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    Hi everyone. Thanks for joining our webinar today, Enghouse UC, CCaaS and UCaaS how convergence drives and well it disrupts communications. My name is Dane Austin Smith and today we're going to be focusing on communication tools and technologies and these are things that we've all had experience with, we've all dealt with in the last, especially in the last year, year and a half on a personal and professional capacity. Now, as we also learned with the last year, year and a half is that these communication tools are evolving very rapidly. And in this webinar we aim to shed a bit of light on the direction of that evolution as well as we have an exciting new Enghouse launch that will help in that journey. So before we go any further, I would like to introduce our panelists for the day. We have Vince Mifsud, we have Reuben Tozman, we have Wayne Lee and Robin Gareiss, so thank you all for joining us for that. We'll begin with a welcome address by the president of Enghouse Systems and that is Mr Vince Mifsud as President of Enghouse Systems LTD. Mr Mifsud is responsible for global sales operations, product and finance. Prior to joining Enghouse, his roles included CEO of Scribble Technologies and Genesis Global Limited. That's just to name two and in his career he's really placed a focus on the organic growth of enterprise software companies completed and integrated numerous acquisitions and has deep expertise in software as a service or SaaS Vince, i'll go ahead and hand it over to you. Thank you Dane for that nice introduction, and thank you to all of you for being here today. We have attendees joining from all parts of the world and I really appreciate you making the time to see our new project. We are also going to have a special version of the webinar for our Asia pack and oceanic customers. I just wanted to give a brief overview of Enghouse for those of you who may not know our background and history completely. But we are a Canadian headquartered public company with about 2000 people with offices, spread out across the world. The company has been around for several decades and we have a very big focus in the contact center area video and other technologies. one of the things that you know, we've been really emphasizing in the company, especially in the last several years is, ongoing innovation, making significant investments in engineering and product development. And over the last 12 months we've spent just over $80 million in R&D. We plan to continue to invest significantly in the future as well. And part of today's, webinar is essentially output from that investment that we've made. We challenged the team to be innovative this year, early in the year and thankfully have come up with a great new innovation Enghouse UCaaS product, we hope that you'll love the product and you can see this as an example of our commitment to deliver great products and the best possible customer experience. We have a big emphasis on innovation, big emphasis on product and we hope that you enjoy today's webinar. Thank you. So this is our customers trust in us which are amongst the world's largest companies and we underpin their critical communications. As once mentioned, we've been Established in 1984 and it's for decades that we are underpinning critical communications for customers such as Bloomberg, British Telecom, Sony, Epic, For those of you in North America. You might be familiar with Epic in health care, E-Pldt, data communications reliance and that's just to name a few. These global giants have started out being customers with their critical contact center platforms provided by Enghouse and some of which have also gone on to expand their relationship with us. And now we take Enghouse project products jointly to domestic and international markets, Once again, a very warm welcome to all of you and with that I handle webinar back to Dane Smith. All right, thank you Chandan and thank you Vince. Next up we have Reuben Tozman now with a master in educational Technology. He's held critical leadership roles in product and operations with companies such as Shutter stock or Next Tech AR solutions, and besides advising several companies in cutting edge AI and data center technologies. He's currently serves here at Enghouse as the General Manager of Vidyo. Now. Vidyo is a division of Enghouse focused on video enabled communications. And it's being used currently by thousands of enterprise customers globally. Reuben over to you. Awesome. Thank you Dane, And once again, I mean we've all been saying it, but thank you to everyone who has taken the time to join this meeting, We're super excited to be presenting to you today. So today we're really looking at several different tools that have been placed prior to 2020. They've been around for a few years, but clearly over the last two years, since the pandemic has begun, it's really changed how we operate. And the truth is those tools have been critical., Here in Toronto, the word lockdown is not an unfamiliar term to us and I'm sure everyone's been experiencing lockdowns, travel restrictions, stay at home, our kids working from home, jumping in on the meetings. I'm lucky my kids are in school today. when you think about it, all of this would have crushed us not too long ago. It's really these tools and this technology that's been a great enabler for our government, for banks, hospitals, and corporations. And so what we're really looking at today is what comes next, How do we get these? These UC tools, these unified communications tools to actually work with our contact centers and provide better customer experiences. So on the screen what you're seeing is the result of a survey among many surveys that have been done on this topic all around the future of hybrid work. And the results really tell us that what we need to do as businesses and operators is to create work environments that stretch that flex that are going to accommodate all varieties of hybrid work. When we think of the future right? We think that unified communications was initially there to provide remote workers the ability to communicate with people in office. In other words the in office was the norm. Well the truth is that's no longer the norm as we've seen in the results in front of you instead the way that we started working the what we've become used to over the last two years that is clearly going to continue in the future. And our IT teams and those that are giving us these environments, they're already starting to plan around the fact that people aren't going to have desk phones that people need PBX extensions and all of that is of course for the knowledge economy and for knowledge workers. And so with that I'm going to hand this over to Robin and think Robin with an O, Robin is the CEO and principal analyst of Metrigy. Robin leeds metrigy's digital transformation and digital transformation customer experience research. She is also widely recognized expert in the communications fields with specialty areas of contact center AI enabled customer engagement, customer success analytics and UCC. And with that I turn it over to Robin and once again warm welcome and thank you very much. Well thank you Reubin with an -eu. How about that? Welcome everybody. I'm really delighted to be here today to talk about this topic because it's a big one everyone is talking about these days. So without further ado let's start and and move on. So I think it's important as we're looking at this whole issue of integrating and combining. UC and contact center to look at what are some of the issues that are really causing these discussions. When you're running two platforms that where there is some overlap or where they can be integrated into each other and add more value. You really do have increased costs. You're going to have to pay more to have your IT staff learn those platforms, manage them perhaps become certified on them. You know so there definitely are increased cost to having multiple platforms to start. I think another problem with having disparate UC in contact centers there's a lack of information floor even no information flow between agents and non agent employees. So for many years now the contact center has sort of sat on this island on its own, not really integrated in with the rest of the company. And that's an issue. It really as we've seen companies do some of this integration, I'll talk about this more, but they're seeing a lot of value in being able to bring non contact center employees into some of the contact center value and some of the contact center employees being able to take advantage of the value of not only the technology of UC, but also just integrating more with the people. So when you think about the contact center as well, many contact centers these days still don't have collaboration applications, contact center agent comes in and you know, they're basically to start using their applications, they start doing their work and they're not applications. I mean contact center, your contact center platform, you're using interface, They're not doing things like using team collaboration channels or workspaces, they're not using video or screen sharing. And think of how much value that adds because they don't do a lot of that because they don't leverage the knowledge and the wisdom and the expertise that they have throughout the rest of the company. You end up seeing things like decreased customer satisfaction if a customer wants to show you something and you have no ability to do that. Either video, screen sharing, co browsing any of those types of things then your satisfaction levels are going to go down and when of course when that happens you have missed revenue opportunities. Not only because of decreased satisfaction but just because you're not able to take advantage of say bringing in an expert who might be able to answer a crucial question that closes a sale. So those are some of the key issues that we see in disparate unified communications and context center platforms. And with that I'd like to do a quick poll. And the question is do you plan to integrate UC or contact center in 2022? So first, "Yes". Two, "evaluating". Three, "No plans". I'm sorry, Three is "planning for 2021" Four, "unsure or no plans". Okay. Okay so this is very interesting that there are so many who are either unsure or don't have plans. I guess it's good that you're joining this webinar in particular because maybe you'll be able to you know, take some good information away to consider it. You've got a lot of people evaluating you know, certainly about 18% planning to 2022, 7% planning now. So this is a little lower than the numbers of companies who are doing it from our research as you're going to see here in a minute but this is great. let's keep moving on and hopefully be able to give you some great information to explain why this is something organizations are doing and what they're actually doing with it. So now as you're thinking about, for those of you who are either evaluating, thinking about or even doing this, there are some things you want to think about. and even if you've already done it there are some things to think about as to how you might want to improve it. So when we look at integration, we like to consider what are the business problems companies are trying to solve. It's never a good idea to just implement a new technology or new integration just for the sake of doing it, just for the sake of the technology really isolating your organization. What business problems are you trying to solve? Are you trying to generate more revenue? Are you trying to reduce your costs? There's all sorts of business benefits that I'll talk about in a minute. So figure that out. And then also look at how do you actually integrate the platforms themselves? Do you want to have, APIs' or higher developers or just have something that's already integrated directly from the provider? A lot of that's really going to depend on whether you use the same or different providers for your contact center UC platform. I'll talk a little bit more about that. What integration is actually going to do to help your growing hybrid workforce. That's another important factor to consider. And I'll talk a little bit more about that in a minute too. Technically what's actually integrated and what do you need today and what do you need in the future? So is it, just your user interface, is it the back end? you really have to think about what's integrated and most important. I always tell our clients, make sure you're measuring success if you don't have, a framework in place to measure success or failure as it may be if you're not doing something right. you won't know if it's working, you won't be able to take your success story to get your next budget approval to say, hey look what we did here and look what kind of success were showing. So figure out what metrics you're going to measure Are you going to look at agent productivity, are going to look at certain KPI is in the contact center, are going to look at how it's helping employees at large with things like product development and marketing plans. Figure that out and make sure you can measure that and then measure it regularly, Make adjustments so that your numbers are where you think they should be. So let's look now at what companies are doing today. So, you can see here based on our research, those who are doing actual integration are a lot higher than our poll today. this was a study of about 700 companies and about 63% roughly we're actually doing some form of integration today. And among those who are doing the integration today about 62% were integrating with the same provider for UC and contact center. I think what's important to note though is that integration is kind of a sliding scale. The extent to which companies have integrated really varies considerably. Some will say oh yes we've integrated because they buy both UC and contact center from the same carrier. HNTB, Verizon whoever they might be using. Others may say, well we haven't integrated back end even though our user interfaces are different and that's pretty common. Or others might have a fully integrated front end, but well they aren't really leveraging things very deeply. So there's such a long way to go with this even though there are a lot of companies already doing it, the depth of it, the extent of it, the way that they're leveraging it, there's still a lot more we can do. And so what we did in our research we actually asked companies : how they're using integrated unified communications and collaboration. And the next slide shows the results of that. So you can see that the top reason or the top way companies i should say are leveraging this integration is just letting their contact center agents and supervisors have collaboration apps. video, screen sharing, team collaborations workspaces. This si great, we can we can now integrate like the rest of the company does, we can communicate and collaborate like the rest of the company does. Also what I think is fascinating. It's just integrating agents with other employees to collaborate on key projects. So say your in marketing and you're doing a marketing campaign. You want to bring in some of the contact center agents to help you to give you some insight. Hey, is this working? Do customers say anything about this? What have they been saying today? Since you talked to them if you're in product development to have some key contact center agents in your workspace in your collaboration workspace and maybe on some of your regular video calls to say, hey, this is what we think based on our discussions a month ago with our focus group, What are you hearing in the last few days? and even just being able to dig into some of the contact center analytics. Being able to be into some team workspaces that might automatically deliver. Hey, here's today's feedbacks that type of thing. Now, we also see companies extending access to collaboration applications to key customers. So think about like financial companies, they may take their key customers and say, ok, here's a way that you can see the present status of your five member account team in our contact center. And just a few clicks of the buttons you can institute or instigate rather a voice call, video call, screen share, a web chat. And then the last one is bringing in non agent experts to address customer issues. This is one of the ones you hear people talking about the most is actually the one we see people doing less frequently in our research success group. It's actually the most frequent but this is something where you really see the integration taking hold and you really see some of those business metric needles moving because of that. So not only do we see companies using the technology to help customers or customer projects, they're also using it to manage their contact center agents, they're using it to do remote management in particular here. It's videoconferencing. So, as companies integrate, UC in the contact center, they really are changing how employees interact with each other with the customers, with their supervisors. There's definitely some room for improvement here. We saw just in the last slide that the largest percentage of companies just started by using the applications using collaborations internally for the agent supervisor communications. And this may seem really basic to those of us who have been using it for a long time. But like I mentioned before, this hasn't been something that's been widely available in the contact center. So it's new and it's exciting and it's really starting to show a lot of value. And it's become vital ever since we saw so many contact center agents moved to their home offices starting last year and really continuing indefinitely from our research for about 72% of companies. They're going to continue with some form of work from home. And honestly without video and team collaboration and screen sharing, they would have a very very difficult time Managing those remote employees, especially in the contact center where you're used to supervisors walking up and down the aisle and everyone kind of being physically in the same place and collaborative in that location. So what we found is, as you can see here is about 67% of research participants said that video applications are vital for managing remote workers. 58% by the way also said team collaboration is vital and 52% said screen sharing is vital. So they're really using these applications to manage people. And lastly, I'm going to eat my own doctor as the expression goes and tell you that we also measure success. I told you you really should measure success when our research, we do just that and we're measuring success at how much this integration is driving those business metrics and as you can see here when it comes to revenue. When you integrate UC and contact center you're seeing about a 53% increase in revenue versus only about 44% when it's not integrated. And when you look at agent efficiency, agent efficiency goes up about 31% when you've integrated the two platforms and only about 22% when you have not. So those numbers should be really compelling to you that really think about this as you're planning your future communications and collaboration strategy. So with that I want to hand over to Wayne who will be with you for the rest of the webinar. So Wayne. So welcome everyone, once again, my name is Wayne Lee. I lead the product management team for the Enghouse UC without any further delay let me head straight into it. I am extremely happy that I can introduce for the very first time Enghouse UC, it's been designed and developed with you. Yes, everyone here, that's you in mind. We bring the best of what's available today. Business collaboration enabling people to work anywhere anytime and on any screen. We will dive a little deeper in the upcoming slides and we will go through many of these features in the demo coming up in a little bit but at a high level and Enghouse UC will provide users with persistent chatting whether it's between you and another pier or in a group, you will have all the context and information needed to ensure you don't miss anything. And while you are collaborating together we have enabled users to screen share for multiple devices so it's easier to talk back and forth between those that are sharing and as alluded to earlier, most companies are looking to adopt some form of hybrid work, whether people are working from home or in the office or reality anywhere really. As long as you're covid safe and Enghouse UC is enhanced by our vast experience in the video space, giving crystal clear quality to make any remote settings increasingly positive and engaging. We have bundled all this together with enterprise telephony features so that you will never miss important calls or voice mails as this will allow you to work at the pace you're most efficient and comfortable with. And finally, as a company that found its roots in the contact, center space we will be bringing the agent experience within Enghouse UC. Why? Because this allows for much more seamless way to engage and support your customer base. Everything however, begins from here, staying connected. A critical pillar of business collaboration is of course chat, whether it's for personal or commercial use chat like function is used predominantly by the whole world to start off conversations once again whether it's one on one in groups, with many capabilities that you're used to seeing and utilizing on a daily basis. And Enghouse UC has in built chat features with full functionality. So you'll never be starting off on a conversation and in a weird way, but it will always be there and you'll be used to using this in a way that you are familiar with. Also, we collaborate over video, we have a fully functioning video collaboration suite built into our UC. This has been developed on top of the years of experience as a leader in the video collaboration market, which today supports thousands of customers daily and globally. And once again, just in case we didn't mention it before staying connected. Right. How this time with a voiced, a line for employees who are traveling or not in the office or possibly only using a phone. We designed a Enghouse UC so that these individuals can also be equally well connected with voice. Now, referring back to the point made by Robin in the earlier section, Unified communications UC, Converging with contact center CC, can address all customer workflows regardless of the entry point to manage conversations effectively. What does that mean exactly? We are enabling Enghouse UC to interrupt with not just our own Enghouse CCaaS. are the contact have deployed today or if you'd like to make a change of environment first you can move forward with Enghouse UC and then decide what the best integration point will be with your contact center environment in the future. Alright enough slides for now though. Right. So, why don't we get into the demo? We'll be going through two different use cases today in our webinar. First, we will go through a demo of a user that has enabled the business collaboration tools only and then we will walk through a demo of a user who has uplifting features enabled as well. Why don't we begin? So we'll start off by launching Enghouse UC. For this demo, i will be navigating through our desktop application. You'll notice right away there are two options too long into Enghouse UC you have your username and password option. or in the case your organization has an identity provider solution in place. You can log in via single sign on (SSO) in our case we have our IDP with 80 and log in with a click of a button. This account is currently logged in as Noe, who is a colleague of mine actually he currently has a business collaboration features enabled on his account and we will run through what you can do as a business collaboration user. On the left hand side, you'll have your contacts and since Noe and I spent a lot of time collaborating together. He has put me as one of his favorite contacts. It seems like I'm the only favorite contact there. So I do feel extra special thanks to you Noe! and as we look to the right side. One of the key things we're doing with Enghouse UC is making sure there's a seamless experience between various Enghouse products. In this case we have Vidyo connect integrated with Enghouse UC, so that you can see all the meetings that are set up with this, you can enter into Vidyo connect meeting room easily. All from the same application. Check what meetings you have coming up through a calendar integration to the left. To start the meeting, simply click on the link. And voila, you are now in a vidyo connect meeting room. Since Noe is extremely early for the call, he will simply exit the application and return to his UC experience I mentioned earlier that Noe and I collaborate together on a daily basis. Here in this example, Noe will message me, so will go in to find my name as a favorite once again, and you will start typing. He will ask if I have some time for a quick chat. I will of course say yes. And then he will click on the video call button. There is Noe. And now we have successfully escalated from a chat to a video conference. We chat for a bit and then we use our double screen sharing capabilities to collaborate together as mentioned earlier. So I'm sharing my screen over there and then Noe, wants to compare what's going on with what he's working on and he will start sharing his screen and now we can start comparing and contrasting what's going on and what makes sense. You say bye to each other now and that ends our collaboration session together. Ok, prior to this actual demo there was a team of us working together to make this webinar a reality. It made more sense for us to have a room where we could regularly collaborate rather than try to create an ad hoc group each time. So a room is created and we invite the necessary individuals to carry out this collaboration session. So we create the actual room name, UC launch you will add in some people, Noe will add myself once again, wayne. And then he will add our other good friend Mr Tanguy very simple to create a room and in this room we can chat with one another and in a similar way we can escalate the session into a video conference. Certainly types in let's talk about the launch and we will escalate into a video called like before. And then the 3rd gentleman pops in right now. Now you see three highly capable individuals working through the deck and are happy with the progress that we are making. So Noe, will share a screen here and this is the fact that you are seeing throughout this whole presentation. And we are happy with the way how things went. We say goodbye and we can go back to our day. So that is what you would see as a business collaboration user So what would happen then if we were to include cloud PBX features into Enghouse UC? You still get the elegant user experience from before, but now you have an additional icon that enables a dial pad on the bottom, that's getting your access to a telephony world. This time we got Noe who has telephony features enabled . On the right hand side, you will see your call history which helps you figure out who called you when and if it was an external call or not as well, with a dial pad as you start punching in the numbers, Enghouse UC will begin to sift through either your contacts or your call history to get the right number you would like to dial. So we can see that the six four seven picked up the area code in the second call For the first entry, It picked up the six four seven from a combination of the phone number. Let's get back to the main screen over here. My apologies folks. Let's get back to the main street over here. Since Noe is a good man, he will return the call that he missed. He will simply click on the phone button. Once again you're in the same experience as you had in the business collaboration suite with an addition of a dial pad that enables you to do any touchtone activities. Now on the left side of the screen, you'll find the quick access to call settings. Currently the phone is set up to a simmering operation which means multiple devices could ring simultaneously when a call comes in. When it is in default mode, it will always ring the desktop and mobile app simultaneously. When simmering is enabled though, you can add another number to the list that it will ring such as a mobile number or even your home phone. Best practices that you should only enable one of these settings out of time. So when call forwarding is toggled that other options are toggled off. Same thing when you toggle to find the option as well. The details of these features can be set up under settings. Let's click on the gear icon and you'll find yourself in the phone feature section for the purpose of this demo we will be showcasing the "find me" future Find me as a feature that sequentially cascades through different devices or numbers of your preference. In this particular case we want the desktop application to ring first. After 5 rings, they will try the mobile app. Now, why would we want to ring the mobile app separately? These days, what we're finding is that people are using their tablets and data only mode and in this case the only way to reach the individual would be for a mobile app. The other reason is that some companies allow for a bring your own device program and when you have that kind of set up, you will have different employees that have different phone plans some where you may get limited call times. Yes, those still exist. So in this case you will be saving on your mobile plan if the employees on some form of wifi in the building or at home In a similar but slightly different use case. The reason why we want to dial a 10 digit number is in the case that somebody runs out of data and yes, that happens as well on their mobile phone or possibly could be in an area where data isn't available but cellular connection is there. An example might be at a cottage. So you have an option to set up up to five devices to cascade into including a web application. If that is what you would like to choose from. Or once again, an additional phone number. At this point, why don't we see the call now in a "find me" scenario. The incoming call will try to reach the desktop first. So this is a desktop call. Five things go by and it will cascade to the next one on the list which is the mobile device. Notice the mobile devices says offline something must have happened either. Noe used too much data or he might be in an area where data doesn't exist as we mentioned before, Or it could be a wifi issue, who knows. But the point is, his actual application is offline. So it will try to ring a couple of times and notices that it can't be reached. So instead of going away and I'm not being able to reach Noe. It will try to call through his actual 10 digit number and here we go, it's calling through and you can see that the call is coming in and now Noe can have an important call that he was waiting for. There's a call. Before I conclude the demo, I'd like to mention the experience we are providing through Enghouse UC will be the pillar of how we address the agent experience as well. What we have found through our conversations with customers is that they too are looking for something that is more similar to that of a U C experience where the agent can have a unified experience across the board, not just in the contact center space, but with the rest of their colleagues as well. So just try to imagine the possibility that can be unlocked as you move towards a converge experience between UC and CC. So that brings to the conclusion of our to use cases in this demo. And just to recap the first half of the demo, we showcase the business collaboration features and in the second half of the demo, we focus on the cloud PBX features available on Enghouse UC. Now that you've gotten a taste of Enghouse UC, I'd like to present to you how we're pricing this out, we will be offering Enghouse UC in three simple bundles, The business bundle which includes all the business collaboration features that were showcased in the first part of the Demo is 9,99$ per user per month. The Business Pro bundle which includes all the telephony features overlaid on top of the business collaboration features 18,99$ per user per month and for those that are already utilizing Enghouse CCaaS with us today there is a special pricing where you will be able to take our Business Pro bundle for 9,99$ per agent per month. But wait, there is a launch offer. As part of the launch, the first set of customers that signs up for Business Pro will receive it at the price of the business bundle for six months at the commercial available date. We really look forward to walking alongside with you through this UC journey as we progress to converge this with our CC capabilities as well. Thank you again for your time. Thank you.

    • Introduction
    • Presenters
    • Enghouse history
    • Agenda
    • Covid & Tech: Workplace Disruption
    • The Future is Hybrid: Are you  ready for the shift?
    • The Future is Hybrid: The Solution is UCaaS
    • UCaaS & CCaaS : A converged future?
    • Disparate UC & Contact Centers Cause Issues
    • Quick POLL : Do you plan to integrate UC/CC in 2022?
    • Evaluate: Integration Considerations
    • State of Deployment for Integrated Platforms
    • Integration Leverage: Basic and Advanced
    • Integrating UC/CC is Vital
    • Integrations Drive Measurable Success
    • Enghouse UC Enabling Unified Teams to Deliver Business Results
    • Empower your employees & clients with powerful features
    • Stay connected
    • Collaborate over video
    • Stay connected - with just voice
    • Empower Your Teams with Enghouse UC
    • Demo
    • Pricing
    • Simplified Pricing Comprehensive Benefits
    • Launch Offer
    • Dane Smith on Linkedin
      00:00:25
    • Vincent Mifsud on LinkedIn
      00:01:53
    • Visit Enghouse web site
      00:03:00
    • Reuben Tozman on LinkedIn
      00:05:46
    • Robin Gareiss on LinkedIn
      00:09:57
    • Wayne Lee on LinkedIn
      00:22:28
    • Contact Sales
      00:37:48

UCaaS and CCaaS : How Convergence Drives and Disrupts Communications?

Published on 09/16/2021   Enghouse Connect, Vidyo, Unified Contact Center, Unified Communication, Vidyo Webinar

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