As an executive responsible for call center infrastructure, you understand the limitations of your legacy ACD. The challenge is how to calculate the ROI for replacing legacy systems with a SIP-based contact center infrastructure that can deliver an omnichannel customer experience.
View this slideshare and learn how to:
Compute cost savings from pooling agent resources
Calculate hardware and maintenance savings
Estimate the benefits of a consistent customer experience
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Building a Business Case for Replacing Your Call Center ACD
1. Compute the Cost Savings of Pooling
Agent Resources
Analysts tell us agent salaries account for 60-70% of
contact center costs. A contact center solution that
enables you to pool agents across the company provides
tremendous economies of scale while avoiding the
costly proprietary upgrades and high maintenance costs
associated with centralizing work with the legacy ACD.
If you have multiple contact center sites but can’t load
share between them, there may be periods every day
when customers are waiting (or abandoning) in one
location while agents sit idle in another. Or perhaps you
overstaff to meet service levels at each location.
• What is the average loaded salary for a contact
center agent?
• What is the percentage of total idle time across sites?
Of course you can’t occupy agents 100% of the time
or you’ll burn them out, and you’ll need to take agent
skill sets into consideration, but chances are you can
reduce idle time with a virtual agent pool. If you have
100 agents and an overall 20% idle rate today, could
you reduce that to 10% by virtualizing resources? If
so, you could deliver the same level of service with
10 fewer agents.
• Multiply your average salary by the reduced agent
count. You may see startling results.
Assess the Revenue Gains of
Reducing the Abandonment Rate
No matter what industry you’re in, you can calculate
the impact of reducing your company’s equivalent of
abandoned shopping carts. With a virtualized agent
pool, you’ll be able to respond more quickly and
preempt abandons.
• What is your abandon rate today?
• What is the average value of a customer contact?
• Estimate the reduction in abandons with decreased
wait time.
• Multiply average contact value by the abandons
you eliminate.
Estimate the Reduction in Contact Time
from a Consistent Customer Experience
When you replace your ACD and point solutions with a
unified omnichannel solution, agents have knowledge of
all previous interactions — whether email, web chat, SMS,
or voice. This cuts contact time and reduces transfers.
• How many contacts are from customers who have
previously contacted you?
• What is the average amount of time it takes a
customer to bring an agent up to speed on
previous transactions?
• Multiply repeat contacts by the time it takes to recap,
and translate to FTEs (Full Time Equivalent agents).
BUILDING A BUSINESS CASE FOR REPLACING
YOUR CALL CENTER ACD
Introduction
As an executive responsible for call center infrastructure, you understand the limitations of your legacy
ACD. If you have added email, web chat and other channels as they became necessary, they may have been
implemented as independent, siloed solutions. But, adding channels in this way makes it difficult to deliver a
consistent customer experience.
You understand the benefits of replacing a system that frustrates your customers and stresses your team
with upgrading and maintaining disparate solutions. The challenge is building a business case that will help
you convince other stakeholders that it’s time to bring in a single SIP-based infrastructure that provides a solid
foundation for integrating current and future customer communication demands and delivering a consistent
omnichannel customer experience.
Here are five tips to get you started on that business case.
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