What a Call Center Must Have
A call center must have the following (see Figure 4):
Single/batch and power dialing
Messaging; paging, e-mailing
Real-time call scheduling/Calls-in-progress, call-waiting monitoring by call center managers
Call summaries
Long-distance calls/FAX scheduling
ACDsAutomated Call Distributors
Call recording, playback, and archiving the recorded teleconversation
Employees/operators log-in, log-out time charts
IVRS solutions seamlessly integrating into day-to-day databases of the company
IP Telephony
Customer care and order tracking
Reports on customers' purchase history-features
Frequently asked questions and queries handled by IVRS systems
Special voice greetings in IVRS depend on particular occupation/dates/festivals
Viewing the summary reports of missed calls during the day
Longest waiting caller, average waiting time statistics to help manage more efficiently.
Alarm is raised if the call center operator does not call the customer
Figure 4 Call centertechnology-wise