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MANAGEMENT
FEATURES 
The
need to "manage" a dialer is unfortunately accepted as
the norm within the collection industry. This applies to the managing
of accounts as well as monitoring and adjusting the dialer's performance.
There
are significant management resources that are traditionally allocated
to ensuring that only certain accounts are sent to the dialer at
the certain times. With the large volumes of accounts we are talking
about, managing a dialer manually can be best described as a losing
battle. Based on the design of Intelec, Quantrax has clearly redefined
the term "integrated dialer". Intelec's design called
for numerous "dialer-related" features as well as complete
automation of collection activity with regard to the scheduling
of automated phone calls and mail. Our 'Contact Series' allows you
to define an automated series of letters and/or phone calls, allowing
you to create dialer queues for new accounts. In the early-out environment
this can be invaluable. Intelec's knowledge base will allow you
to set up flexible and self-adjusting work plans that will make
the dialer an integral part of the collection process. You have
the ability to move accounts in and out of the dialer at specific
times or based on individual circumstances, without any manual
effort. This will ensure timely and required effort on all
of your accounts. Of course, to obtain the benefit of this technology,
you must also strive to incorporate a business model that uses the
"artificial intelligence-based features" of Intelec to
separate the collectable accounts from those that are less likely
to pay. You can then incorporate the results into well-managed,
productive dialing campaigns.
In
addition to the managing of accounts (primarily through Intelec),
I-Tel strives to produce management information in the following
areas :
- Dialer
production statistics. i.e. the activity of each agent, is produced
by the dialer.
- Collection
statistics such as promises, negative contacts etc. are reported
by Intelec
- Collectors
can work in a pooled environment and the dialer will report daily
production statistics, while Intelec will allow you to track each
account and give credit for the resulting payments to the agents
who worked the account, without transferring ownership
to the agent!
- The
management team is able to view the collection operation's active
and current telephony configuration though special management
consoles. Each dialer station is displayed along with the status
of the agent and their telephone.

- With traditional
dialing solutions, supervisors spend a great deal of time monitoring
the dialer and tweaking dialing rates when abandoned calls increase.
A well-designed dialer should allow supervisors to focus on managing
their agents and campaigns, as opposed to second-guessing their
dialer. This common problem does not exist with I-Tel -
you define the maximum abandoned call rate (5% or less) and leave
it alone! The dialer does not need a supervisor(s)
to tell it how to dial, or to watch over it, waiting for it to
make a mistake.
The
powerful dialer-related features of Intelec combined with the reporting
capabilities of the dialer will offer you several useful views of
your collection operation, allowing you to better manage and utilize
this most valuable resource.
Following are some details of the report server that is available
within the I-Tel platform (Softdial Reporter™). These reports are
independent of additional reports that may be available through
Intelec.
Softdial Reporter™
is designed to bring all of the data generated by Softdial Plugin
to any number of management desktops, putting critical data at the
fingertips of those who need it. Users can choose from a number
of pre-formatted report templates. Using the same tool, you can
generate different views of campaign-related information, from statistics
down to individual call detail.
As an aid to
focusing on exactly the data you need, Reporter has a powerful filtering
mechanism. For example, it can show
- activity
from 3 days ago
- activity
for Joe Smith
- calls where
an answering machine was detected
- calls to
phone numbers containing '213'
Users can draw
on historical as well as current data. Any open reports can be set
to update automatically as your agents work, showing you an up to
the minute view of the data you choose.
Reporter can
be used to
- import data
and display your selected view, or
- load dialer
data into a third party database, ready for enterprise-wide reporting
using any standard reporting package.
Reports can
be distributed with ease, by printing what is seen on the screen,
or exporting to HTML, Excel or RTF format. If you would like to
see when average agent activity has exceeded user-defined levels,
Reporter can be set to highlight these values in red text.
Within the same
report, the user can obtain answers to questions such as:
- How many
calls were transferred to Agent 1?
- How long
has Agent 2 spent on the phone? What is the agent's average talk
time?

The following are some of the reports that are available:
- Abandoned
Call Rate (per hour)
- Agent Activity
(per agent per hour)
- Agent Activity
(per campaign)
- Agent Activity
(per campaign per hour)
- Agent Availability
(per campaign per agent per day)
- Agent Availability
(per day per campaign per agent)
- Agent Call
Duration (per agent)
- Agent Call
Duration (per campaign)
- Agent Call
Duration (per team)
- Agent Login's
(per campaign per agent per day)
- Agent Login's
(per day per campaign per agent)
- Agent Outcomes
(per agent)
- Agent Outcomes
(per agent per hour)
- Agent Outcomes
(per campaign per team)
- Agent Outcomes
(per campaign per team per hour)
- Agent Success
(per hour)
- Call History
(per phone number)
- Call History
(per session ID)
- Campaign
Metrics (per hour)
- Campaign
Success (per hour)
- Switch Outcomes
(per campaign)
- Switch Outcomes
(per campaign per hour)
- Team Success
(per hour)

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