Avaya offers Social Media Solutions

Introduces products and services to enable businesses deliver superior customer sales and service experiences.

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | August 29, 2011

Avaya, a global provider of business communications and collaboration solutions and services, has introduced new services and capabilities to help businesses more effectively incorporate social media into their customer sales and service strategy. This announcement is part of Avaya's launch of new contact center solutions to help businesses drive competitively differentiated customer experiences across an array of multimedia channels, including social media.

Avaya's latest social media developments are driven by Avaya Social Media Manager, an integrated solution that allows businesses to scan social media content (such as tweets and Facebook updates) in an automated fashion; analyze the content for relevance; and then enables customer service agents to take action. It can be used to enhance agent and customer experiences, improve branding and increase revenue streams via social media-driven customer service. A user of Avaya Social Media Manager is San Diego, CA.-based Motiva, a 450-agent provider of customer service solutions with contact center operations in Mexico.

Speaking on the occasion, Mohammed Hayath, Head-Contact Center Sales, India & SAARC, Avaya India, said, “As a global leader in the enterprise communication industry, Avaya understands that, for contact centers to provide an enhanced customer experience, they will have to adapt themselves to the changing communication needs and offer a more personalized and comprehensive service offering. Therefore, it becomes important to have applications that support different modes of interaction that are designed to accrue customer context and information in real-time, and match it quickly to the right agent or resource. Keeping these requirements in view, Avaya is offering a new array of services that will enable contact centers to better serve a new generation of customer, one which is socially more integrated through collaborating contextually on the social media space as well.”

Social Media Enhancements for Customer Service:

Providing better customer service is the number one benefit that businesses seek to gain from social media customer support, followed by driving more sales. Tracking with this demand, Avaya today announces:

• Social Media Consulting Services: These new Avaya consulting services help businesses integrate a social media channel into their customer sales and service strategy. The services follow a consistent methodology—which includes a Social Assessment, Strategy Development, Roadmap Creation, and Adoption Plan—tailored according to a business' specific requirements and that guide the company through a customer service evolution using social media.

• Integration of Social Media in Agent Desktops: Avaya Social Media Manager can easily integrate with Avaya Aura® Contact Center 6.2, the new version of Avaya's agent-assisted experience solution announced today. This enables a company to incorporate social media into the single view that agents use for managing multimedia customer interactions. The result is a simpler, more productive way for workers to receive relevant social media messages, along with available customer history, and respond to it in a customer session. This differs from other solutions that require a separate interface for customer interaction via social media.

Avaya Social Media Manager:

Avaya Social Media Manager enables companies to bring social media into an agent desktop—like any other multimedia channel—to more effectively use the large amounts of content found in social media forums.  Key capabilities include:

• Automatic monitoring of customer feedback using key words or phrases set by a business. This helps agents avoid a 'tweet deluge' so they only receive the most relevant social media messages requiring attention.
• Sentiment tracking by assigning a score to social media communications such as tweets (i.e. higher positive number = more positive sentiment). This can identify trends in real-time, and the users driving them, to enable fast, relevant responses.
• Suggested responses can be provided to employees handling social media-driven customer inquiries, taking topic and customer history into account, while still enabling agents to personalize interactions with customers over social media.

Higinio Sanchez, Chief Executive Officer, Motiva, said, “There is a new generation of customers and agents that are very comfortable with social media, so having the right tools and services to maximize it are essential. Avaya enables us to effectively use social media as a service for our clients, who count on us to ensure their customers receive superior and satisfying experiences on a daily basis.”

“Avaya Aura® Contact Center with Social Media Manager enables us to integrate social media right into an agent's desktop, which puts a customer's phone calls, emails, chats and social media messages all in the same view—something that not all agent desktops can effectively do. This, along with Avaya's new social media consulting for contact centers, enables us to bring our customer service to a whole new level,” he added further.

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