[September 18, 2012] Genesys Brings Customer Service to the Cloud Tweet Sep 18, 2012 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Genesys, a leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced the Genesys Connect for Service Cloud customer service solution, which is natively built on the Salesforce Platform, the worlds leading cloud platform for social and mobile business apps. Businesses and organisations of all sizes will benefit from the power of salesforce.com's award-winning Service Cloud solution combined with best-in-class voice and multi-channel customer service technology from Genesys. With this new solution, Service Cloud users can leverage Genesys to harness new levels of productivity and personalisation with the industrys most advanced capability for connecting customers with the right employee no matter where they are in the enterprise or which channel the customer uses. Product Key Features: Genesys Connect for Service Cloud delivers a seamless environment that natively leverages the Service Cloud user interface and administrative environment to ensure that the solution is quick to deploy, easy to administer and simple to use. The combined solution provides an integrated user interface for agents and employees across the voice, social, web and mobile customer channels. Genesys Connect for Service Cloud introduces productised customer service best practices, including pre-defined templates for customer interaction routing, which can be configured with the click of a button. Customers using Genesys technology consistently experience measurable and meaningful increases in agent productivity by improving their ability to connect customers to the right enterprise resource every time including customer service agents, specialised experts and knowledge workers, and branch or field office personnel. Supporting Quotes: "Its a new day for Genesys," said Michael McBrien, General Manager of the new Genesys Cloud Connect business unit. "For more than 20 years, Genesys has worked with the largest and most sophisticated enterprises in the world to transform their customer service, while simultaneously saving them money lots of money. With Genesys Connect for Service Cloud, we are taking these insights and combining them with Salesforce and a cloud delivery model to create a solution that is profoundly powerful, yet easy to deploy and simple to use." "Today, building great customer connections is paramount and a key differentiator to standing out in a competitive marketplace," said Tony Kavanagh, vice president of Marketing, Service Cloud for salesforce.com. "Genesys, and its 20+ years of customer service experience, brings unique voice and customer experience capabilities to the Service Cloud, helping enterprises better connect with customers." "This relationship brings together two strong leaders in the world of customer service at a time when the customer experience is increasingly becoming a part of competitive differentiation," said Daniel Hong, lead analyst of Customer Experience & Interaction at Ovum research. "The combination of Genesys and salesforce.com will help enterprises create a unique and powerful customer experience in the cloud using best-of-breed solutions and a tightly integrated approach that simplifies management and accelerates deployment time." About the Salesforce Platform and the AppExchange The Salesforce Platform is the worlds most trusted and comprehensive cloud platform for building social and mobile cloud apps. It powers Salesforce CRM, more than 2.3 million custom apps built by customers and more than 1,600 apps developed by partners in its ecosystem. Social apps for business built on the Salesforce Platform can be easily distributed and marketed through salesforce.coms AppExchange. Salesforce, AppExchange and others are trademarks of salesforce.com, inc.] [About Genesys: Genesys is the worlds leading provider of customer service and contact centre software and services with a 100% focus on customer experience and mission to save the world from bad customer service. With more than 2,000 customers in 80 countries, Genesys is uniquely positioned to help companies bring their people, insights and customer channels together to drive todays new customer conversation. Genesys software directs more than 100 million interactions every day from the contact centre to the back office, helping companies deliver fast, simple service and a highly personalised cross-channel customer experience. Genesys software also optimises processes and the performance of customer-facing employees across the enterprise. www.genesyslab.com Genesys Press Contact Claire Grant IBA - PR for Genesys Tel: +44 (0)1780 721 433 [email protected] ((M2 Communications disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at http://www.presswire.net on the world wide web. Inquiries to [email protected]. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]