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Air Jamaica Vacations, the in-house In-house

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 knowledge of each destination and hotel in its program.

The division needed a call center to route customer calls to the agents most well informed about their particular inquiries. CELLIT's ContactPro software had a skills-based routing feature, which precisely targets interactions to the individual agent with the best skill match. This comprehensive, converged solution manages customer interactions across all channels of communication, including voice, fax, e-mail and the Web, with multimedia blending of them to a single agent desktop. Unified management and administration is possible from a single touch point.

Open system architecture and rich application programming interfaces allow for integration with other enterprise solutions, including customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning See ERP.

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, workforce management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP). There are many software vendors within this space. , agent scripting and legacy solutions.

Since replacing its PBX-based legacy system with ContactPro, Air Jamaica Vacation has fielded 6,000 customer calls each day--a 50% increase. The division now determines in which Caribbean island a caller Caller may refer to one of the following:
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 is interested and--while the customer is in queue--plays customized attention retainers about that destination. The software's routing then pairs the caller, based on his interest, with an available agent familiar with that island. Because the customer's initial experience is more positive and educational, the division has experienced greater call center efficiency, shorter hold times and lower costs, according to according to
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 Carlisle Vason, Air Jamaica Vacations senior vice president.

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Title Annotation:Company Operations
Author:Kelly, Sean
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Date:Jul 1, 2001
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