Technology is well.
And it is recommended.
No, technologies are no longer mere support tools. Today, they are indispensable allies of any business and an integral part of its evolution. Today, they are changing the way companies are in the market, making them look at innovation and change as a natural and future oriented state. And today, they are with us – more than ever.
If a decade and a half ago, they were the great concern of any Contact Center project, today – time and reason says – communications infrastructures continue to be one of the most complex and demanding components regarding the implementation and support of the activity. Therefore, it is not surprising that, at GMtel, we have made them our bet. In recent years, we have been developing the specific skills of these technologies (ACD, Recording, SIP, Voice, Telephony, IVR or other systems), betting on experience and certification and continuous training of teams, always with a view to multidisciplinarity.
Voice SIP and SBCs
Our experience in implementing Voice Infrastructure solutions is already long. It comes, by the way, from day one. In the last years, through multiple projects inside and outside (and outside, inside), we have been improving it. Today, it is common to put in operation and manage Voice infrastructures in Contact Centers and/or Corporate Telephony over any virtual implementation architecture, in private, public or even public/private datacenters or cloud. In this area, we work with Oracle (AcmePacket) and Avaya (of course) manufacturers technologies, for their proven flexibility, resilience and features available for integration of Voice, Video and WebRTC external communications support.
Recording
Recording projects are no stranger to us. In fact, the call center market was still in its embryonic stage in Portugal, when we brought to Portugal the manufacturer Witness, later acquired by Verint. Over the years, we have been developing them in the Banking, Retail and Utilities sector, always with the objective of protecting the commitments made between the company and customers, through the telephone channel. Why did we choose Verint and Avaya technologies? Because they ensure the robustness of implemented solutions: both in operation and security, ensured by the encryption mechanisms they support.


WebRTC
Our Avaya partner technology has supported WebRTC application development, and/or WebRTC application access to your platforms for years. But it was in 2016 that Avaya Breeze, the development platform for Contact Center and Collaboration solutions, was launched to enhance WebRTC development open to communities.
Video
There is life (or image) beyond the interlocutor. That's why our video solutions can live in different devices, make recording and sharing possible, as well as allowing the presence of several participants. In the Contact Center or in collaboration, in the office or remotely, the customer chooses. And we bring it to life.
We are sure with Avaya Technologies, which not only cover traditional video platforms for Video Conferencing rooms, but also the latest WebRTC Video and Video Call and Collaboration solutions.


Mobility
The truth is that it is one of the pillars of digital transformation. But it is also true that by itself, it is not enough. That’s why, today, we look at communication in an integrated way, safe and with an eye on tomorrow. Step by step.
Nothing in the technological world can escape the rule of evolution. Nor the technologies of Customer Service and Contact Center. In the last 20 years, these have continuously evolved, improving the ease of use and, above all, the ability to interact in a single application. The simpler, the more effective. A t GMtel, we believe that only a multidisciplinary and integrative vision of the business and of the customer’s objectives allows for the experience, certification and training – continuous – of the teams. Therefore, whether in the implementation or support of Automatic Service Systems, Voice Portals, Visual Portals, Quality, Customer Feedback, Webfeedabck, WorkForce Management or WorkForce Optimization, at GMtel we have never failed to develop specific skills in these technologies.
WorkForceOptimization
Data is always a lot of data. Therefore, being able to cross and unify those that result from customer interactions (front-office and back-office) seems ideal to us. Only then can we correlate and share information, which in turn increases the speed and accuracy in the decision process.
WorkForce Optimization takes us right to the beginning of GMtel, when we introduced BluePumpkin (later acquired by Verint) in Portugal, which would become a world leader in WorkForce Mangement. The knowledge we have of the Portuguese market in the fields of labor and good resource management practices in Contact Center were undoubtedly essential to the success of WFO projects in various sectors such as Banking, Retail and Telcos. Also here, Verint and Avaya Technologies are our choice. Given the importance of the solution to map the general and specific rules of the company, in line with Portuguese labor law, these are undoubtedly the right choice.
WorkForceManagement
WorkForce Management takes us right to the beginning of GMtel, when we introduced BluePumpkin (later acquired by Verint) in Portugal, which would become a world leader in WorkForce Mangement. The knowledge we have of the Portuguese market in the fields of labor and good resource management practices in Contact Center were undoubtedly essential to the success of WFO projects in various sectors such as Banking, Retail and Telcos. Also here, Verint and Avaya Technologies are our choice. Given the importance of the solution to map the general and specific rules of the company, in line with Portuguese labor law, these are undoubtedly the right choice.
Contact Center Virtualization
The point is no longer an issue: virtualization is imperative in the field of business technologies. Reducing and optimizing hardware platforms, and betting on productive and business applications, are the primary goal of all those seeking more efficiency, more agility and, of course, less cost.
2010 marks the year in which, at GMtel, we took the first steps in partial virtualization projects of Contact Center on-premises. More recently, we have evolved to complete Contact Center projects on public cloud platforms (with voice, IVR, multichannel, CTI, etc.). Today, it is common for us to put Contact Centers and/or Corporate Telephony into operation over any virtual implementation architecture, in private, public or even public/private datacenters or cloud deployments.
Contact Center and Collaboration Software
The call center market was still starting in Portugal, when we installed the first contact management software - later evolving to the current CRM. Today, contact center platforms are, without any doubt, the biggest responsible for providing all the software necessary for the development of a global contact center operation.
At GMtel, we have worked mainly in the Banking and Retail sector, integrating the different applications existing in the organization and making all information available in a single format - both for Contact Center assistants and other employees involved in the customer service and/or sales process.
Once again, we've chosen to make Avaya technology our partner. Comprised of two major variants - an out-of-thebox collaboration and contact center solution implementation-oriented platform, and a customization-oriented platform for specific collaboration and contact center environments - it's definitely our recommendation for implementing collaboration and contact center software solutions.
Quality Monitoring
Statistics say that “moments of truth” (interactions between companies and their customers) are the best representation of how the market sees the organization/company, and how the company addresses its market. We confirm that they are a valuable asset that enhances value creation for all parties.
Voice/IVR Portals
Perhaps because of this, our experience in implementing Voice Portals has only been more significant in recent years. After all, nowadays, the need to create versatile and powerful technological environments for a good voice self-service is more than certain.
Applied mainly in the Banking, BPO, Retail and Outsourcers sectors, we favour, as always, Avaya technologies, for being the most complete, flexible and resilient, in Customer Service base solutions.
Dialers/Outbound
Projects also present since the first day of GMtel have proven to be essential for our customers - especially for the positive impact on business results and loyalty of their own customers. In large scale implementations, the robustness of the systems is essential, and the stress caused by massive dialing is only supported by platforms of great resilience; in small scale ones, the flexibility of handling, monitoring and daily readjustment of campaigns are the guaranteed success factors. In any case, always with the support of Avaya technologies, of course.
Virtual Contact Center
Of course, technologies have a huge responsibility in the operation of a Virtual Contact Center solution, but since the consolidation of IP telephony systems, these remote implementations of service points are common, implying, of course, a data network connectivity and its infrastructure. Associated to this concept is also the principle that the management of the Contact Center is carried out in a centralized and integrated way - regardless of the location of the stations. Essential in a global world, right?
It was in 2007 that we took the first steps in this area, with the implementation of the first fully IP Contact Centers, allowing the virtualization of service stations distributed by a network of physical facilities - both inside and outside. Today, most of our customers operate in mixed models of Virtual Contact Centers.
The data are many. And so are the doubts. “What happened?”, “Why it happened?”, “What will happen?” are questions that, today, can already be answered with the agility that the market demands. And who says agility, says specificity. Business Analytics solutions are, therefore, essential. By transforming data into intelligible information through mechanisms and statistical techniques, they are able to obtain traces or trends of market behavior, answering all the questions that arise in the decision processes.
Useful and accurate: when computed and tested, data can be used to automate and optimize business processes on an ongoing basis. Our experience in Business Analytics solutions has been very focused on the collection and processing of data related to Voice and Telephony, but today the realignment of this type of implementations for Text Analytics projects is already known. Here, we have developed projects in the Banking, Telcos and Outsourcers sectors, where the dimension justifies – and favours – decision making supported by objective and systematized information. At our side, we have had the manufacturers Avaya and Verint, with complete and sophisticated solutions for Business Analytics in Voice Statistics, Recording Statistics, Speech Analytics, Text Analytics, Desktop Analytics, among others, often complemented with Database and DataWarehouse systems.
Data Processing
There are many data: to transform them into information is to take advantage of the valuable asset generated by the organizations’ activity.
Identification of patterns
Tell me what you do, I’ll tell you who you are: today, it is possible to create models for identifying patterns of customer behavior.
Decision processes
Observed, decided: based on the statistics, it is possible to observe specific behaviors and support the decision in all areas of the company.
Avaya and Verint Technologies
We’ve already talked about Avaya here. A long-standing partner – and forever, we believe – it’s one of the most prestigious manufacturers of Contact Center solutions and a leader in several markets. Originally and with many patents registered at Bell Labs, it has oriented its development towards open, convergent and innovative solutions, taking smart experiences to new levels: in the cloud, on site or in hybrid models. In its history, Omnichannel’s collaborative solutions are told – thus helping the marketplace to guide communications to the next generation of engagement, connecting organizations and customers, workforce and communities. Always in a safe and intelligent way. Verint, with whom we have always walked side by side, is one of the most prestigious manufacturers of WorkForce Optimization solutions, oriented to Customer Engagement projects. The great recognition it has in the platforms of Speech Analytics and WorkForce Management is consolidated through the concept of “actionable intelligence”, it uses as the base element of its technologies. For a world where little stops – and where data and information are multiplied – organizations become more capable if they have insights that allow them to anticipate, respond and act in a way – and at the right time.
Diagnosis and Monitoring
Even if technology makes us feel the opposite, nothing – or anyone – is immune to failure. Even the most robust and resilient solution. That’s why redundancy and high availability are more than common requirements today in implementations where business demands the maximum in the operationality of solutions – the maximum that occupies more than 100% of the time. So that we don’t lose any – time, of course – we detect symptoms and anticipate failures, avoiding them. This process has proven to be more than relevant in the transition from hardware dependent solutions to virtualizable solutions and/or the cloud. How do they work? It’s simple: through probes, queries and dialogue with different systems, they investigate the various components of the network and assess their health status. These components can be any software or hardware technology: telephones (IP, SIp or digital), servers, network switches, applications, virtual machines, machine components (disks, memory, etc.), SBC’s (SIP), among others – all in multi-vendor environments. Then, it remains simple: if there is any kind of irregularity configured to generate alert, the support teams receive information, managing to anticipate, and even avoid, situations of potential service disruption. Perfect, right?
What can be better than detecting and correcting problems at the right time? Little, very little. By allowing quality of service monitoring, this type of solutions also allows the timely identification (often in real time) of traffic problems or degradation of network requirements, avoiding the perverse effects of low quality communications.
Identification of problems in Real-Time
In the world of voice and real-time interactions, there are tools for everything. Even for the identification of problems and their characterization.
Quality of service monitoring
For a good experience, a good monitoring. Hence, a good indicator of the quality of communication between the organization and its customers is fundamental.
Prevention and antecipation of problems
Anticipating problems can avoid… problems. Redundant? Yes. But it is certain that knowing the trends of technology behaviors helps to do so. And well.
IR-Prognosis Technologies
Complex, but now simple: if the modern world needs a complex range of technologies to keep it moving, we need solutions that simplify it. That’s the goal of IR: to monitor and diagnose unified communications ecosystems and Contact Center, helping customers achieve 100% technological availability.