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3 Best Practices for Data-Driven Decision-Making with Voice & Network Performance Analytics

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Today’s business communications technology produces a lot of valuable data. With access to it, you’ll be able to monitor and refine your voice network and deliver better performance to users. Without data, you’ll be left playing a game of trial and error.

Mitel offers 3 best practices for data-driven decision-making with performance analytics:

  • Detect Problems Sooner with Synthetic Call Tests – By testing VoIP and network performance with synthetic calls, you can pinpoint the most important problems before users are impacted. For instance, you can schedule a SIP call test to occur at 4 am each day between your N. Virginia office and your branch office in Baltimore. If the test identifies poor scores on jitter, packet loss, delay or voice quality, you’ll have time to troubleshoot and correct the problem before it impacts users.
  • Choose Solutions that Adapt to Your Workflow – Monitoring tools are only helpful when they alert you to the problems that matter. Performance analytics ensures you see the problems that matter most based on your workflow and operations. For example, you can customize your alert emails using HTML templates, emphasizing important content and removing extraneous details. You can also customize alarm filters by severity, content or device type.
  • Let Capacity Analytics Guide You – Finding cost-saving opportunities and preventing network problems is easier when you have analytics telling you when your trunks are close to overcapacity or not operating at full capacity. Reports provide easily understood analytics and recommended actions, allowing you to downsize to save money or scale up to prevent performance problems.

When it comes to the reliable performance of your voice network, better data makes for better decisions and outcomes for your business. Contact us today: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

Mitel Partners with Google AI to Develop the Intelligent Customer Experience

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By 2020 Customer Experience is expected to overtake price and product as the key differentiator used by customers to influence their brand, product and service decisions.

Responding to this reality, Mitel has partnered with Google to deliver new AI-driven customer experience capabilities across all Mitel core contact center solutions, including its cloud-based MiContact Center.

Download: The Impending Contact Center Disruption

Accelerating customization

With a traditional chatbot, a contact center team is responsible for predicting what their customers are going to ask, and painstakingly scripting each interaction. With Mitel/Google’s AI solution, the customer is connected directly to your company’s knowledge base, shifting chatbot implementation time from months to days.

Using NLP – natural language processing – Mitel’s intelligent customer experience solution understands what your customers are saying, chatting or texting – without requiring specific phrasing – and a virtual agent responds in real-time whether a human agent is available or not.

Whenever the virtual agent reaches a question or situation it cannot handle alone, it can involve a human agent in the conversation, feeding its conversation details directly to that agent.

Leveraging machine learning, the AI solution will continue to observe the customer-agent interaction, suggesting relevant options or content to the agent and monitoring which responses come to a successful conclusion. This real-time coaching from AI Agent Assist enables more accurate, more responsive follow ups and an improved customer experience.

The Video Demo: How it Works

This Mitel video explains how the technology…

  • Uses the virtual agent chatbot and AI analytics to respond to common customer needs
  • Stays with each call, SMS or chat to find the best information for each customer
  • Learns what works and what doesn’t to improve future interactions
  • Simplifies agent workflows with smart virtual agent assist

Ready to improve the experience of your customers with AI? Contact TCI today: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

Are You Getting the Full Value Out of Your CRM Platform?

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Getting the most out of your CRM requires that you integrate it with your Business Voice applications. Almost all of the popular CRM services on the market seamlessly integrate with Mitel’s systems. Using a customized CRM? Our experienced development team can bring your customer data, phone system and call center together.

When your CRM is integrated with Mitel’s MiVoice or MiContact Center, for example, the contact’s personal details can be set to pop-up on your phone or computer screen. Imagine how much time will be saved when your people don’t need to search for important information like customer preferences and details on past transactions.

Enhanced call functionality like click-to-dial, automated call logging, intelligent dialing, and screen pops and transfer can all be enabled and integrated with your customer data.

Bringing CRM and Voice together makes every employee and contact center agent in your business significantly more productive, while improving the calling experience for your customers.

Let’s talk about connecting your CRM to your phone system and contact center. Contact TCI today: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

10 Contact Center Tools You Should be Using… But Probably Aren’t

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You may think you are running an efficient and cost effective contact center, but there is always room for improvement when it comes to the Customer Experience.

Mitel recommends adopting the following capabilities to help boost productivity, ensure resiliency, and improve the efficiency of your contact center…

  • Cradle-to-Grave Lifecycle Reporting
  • Customizable Reporting
  • Agent Forecasting
  • Schedule Adherence Monitoring
  • Interactive Agent, Queue and Call Control
  • Self-Service Interactive Voice Response
  • Outbound Dialing
  • Social Media Monitoring
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Contact Center as a Service

Learn more about these essential tools… Download the 4-page Mitel whitepaper

Ready to empower your contact center team? Contact TCI today: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Get to Know MiCloud Flex… A High Performance UCaaS Environment Supporting Seamless Integration with Top Business Apps

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With MiCloud Flex, you get a business phone system that just works…

Designed for large enterprises and companies that require a more customized unified communications (UC) environment, MiCloud Flex delivers the highest levels of performance, reliability and security through Mitel’s global, mobile cloud.

The brains of the system reside in geo-redundant data centers. Your people access the same tools regardless of whether they’re in an office, on the road, or working from home.

Get all of this with MiCloud Flex…

  • Hosted Unified Communications as a Service: Get a complete UCaaS environment with customizable options and seamless integration with top business applications like Microsoft Lync/Skype, Salesforce, Google and more.
  • Delight Your Customers: Combine your contact center with CRM or other business applications to deliver real-time customer intelligence to agents across any medium (voice, video, chat, etc.) and identify customers based on stored profiles and intelligently route them to the right agents/resources.
  • Mobile, Simple and Flexible: Get maximum flexibility to create your own communications environment without the complexity of managing it yourself. MiCloud Flex can scale from 75 to 10,000 users. Grow and add features at your own pace.
  • Ideal for Multi-Office Environments: Users enjoy the same communications experience anywhere, anytime on any device. Applications and information move seamlessly because they’re stored in the cloud. Advanced security protection ensures sensitive data remains safe.
  • Work Anywhere: Deliver a single communications portal that displays consistently on desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets including Android, iOS and Microsoft devices. This gives customers the freedom to communicate using voice, email, text or chat from any device.
  • Collaborate Smarter: Bring Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Google, Lync/Skype and other applications into the conversation for true UC. Provide users with presence-based awareness, instant video meetings, visual voicemail, attendant console and much more.

Let’s talk about how MiCloud Flex capabilities will take your business to the next level. Contact TCI today: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Raise Your MiVoice Office 250 to the Cloud with OfficeLink… Mitel’s New Mobility App

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Looking to stay more connected with your customers and co-workers? Missing critical calls? Does your business rely on being available for every revenue opportunity?

Available as a subscription-based service for the MiVoice Office 250 platform, Mitel’s new OfficeLink App connects your phone system to the Cloud.

The app supports mid-call functionality features not typically available with general-purpose UC phones or devices, bundling together easy-to-use collaboration features into one single platform.

Deliver the best features of a business desk phone to your smartphones:

  • Simultaneous ring means you’ll never miss any important call
  • Secure chat with other users to quickly stay in touch
  • Live status of users and extensions
  • Dynamic call history
  • Contact synchronization and management
  • Business voice features, including transfer, hunt groups, group calling, call park and more
  • Simple admin controls

OfficeLink puts the power of cloud-based Mitel solutions right in your hands. To learn more about the convenience and productivity you’ll get using mobile apps, contact TCI today: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Get to Know Affordable MiCloud Connect… the Mitel-Powered Cloud Voice Service for Small & Mid-Sized Businesses

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Is your business outgrowing its phone system? Looking for more mobility or new tools to compete? 

MiCloud Connect lets you move communications and collaboration to the cloud with confidence… And beat the competition by making your teams more productive, enhancing the Customer Experience, and improving your business intelligence.

All this from Mitel, the global leader in cloud-based business communications…

Mitel Connect Collaboration: unifies today’s communications on one screen – including video, online meetings, on-the-fly conferencing, messaging and more – so your employees, customers and prospects can communicate anytime, anywhere.

Mitel Connect Contact Center: extends contact center functionality to your entire business. It’s managed by Mitel at its data centers, so you can rely on it worry-free, while maintaining local control over system call flow scripting and reports.

Mitel Connect Advanced Applications: multiplies team effectiveness by tying organizational communications into your core business processes. Innovative apps help increase employee productivity, shorten response times, encourage collaboration, and improve customer satisfaction.

Mitel Connect Global Numbers: provides a virtual presence with local caller IDs and numbers in all the markets your company serves. Incoming calls are easily routed for handling by the team in your headquarters so you can establish a local city or country presence without adding headcount.

Wondering if MiCloud Connect is a good fit for your business? Contact TCI today to arrange a meeting and a demo: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Mitel’s CloudLink Solution… Everything Begins with the Gateway Connecting Your On-Premises Platforms to the Cloud

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CloudLink is Mitel’s innovative application development and delivery solution. Our Blog Post from last month provides an introduction and overview. As discussed, CloudLink allows businesses to leverage their existing Voice and IT assets, while adding and extending new capabilities from the Cloud.

A key component of this app development and delivery solution is the CloudLink Gateway. This device connects your PBX to the CloudLink platform and CloudLink applications. It can be deployed on premises, or in the cloud as part of Mitel’s MiCloud service, or as part of a third-party Mitel-powered service.

Adaptors within the gateway communicate with the underlying call control platform of the connected PBX using its signaling protocol or generic SIP. The gateway normalizes the signaling protocols from disparate PBXs so only one signaling and messaging protocol is shared between the gateway and the CloudLink platform.

The CloudLink Gateway enables a cost-effective path to the Cloud. It supports convenient access to customized cloud-based apps and delivery to any device at any location, including your mobile devices and IoT appliances.

Mitel’s CloudLink technology is being rolled out to support businesses of any size. For example, small businesses using MiVoice Office 250 have built-in support for the CloudLink Gateway with Release 6.3.

Next month, we’ll explore the development platform elements of Mitel CloudLink. Meanwhile, if you are wondering how CloudLink can benefit your business, contact TCI today: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Access Mitel’s Entire Pallet of Tools via TCI Host – Your Customized Cloud Voice Service

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TCI Host service is all about flexibility

Add new cloud-based tools to your existing business phone system, and when you’re ready, migrate your platform to the cloud and reduce your overall telecom costs.

Cloud communications isn’t an all-or-nothing endeavor

There are several deployment models you can choose from depending on your business’s unique situation, and you can shift from one approach to another over time. Managing a multi-site business? TCI Host brings offices closer together.

Powerful Capabilities

Explore some of the collaboration features your users can tap with their mobile or desktop phones. With access to these Mitel-powered tools, your work will no longer be a location but an activity that can be tackled from anywhere:

  • Persistent workspaces for team meetings, conversations, content review and project management
  • Point-to-point Video calling
  • Multi-point Video Conferencing
  • Scheduled and ad hoc conferencing and webinars
  • Participant management
  • Desktop application sharing
  • Public and private chat
  • Web based collaboration
  • Document management
  • Conference recording
  • Integration to other business applications such as: Outlook, Lotus Notes, IBM Sametime, and Google
  • Presence Tools
  • Mobile Softphone
  • Web Client
  • Unified Messaging, including fax via email
  • Remote control of desktops
  • Outlook client plug-in
  • Message retrieval from one synchronized message store

Deploy the tools your people need to serve your customers better.  For a single, low monthly price, upgrade to advanced mobile-enabled, desktop phones (like Mitel’s 6900 series) and access Mitel’s award-winning features to improve your Customer Experience.

Contact us today to schedule your TCI Host demo: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.

 

Mobilize Your Enterprise With Mitel’s MiVoice 6900 Premium Desk Phones

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Mitel’s MiVoice 6900 series desk phones enable you to become more mobile with one-touch Bluetooth pairing and seamless integration with your mobile phone.

Not only can you stay productive by easily switching calls between your desk phone and your mobile phone, you can have mobile and desktop contacts automatically sync between your devices.

6900 Series Video Introduction [44 sec.]

Mobile phone users can leverage the exceptional HD audio and comfortable ergonomics of the 6900 series phones for both IP and cellphone calls. The 6900 phones deliver crystal clear audio through a unique corded or cordless voice-optimized handset and high performance hands-free speakerphone.

More MiVoice 6900 Series Phone Features…

  • High resolution color displays
  • Support for Mitel Teleworker, ACD agent and supervisor, hot desking, MiCollab Client and more
  • Secure encrypted voice communication
  •  Quality of Service support
  • Dual 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports (LAN/PC), powered USB 2.0 Host port, sidecar expansion port, dedicated 4-pin modular headset port convertible to DHSG/EHS capable
  • Bluetooth wireless interface

The 6900 series also offers a broad array of add-on user installable accessories that enable the phones to be tailored to specific user needs.

Ready for the convenience and productivity that come from adding mobility to your desk phones? Contact TCI today: (703) 321-3030 or info@tcicomm.com.