Call Center Services

In India, 16% of call centers plan to invest in VoIP over the next 12 months.

Advantages for using VoIP

There are many advantages for using VoIP including cost effectiveness, greater productivity, and the incorporation of data, audio, and video all intertwined in one program. Here is an overview of some reasons that your business should make the switch to VoIP.

Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is slowly becoming the standard choice for Call Centers. VoIP offers some major benefits for call centers such as flexibility, cost efficiency, and enhanced customer service applications. For instance, in the past, a call center needed to be a stabilized facility equipped with many phone lines used by people who would physically be located in the call center. By using VoIP for your call center, not only is your main location easily relocated as your business expands, but you can hire employees virtually world wide. Larger companies take advantage of VoIP call centers by outsourcing work overseas where they can hire employees for less.

Global conferencing and training can put a burden on a business. Attempts to reach employees worldwide are not only expensive but time consuming as well. With VoIP technology businesses can avoid conferencing costs, and enable secure audio and video conferences to offices worldwide. By reducing long distance costs, employees are also taking advantage of calling each other and corporate headquarters more frequently.

Adaptability of VoIP in Call Centers

VoIP systems can give companies the ability to streamline operations by consolidating systems and personnel into fewer locations. This will allow businesses to centralize staffing and equipment while also simplifying communication networks. The systems also give businesses the ability to troubleshoot customer-service issues in ways that they could only dream of before.

VoIP helps manage call routing, which ensures customer concerns are getting to the right place. “We can now track every call that comes into our office. In the past we’d have no way to verify whether what the customer was saying matched up to what our call center was saying,” Brancato said. “Now customers have one number to call into. It is routed to different offices depending on what they need, but the call can’t get lost.”

For company executives who spend a great deal of time on the road, VoIP systems can also provide the link they need to stay connected when far from the central hub. And in a business environment rife with corporate consolidation, Van Doren’s report stated that VoIP systems make it so “new business units can be more effectively integrated with existing facilities.”

So, while the argument for installing VoIP is not crucial at the moment, many call centers are looking to include IP technology as part of the foundation of their future customer service technology infrastructure. VoIP is definitely going to happen. It’s our view that IP communications has already become more prevalent and this will accelerate, especially as companies seek more specialist applications on an IP platform.

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