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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section
CHAPTER I: Executive Summary  
CHAPTER II: Market Trends
   2.1 Integrating E-Mail and Internet Call Center Applications With Voice Calls
   2.2 Coordinating Self Service and Live Agent Transactions
   2.3 Platform Decisions
      2.3.1 Transitioning from a Hardware to a Software Business
      2.3.2 The IP PBX
      2.3.3 ATM and the Call Center
   2.4 Routing Engines and Data Warehousing: Applying Business Rules to Call Center Routing 
      2.4.1 Data Warehousing
     2.4.2 Routing Engines: Coordinating Multimedia  Transactions
   2.5 Small Call Center Market: Still a Key Target
   2.6 Will IP and Browser-based Applications Make Home Agents a Reality?
   2.7 New Multi-Site Call Center Alternatives: 
                    Is Network Pre-Routing Of Calls an Idea Whose Time has Passed?
   2.8 The Growing Importance of Systems Integrators
   2.9 The Role of the Agent in CRM-focused Centers
      2.9.1 Comverse
      2.9.2 Witness Systems
   2.10 Application Service Providers
      2.10.1 USInternetworking
      2.10.2 ASP Customer Profile: Quote.com
   2.11 CRM: A New Call Center Paradigm  
CHAPTER III: Call Center Vendors: Transitioning into the World of Enterprise Software
   3.1 ACD Basics
      3.1.1 Stand-Alone ACDs 
      3.1.2 PBX-Integrated ACDs
      3.1.3 Central Office-Based ACD
   3.2 Apropos Technology
      3.2.1 Apropos' Version 4 Total Interaction Management
      3.2.2 Marketing Strategies
   3.3 Aspect Communications
      3.3.1 Customer Relationship Portal 2000
      3.3.2 Customer DataMart
      3.3.3 Self Service
      3.3.4 Aspect Office
      3.3.5 Marketing Strategies
   3.4 Cintech
      3.4.1 Cinphony and Prelude
      3.4.2 Minuet
      3.4.3 Marketing Strategies
   3.5 Cisco-GeoTel Communications
      3.5.1 GeoTel Integration into Cisco
      3.5.2 ICR Version 4
      3.5.3 Enterprise Agent
      3.5.4 CTI Desktop and Java Client
      3.5.5 Marketing Strategies
   3.6 Davox 
      3.6.1 Ensemble
      3.6.2 Inbound Call Director
      3.6.3 Marketing Strategies
   3.7 EIS
      3.7.1 Centenium XL
      3.7.2 Marketing Strategies
   3.8 Executone Information systems
      3.8.1 Computer Telephony Division
      3.8.2 Marketing Strategies
   3.9 Fujitsu
      3.9.1 IntelliCenter
      3.9.2 Marketing Strategies
   3.10 Genesys
       3.10.1 Genesys Suite
      3.10.2 Voice Treatment
      3.10.3 Workforce Manager
      3.10.4 Internet Suite
      3.10.5 Marketing Strategies
   3.11 Intecom
      3.11.1 Centergy
      3.11.2 PhoneWise
      3.11.3 Marketing Strategies
   3.12 Interactive Intelligence
      3.12.1 Enterprise Interaction Center
         3.12.1.1 Version 1.3 
         3.12.1.2 Version 2.0
      3.12.2 Interaction Dialer
      3.12.3 Interaction Director
      3.12.4 Future Product Directions
      3.12.5 Marketing Strategies
   3.13 Lucent Technologies
      3.13.1 Business Communications Systems
         3.13.1.1 CRM Central 2000
         3.13.1.2 CentreVu Visual Vectors
         3.13.1.3 CentreVu Visual Analyst
         3.13.1.4 CentreVu Network Reporting
         3.13.1.5 Call Center of One
      3.13.2 Network Systems 
         3.13.2.1 AGCS and The New Pinnacle
      3.13.3 Marketing Strategies
   3.14 Mitel
      3.14.1 Call Center Commander
      3.14.2 Marketing Strategies
   3.15 NEC America
      3.15.1 CallCenterWorX Business and Enterprise
      3.15.2 Global Navigator
      3.15.3 QueWorX
      3.15.4 Marketing Strategies
   3.16 Nortel Networks
      3.16.1 Enterprise Solutions
          3.16.1.1 Symposium Call Center Update
          3.16.1.2 Symposium Express
          3.16.1.3 Expansion of the Symposium Product Family
          3.16.1.4 The Future of MAX 
          3.16.1.5 Symposium Agent
          3.16.1.6 Symposium Web Response Server
      3.16.2 Public Carrier Solutions
         3.16.2.1 Intelligent Call Management Link
         3.16.2.2 Centrex IP
         3.16.2.3 Voice Button
      3.16.3 Marketing Strategies
   3.17 PakNetX
      3.17.1 PNX ACD
      3.17.2 Marketing Strategies
   3.18 Perimeter Technologies
      3.18.1 VU-ACD/100
         3.18.1.1 Service Bureau
         3.18.1.2 Multiple Switch Connections (MultiLink)
      3.18.2 Marketing Strategies
   3.19 Rockwell Electronic Commerce
      3.19.1 Transcend 2.0
      3.19.2 Call Center Studio
      3.19.3 Marketing Strategies
   3.20 Siemens Information and Communication Networks
      3.20.1 Vantage+
      3.20.2 ProCenter Express
         3.20.2.1 RésuméRouting Express
         3.20.2.2 Prompt Response Express
         3.20.2.3 Help Desk Express
         3.20.2.4 MX Mail Express
      3.20.3 ACD Prompt Response Integration
      3.20.4 Marketing Strategies
   3.21 Teloquent Communications
      3.21.1 Distributed Call Center
      3.21.2 Marketing Strategies
   3.22 Toshiba America Information Systems
      3.22.1 Insight DK and Insight DK Plus
      3.22.2 Marketing Strategies  
CHAPTER IV: Customer Relationship Management Players: New Call Center Partners
   4.1 ERP, CRM, SCA, Etc.
   4.2 Clarify
      4.2.1 eFrontOffice
     4.2.2 eFrontOffice Architecture
     4.2.3 Clarify ClearCallCentr
       4.2.4 Marketing Strategies
   4.3 Hewlett-Packard
     4.3.1 HP Front Office
         4.3.1.1 E-Marketing
         4.3.1.2 E-Sales
         4.3.1.3 E-Support
      4.3.2 Marketing Strategies
   4.4 IBM
      4.4.1 Corepoint Banking Solutions
      4.4.2 Marketing Strategies
    4.5 Oracle
      4.5.1 CRM3I
      4.5.2 Marketing Strategies
   4.6 PeopleSoft
      4.6.1 PeopleSoft Business Network
      4.6.2 Marketing Strategies
   4.7 Quintus
      4.7.1 eContact Suite
      4.7.2 Marketing Strategies
   4.8 Remedy
      4.8.1 Action Request System 4.0
      4.8.2 Customer Relationship Management Solutions
      4.8.3 Marketing Strategies
   4.9 RightPoint
      4.9.1 Real-Time eMarketing Suite
      4.9.2 RightPoint.net Real-Time eMarketing Portal
      4.9.3 Marketing Strategies
   4.10 SAP
      4.10.1 SAP CRM
         4.10.1.1 SAP Marketing
         4.10.1.2 SAP Sales
         4.10.1.3 SAP Service
      4.10.2 mySAP.com
      4.10.3 Marketing Strategies
   4.11 Siebel Systems
      4.11.1 Siebel 99 5
      4.11.2 Siebel Call Center
      4.11.3 Marketing Strategies
   4.12 Silknet
      4.12.1 Product Line Overview 
         4.12.1.1 Silknet eBusiness System
         4.12.1.2 Silknet eService System
      4.12.2 Marketing Strategies
   4.13 Vantive
      4.13.1 Vantive Enterprise
         4.13.1.1 Vantive Support
         4.13.1.2 Vantive HelpDesk
         4.13.1.3 Vantive Web Self-Service
      4.13.2 Marketing Strategies  
CHAPTER V: Carrier Call Center Services
   5.1 LEC Call Center Strategies
   5.2 Ameritech
      5.2.1 Call Center Solutions
      5.2.2 Marketing Strategies
   5.3 Bell Atlantic
      5.3.1 Multimedia Call Center
      5.3.2 CasinoNet
      5.3.3 CommGuard
      5.3.4 Marketing Strategies
   5.4 BellSouth
      5.4.1 Centrex ACD
      5.4.2 Marketing Strategies
   5.5 SBC
      5.5.1 Plexar ACD and Call Center Manager
      5.5.2 Marketing Strategies
   5.6 U S. West
      5.6.1 totalCTI
      5.6.2 Marketing Strategies
   5.7 Interexchange Carrier Call Center Services
   5.8 AT&T
      5.8.1 Advanced Toll Free Services
      5.8.2 AT&T Solutions
      5.8.3 Marketing Strategies
   5.9 MCI WorldCom
      5.9.1 Call Manager
      5.9.2 Marketing Strategies
   5.10 Sprint
       5.10.1 Enhanced Toll Free Services
       5.10.2 Sprint Dynamic Network Routing
      5.10.3 Marketing Strategies  
CHAPTER VI: Market Sizing and Projections
   6.1 Call Center Market Size and Projections
   6.2 1998 US Call Center Shipments and Installed Base
   6.3 US 1998 Call Center Market Share
      6.3.1 1998 Call Center Market Share by New and Add-on Agents Shipped
      6.3.2 1998 Call Center Market Share by Number of Systems Shipped
      6.3.3 1998 Call Center Market Share by Size of System
         6.3.3.1 Small Call Canter Market Share 306 6.3.3.2 Medium Call Center Market Share
         6.3.3.2 Medium Call Center Market Share
         6.3.3.3 Large Call Center Market Share
      6.3.4 1998 CPE Call Center Market Share by Revenue
   6.4 Canadian Call Center
   6.5 1999 - 2003 US Call Center Market Projections by Type of System
   6.6 1999 - 2003 US Call Center Installed Base by Type of System
   6.7 1999 - 2003 Call Center Market Revenue Projections

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES

Figure
2.1 Comverse's Ultra Architecture
3.1 Aspect Customer Relationship Portal 2000
3.2 Aspect Rules Management Visual Development
3.3 Aspect Customer DataMart
3.4 Cisco's Five Phase Data, Voice, Video Integration Strategy
3.5 Davox's Ensemble Architecture
3.6 Genesys' Voice Treatment Option
3.7 Intecom Centergy
3.8 Interactive Intelligence User Configuration Before and After
3.9 Moxaix ViewStar Process Architect Workflow Example
3.10 CRM Central 2000 Framework
3.11 Lucent CentreVu Visual Analyst
3.12 Lucent Call Center of One
3.13 Lucent's New Pinnacle Solution - Deluxe Edition
3.14 Symposium Express User Interface
3.15 Nortel Networks Call Center Platform Portfolio
3.16 Nortel Networks Centrex IP Call Center 
3.17 Nortel Netowrks' Customer Relationship Management Direction
3.18 PakNetX PNX ACD Caller View and Agent Console
3.19 Perimeter Technologies MultiLink Option
3.20 Perimetr Technologies Net-Vu Agent
3.21 Rockwell Call Center Studio
3.22 Rockwell Call Center Studio Agent Screen
3.23 Toshiba's Insight DK Plus
4.1 Clarify's eFrontOffice Architecture
4.2 Hewlett-Packard Front Office Framework
4.3 Quintus' eContact Suite
4.4 Remedy CRM Solutions Suite
4.5 RightPoint's Real-Time Marketing Suite
4.6 Enjoy SAP
6.1 1998 US New Call Center System and Agent Shipments by Type of System
6.2 1998 US Installed Base by Type of System
6.3 1998 US New and Add-On CPE Agent Shipments by Vendor 
6.4 1998 US CPE Call Center Market Share by New and Add-On Agent Shipments
6.5 1998 US New CPE System Shipments by Vendor
6.6 1998 US CPE Call Center Market Systems Shipped by Vendor and Size of System
6.7 1998 US CPE Call Center Market New Agents Shipped by Vendor and Size of System
6.8 1998 US CPE Small (1 - 40) Call Center Market by Vendor
6.9 1998 US CPE Medium (41 - 150) Call Center Market by Vendor
6.10 1998 US CPE Large (Over 151 Agents) Call Center Market by Vendor
6.11 1998 US CPE Market Share by New and Add-On Agent Revenue Vendor
6.12 1998 Canadian CPE Call Center Market System and Agent Market Share Shipped by Vendor
6.13 1998 Canadian CPE Call Center Market System and Agent Market Share Shipped by System Size
6.14 1997 - 2003 Call Center System Shipments by Type of System
6.15 1997 - 2003 Call Center Agent Shipments by Type of System
6.16 1997 - 2003 Call Center Installed Base of Systems by Type of System
6.17 1997 - 2003 Call Center Installed Base of Agents by Type of System
6.18 1997 - 2003 Call Center Revenue by Type of System

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