Blended Media Desktop

Fully customisable, multi-channel, multi-session workspace

At a Glance

Blended Media Desktop

Agent workspace in a web browser

Blended Media Desktop

Access to customer contact history

Blended Media Desktop

Runs agent scripts/ forms applications

Blended Media Desktop

Added supervisor functions

Blended Media Desktop

Multiple live contact sessions of any media channel

Blended Media Desktop

WebRTC phone built-in

Blended Media Desktop

Customisable for each agent

What is Sytel’s blended media desktop?

The Agent Desktop within Softdial Contact Center™ (SCC) gives agents the tools and information they need to be most effective in their customer contact sessions, all in a single web-based, blended media desktop.

Unified desktop for agents

With Agent Desktop, agents can:

  • handle sessions of all media channels – voice, email, chat, social, etc – fully blended within the same interface, without having to log in and out of different channels
  • multi-task, with several live sessions open simultaneously, switching between them for work by simply selecting them
  • work from anywhere – home, mobile or on-premise – with a WebRTC phone built-in, and no need for a VPN or software installation on the agent’s PC.

With a unified, fully blended desktop, agents no longer have to learn several tools and interfaces, so agent training time is reduced and agent productivity increased.

And agents benefit from the variety in their workload. Coupled with less idle time, this greater engagement means more job satisfaction, making them more likely to stay and reducing recruitment and induction spend.

How SCC’s blended media desktop works

Watch Sytel’s Pre-Sales Manager, Patrick Bosworth, give a demonstration of SCC’s unified agent desktop.

Softdial Contact Center™ - version 11 - Unified Agent Desktop

Tools and information for maximum productivity

A typical Agent Desktop layout includes:

1. Session control buttons

Shows relevant buttons for the media channel in focus.

Agents have direct access to phone functions – mute, hold, transfer, etc – from within the browser. The phone keypad is embedded, with phone audio native to the browser via WebRTC, requiring only a headset.

2. Session status tabs

Shows one tab for each session of any media channel an agent is allowed to handle, e.g. 3 emails, 2 chats, 1 voice.

The number of live sessions of each media channel an agent is allowed to handle simultaneously is specified by a supervisor, according to the skills and experience of each agent, not any limitation in the software, so that each agent can achieve their highest potential.

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3. Response area

Shows all the necessary tools for an effective agent response, depending on the media channel in focus, e.g. any prior text dialog between customer and agent or chatbot, an area to type a response, buttons for reply/ forward/ attach etc.

4. Customer contact history

Shows a view of the entire conversation so far, e.g. what has been said and when, the contents of previous text conversations, or even transcribed phone calls.

Any data is passed immediately from one session to the next. So for a chat customer transferring to a voice session, the voice agent can view any previous chat/ chatbot interaction. This enables agents to help the customer quickly, without having to ask again for any information already given, and makes a successful outcome more likely.

5. Scripts/ workflow

Shows scripts for guiding the agent through a contact session – from simple prompts to complex forms applications, bringing in customer data from a CRM, or passing data to 3rd party services. These help to boost agent performance – closing a sale, offering other products/ services or providing excellent customer service – and protect company reputation by enforcing standards of courtesy.

Agent Desktop layout

Tailoring presentation for each agent

Agent Desktop is presented within the web framework of Softdial One™, and can be fully customised to fit the needs of each agent:

  • presenting in the users’ own language, removing unnecessary barriers to efficiency
  • using the colors/ branding of a particular client to keep the agent focused and oriented in who they are representing
  • specifying exactly which session control buttons/ functions are allowed for each agent in each circumstance.

Agent Desktop also allows access to 3rd party websites/ web applications for …

  • business functions such as appointment setting or ordering
  • motivational messages
  • agent/ team performance data for gamification

… all within a single browser window.

Extra functions for supervisors

Agent Desktop allows supervisors to monitor and intervene in agent voice sessions, and to move agents to different campaigns.

The supervisor can:

  • Monitor – listen in to an agent’s conversations without being heard. Completely discreet
  • Barge – enter a conversation between an agent and caller, and speak to both parties – similar to a conference call
  • Coach – join a call, to provide advice and guidance heard only by the agent
  • Move – take one or more agents out of their current campaign and place them in another. The change is seamless and the agents do not have to logout and log back in.

Supervisors can also use all the other agent tools as they wish.

Other performance monitoring tools e.g. for reporting, accessing recordings, etc, are accessible in the same browser workspace via Softdial One.

Agent Desktop in Supervisor mode showing the current script the monitored agent is working on
Agent Desktop in Supervisor mode showing the current script the monitored agent is working on

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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

  • Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)

    CCaaS for subscribers – global service​, with no upfront costs

  • Contact Center Platform – CCaaS Partners

    Build your own CCaaS business using the power and flexibility of Sytel software

  • 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