At a Glance
For subscribers, partners and enterprise
Sophisticated inbound routing
High-performance predictive dialing
Dynamic blending & workload balancing
Omnichannel, multi-session desktop
At-a-glance reporting – all media channels
Comprehensive, robust APIs
Work anywhere – home, remote, contact center
What is Softdial Contact Center™?
SCC empowers organisations to:
- maximise customer satisfaction, by cutting wait-in-queue times, offering a choice of contact methods, and equipping agents with the information they need to delight customers
- maximise agent productivity, with high-performance predictive dialing, and a tailored omnichannel desktop allowing work on several open text sessions at once.
As a platform, SCC is uniquely flexible, allowing users to either run the full suite, or choose which modules to deploy. It can be extended via SCC’s comprehensive, robust APIs, modified, adapted and even white labelled to fit any business requirements.
Who is Softdial Contact Center™ For?
- subscribers who need the rich functionality of Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) at no upfront cost, with no management overhead
- partners to provide a Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) to many tenants across the globe from a single cloud installation
- enterprises to manage high volumes of interactions between customers and agents, whether at home, remote, or on-premise
What’s different about Softdial Contact Center™?
Maximise productivity across all workloads
SCC manages communication on all media channels – voice, chat, email, messaging – automatically blending and load balancing contact sessions between all agents, all queues and campaigns with its Automatic Session Distributor (ASD®). Agent time is optimised, with typically a 20% boost in productivity, and all SLAs are automatically adhered to, slashing customer wait times, without compromising any outbound predictive dialing performance.
Keep agents busy – multiple open conversations
SCC’s Agent Desktop keeps agents busy by allowing them to handle multiple text-based contact sessions at the same time, switching between them as necessary, while still available to take incoming calls whenever required. With all media channels presented in a single, consistent UI, the agent’s life is made easier and more varied, increasing job satisfaction, improving agent retention and lowering training costs.
Work anywhere – home, remote, contact center
SCC offers tools for agents, supervisors and administrators within a web browser. Agents can work from home with just an entry level laptop/ tablet, a headset and an internet connection. Supervisors can manage agents from in the office or on the move, and admin staff can respond quickly to changing needs, updating configurations from anywhere at any time.
Maximise uptime
SCC has been especially architected to withstand the storms of the hard-working distributed contact center, where network and hardware failure is a fact of life. In such circumstances, SCC components gracefully clean up and recover with the minimum of customer intervention.
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Inbound/ Outbound
SCC optimises the handling of both inbound and outbound sessions.
A ‘session’, in the world of multi-media contact, is the equivalent of ‘call’ in the world of telephony. Session management from initiation, through routing and handling, to disposition and reporting/ replaying – is core to SCC. This centralised authority model enables highly sophisticated decisions to be made, at lightning speed, in reaction to fluctuations in conditions, e.g. agent numbers or spikes in inbound volume; for example:-
- For inbound – SCC’s Automatic Session Distributor (ASD) maintains a range of SLAs across many media channels, blending agents seamlessly as demand requires
- For outbound – SCC’s predictive dialing algorithm stays automatically within even the toughest compliance rules.
This centralised authority enables blending not only of agents, moving them from time critical work to handle spikes in inbound volume, but also spreading the workload on all contact channels so as to adhere automatically to all SLAs and to optimise agent efficiency.
Omnichannel
SCC supports any mix of audio/ video and text-based media sessions (email, SMS chat, social, etc).
All media channels are treated consistently throughout, enabling for example:
- a chat or chatbot session can transfer seamlessly to a live agent
- a script written for a voice conversation will work equally well for a chat conversation.
SCC’s modular media plug-in architecture allows additional media channels such as 3rd party chat apps or other web services to be easily added as required.
The blending capabilities of Softdial Contact Center has been a game changer for us in terms of the efficiency of our agents. The ability to work on multiple chat sessions, email, as well as a voice call at the same time has given the phrase ‘multi-tasking’ an entirely new meaning for us.
The agents are certainly kept busy and are enjoying the new diversity this brings to their work.
Agent desktop
All agent activity is conducted using a single web UI called Softdial One™, which includes:
- multiple session control
- multiple active chat, email or SMS sessions, while also being available for a voice session
- agent scripts
- 3rd party web pages/ apps
More about SCC’s blended desktop for agents and supervisors >>
Manangement
SCC provides a range of management tools, also delivered within Softdial One™. Its versatility enables the display, within a single user interface, of any combination of information and functional panels giving control over any and all areas of configuration and management of resources, including:
- performance reports
- campaign and list configuration
- compliance with any global rules
- tenant provisioning
- supervisor functions (e.g. monitor, barge and whisper)
- configuration of shared resources, e.g.
- outcome codes
- users, endpoints, queues
- search and playback of recordings
Recording
In order to help supervisors/ managers ensure best practices for agents, and troubleshoot when these are not followed, SCC supports:
- audio recording of agent and customer voice conversations
- screen recording of the agents workstation.
Did you know?
Sytel occupies a unique place in the market. We are the only provider of a technology stack that partners use on an OEM basis to deliver a full-service cloud contact center service.
AI and automation
Central to SCC is the principle that anything that can be automated, should be. To facilitate this:
- the pacing of its predictive dialing is controlled by the Virtual Event Machine (VEM ®), with no supervisor involvement
- bots of all types – IVR, chat, email – can be created entirely within SCC using Softdial Scripter™, SCC’s drag and drop, no-code flow design tool
- SCC has its own Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine, for gaining insight into customer intent
- Scripter can also automate many workflow functions within the contact center , e.g. retrieving data to inform routing decisions, or display to the agent.
Open APIs
From the inception of SCC as a plug-in within 3rd party contact center environments, APIs have been at its core. All areas of functionality are exposed for easy integration with 3rd party applications, from CATI products for market research, to AI routing decision products, to CRM systems.
The API set is:
- robust – all SCC services make use of the SCC APIs. Therefore they have been thoroughly tested, updated and proven in the field over decades, which ensures high reliability
- comprehensive – every aspect of control is offered up for 3rd party control via the agent/ user, management, CTI and campaign APIs.
The APIs are available in a variety of transports to fit any situation, including sockets, web sockets, HTTP and HTTPS.
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What We Offer
Sytel Limited develops and supplies Softdial Contact Center® (SCC) – multimedia, multichannel, fully blended cloud contact center solutions.
Available by subscription as CCaaS, fully managed and supported by Sytel, or for quick and easy deployment by partners and enterprise users.
All Sytel cloud components are secure, resilient and scale seamlessly from 10 agents to 10,000+, whether local, mobile or remote.
Flexible Contact Center Software
Softdial Contact Center™ – rich functionality, all-in-one, designed to deliver at scale
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Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
CCaaS for subscribers – global service, with no upfront costs
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Contact Center Platform – CCaaS Partners
Build your own CCaaS business using the power and flexibility of Sytel software
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Contact Center Platform – Enterprise
High performance platform to drive contact center productivity – cloud, on-premise or hybrid
Blended Media Desktop
Fully customisable, multi-channel, multi-session workspace
Work Anywhere
Browser-based tools, no software installation required
Customise, Localise, White Label
Design all user interfaces to individual requirements
Integration via APIs
‘Swap out’ components and integrate with 3rd party apps
World Class Development
Continuous evolution pushing technical boundaries
Capabilities
Softdial Contact Center™ (SCC) is designed to be flexible, extensible and scalable, integrating with any legacy equipment, and meeting the most complex of requirements.
All Media Channels
Voice, chat, email, social, etc – fully integrated and blended
Agent Multi-Tasking
Work with multiple live contact sessions of any media channel
Dynamic Workforce Management
Optimise agent usage and balance workloads in real-time without human intervention, across all media channels
Predictive Dialing
Best-of-breed performance under compliance
Optimised Inbound Routing
Smart rules and ‘best-available’ decisions to drive great customer service
Agent Scripts
Help agents achieve and maintain excellence
Voice and Screen Recording
See and hear exactly how agents are interacting
Analytics and Data Feeds
Measure and evaluate performance at every level
IVR, Bots & Conversational AI
Design effective automated flows or integrate with 3rd party providers
Customer Journey Tracking
Stored customer contact history, to aid routing and add context to conversations
Modules
Drive operational efficiency, increase customer satisfaction & improve agent performance
Softdial One™
Highly flexible unified web UI for agents, supervisors and administrators
Softdial Scripter™
Create complex process flow scripts for agents, IVR, chatbots and other applications
Sytel AI Dialer™
Maximum predictive dialing performance, under any compliance rules
Softdial Pathfinder™
Precise routing rules for ‘best available’ connection
Softdial Media Server™
Core telephony functions to manage all inbound/outbound SIP calls
Softdial Reporter™ 5
Fully customisable performance stats, charts and reports, across all channels
Softdial Publisher™
Comprehensive data output to build your own reports
Softdial Recording Monitor™
Audio and screen recording of agent activity to ensure the highest standards
Softdial Campaign Manager™
Automation to optimise any outreach strategy
Softdial Repository™
Central storage and configuration of common resources
Sytel Global Compliance™
Flexible ‘no contact’ rules to protect contact center and consumer
Solutions
Performance and efficiency for a wide range of business applications
By Business Type
Enterprise
A full featured contact center software solution, designed for optimum performance at scale
Small/ Medium Business
Options for SMBs to subscribe to our full-featured cloud service managed and hosted by either one of our partners or by Sytel themselves
By Industry
Customer Service
Connect quickly to well equipped agents
Market Research
Best-of-breed predictive dialing with CATI integration
Debt Collection
Automated inbound/ outbound blending integrated with any debt management app
Sales & Telemarketing
Maximise agent productivity with best-of-breed predictive dialing
Healthcare
Secure, highly-configurable multichannel communications for excellence in patient care