Santa Clara, CA,. - July 15, 2008 - LiveOps, a virtual call center company, today announced updates to its On-Demand Call Center Platform just months after introducing several enhancements and new features in February 2008.

"The enhancements we’ve made to our already-robust technology platform are further proof that LiveOps is committed to delivering continuous innovation for call centers," said Maynard Webb, CEO of LiveOps. "We’re constantly seeking new ways to optimize the efficiencies of call centers and deliver unparalleled scale and flexibility to our customers."

The LiveOps On-Demand Call Center Platform now includes new functionality in the areas of data monitoring, real-time agent call monitoring, call center usability and agent testing. Specifically, LiveOps now provides the ability to: create customized, real-time monitoring dashboards that include data sources from across the enterprise into the LiveOps monitoring architecture; silently monitor phone calls handled by a targeted agent or from a specific call campaign; search comprehensively across the On-Demand Call Center Platform; and conduct proctored call simulations with agents for skill enhancements. 

"We are seeing a migration toward preintegrated ‘all-in-one’ application suites, which - together with increased use of integration standards - is lowering system integration costs and reducing the complexity of ongoing maintenance," said Drew Kraus, research vice president of Enterprise Communications Applications for Gartner. "Internet technologies and a renewed interest in the hosted delivery and operating model offer early adopters the opportunity to innovate and benefit from significantly reduced deployment times."

Call center managers require access to comprehensive real-time information to manage their call center operations. In response to this need, LiveOps has developed a new programming framework that enables customized real-time monitoring dashboards. The framework is designed to allow data from other call center systems or enterprise applications, such as a CRM or a finance system to be embedded into the call center customer dashboard, delivering a comprehensive view of call center optimization and activity. Additionally, customer dashboards can be stand alone or embedded into other web pages or applications to provide unparalleled monitoring flexibility. With customized real-time monitoring, enterprises will now have immediate and unified views of information, improving visibility into call center operations and promoting faster and more informed decision making.

The ability to monitor agents on the phone in real time is critical to the success of both outbound campaigns and inbound customer support. The LiveOps On-Demand Call Center Platform takes call center agent monitoring to a new level by enabling supervisors or customers to listen to calls in real time, by agent or call type, from anywhere in the world regardless of where the agent is located. Building on its existing auditing tools, LiveOps’ Silent Monitor allows call center managers to monitor and provide feedback on recorded calls as well as live calls.

The LiveOps On-Demand Call Center Platform now includes readiness assessment testing, a simulation feature that allows virtual call center proctors to guide agents through live test call scenarios, prior to them ever handling a live customer call. Proctors can track agent performance in customized test scenarios, rate their progress and provide feedback. The readiness assessment testing uses LiveOps agent self-scheduling model to ensure that there is always the proper ratio of proctors to agents in the virtual training environment. Distinct from other call center testing solutions, the permissions system available in the LiveOps On-Demand Call Center Platform enables supervisors to designate anyone as a proctor, including high performing agents. The LiveOps Readiness Assessment Testing reduces the costs and resources associated with training new agents and ensures a better customer interaction for every call.

Call center managers are faced daily with the challenge of gaining greater control over how they access and view call center information. To help enterprises meet this challenge, LiveOps is delivering universal search coupled with "at a glance" capabilities. Using these tools, a call center manager can traverse all of the call center’s data sources - configuration elements, programs, campaigns, users and documentation - with a single query and immediately locate the information needed.

With the availability of Summer 08 On-Demand Platform, LiveOps extends its commitment to provide highly scalable, enterprise-grade call center technologies with the deployment of a telephony testing tool for its On-Demand Call Center. This testing capability enables LiveOps to "stress" and feature test new telephony functionality with much greater depth. In the end, it will lead to even more rapid feature development while at the same time ensure the high level of quality and reliability customers have come to expect from LiveOps.

"We had been struggling with two other hosted call center platform solutions and their unreliability was impacting our business," said Jack Sands, President of VForce, an organization that exclusively handles AAA membership renewals. "With LiveOps, we were able to get a new solution up rapidly and we finally have a call center platform upon which our business can depend and grow. We've seen an increase of 20% in the number of outbound calls per agent due to LiveOps' reliability and functionality."

About LiveOps:

LiveOps, Inc., a company focused on virtual contact center technology and services, enables businesses to deliver high performance call centers and high quality customer contact in the most cost-effective means possible. Its on-demand contact center applications provide an enterprise-scale virtual call center infrastructure, while its network of 16,000 agents can represent companies in an effective and professional manner. LiveOps'' solutions allow for greater flexibility, quality, scalability, control and cost savings.

Date Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008

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