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As we transition from 2017 to 2018 now’s the time to look at the operational and technology themes that we expect to be at the forefront of contact centre thinking in the coming year. Undoubtedly a big consideration across all areas of technology and customer interaction will be the GDPR but, as stated in the Information

To reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve the customer experience of your contact centre, tackle how your staff use your systems and optimise desktops.

rostrvm can be quickly and easily integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM using our standard connector to provide a fast, effective joined-up system for your contact centre.

rostrvm can be integrated with Salesforce to get the most out of your customer data with all the enterprise features of our call handling and contact centre software – it’s quick and easy to do using our standard connectors and desktop tools.

In an earlier blog we explained how rostrvm works with Skype for Business; that’s because of its flexibility. In fact, rostrvm will overlay almost any communications infrastructure to give you and your customers a great experience.

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) has been around for many years now and it can be really valuable support for both customers and the contact centre but the key is to ensure that it’s implemented well, designed around your customers’ needs and supports your specific business aims.

We’re pleased to announce that rostrvm is on the shortlist for Call Centre Helper’s 2017 ‘Top 10 Contact Centre Technology’ awards. The awards give recognition to the best products on the market and are voted for by readers of CallCentreHelper.com. In March their website had 237,174 readers (visitors), so that’s a prestigious number available to vote. 

We’re delighted to announce that Adam Cohen has been appointed as a Sales Support Consultant at Rostrvm Solutions. If you’re an existing customer of ours you may well recognise Adam as he started out in the call centre division of Royal Blue as a programmer, before becoming Support Manager at Rostrvm

Skype for Business provides a powerful, unified communications platform connecting people across disparate locations and multiple media from their PC, phone, browser and tablets. It lets you collaborate with anyone, anywhere. The contact centre is a complex and structured business environment with specific operational and cultural needs and “Skype support” can mean many things.

We’ve been using our knowledge and experience gained from over 30 years in the contact centre industry to develop dynamic applications suitable for specific industry needs. If you’re wondering how flexible we are, here’s an example: The social housing sector is now using rostrvm technology to reap big benefits when tackling the seismic changes brought about

  This year saw rostrvm reach its 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion we’re sharing 30 tips for contact centre success.

You know your customers, right? This year has thrown up some rather potent examples of what happens when this isn’t the case.

Getting your contact centre ready for Christmas? Here’s our festive checklist!

Matt Slaney has joined Rostrvm Solutions as a Software Developer. He previously worked in support, testing, development and data migration in a blue-chip company. Matt’s focus at Rostrvm will be the continued development of the rostrvm Manager web application, which is right within his skillset.

The financial benefits The beauty of cloud is that there’s no expensive outlay – and no sizeable maintenance and upgrade costs. The core infrastructure – telephone lines, internet services, servers and network equipment – are provided and managed by the cloud service provider. This reduces significantly the start-up costs and implementation time, so Return on Investment

Rostrvm is celebrating 30 successful years in the contact centre industry and we’ve been involved with many changes and innovations over that time. The biggest, of course, is the internet and digital-based services such as the Cloud. Following on from our last blog about replacing or upgrading outdated systems, the natural question for contact centres is:

Contact centre agents and their customers hate slow, outdated systems. So why do some contact centres insist on keeping them? Flog a dead horse and you get tired and frustrated but there’s still no way that horse is going to move!

To solve a contact centre issue talk to the people ‘at the coalface’, who are often the agents/advisors. Sounds obvious but in hectic business environments it doesn’t always happen.

Have you noticed how the contact centre industry uses a lot of jargon and long ways of saying the same thing? We’ve introduced our new blogs – ‘Straight talking’, based on our 30 years’ experience in the field, which tell you briefly what you really need to know to run a successful contact centre operation. We’ll

Interactive Voice Messaging (IVM) – One of the central challenges for outbound campaigns is making contact with your audience at a time that suits them. We’ve added an Interactive Voice Messaging (IVM) module to the rostrvm Outbound suite. IVM complements live agent contact strategies – such as predictive dialler campaigns – with an automated message inviting

We’re at the IT in Housing Exhibition for those involved in the provision of social housing. You’ll be able to learn about rostrvm for Housing, our proactive contact solution specifically for the Housing sector to address the financial challenges created by Universal Credit (UC) and Welfare Reform.

The importance of recording telephone calls for compliance and quality monitoring purposes is well understood. But in today’s multichannel contact centre a ‘conversation’ can meander from one medium to another – web chat to email to telephone call and back again, making it harder to record. We’ve enhanced our recording system rostrvm AuditLog to capture  contact

This year we’re celebrating 30 years of the rostrvm contact centre software suite. Here we take a look back over some of the milestones.