Altitude Software Gives Skype Advantage to Contact Centres

Oct. 20, 2011 - PRLog -- London, UK, October 20th , 2011— Altitude Software, the leading independent global contact centre solutions vendor, today announces the availability of Altitude uCI™ (unified customer interaction) solution features for contact centres wanting to manage and provide customers with free Skype calls and click-to-call convenience.

The Altitude uCI™ solution enables contact centres to set up "global toll free numbers", provide click-to-call convenience on the web, and effectively manage and service customers making Skype calls into the contact centre. At the end of 2010, Skype had 630 million registered users, up 20% from the year before.

"Skype has very high potential as a customer interaction channel if properly managed" states Miguel Lopes, Vice President of Marketing at Altitude. "Using Altitude uCI™, and Altitude vBox, contact centres can integrate and use Skype to provide added convenience and better service to customers. Skype's simplicity, low cost, and widespread usage appeals to growing numbers of companies and people worldwide".

Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Every day, people everywhere also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles.

Altitude uCI™ enables Contact Centres using Skype to:

- Identify and apply rules for inbound Skype calls;
- Apply intelligent routing to Skype calls;
- Use agent desktop applications and alerts in Skype calls;
- Monitor, record, and provide history and reporting for Skype calls;
- Use Skype calls data and information within leading CRM and WFM applications.

Altitude uCI™ is a software suite that manages high volume customer interactions like Customer Service, Help Desk, Collections, Telesales and Surveys. It is valued the most for its speed in creating and changing CRM services and campaigns, thanks to its Unified Design Studio, Unified Desktop, Intelligent Routing, Predictive Dialler, Voice Portal, Monitoring, Reporting, Workforce and Integration. Together with Altitude vBox, a full-featured SIP software solution (integrated with Skype Connect), it becomes a powerful, state-of-the art multimedia IP contact centre solution, that can be deployed on a short time-frame with low total cost of ownership.




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About Altitude Software
Altitude Software (www.altitude.com) is the leader of unified customer interaction solutions, managing dynamic contact centres independently of platforms since 1993. With about 900 customers in 60 countries, Altitude strives for customer satisfaction and is ISO 9001 certified for its worldwide support. Altitude Software has won 40+ industry awards and it has been included by Gartner in the industry Magic Quadrants since 2000. “Altitude uCI” (unified customer interaction) is a software suite that manages in real time enterprise functions like Customer Service, Help Desk, Collections, Telesales, Surveys, etc. It is unique in accelerating the creation of services and campaigns, thanks to the unified design studio, routing, dialler, voice portal, desktop front-end, monitoring and analytics. Altitude Software can be reached at +44 (0)118 983 8010 or emailed to info.uk@altitude.com

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For More Information:
Zaiba Mian
Marketing Communications Manager
Tel: +44 (0) 118 983 8016
Email: Zaiba.Mian@altitude.com