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 August 2010

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) Unified Call Center Solutions in the Finance and Telecom Sectors   Please pass this issue of CosmoChronicle on to others who might be interested. If you are not already receiving the monthly CosmoChronicle you can sign up now. This and past issues are also available in the CosmoChronicle Archives.
) Do's and Don'ts for Successful Virtual Call Center Implementations  
MORE DEVELOPMENTS  
  * CosmoCom Honored for Contact Center Reporting Technology  
  ) Calling All Channels  
 

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  ) Celebration in the Philippines    
  ) Making a Splash for Charity
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  ) Who's Talking? Recent Ink
  ) Tradeshow News: Coming Attractions
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UNIFIED CALL CENTER SOLUTIONS IN THE FINANCE AND TELECOM SECTORS

Innovative Systems Integrators, Eason Tech, Combine Specialized Banking/Insurance Applications
with Advanced Contact Center Technology

When it comes to industries that use CosmoCom's all-in-one contact center technology, our customers run the full gamut. There are some verticals we tend to talk about more frequently -- like healthcare for example -- however, our technology powers many successful contact centers for enterprises across all industries around the globe.

The flexible nature of our all-IP technology enables channels to customize their offerings to suit their particular customer base and areas of expertise. One recent example of a CosmoCom channel doing just that is Taiwan-based Eason Tech. Eason Tech a premier value-added reseller and systems integrator that has created a successful model of offering customers "whole" contact center solutions that combine their specialized industry applications with the CosmoCall Universe™ (CCU) virtual contact center platform.

Eason Tech specializes in building call centers for medium to large enterprises in the telecom and financial industries. They developed and honed their own specialized CRM and telemarketing front end systems for these verticals which they have deeply integrated with CosmoCall Universe. The resulting turn-key contact center packages have been quite successfully deployed on premises at more than a dozen significant customers in Taiwan and Mainland China.

Read why Eason Tech chose to offer CCU with examples of how their customers are benefitting ...

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DO'S AND DON'TS FOR SUCCESSFUL VIRTUAL CONTACT CENTER IMPLEMENTATIONS

Join CosmoCom and BenchmarkPortal for Live Webcast on September 30

Register for Free Webinar:Do's and Don'ts of Successful Virtual Contact Center ImplementationsAt noon Eastern, on Thursday Sept 30, CosmoCom and call center assessment specialists, BenchmarkPortal, are teaming up to bring you an informative, live webinar designed to help enterprises sort through some of the things that should and shouldn't be done when implementing a virtual contact center.

During the webinar call center assessment specialists BenchmarkPortal will share advice on people, processes and technology to ensure your virtual contact center success. Drawing directly from customer experiences, BenchmarkPortal and CosmoCom will explore both operational and technical best practices, as well as common mistakes to avoid.

If you are considering migrating to a virtual contact center and/or are planning to replace or upgrade your existing technology, you owe it to yourself to attend this informative and interactive hour-long webcast. Learn more and register below.

 
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COSMOCOM HONORED FOR ADVANCED REAL-TIME
CONTACT CENTER REPORTING TECHNOLOGY

CosmoCom is proud to announce  that its CosmoDashboard™ advanced, real-time contact center reporting technology has been honored with a 2010 IP Contact Center Pioneer Award from TMC (Technology Marketing Corporation).

Since it was introduced with the release of CosmoCall Universe 6 all-in-one contact center suite in March of 2009, CosmoDashboard has been turning heads and gaining recognition for the power and flexibility it brings to real time reporting. It provides call center supervisors and administrators with a personal, highly customizable graphical interface to view key contact center metrics for queues, skills, teams, groups and more in real time.

CosmoDashboard completely configurable personal real time contact center reportsCosmoDashboard's ease-of-use enables managers to personalize real-time contact center information to suit their needs and desires. Contact center supervisors and management don't have to adapt to the information presented, they control it, and they can also share specific reports with the confidence that data will be filtered by sophisticated permission profiles, meaning viewers will only have access to the data that they are allowed to see.

The 2010 IP Contact Center Technology Pioneer Award awards companies that have produced an innovative, successful IP contact center product or service. 

"CosmoCom's innovative contact center reporting functionality, like their whole all-in-one contact center suite, has been designed with the needs of the contact center market in mind and the potential of IP behind it - making it a natural choice for an IP Contact Center Technology Pioneer Award," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC.

"Contact centers live by their reports.  Each contact center manager wants to see their information from many perspectives, and often each perspective is unique to that center or even that manager," said Steve Kaish, CosmoCom's VP of Product Management. "We rolled over a decade of feedback into CosmoDashboard to create a powerful yet easy to use reporting tool for the industry. We're pleased that TMC has recognized our achievements with this award."

Learn more about advanced contact center reporting including links to video demos.

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CALLING ALL CHANNELS

Channels have always been a core part of CosmoCom's go-to-market strategy. Evidence of that is the dozens of service providers that use CosmoCall Universe (CCU) to power their contact center service offerings. In addition to service providers, many VARs and systems integrators around the globe find success offering CCU alone or in conjunction with their own value-added technology (just like in the Eason Tech story above).

The ease of integration and flexible delivery models in CCU mean that channel partners have great power to customize their offerings for their own target audiences - from the very broad to the most specific verticals. CosmoCom is always recruiting additional channels. If your company is a reseller, integrator or service provider and you are planning to attend the Channel Partner Conference and Expo, in Washington, DC this September, be sure to talk to a CosmoCom executive in booth 2049 to see how you can start offering the leading virtual contact center platform - CosmoCall Universe.

The channel conference, produced by Virgo Publishing, takes place at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center from 20 to 22, September. We hope to see you there. If you are not able to attend, but are interested in becoming a CosmoCom channel, reach out to your local CosmoCom rep or complete our business partner application form.

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CELEBRATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

There has been lots of great activity surrounding our premiere service provider, ePLDT, in the Philippines this Summer (well it's Summer in the Northern Hemisphere anyway).

First of all, you may recall our article on CosmoCom's well received press release about ePLDT's 1,200 seat, multi-location, contact center implementation for Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART), the largest mobile telephone service provider in the Philippines. A detailed case study on the multi-site hosted contact center is now available as well. Large-scale customer deployments like SMART on the successful, multi-tenant hosted platform, UCCP (Unified Contact Center Plus) are living proof ePLDT's commitment to provide the best technology and services. If that weren't enough reason to congratulate ePLDT we have another...

ePLDT celebrates 10 years with Customer Appreciation NightePLDT is celebrating their first decade of "enabling infrastructure." Established in 2000 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of telecommunications giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), ePLDT has become a major proponent of IT outsourcing in the country, with a constantly expanding portfolio of services that answer the growing needs of the local and global markets. Innovative and customized solutions, delivered by a team of competent professionals through robust, state-of-the-art technologies (like CosmoCall Universe) and enabling infrastructure has been the core of  the vision that has guided ePLDT in the last ten years and will continue to be the company's goal in the years to come. An industry leader that is locally dominant and globally recognized, ePLDT remains the country's premier IT company.

ePLDT's hosting acumen isn't limited to technology and services. It turns out that they are equally at home playing host to guests as well. As part of their 10th anniversary celebrations, they treated many of their customers to a gala celebration and show, "Viva 2010 - 10th Anniversary Client Appreciation Night," at the famous Club Mwah in on August 18. It was a fun and exciting celebration and a great time was had by all.

CosmoCom President, Dr. Ben Eisner visits with ePLDT in the PhilippinesJust a few weeks prior to that, executives of ePLDT played host to Dr. Ben Eisner, CosmoCom President and Chief Operating Officer, during his trip to meet with current and prospective customers and partners in the APAC (Asia Pacific) region. During his stay in the Philippines, Dr Eisner and other CosmoCom officials toured ePLDT's VITRO Data Center as well as the PLDT and SMART Contact Centers. Dr. Eisner also met with ePLDT President and Chief Executive Officer Beth G. Lui as well as top representatives from PLDT and SMART during a special dinner held in his honor. The photo shows Dr. Eisner seated in the third seat from the right in the front row; you can learn about the others in the picture in this PCWorld article on the visit.

We are thankful to ePLDT for their hospitality during Ben's visit with them and for their commitment to using and promoting virtual contact center technology in the region. We are proud of their successes and know that the next 10 years -- and beyond -- hold even greater success for them. Congratulations to ePLDT - they have a lot to celebrate!

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MAKING A SPLASH FOR CHARITY

Swimmers take to the Thames for CharityIn our June CosmoChronicle we brought you a story about how members of our UK team took to the roads for a charity bike-a-thon. Well it turns out that one member of the team decided to take his charitable activities off the road and off the land as well. On August 1, CosmoCom's Mark Beeston, sales engineer in the UK, took part in the first ever Nokia Thames Swim.

Mark and approximately 1,200 other fellow swimmers, began their 2.25 mile swim, under sunny skies, from the picturesque Hampton Court Palace and finishing up at Kingston-upon-Thames. Mark placed a very respectable 262 overall, completing the race in just over 1 hour and six minutes.

Beyond the personal satisfaction of completing a physically demanding event like this, it is equally rewarding to know that one's effort is helping others as well. The event raised over £10,000 for official charity WaterAid, to go towards helping some of the poorest people in the world gain access to clean water and sanitation.

 
 
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WHO'S TALKING? RECENT INK

CosmoCom Develops Cloud Based Call Center On Demand Software
That title is not so much a news statement as it is a statement of fact given that CosmoCom has always made cloud-based contact center software for both hosted and premise-based contact center deployments as well. That was true long before the term "cloud-based" was ever coined.

In the recent article that bears that title on TMCnet, TMC editor Juliana Kenny seems to agree starting with, "As the first company to introduce an IP-based contact center solution in 1996, CosmoCom  has been a leader in the hosted contact center on demand industry for many years. I had the opportunity to sit down with Steven Kaish, VP, Product Management and CIO for CosmoCom recently, and he relayed how the company has been able to stay on top of the contact center game."  View the rest of the article on TMCnet.

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TRADESHOW NEWS: COMING ATTRACTIONS


Channel Partners Conference and Exp0 Channel Partners Conference and Expo

September 20 - 22, 2010
Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center
Washington, DC, USA

http://www.channelpartnersconference.com/2010/dc/

Visit CosmoCom in booth 2049


Register for Free Webinar:Do's and Don'ts of Successful Virtual Contact Center Implementations LIVE WEBINAR
Do's and Don'ts of Successful Virtual Contact Center Implementations
September 30, 2010
12 noon Eastern (9 am Pacific, 5 pm GMT)

Join CosmoCom and BenchmarkPortal for this informative interactive webcast.

Learn more and register


IT Expo SPEAKING SESSION: TMC's IT EXPO
October 6, 2010
Los Angeles Convention Center

CosmoCom's Brian Davidow will present in two sessions on Oct 6:

IVVR and the Video-Enabled Contact Center:
New Opportunities to Deliver Value to Customers
(Social CRM Expo Track)
WED 10/6, 8:30-9:15am

Virtualizing Your Contact Center (Virtualized Communications Track)
WED 10/6, 3:45-4:30pm
 


ATA American Telemedicine Association

American Telemedicine Association - ATA 2011
Tampa Convention Center
Tampa, FL, USA
 http://www.americantelemed.org/ATA2011/

Mark you calendars early to see CosmoCom in booth 622 in May


Register for Free Webinar: Best Practices for Mulit-Site Call Center Deployments Best Practices for Planning a
Multi-Site Call Center Deployment
 

In this on-demand webinar on Multi-site Contact Center Deployment, ContactBabel founder Steve Morrell shares key findings from their research and CosmoCom's Steve Kaish explores best practices for achieving good results, and details of successful migrations to virtual contact centers in both mid-size and large-size operations.

View on-demand now


MORE ON-DEMAND WEBINARS
View On-Demand Webinars including "New Horizons in Telehealth", "Consolidation 2.0", "Hosted Contact Center for Outsourcers", "Contact Center On-Demand" and "Telecom Customer Care"

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