The U.S.-based call center industry is growing again as FBCS, Inc., a third party collection services company, that has recently opened its second call center in Cape May, N. J. This extension of the company’s footprint allows FBCS to expand its capacity by as much as 30 percent, with room to grow.
According to FBCS President, Joseph Near this expansion further strengthens the company’s position in the receivables management space, providing a critical component to business continuity and redundancy. The company’s marketing activities, primary call center and administrative tasks, will continue at its corporate headquarters in Hatboro, PA.
This latest expansion announcement in the call center space points to the growing opportunities for key players in the U.S. market. While offshoring once presented cost benefits to customer care, companies are now finding that the VoIP call center can far exceed these advantages to ensure the creation of an efficient operation.
Legacy phone systems were traditionally the only deployment method for the call center. The cost of such a system, coupled with the investment needed for the brick and mortar establishment often put too many restraints on the budget. For the smaller company, it could also mean a restriction in features when the budget wouldn’t allow for much more than the system itself.
The telecommunications advancements today have changed the playing field. As highlighted in this Enterprise Networking Planet article, the navigation away from the public switched telephone network not only eliminates the cost of deployment, it also significantly reduces the cost of communications.
The VoIP call center allows all voice and data traffic to traverse the single physical network, bypassing the need to implement separate PBX (News - Alert) tie lines. It also lessens the burden on the IT administrator as there is just one network to support. In the VoIP call center, seamless integration is powered between calls and data capture to improve information and optimize business intelligence opportunities.
Tying VoIP into the call center also allows for expansion regardless of physical space availability. With the right management and monitoring tools in place, the call center can deploy the home-based agent strategy, allowing anyone with a phone, PC and high speed Internet to access the network and manage customer interactions.
A recent study projected VoIP adoption to hit 66.5 percent by 2015, which would put the technology in the dominant position in the market. As the call center space continues to demand low cost entry, quality communications, flexibility and scalability, the demand for VoIP continues to grow.
The legacy system can no longer support the changing wind of the call center industry, especially in volatile markets. For those vendors seeking to promote the value of the VoIP call center, the opportunity to do so is now.
Edited by Jamie Epstein