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    Avaya Launches Customer Service and Collaboration Apps

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    Nathan Eddy
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    July 20, 2010
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      Avaya, a provider of business communications applications, systems and services, announced a suite of new and enhanced product innovations and services based on the Aura platform, as well as introducing its next generation of contact center solutions designed to improve customer service. A central component of these contact center introductions is Avaya Aura Contact Center, which introduces a unique approach to enhancing customer satisfaction and agent productivity through Experience Management.

      New and enhanced capabilities in Avaya’s suite of Contact Center and Unified Communications (UC) features increased security, scalability and flexibility, plus common management and expanded use of virtualization across the platform. Avaya Agile Communications Environment (ACE) 2.2 includes Event Response Manager, a new packaged application that automatically notifies the right department or person to respond to and manage unexpected events, such as inventory shortages, security breaches.

      Avaya Aura Conferencing, now available in Standard Edition, provides audio, video and Web conferencing features on a single server, while Aura Messaging provides multimedia messaging with choices for accessing and storing messages. Aura Presence Services offers an open standards-based, native instant messaging solution providing federated presence for IBM Lotus Sametime, and IM and Presence across Microsoft, IBM, Avaya one-X Communicator and Avaya one-X Agent and Avaya 9600 SIP phones.

      Among other announcements, the company highlighted Aura Session Manager 6.0, which now scales to over 100,000 users, including 50,000 SIP phones and video capable endpoints and Aura Communication Manager 6.0, which can now be deployed as an Evolution server for migration of mixed H.323/TDM endpoints to SIP environments or a full SIP-based voice and video feature server. Aura Session Border Controller (SBC) helps allow enterprises to securely connect real time, SIP-based unified communications to the rapidly growing number of IP-based devices, smart phones and applications both within and external to a company.

      The Avaya 9600 family of desk phones now offer larger, color touch screen displays at a lower price point, function on lower power, while a new value-priced SIP model, the Avaya 1603SW-I, offers small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) a low-cost option. The company also issued a release of Avaya Communications Server 1000 (CS1000), which it said increases scalability, enhances SIP support and connectivity.

      The Aura Contact Center is a multimedia work assignment application for mid-size contact centers that connects customers and their information to the right agent or expert via any communications mode, such as voice, video, e-mail, or Web chat. It uses the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based collaborative session model of Aura and complements the large enterprise solutions of Aura Call Center Elite, and will serve as its multimedia extension, the company said.

      Other solutions include Aura Workforce Optimization (WFO), which includes recording and quality monitoring capabilities, a workforce management application that collects information and historical trends from a contact center, and Proactive Outreach Manager, designed to work with Avaya Voice Portal to reach out to customers via self-service. Other contact centre introductions include a new version of Avaya IQ 5.1, a reporting and analytics solution, and Aura Call Center Elite 6.0, Avaya’s call routing software for large enterprises.

      Nathan Eddy
      A graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Nathan was perviously the editor of gaming industry newsletter FierceGameBiz and has written for various consumer and tech publications including Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, CRN, and The Times of London. Currently based in Berlin, he released his first documentary film, The Absent Column, in 2013.

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