Company URL: www.dccusa.com Product Description: Frontwave from DCC (Dialogic Communications Corporation) offers IVR, CTI, web response, speech recognition and Reciprix(tm) -- messaging for complete customer relationship management. This proven product suite provides subscribers access to information 24/7 by phone or online. Cable providers utilize Frontwave for account balance inquiries, appointment notifications, billing reminders and much more. Company Description: DCC (Dialogic Communications Corporation) is a leading provider of interactive communications solutions to over 1,400 clients worldwide. Products include Frontwave -- IVR, CTI & web response for customer contact centers; Reciprix -- corporate messaging solutions for enterprise-wide communications and The Communicator! -- high-speed notification system for the mission-critical environment. Company: Dictaphone Corporation Booth: 433 Media Contact: Pat Shearman Investor Relations Contact: Tim Ledwick Phone: 888-471-3463, ext. 4838 E-mail: pat.shearman@dictaphone.com Company URL: www.dictaphone.com Press Kit URL: http://www.dictaphone.com/news/prCRS.asp Product Description: Freedom iQ brings Intelligent Quality to contact centers. Using the business rules-based recording options, voice, screen data, web chats, and e-mail interactions can be recorded and analyzed. Through an extensive suite of applications, Freedom iQ provides powerful tools for analyzing customer satisfaction and deriving business intelligence from the recorded interactions. Company Description: Dictaphone Corporation is a leading provider of communications recording and quality management systems for contact centers, financial services, securities environments, public safety agencies, and many others. Headquartered in Stratford, CT, Dictaphone has over a century of experience in voice technology and is propelled for growth by a wave of newly developed and acquired technologies. Company: EADS TELECOM North America, Inc. Booth: 421 Media Contact: Tina Young Phone: 972-661-0331 E-mail: Tyoung@techcompartners.com Company URL: www.eadstelecom-na.com Press Kit URL: http://www.eadstelecom-na.com/news_pr_award.htm Product Description: Products include: PointSpan(TM), the most powerful voice infrastructure in the industry; Centergy(TM), an ideal call center management and reporting solution for companies with multi-site call centers and outsourcers with multiple clients, and Centergy Remote(TM), which extends contact center and enterprise telephony to agents working anywhere -- without replacing hardware. Company Description: EADS TELECOM North America develops and deploys innovative approaches to telecommunications, including centralized, high-volume, scalable voice architecture, IP telephony and customer contact center solutions. EADS Telecom is a subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space (EADS) Company's Telecommunications Division. North America is the primary growth market for EADS Telecom. Company: eGain Communications Corporation Ticker Symbol: EGAN Booth: 833 Media Contact: Anand Subramaniam Investor Relations Contact: Eric Smit Phone: 408 212 3506 E-mail: pr@egain.com Company URL: www.egain.com Press Kit URL: www.egain.com/pages/Level2.asp?SectionID=6&PageID=37 Product description: eGain Service 6 is the first complete customer service management solution for global businesses seeking competitive advantage through service. It includes a comprehensive suite of contact center and web self-service applications, and provides end-to-end service process automation. Based on an open platform, the solution enables unified multi-channel assisted customer service and effective self-service. Company description: eGain is a leading provider of customer service management solutions for global enterprises. 24 of top 50 global companies rely on eGain to transform their call centers into profit centers. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, eGain has an operating presence in 18 countries and serves over 800 customers, including ABN AMRO, DaimlerChrysler, and Vodafone. Company: Envision Telephony, Inc. Booth: 327 Media Contact: Carolyn Freeborn Phone: 206.621.9384 ext. 137 E-mail: carolynf@envisiontelephony.com Company URL: www.envisiontelephony.com Press Kit URL: www.envisiontelephony.com/news/pressroom.asp Product description: Envision's Click2Coach(R) is an agent development solution that delivers integrated quality monitoring, performance evaluation and personalized training directly to the agents' desktops. Click2Coach provides a complete set of tools to coach agents for success, allowing contact centers to develop and retain top-notch agents who provide superior customer service. Company description: Envision Telephony is a leading provider of contact center software solutions that empower businesses to maximize every contact with their customers. The company's solutions offer easy-to-use tools for training, evaluating agent skills and measuring performance. Envision's products serve some of the world's most customer-focused companies in a variety of industries. Company: eOn Communications Ticker: EONC Booth: 521 Media Contact: Heather Pitts Investor Relations Contact: investorrelations@eoncc.com Phone: 800-955-5321 or 770-423-2200 E-mail: info@eoncc.com Company URL: www.eoncommunications.com Product description: The eOn eQueue Multi-Media Contact Center Solution offers a comprehensive, unified solution for customer interaction management. The eQueue applications include multi-media routing of all interaction types with robust ACD functionality, complete telephony capability, e-mail, Web chat, integrated voice response, unified messaging, workforce management, quality assurance recording and a complete range of desktop devices and applications. Company description: eOn Communications is a leading provider of unified voice, e-mail and Web-based communications systems and software for customer contact centers and general business applications. eOn helps enterprises communicate more effectively with customers, convert inquiries into sales, and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. eOn serves a wide variety of industries - including banking, insurance, government, emergency, service bureaus, and catalogue and reservation companies. Company: ePrize LLC. Booth: 105 Media Contact: Josh Linkner Investor Relations Contact: Robb Lippitt Phone: 877 837-7493 E-mail: keith@eprize.net Company URL: www.eprize.net ePrize is the leader in Incentive Relationship Marketing(tm). ePrize develops interactive sweepstakes, direct-marketing programs, and chance-to-win promotions to help corporate clients drive customer acquisition and retention. As an interactive promotions agency, the firm uses its experience and technology to create hand-raisers, motivate specific consumer behavior, and give customers a reason to react. Headquartered in Farmington Hills, Michigan, ePrize has offices in New York and Los Angeles and has administered more than 600 successful promotions for clients such as GE, MasterCard, adidas, United, Kimberly-Clark and General Motors. More information on ePrize can be found at www.eprize.net. Company: e-talk Corporation Booth: 305 Media Contact: Kelly Nolan Phone: 720-938-5646 E-mail: kelly.nolan@etalk.com Company URL: www.etalk.com Press Kit URL: www.etalk.com/newsevents/PressReleases/index.cfm Product description: The etalk suite of integrated solutions, including the Qfiniti(tm), JASS(tm), Recorder(tm), Advisor(tm), Expert(tm) and Survey(tm), improve both customer service and the CRM decision-making process. Using etalk advanced call center technologies; customers can achieve higher incremental sales, revenue per customer, and overall profits while increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty. Company description: e-talk Corporation, headquartered in Irving, Texas, is a global leader of performance impact solutions for enterprise contact centers. Since 1983, etalk solutions have been used to build valuable long-term customer relationships at more than 1,500 worldwide contact centers, including insurance, telecom, financial, technology and manufacturing companies. Company: eTelecare International Booth: 938 Media Contact: Natalie Fischer Phone: (626) 256-7584 E-mail: natalie.fischer@etelecare.com Company URL: www.etelecare.com eTelecare International (www.etelecare.com) outsources contact center operations for leading firms in the financial, technology, telecommunications and other sectors. eTelecare hires only university graduates and invests heavily in technology, training and quality practices to provide award-winning service. Since going live with 25 agents in September 2000, eTelecare has grown to more than 1100 agents serving 15 programs, including PC technical support and mutual funds brokerage for Fortune 50 firms. In 2003, eTelecare plans to open a second US data center and lay the groundwork for three additional Philippine call centers. Company: Exstream(TM) Software Booth: 333 Media Contact: Kelley Sloane Phone: 859-296-0600 ext. 105 E-mail: ksloane@exstream.com Company URL: www.exstream.com Product description: Dialogue(TM) WebVerse (TM) is powerful software that allows business users to rapidly build and deploy web applications using an intuitive graphical user interface -- without Java programming. The wizard-like web applications are used by CSRs, sales agents and prospects or customers themselves to interactively generate fully personalized web pages and documents. Company description: Headquartered in Lexington, KY, Exstream(TM) Software helps businesses around the world connect with the eGeneration through higher quality, fully personalized customer communications -- delivered by mail, email and the Internet. Companies in the financial services, insurance, telecommunications, retail, service bureau, and other industries benefit from increased revenue through improved customer retention and faster time to market. Company: GMT Corp Booth: 529 Media Contact: Kaarin E. Soma Phone: 770-416-6000 E-mail: sales@gmt.com Company URL: www.gmt.com Product Description: GMT Planet(TM) is workforce management software for contact centers. GMT Planet optimizes staff time while maintaining service goals and containing labor costs. Provides planning tools for sound workforce decisions. Features costing/budgeting analysis, real-time adherence, skill-based scheduling, "what-if" analysis, meeting/vacation planners, and two next-generation features: Mission Control and Web-Based Employee Time Center. Company Description: GMT's commitment to building long-term customer relationships and developing new software solutions that best meet our customer's needs are at the heart of GMT's success in the contact center industry. GMT is privately held and entirely self funded. The company has no debt and has been profitable for the past six years. Company: Gold Systems Booth: 417 Media Contact: Tricia Saunders, saunders@goldsys.com Phone: 303-447-2774 E-mail: sales@goldsys.com Company URL: www.goldsys.com Product Description: Vonetix provides a single infrastructure for integrating speech recognition, IVR, back- and front-end office systems, and text-to-speech technologies with an enterprise's existing customer communication interfaces. Vonetix offers a portfolio of plug-ins to further enhance connectivity and allow the enterprise to deploy customer support solutions more economically using standard development tools. Company Description: Gold Systems helps Global 1000 companies improve profitability and increase customer satisfaction by optimizing efficiency with custom, voice-driven solutions that implement the latest in IVR, speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies. Gold Systems offers application expertise, a flexible and robust delivery process, and data integration via its innovative Vonetix product suite. Company: Group 1 Software Ticker Symbol: GSOF Media Contact: David Peikin Phone: 888-413-6763 E-mail: Marketing@g1.com Company URL: www.g1.com/DOC1 Product Description: Group 1 Software is a leading provider of software solutions for data quality, customer communications management, database marketing, and direct marketing applications. Group 1's software systems and services enable organizations worldwide to market smarter by helping them find, reach and keep customers. The company's customer base includes such recognized names as Charles Schwab, Entergy, GEICO, L.L. Bean, Wal-Mart and Wells Fargo. Company Description: Group 1's DOC1 Archive, a high-performance central repository, provides real-time storage, compression and fast retrieval of business documents. DOC1 Archive enables users to archive and view millions of documents and maintain years of historical billing and statement data online. Using next-generation compression, indexing techniques and industry-standard hardware, DOC1 Archive minimizes the investment traditionally required in storage and host platforms. Customer Service instantly accesses exact replica documents for handle-time reduction. And, customers can view self-service documents online 24/7, from the same repository. Company: IEX, a Tekelec company Ticker Symbol: TKLC Booth: 605 Media Contact: Brian Spraetz, 972-301-1255, bspraetz@iex.com Investor Relations Contact: Michael Attar, 818-880-7821, Michael.attar@tekelec.com Phone: 972-301-1300 E-mail: info@iex.com Company URL: http://www.iex.com Press Kit URL: http://www.iex.com/Press/pressrelease.asp Product Description: The TotalView Workforce Management system ensures the right agents are in the right place at the right time to deliver outstanding service levels to their customers consistently, and at a lower cost. From forecasting and planning through scheduling and intraday management, to reporting and analysis, TotalView helps contact centers perform at their peak. Company Description: IEX provides workforce management software products for multimedia contact centers and traditional call centers. Focusing on solutions to improve productivity and reduce operating costs, IEX products assist contact center managers with personnel scheduling, forecasting and monitoring. IEX was founded in 1988 and became a Tekelec company in May of 1999. Company: Incoming Calls Management Institute Booth: 339 Media Contact: Linda Harden Phone: 410.267.0700 E-mail: icmi@incoming.com Company URL: www.incoming.com Press Kit URL: www.virtualpressoffice.com/presskit/index.jsp?companyId=1041927264021 Product Description: Call Center Management training and accreditation services, consulting services, publications and a Membership Program. ICMI's services are dedicated to providing call center managers with relevant resources that enhance their management knowledge and facilitate their efforts to improve call center operations. Company Description: Incoming Calls Management Institute (ICMI), offers the most comprehensive training programs, consulting services and educational resources available for call center management professionals. Established in 1985 and the first to offer training on incoming call center management, ICMI has grown into a global leader whose capabilities and depth of experience are unparalleled. Company: Inova Corporation Booth: 927 Media Contact: Matt Schwabel Phone: 434-817-8000 x155 E-mail: mschwabel@inovacorp.com Company URL: www.inovacorp.com Product description: Inova solutions help you harness the information generated by your existing systems, turning volumes of disparate and inaccessible data into timely and relevant alerts and reports. This real-time access enables informed decision-making from agents through executives, boosting overall performance in command centers, the enterprise, and call centers of all sizes. Company description: Inova develops systems that distribute, monitor and manage real-time and historical information. We provide enterprise-wide metrics monitoring, analysis and reporting, enabling more informed decision-making and improving productivity and efficiency. We're experts at real-time and historical information management, with 18 years of call center experience and over 2,500 successful implementations worldwide. Company: InStranet, Inc. Booth: 912 Media Contact: Charlotte Kullen, 212.473.4442, charlotte@macmillancom.com Company URL: www.instranet.com Product description: InStranet's Channels In-Line Application (CIL), is the first enterprise software application designed to automate the content-rich processes of distributing targeted, time-sensitive marketing information such as promotions, new product collateral, and price lists to diverse multi-tiered distribution channels. Targeted to telecommunications marketers, technology companies, retail firms and the financial services market, CIL also collects user feedback from the point-of-sale, and includes unique built-in analytics that monitor and measure the impact of marketing content usage on sales. Channels In-Line is the first application to address these industry-specific challenges. The result of many years working with customers in high technology, retail and telecommunications industries, InStranet's Channels In-Line application leverages content management functionality and intranets/extranets to automate the best practice business processes of securely creating, segmenting and delivering targeted marketing materials to a diverse network of sales channels and retail outlets. Company description: InStranet provides multiple business applications that address specific information-exchange problems within vertical markets such as telecommunications, retail, banking and insurance. Each vertical application provides industry-specific business process support, along with a sophisticated application infrastructure and a secure content repository. Using corporate intranets and extranets and InStranet's browser-based software, enterprises can quickly populate live Web sites with the precise information for action that each business user needs. Company: Interactive Intelligence Inc. Ticker Symbol: Nasdaq: ININ Booth: 333 Media Contact: Christine Holley Investor Relations Contact: Keith Midkiff Phone: 317-872-3000 E-mail: info@ININ.com Company URL: www.ININ.com Press Kit URL: www.virtualpressoffice.com/bw/presskit/detail.jsp?companyId=982240290220 Product Description: Customer Interaction Center(tm) (CIC) by Interactive Intelligence is a bundled software communications application suite specifically designed to meet the demanding performance requirements of customer-driven organizations. CIC's comprehensive all-in-one architecture eliminates the cost and time associated with multi-vendor integration solutions. Features include PBX/IP-PBX, voice mail, fax services, ACD, IVR, screen pop, Web chat, remote support and more. Company Description: Interactive Intelligence is a global developer of communications software that enables contact centers to more easily manage multi-channel interactions resulting in reduced TCO, increased productivity and improved customer service. Interactive Intelligence was founded in 1994 and has more than 900 customers. Recent awards include Software Magazine's 2002 Top 500 Global Software and Services Companies. Company: Interactive Quality Services, Inc. Booth: 827 Media Contact: Gregg Williams Phone: 612-243-6700 E-mail: gwillimas@iq-services.com Company URL: http://www.iq-services.com/ Product Description: Now you can get cost-effective load testing and availability monitoring for IVR, web, CTI, email, screen-pop, speech recognition, VoIP, VXML, text-to-speech, outbound, and more. IQS provides end-to-end remote testing services with detailed reports and helpful information. IQS does not sell hardware or software. Test with IQS, not with your customers. Company Description: Interactive Quality Services, Inc. (IQS) is dedicated to supporting our customers in developing and implementing affordable quality assurance and testing programs that ensure systems work before and after they are put into production with your customers. IQS expertise includes professional services and testing of call routing, IVR applications, CT Servers, Web Servers, Screen Pop, Host and DB system interaction. Company: Mercom Booth: 1026 Media Contact: Ellen Pensky Phone: 925-484-4052 ext 210 or 925-699-7921 E-mail: ellen@bumblebb.com Company URL: www.mercom.com Product description: The Mercom Call Center Suite features next-generation Audiolog 3.1 call recording server, IRIS scheduling software and Mercom's Interaction Quality (IQ) software for agent evaluation. The product suite decreases the cost of ownership through the use of industry-standard PC components, ease of installation and training and intuitive operation. Company description: Mercom Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of advanced multimedia recording solutions. Mercom's solutions are installed in thousands of leading call centers, government agencies, utilities, and financial institutions around the world. For two years, Mercom was named one of the fastest-growing companies in the USA by Inc magazine. The company is privately held and headquartered in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. Company: NICE Systems Ticker Symbol: NICE (Nasdaq) Booth: 513 Media Contact: Kevin Levi - 201-964-2682, kevin.levi@nice.com Investor Relations Contact: Claudia Gatlin - 973-960-9300, claudia.gatlin@nice.com Phone: 201-964-2600 E-mail: info@nice.com Company URL: www.nice.com Product description: NICE offers a market-leading, comprehensive suite of CEM tools to help companies capture, evaluate, analyze and improve the customer experience. More specifically, CEM lets customers enjoy these benefits: --Improved quality of customer experiences with results in greater satisfaction --Increase in customer satisfaction --Accurate transaction verification --Lower agent turnover --Increased first call resolution --Reduction in the costs of quality management and training Company description: NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) is the pioneer and worldwide leader in Customer Experience Management (CEM) which includes solutions for quality management, multi-media recording, call center analysis, e-learning and related professional services. Currently serving 67% of the Fortune 100, NICE introduced the concept of Customer Experience Management (CEM) to help organizations turn customer interactions into customer intelligence for improved business performance. Company: Oracle Corporation Ticker Symbol: (Nasdaq: ORCL) Booth: 145 Investor Relations Contact: Oracle Investor Relations Phone: 650-506-4073 E-mail: investor_us@oracle.com Company URL: http://vegas.iccm.com Press Kit URL: www.oracle.com/investor Product Description: Oracle offers a complete line of call center products to lower costs, generate revenue, and keep customers. Oracle's E-Business Suite includes CRM applications from service, sales, marketing, and collections functions, all integrated together to ensure a consistent customer experience. Businesses can implement Oracle offerings quickly using Oracle Business Flow Accelerators, which are prepackaged sets of software and consulting services to address a typical business process, such as Call to Resolution for call centers. For more information, please go to: www.oracle.com. Company Description: Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company, providing enterprise software to the world's largest and most successful businesses. With annual revenues of more than $10.8 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Oracle is the first software company to develop and deploy 100 percent Internet-enabled enterprise software across its entire product line: database, server, enterprise business applications, and application development, and decision support tools. Company: Peppers and Rogers Group Booth: 716 Media Contact: Kathryn Kavicky Phone: 203-642-5307 E-mail: kathryn_kavicky@1to1.com Company URL: www.1to1.com Press Kit URL: Company Description: Peppers and Rogers Group is a management consulting firm recognized as the world's leading authority on customer-based business strategy. The company is dedicated to helping enterprises leverage customer data to drive profits and build more valuable customer relationships. We help clients devise high-level strategies for building their business around customer value; assist them in the operational implementation of their customer initiatives; and maintain momentum by offering training, research, workshops and keynote presentations. Company: QAS Booth: 427 Media Contact: Cecilia Hellman Phone: 888 322 6201 E-mail: us.info@qas.com Company URL: www.qas.com/us Press Kit URL: www.virtualpressoffice.com/bw/presskit/detail.jsp?companyId=1030347442604 Product description: QAS' QuickAddress products capture, clean, maintain and enhance address records within any organization. The products are based on data secured from national postal authorities, including the US Postal Service. In addition, QAS works with a wide range of Business Partners, integrating QuickAddress software within their own applications, including organizations such as Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems, Inc., PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards Company description: Established in 1990, QAS is a pioneer in address verification systems. QAS has over 8,500 customers worldwide in the finance, insurance, retail, travel, healthcare, education, telecommunications and media sectors. The Group's headquarters are based in the United Kingdom, QAS' US headquarters are in Boston, MA. The company has offices throughout the US, Europe and Australia. Company: Qwiz Inc. Booth: 633 Media Contact: Natalie Hamlett Investor Relations Contact: Noel Sitzmann Phone: 800-367-2509 E-mail: qwiz@qwiz.com Company URL: www.qwiz.com Press Kit URL: http://www.qwiz.com/default.cfm?action=news Product Description: Qwiz Call Center assessments simulate real-life scenarios. This gives candidates a preview of actual call center tasks and, at the same time, helps you identify those with superior skills, as well as pinpoint training needs. In addition, each assessment is short, scores calculate automatically, and score reports are accessible immediately. Company Description: Qwiz, Inc., the industry leader in competency assessments, provides CD and web-based applications that positively match candidates to roles. Our assessments provide an evaluation of skills, knowledge, personality and behavioral traits, and training needs analysis. Qwiz, recognized globally, is working in more than 40,000 systems worldwide. Company: SAP Ticker Symbol: NYSE: SAP Booth: 817 Media Contact: Jim Dever Investor Relations Contact: Stefan Gruber Phone: 610-661-1000 Company URL: www.sap.com/crm SAP is the world's leading provider of business software solutions. Through the mySAP Business Suite, people in businesses around the globe are improving relationships with customers and partners, streamlining operations, and achieving significant efficiencies throughout their supply chains. Today, more than 19,300 companies in over 120 countries run more than 60,100 installations of SAP(R) software. With subsidiaries in over 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP." (Additional information at http://www.sap.com.) Company: Society of Workforce Planning Professionals (SWPP) Booth: 1119 Media Contact: Vicki Herrell Phone: 877-289-0004 E-mail: vicki.herrell@swpp.org Company URL: www.swpp.org The Society of Workforce Planning Professionals (SWPP) is an organization designed specifically to facilitate professional development of any individual with resource planning and management responsibilities within the call center. SWPP provides its membership with many benefits, including quarterly newsletters, regional networking meetings, online forums, educational offerings, and an annual conference. Company: Spectrum Corporation Booth: 732 Media Contact: Brenda McClelland Investor Relations Contact: Dan Boehm Phone: 713-944-6200 E-mail: brenda@specorp.com Company URL: www.specorp.com Product description: Our telecommunications products include Spectrum Wallboards, ACD clocks, V-Display software, Ultra Link II software and Ultra Data software. Company description: Spectrum Corporation has been a manufacturer and solution provider of electronic signs since 1971. By listening to customers needs, we have developed leading products and support services. Company: SpeechWorks International Ticker Symbol: SPWX Booth: 113 Media Contact: Marie Ruzzo Phone: 617-428-4444 E-mail: info@speechworks.com Company URL: www.speechworks.com Press Kit URL: www.speechworks.com Product Description: SpeechWorks provides speech recognition, text-to-speech (TTS) and speaker verification for network and embedded environments, including new multimodal devices with both an audio interface and visual display. Customers using SpeechWorks' products include carriers, corporations and government organizations such as America Online, Citibank Europe, CIBC Bank, Deutsche Telekom, McKesson, Microsoft and Thomas Cook. Company Description: Organizations around the world trust SpeechWorks to manage their customer conversations. As the leading provider of speech technologies and services, SpeechWorks helps companies create and implement unique Speech Strategies that ensure maximum financial return and the highest levels of caller satisfaction. With SpeechWorks solutions, callers use natural language to carry out day-to-day business transactions -- bringing an end to the frustration of the touch-tone menu. Company: SYMON Communications, Inc. Booth: 1013 Media Contact: Virginia Brooks Phone: 972-669-9538 E-mail: virginia@brooksmorrow.com Company URL: www.symon.com Product description: SYMON VISTA creates real-time browser-based reporting displays of key metrics, calculations and filtered data from many different business sources. It is paramount to understand your business operations to control risks and opportunities. You can manage your enterprise productivity and profitability using VISTA dashboards and scorecards with powerful drilldown views. Company description: SYMON specializes in real-time reporting, messaging and alerting systems along with an advanced infrastructure for consolidating real-time information. SYMON also provides revolutionary web-based workforce management solutions. Installed in over 2,500 contact centers, help desks and operations centers worldwide, SYMON has provided award-winning products for almost twenty years. Company: TantaComm Booth: 1027 Media Contact: Paul Ackermann Phone: 800-444-8522 E-mail: packermann@tantacomm.com Company URL: www.tantacomm.com Product Description: Among TantaComm's solutions with demonstrated ability to impact the bottom line are Quality Monitoring, DartQA, and Total Call Recording, DartCONTACT. These solutions are defined as follows: a flexible solution that can capture, record, evaluate and playback the contact experience between your agents and the consumer for quality, verification or compliance purposes. Company Description: TantaComm's goal is to provide the most cost effective, reliable, and intuitive solutions for the challenges you face in providing your customers, investors, and employees the most advanced tools and services available. Our platform enables us to provide customized solutions designed to exceed customer requirements regardless of network environment. Company: TargetVision(R) Booth: 101 Media Contact: Heidi Marcin, 800-724-4044 x281, E-mail: hmarcin@targetvision.com Investor Relations Contact: Kevin M. Halpin, 585-325-5760 Company URL: www.targetvision.com Product Description: Enterprise by TargetVision(R) combines the data delivery function of a readerboard with the power of familiar, trusted and vibrant display mediums. Contact centers use proprietary TargetVision software to create a continuous slide show of ongoing performance statistics, company and industry news, training reinforcement and employee recognition and deliver it to strategically placed television monitors, flat-panel displays and desktop PCs. Company Description: TargetVision(R) is a leading provider of communication software and visual systems for office, manufacturing and call center environments. A privately held company headquartered in Rochester, NY, TargetVision has been in the business of developing, selling and supporting its solutions for more than 15 years. Today, TargetVision communication systems are in use at 20 percent of the Fortune 500. Company: Texas Digital Systems, Inc. Booth: 627 Media Contact: Lacy Aswell Phone: 979-693-9378 x1142 E-Mail: laswell@txdigital.com Company URL: www.txdigital.com Product description: QuickCOM Enterprise displays real-time, critical system status information from ACD systems, help desk packages, mainframes, automation packages, network monitoring packages, ODBC databases, and serial data sources. Multi-colored messages and audible tones alert users of system changes on LED display units, VGA/TV monitors, workstations, pagers, Web browsers, and e-mail applications. Company description: Texas Digital Systems, Inc. (TDS) is a leading provider of integrated electronic display solutions for the direct markets of call centers, help desks, network data centers, distribution centers, and quick-serve restaurants. TDS' innovative solutions include real-time information reporting systems, drive-thru order confirmation displays, and digital menu systems. Company: The Call Center School Booth: 1117 Media Contact: Penny Reynolds Phone: 615-812-8410 E-mail: penny.reynolds@thecallcenterschool.com Company URL: www.thecallcenterschool.com The Call Center School provides a full range of training and education services for the call center professional. Capabilities include a comprehensive e-learning curriculum for front-line agents, a 35-topic web seminar program entitled The Masters Series in Call Center Management delivered weekly via the web, and a variety of traditional classroom courses delivered as public seminars or as private on-site programs. Company: The WorkForce Management Group, Inc. (WFMG) Booth: 314 Media Contact: Daryl Gonos Investor Relations Contact: Todd Cotharin Phone: 877-575-9364 E-mail:gonos@wfmg.com Company URL: www.wfmg.com Company Description: The WorkForce Management Group, Inc. (WFMG) is recognized as a leading authority on workforce management systems and practices. The company provides services and solutions that leverage core workforce management technologies. WFMG assist their clients with the selection, deployment and optimization of workforce management technologies. Solutions include CenterBridge -- Strategic Planner, eResourcePlanner -- Web Empowering Agent Service and InfoQuire -- Integration Solution. Their e-newsletter "The WFMG Manager" is published bi-monthly. For more information visit the web site at www.wfmg.com or contact them at info@wfmg.com or 877.575.WFMG (9364). Company: UNICOR -- Federal Prison Industries Booth: 227 Media Contact: Frank Hurst Phone: 202-305-3954 E-mail: fhurst@central.unicor.gov Company URL: www.unicor.gov Product Description: UNICOR offers cost effective and native English/Spanish speaking resources to commercial outsourcing firms who would otherwise be sending their work off-shore. UNICOR's focus is on order capture/entry to the Manufacturing, IT, and Communication sectors, as well as offering voice based inbound customer and technical support. Company Description: UNICOR is the trade name for Federal Prison Industries, a wholly owned government corporation with the mission of employing and training federal inmates. UNICOR, which has been in existence for nearly 70 years, now offers call center services as a viable alternative to outsourcing outside the United States. Company: Verint Systems, Inc. Ticker Symbol: NASDAQ: VRNT Booth: 905 Media Contact: Kathryn Morris, kathryn@kmorrispr.com, 845-635-9828 Investor Relations Contact: Alan Roden Phone: 516-465-1370 E-mail: alan.roden@verintsystems.com Company URL: www.verintsystems.com Product description: Verint's ULTRA Intelligent Recording solution is an enterprise platform that enhances the contact center and helps turn it into an important asset for achieving business goals. ULTRA retains, analyzes and archives customer interactions, generating actionable intelligence to facilitate better marketing and sales strategies, improve business performance and maximize revenue-generating opportunities. Company description: Verint Systems is a leading global provider of Intelligent Recording and analytic solutions for contact centers. Verint's solutions deliver business insight about customers, agents and processes to the desktops of key decision makers at global enterprises, enabling them to optimize contact center performance and deliver a consistent, branded customer experience. Company: Versadial Solutions Booth: 714 Media Contact: Gene Shennikov Phone: 949-457-0650 E-mail: sales@versadial.com Company URL: www.versadial.com Press Kit URL: Product Description: Versadial voice recording systems -- line of multi-channel digital voice recorders and do-it-yourself kits. Recording 4 to 256 channels from DROM different inputs. Analog audio or telephones, digital PBX extensions, ISDN, T1, E1, PRI. Company Description: Developer and provider of voice recording software and systems. Our solutions are found where reliability and low-cost maintenance are priorities. Voice recording system integrators, government agencies, privately operated call centers throughout the United States and around the world rely on our field-proven services and products. Company: Vocent Solutions Booth: 1025 Media Contact: Chris McKie Investor Relations Contact: Bruce Dougherty Phone: 650-316-3000 E-mail: bruce@vocent.com Company URL: www.vocent.com Press Kit URL: Product Description: Vocent is announcing the availability of Voice Secure-Confirmed Caller, a packaged voiceprint-based solution that automates the process of authenticating identities in call center transactions, thus significantly reducing the cost of agent-based authentication. Unlike solutions that use only pin numbers or knowledge-based content that can be compromised, Voice Secure-Confirmed Caller authenticates people using their unique voiceprints. Company Description: Vocent is the leading developer of voiceprint authentication solutions. The company uses industry standards to deliver packaged, platform-independent voice applications that securely automate a wide range of business transactions. Through its Voice Secure solutions, Vocent eliminates the need to choose between security and convenience by offering products that authenticate users' identities. Company: Voice Print International Inc. Booth: 526 Media Contact: Kari Lovequist Phone: 805-389-8200 x5276 E-mail: klovequist@VoicePrintOnline.com Company URL: www.VoicePrintOnline.com Press Kit URL: http://www.voiceprintonline.com/news.asp Product Description: Voice Print International's Activ! Customer Experience Management Suite includes the ultimate solutions for digital call recording, screen capture, and quality assurance. Used in conjunction with each other, each application provides contact center managers and supervisors with tools to gather valuable insight into the contact center, evolving marketplace, and customer needs. Activ! is ideal for any size "best of class" contact center that require the tools necessary to improve agent performance, and ultimately increase its bottom line. Company Description: Based in Camarillo, CA, Voice Print International (VPI) is a global leader and innovator in the digital multi-media voice/data/screen recording and quality assurance industry. Since its inception, VPI has been dedicated to expanding the capabilities of digital recording in multiple industries and is blazing new trails into customer experience management (CEM). From Fortune 500 giants to small public safety dispatch centers, companies benefit form VPI's non-proprietary, flexible, software based design. Designed around the familiar, intuitive Microsoft NT/2000/XP operating system and constructed of Commercially Off the Shelf (COTS) hardware, upgrades and maintenance are effortless. VPI is dedicated to providing its clients with the industry's most flexible and reliable solution, saving them precious time, money and, most importantly, giving them peace of mind. Voice Print is a private corporation that is 100% American owned and operated. For more information about VPI, visit our website at www.voiceprintonline.com or call 1-800-200-5430. Note to media: To register for a free, custom news feed via Business Wire's Press Pass, go to http://www.tradeshownews.com/ifmd/ifmd-regpress.html. Note to exhibitors: Information about Business Wire's global trade show news distribution options is available at http://www.tradeshownews.com/tsn/index4.html. To issue your trade show or conference news, contact your local Business Wire bureau at 888/381-9473. |
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