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LiveOps Brings Out Concentric Rate ResultsDec 18, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- LiveOps, a company focusing on cloud contact center and customer service solutions, announced that Concentric Cloud Solutions, a company focusing on cloud IT services and an XO Communications company, has achieved a 25 percent growth rate in the past quarter as a LiveOps Strategic Alliance Partner. According to a release, news complements LiveOps recent announcement that companies participating in its Channel Partner Program are experiencing early and ongoing success in delivering cloud contact center solutions to their customers. "Partnering with LiveOps has enabled us to round out our cloud portfolio of solutions," said Peter Papavasiliou, Chief Marketing Officer for Concentric Cloud Solutions. "LiveOps has been organized and committed to helping its Strategic Alliance Partners succeed. Together, LiveOps and Concentric have been able to develop unique integrated solutions that add value to our customers' business operations. The joint Concentric and LiveOps offering enables us to offer a great customer experience and we look forward to a long, successful future with LiveOps." Examples of recent additions to the Concentric customer roster with the joint LiveOps solution: -1-800-Registry: A one-of-a-kind company dedicated to providing the best wedding service planning possible, 1-800-Registry, left a hybrid solution to move to the cloud with Concentric. This move enables their customer service contact center to scale with the high growth of their business. The Concentric solution integrates LiveOps Platform and Applications with Concentric Cloud Voice. The joint solution provides a secure cloud contact center without the upfront and ongoing maintenance costs typically associated with traditional call center infrastructures."Pre-integrated access to Salesforce.com was paramount in our decision to move our mission-critical contact center to the cloud. The Concentric-LiveOps solution gives us that access and enables us to provide the exceptional service levels our customers expect," said John Bamforth, CTO, 1-800-Registry. "Our business is growing fast. Our existing solution wasn't true cloud so we were missing the scalability and flexibility that true cloud is known for. Concentric not only provided a true cloud solution but also better integration with customizable reports and call flows that work seamlessly with Salesforce.com. As our business expands, we now have the confidence that our customer service will grow with us." -Provider of Filtered Water and Ice: After evaluating vendors based on the need for a true cloud approach for Hosted PBX and Cloud Contact Center, the company chose the Concentric and LiveOps solution because the solution met all of their evaluation criteria. It also received extremely high marks in the area of Salesforce.com integration. Additionally, Concentric provided business continuity options through the use of agent SIP soft phone registration. -Position in Identity Authentication and Access Management: Needing a way to recognize individual call center representatives in multiple centers who were ready for a call, the company considered a premise-based option then chose the Concentric and LiveOps solution. Key factors contributing to this decision were that the solution freed up man hours for the IT staff, eliminated worries about future software upgrades or patches, and provided a much lower up-front expense. LiveOps said the combined Concentric and LiveOps solution provides the ability to enable multiple communications channels including voice, chat, email and social media on a single platform. In addition, the flexibility of a cloud contact center gives organizations the ability to scale up or down to address near real-time business demands. Within a matter of weeks, rather than months, companies can deploy valuable contact center applications such as cloud-based screen recording, call flow authoring, multichannel and social media capabilities, and have the ability to provision functionalities to a distributed workforce. "Congratulations to Concentric on their success. Not only are they a valuable Strategic Alliance Partner to LiveOps in North America, but also with their integration capabilities they significantly enhance our product set. Concentric is a great example of the positive outcome that can result from being a dynamically engaged partner with us," said Vasili Triant, SVP of Cloud Application Sales, LiveOps. "Today's news continues to support the prediction we made recently that 2012 will be the year that cloud became a standard alternative to costly on-premise solutions. We look forward to many more celebratory quarters with Concentric." The combined go-to-market cloud contact center offering called the Concentric Cloud Contact Center integrates the cloud-based LiveOps Platform and Applications with the Concentric interactive telephony network. The potential cost savings associated with the cloud platform pre-integrated with a private telephony network are passed along to the customer, making this an ideal solution for small- to medium-sized contact centers. Clients also benefit from having a dedicated account team focused on cloud contact center solutions that has the added experience in VoIP and network services. More information: www.concentric.com www.LiveOps.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) |