Chelmsford, Mass. - 4 December 2008 - The PerformanceEdge Group, a dedicated organization within Aspect comprised of contact center performance optimization professionals, today announced that Aspect had the largest number of respondents vote it number one among global vendors who they most trust to deliver a complete workforce optimization solution. This was based on an end-user survey conducted by Datamonitor, a global provider of online data and analytic forecasting platforms for key vertical sectors.

"Aspect continues to demonstrate leadership and strong mindshare in the contact center industry and the workforce optimization space, and it is evident in the results from our study," said Daniel Hong, Lead Analyst, Customer Interaction Technologies at Datamonitor. "Aspect provides a well rounded workforce optimization solution stack and companies are beginning to recognize the benefits of a complete workforce optimization solution."

The respondents indicated that, when looking for advanced contact center application vendors, their top priority is an ‘all-in-one’ contact center solution. A strong combination of technology and service and flexible pricing models were also key considerations. The report also found that companies were looking for one vendor to provide their contact center technology and services for easier software management and more economically viable solutions.

"As Datamonitor has found in the survey, there is increased interest in workforce optimization applications like PerformanceEdge™. Much of this is being driven by economic factors, as well as regulatory and customer satisfaction issues," said Bob Kelly, vice president of the PerformanceEdge Group at Aspect. "For example, workforce management clearly speaks to a need to improve workforce efficiency and more effectively manage the limited resources organizations have available. And, an analytics application is quickly becoming a ‘must have’ application to better understand customer and agent relationships, to increase customer retention and loyalty, as well as to ensure compliance. This survey underscores that Aspect understands its customers’ needs by delivering the critical solutions they require to achieve their strategic objectives. Perhaps most importantly, they view Aspect as a trusted partner."

About Aspect Software:
Aspect Software is solely focused on providing products and services for customer care, sales, telemarketing and collections for in-house and outsourcer contact centers. Each day, companies around the globe conduct more than 125 million customer interactions using Aspect’s flexible, reliable solutions for automatic call distribution (ACD), predictive dialing, workforce management, analytics, IVR and multi-channel contact.