Honored for Improving Customer Service Technology and Enhancing the Customer Experience
Avaya Holdings Corp. a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, announced that Avaya Native Integration with Afiniti Enterprise Behavioral Pairing has been named as a 2019 Contact Center Technology Award winner, presented by CUSTOMER magazine.
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“According to research on AI in the contact center, conducted by Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Avaya, 37 percent of organizations are challenged to provide an effective yet tailored approach to customer communications, and 34 percent have difficulty directing customers to the right channel to help them,” said Paul Lang, Head of Contact Center Marketing, Avaya. “Avaya and Afiniti have a unique, integrated solution for customers to utilize AI-powered contact center capabilities that greatly improve customer experience and agent productivity. We are honored that CUSTOMER magazine has recognized us with this Contact Center Technology Award.”
Avaya and Afiniti partnered to natively integrate Afiniti artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies into Avaya’s market-leading contact center solutions. Avaya’s partnership with Afiniti, the world’s leading provider of AI-based behavioral pairing solutions, provides organizations with unique AI and machine learning technology natively integrated in Avaya IX Contact Center solutions, providing inbound and outbound contact center capabilities that strengthen customer experience and agent productivity.
Afiniti Enterprise Behavioral Pairing discovers, predicts and affects patterns of interpersonal behavior to match customers with the best possible agents for inbound calls and outbound interactions by identifying subtle, valuable patterns of human interactions and uses them to measurably increase customer profitability.
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Benefits Afiniti Enterprise Behavioral Pairing™ integrated into Avaya IX Contact Center solutions include:
- Improved Customer and Agent Satisfaction – Discover and predict patterns of interpersonal behavior optimizing interactions between customers and agents leads to greater satisfaction and loyalty, improved quality of life, and enhanced revenue and profitability. Proactively contact customers regarding service and product needs, remind customers of upcoming appointments, alert customers to possible fraudulent account activity, communicate with customers using their preferred channels and collect customer satisfaction and other input feedback with surveys.
- Increased revenues – Pairing customers with the best agent allows the agent to focus on increasing telesales conversion rates, customer retention rates, and cross- and up- sell opportunities. Improve collections efficiency, schedule appointments and sell, cross-sell, and up-sell more effectively.
- Reduced outbound costs and complexity – Utilize AI integrations to help automate agent assisted campaigns from a single campaign management system, reduce and shape inbound traffic to inbound agents and replace costly outsourced campaigns.
- Improved agent performance – Data is refreshed every 24 hours, contributing to ensure pairing accuracy and positive outcomes, mapping AI and machine learning to the constantly evolving and changing customer, customer experience, and agent experience.
“Congratulations to Avaya for being awarded a 2019 CUSTOMER Magazine Contact Center Technology Award. Avaya’s Native Integration with Afiniti Enterprise Behavioral Pairing™ has been selected for demonstrating innovation, quality and unique features which have had a positive impact on the customer experience,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “We’re pleased to recognize their achievement.”
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