Outbound Contact

Outbound Contact is an automated system that is used to create, modify, and run outbound dialing campaigns/dialing sessions in which agents interact with customers. Running a dialing session, involves launching a dialing session that is associated with the campaign, monitoring it, and making any necessary adjustments. To perform these tasks, Outbound Contact users can:

• Create calling lists from customer contact information.
• Group calling lists into campaigns for outbound dialing.
• Share campaigns among multiple agent groups.
• Create campaign sequences with the Campaign Sequence object, which provides predefined thresholds and automatic agent assignments.
• Automatically load, start, unload, and perform other management functions for Campaign Groups using Outbound Schedules.
• Optimize usage of agent resources by using assignments. Agents can shift as needed between different dialing sessions and activities, including switching between inbound and outbound call handling.
• Chain records for a customer (multiple call records).
• Choose different dialing modes.
• Define treatments and scheduled calls for unsuccessful calls on each calling list.
• Monitor campaigns using Reporting tools.
• Apply Do Not Call restrictions by phone number or customer ID.

Outbound Contact can use traditional telephony or VoIP architecture. In both cases, it has a client/server architecture consisting of the one of the following:

• Outbound Contact consists of Outbound Contact Server (OCS) and optionally can include Call Progress Detection Server (CPD Server) and/or CPD Proxy Server.

In release 8.x, Genesys Administrator replaces Outbound Contact Manager (OCM). Genesys Administrator is a web-based user interface (UI) that provides provisioning, monitoring, deployment, and operations of Genesys solutions.

Note:

If you already use Outbound Contact Manager, you can continue to use OCM 7.6 with Outbound Contact 8.x.