Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 10 | Page 6

NEWS UAE Dubai Police upgrades to Avanza’s Unison 2.0 Dubai Police has selected Avanza Solutions’ Unison 2.0 to power and streamline its non-emergency contact centre operations. Dubai Police receives millions of calls every year, emergency and non- emergency, creating a potential challenges to efficient and effective delivery of a critical service. In order to have a streamlined response strategy, Dubai Police had separated their emergency and non-emergency contact centre so that response times for emergencies could be minimised as much as possible. However, the non-emergency contact centre is also a crucial service, and the police has implemented Unision customer experience management solution to effectively manage the large volume of queries it receives. Queries, calls and interactions arrive through different touch-points and channels including social media, emails, web chat, and the call centre itself – all of which are important for Dubai Police to respond to. Avanza’s Unison solution provides a one- window solution where operators can intercept and respond to queries being made from any of these channels. In addition to keeping track and responding to requests from multiple channels, Dubai Police is also able to use Unison to launch campaigns aimed at public awareness. Announcements informing people of a new law or legislation, modification in rules, and other procedures are all possible. Unison has been configured to help the Dubai Police’s Al-Ameen initiative achieve their objective of creating a reliable and efficient reporting channel for the people of Dubai. Unison’s Agent Desktop will provide a safe and active communication channel via phone, web chat, and email. While the Complaint Management Module will enable the authorities to collect information, feedback, and complaints from the people. Unison’s Knowledge Base will enable the Dubai Police to readily access and disseminate different documents to facilitate people in terms of queries like information on institutions, buildings, landmarks, and procedures. du announces UAE 5G Innovation Gate for next generation 5G & IoT systems UAE-based telecommunications service provider, du, announced the establishment of UAE 5G Innovation Gate (U5GIG). The U5GIG has been envisioned to be a consortium of technical and academic organisations in UAE as well as global telecom vendors to plan and use their expertise to define and develop a global 5G network that will radically change lives across the UAE. du is taking the lead to build a UAE 5G Innovation Lab to prototype, test and validate early 5G and Internet of Things ( IoT) equipment and services. U5GIG will also allow universities and technical organisations across UAE to work together and participate in the development of the 5G ecosystem, and for academia and industry to test applications and technologies in a real-world setting. 6 INTELLIGENTCIO du, as well as other consortium members will jointly supervise a 5G research programs with the major UAE universities and based on carefully selected practical 5G research topics. Accordingly, UAE shall contribute and participate in the standardizations and development of 5G in forum such as 3GPP, ITU, and GSMA. Although 5G is a few years away, the U5GIG will be pushing the boundaries of what is possible now and in the future and participate in the development. The true impact of 5G will come from the innovative applications and IoT-use cases, the new network will enable. www.intelligentcio.com