Noble Insights December 2016 | Page 4

Customer Spotlight: Stellar Stellar is a broad based, multichannel contact center organization with inbound, outbound and blended business support services – specializing in both B2B and B2C programs for customer service, telesales, customer acquisition, appointment setting and helpdesk support. The company was established in 1998 and now has two contact centers in the UK, with the capacity to employ over 500+ agents. Stellar had an established reputation for managing successful campaigns, but was looking to gain superior stability and reliability and to develop more strategic business acquisitions. The Noble solution met their contact center technology requirements and enabled them to streamline their multiple systems into a central area, ensuring consistent and accurate reporting and the ability to use a single data source across its UK-based sites. Andrew Reid, Head of Information Technology (UK) said, “We wanted a more comprehensive and reliable solution to allow us to become even more accountable to our customer base and raise the productivity and quality of our service level agreements. We were particularly impressed by Noble’s expansive list of features, including extensive reporting that we could take advantage of immediately. We were also impressed by the ease of use in setting up and adapting campaigns.” Stellar runs multiple campaigns across multiple industries on a daily basis, and Noble’s web-based agent scripts are easy to set up and manage in real-time. Stellar’s Quality Assurance team uses Noble to monitor 100% of calls, with the option of coaching agents at the same time. Quality managers can sanction calls that do not meet company standards and employ training to address any shortfalls in agent behavior. Rei d explained how the agents work, noting, “Our agents use a workflow and many of the outbound calls are for new customer acquisition. Once a sale is made or an appointment is set, key information is sent to our customers’ databases held at their own sites. Noble also enables agents to transfer both voice and data calls to other remote offsite locations for immediate follow up.” Data management is a key focus, and the Noble solution works in conjunction with Stellar’s Microsoft SQL server database so that data can be segmented and prepared for campaigns quickly. Reid observed, “With more regulations and restrictions on outbound calling, marketers need to be more selective over the data they use for contacts. Noble’s flexibility means we can profile the data more accurately and display statistics on calling In a business where patterns within seconds. In turn, uptime and efficiency campaigns can be modified have a direct impact in real-time so that we can “ get the best results and agent productivity possible from the data available, while complying with regulatory guidelines.” on our bottom line, we need technology that can continue to deliver day in and day out. Noble gives Stellar a platform Stellar operates 24 hours a day, that provides extensive 7 days a week handling both B2B and B2C contacts. “Noble functionality, flexibility, offers Stellar a platform that and reliability. provides extensive functionality and flexibility; giving Stellar a stable, dependable business tool,” said Reid. “In a business where uptime and efficiency have a direct impact on our bottom line, we need technology that can continue to deliver day in and day out. With the Noble solution, we are able to exceed our goals for SLAs and minimize our overall cost of technology ownership and operational running costs. We can pass on the benefits to the customer, gaining a competitive edge in the market.” ” www.noblesystems.com Americas / Worldwide Headquarters Noble Systems Corporation 1200 Ashwood Parkway | Atlanta, GA 30338-4747 +1 (404) 851 1331 | 1 888 866 2538 EMEA Noble Systems EMEA Ltd +44 (0) 161 772 7100 APAC Noble Systems Australia Pty +61 (2) 8222 0500 Copyright © 2016 Noble Systems Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written per­mission from Noble Systems Corporation. Noble Systems, Noble, Amcat, Liberation, ShiftTrack and the n-logo are registered trademarks of Noble Systems Corporation. All others are property of their respective owners. While every precaution has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this document, Noble Systems Corporation assumes no responsibility for inadvertent errors or omissions. The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice.