The document discusses using Avaya Oceana and Breeze to transform Avaya's digital engagement and customer experience. It describes mapping customer journeys to better direct investments. Avaya plans to deploy Oceana and Breeze internally to improve its own customer service while also using it as a proof point. The implementation will start with a small voice rollout and expand to incorporate more channels and functions over multiple phases.
When it comes to your customers, experience is everything. Everything happens on your customers’ terms. It’s so much more than being there when they pick up the phone, send an email or a text. It’s more than omnichannel. It’s delivering the best customer experience, every touch, every device, every time. Avaya Oceana is the next generation in multi-touch, context-driven customer engagement solutions.
You want a solution where you can provide compelling customer experiences to your customers across all channels and not end up with a spaghetti solution or a spaghetti functional design in your contact center. You want a single solution and this is what we are solving with Oceana.
We’re leveraging our key assets – Avaya Breeze and integration with Avaya Aura Call Center Elite and this is the key to our solution. You might be thinking that Avaya Oceana is coming out of left field since we announced it in July and are delivering it in October – and how are we able to do that so fast, and how will it have all the functionality that you need?
The reason is that we’ve really been working on this for almost 5 years. The first step is Avaya Breeze and the Snap-Ins already working on the platform. Work Assignment, Engagement Designer, Context Store, Co-Browse and so on. All these assets are being leveraged and coming together. We are also building new things in terms of Chat, email and so on and creating this compelling solution which sits on one common platform and everything is similar to a Snap-In. Its an elegant architecture and it allows you to easily extend as you go along.
So sitting on Avaya Breeze, leveraging the Snap-Ins we already have, we are providing the next generation routing solution using Engagement Designer where you can create visual workflows and those workflows are not limited to the contact center, they can extend to the enterprise. Obviously it will also do all the contact center workflows you need to do in terms of being able to go to the CRM system and get more data and so on.
Then the way we match the incoming interaction with the customer is changing, going from traditional routing to attribute matching. The idea here is that you can augment the incoming interaction with all the details you can muster up from your systems – you know the customer is looking for this product, whether they are a VIP customer or not, and in the future you can also make calls to 3rd party systems – to figure out the age of the person, demographics, what their interests are – you can use all that information to find the most appropriate agent.
You can treat the agent population and also the experts as one pool. You don’t need to figure out if they belong to this que or that que – they can all be in one pool and be assigned attributes, so lets say that I am an agent – and I speak Spanish and I know this product and this is the age and the interests, and we can use all that information to match the work with the customer.
This dramatically changes how people can do routing in the contact center, and the other key point is that this routing applies to all the channels – so you don’t have to learn different ways to route different media, it becomes one engine and you can setup workflows for all the media; and not many companies can do this.
Then the other big thing we are doing is really leveraging the context. Using the Context Store, you store the context of the customer and you can use it in two ways.
One is that you can use it for routing decisions, for example, in the IVR you collected certain information and based on the information you can make certain routing decisions intelligently and you can use the information to paint a visual of the customer for the agent – so they can see when the customer is coming in on a phone call – maybe that they sent an SMS before, or maybe they sent an email before, the agent can visually see what is going on with the customer and they can service the customer in context.
Then from supporting the customer, some customers are still picking up a phone and calling, but a lot of customers want to interact with their mobile device when contacting the company, using social media such as Facebook and they want to contact the company there. Or they want to contact the company through SMS or chat, and with Oceana, we enable the customer to service their customers irrespective of the device they are being contacted on.
When the customer contacts the company, we enable them to service their customers through all the different medias – voice, WebRTC, SMS, email, chat, chatbot, co-browse are there are very rich communication and collaboration capabilities provided for you to service your customers, and these can be form fitted depending on the device the customer is coming from.
As this is a solution, we have designed it in such a way to be easy to administer and report on, and it is tightly integrated with Avaya Aura Call Center Elite, and we’ll discuss in a bit how Oceana and CC Elite work together.
And finally, lets get into the agent experience. Unfortunately the agent experience has been overlooked in many systems. They get an ugly UI, and they typically need to work with many different systems to get their work done. We've spent a lot of time to address how they can effectively work and be productive handling all the different channels. Our new Oceana Workspaces offers a very compelling UI for agents to service their customers in this complex world.
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