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Section 5: Epicenter’s Technology and Reporting

What is the basic technology architecture of Epicenter? What is the core collections application? Are all the collectors on the same platform or do they use the customers’ screens and systems?

Epicenter has partnered with the world’s premier quality product suppliers –
I. Nice
II. Oracle
III. Avaya,
IV. CISCO

With VOIP and ATM capabilities ensuring seamless scalability up to 4000 seats, reliability as well as upgradeability. The CMS tools allow a very rich reporting capability. Advocate and Elite enable us to guarantee consistent service levels. To enrich the management and reporting systems for the customers and efficiencies, Oracle CRM packages have been provided. To ensure effective monitoring and enabling online training, significant investments are being made to provide Nice video monitoring systems which has remote voice and data monitoring capabilities.

LAN Infrastructure:
The architecture of our call center is based on IP. The entire LAN is a 100 Mbps fully switched network at the distribution level with a Gigabit backbone at the Core level to ensure that LAN bandwidth is never a constraint. Use of HSRP at the core level eliminates single point of failure and ensures high uptime and availability. The LAN is divided into separate VLAN’s to provide security. The entire LAN currently is built using Cisco Switches.

The data network is standardized on the Dell servers and PCs connected through a CAT 6 LAN network.

WAN Infrastructure:
Epicenter had partnered to build up its WAN infrastructure. The CISCO routers and the IGX are fully redundant. The CISCO IGX is presently being deployed using FRAME RELAY but has the capability to support VoIP. Thus it provides significant scalability.

ACD Switch:
Epicenter has invested in the Avaya Definity G3si and Definity G3R switches thus providing tremendous scalability. The switch is also VoIP capable thus facilitating smooth integration of the technology.

Off premise dialer - Integrated with the PBX using point-to-point CAS T1 lines.

On premise CTI/Screen generation - Screen generation is enabled via ASAI link to the PBX

We get connected to most of our customers IBM mainframes systems using Citrix thin client. We presently use our client’s software applications by logging on to their systems using emulation software.

What information is captured and reported back to the customers? How does this compare to the reporting from other outsourcing companies?
We follow every possible method of capturing information to measure our productivity. Reports are prepared hourly, daily basis and compared with weekly, monthly progressive statistics. We calibrate calls in terms of quality and these reports are generated & sent to customers with relations drawn with productivity metrics.
What internal reports and analyses are produced?

The company MIS is centralized with the Chief Technology Officer. The Database Administrator working on MIS, data mining, etc., leverages the reporting capability of the various technology systems employed by Epicenter (as mentioned above) to build customized reports for customers and management for effective control and decision-making.

Over 300 types of standard reports are available from the systems mentioned below. Further, the systems have the capability to allow generation of customized reports. All the reports are generated automatically.

IV. Center Vu CMS of Lucent
V. Nice Monitoring and Reporting
VI. Oracle 11i and the Dialer

Center Vu CMS provides performance measurement tools for Call Center operations. With the integrated reporting capabilities of Center Vu CMS, complex network databases are analyzed to make smarter and faster enterprise-wide business decisions. Real time call center statistics are displayed on voice terminals equipped with displays and attendant consoles, thereby empowering associates to watch their own progress. Supervisors and managers also monitor the progress of their associates/associate groups and trunk groups.

Nice Universe System is a complete world-class quality Management solution for call centers. It enables scheduled recordings of associate calls and screen activities in a free seating environment. Using Nice Universe, the call center supervisors can simultaneously play back voice and screen data and then use on-line forms to evaluate associate performance.

Oracle CRM, which has modules for Customer Support, Sales, Marketing, e-Mail Center, provides an Analytical tools that generate a variety of standard and customized reports. Statistics on associate and Campaign performance are also available from Dialer reports.

Nature and frequency of reports depends on the client’s business requirement. Some of the reports prepared are:

  • Score Card – Provides a comparison of the project team’ performance (on the Key Performance Indicators) vis-à-vis Targets.
  • Agent Productivity Report – Generic (for entire project team) – Provides an agent-wise distribution of the performance parameters.
  • Tenure-Wise Agent Productivity Report – Tracks the productivity of the agent as a function of his/her tenure on the project.
  • System Down Time Log – Maintains a record of all system outages during productive hours and the reasons / responsibilities for the same.
  • Competition Tracker – Compares Epicenter’ performance vis-à-vis competition on an hourly/daily basis.
  • Utilization Data Sheet – Tracks the utilization of the agent during the productive hours.
  • Attendance/ Attrition Log – Roster indicating the attendance data for each agent, as also the attrition taking place from the project (Internal as well as External)
  • Dialer Performance Report- It shows the performance of the dialer giving key metrics such as intensity, penetration etc.
 
 
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