Cisco Finesse 9.1 Data Sheet
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Product Overview
The Cisco Finesse™ desktop is the next-generation agent and supervisor desktop for Cisco® Unified Contact Center Enterprise, providing easy access to the applications and information required by your customer service organization through a customizable web-based interface. It offers your customer care representatives an intuitive, easy to use desktop design to help improve their performance and satisfaction which in turn enhances their ability to provide quality customer service.
For IT professionals, the Cisco Finesse desktop offers smooth integration with the Cisco Collaboration portfolio. Standards-compliant, it offers low-cost customization of the agent and supervisor desktops.
The customer service group in your business or organization can handle thousands of inquiries from customers and prospects every day. It is up to your customer service representatives to respond quickly and efficiently with the information that customers request.
To operate efficiently and effectively, customer service representatives in your organization need to employ numerous different applications and have immediate access to a wealth of information. In the course of responding to your customers, representatives constantly switch between applications when searching for information. This process takes time - time that your customers spend waiting.
The Cisco Finesse solution meets this challenge by creating a personalized desktop work environment using a web-based interface. The Cisco Finesse desktop provides a single, customizable cockpit that enables your customer care representatives to take advantage of multiple assets and information sources to assist customers.
Fast, efficient, accurate service results in happy, satisfied, and loyal customers who will return to do business with you again. And it saves operational costs for your business.
The Cisco Finesse agent and supervisor desktop for Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise integrates traditional contact center functions into a thin-client desktop. A critical characteristic is that every desktop is 100-percent browser-based and implemented through a Web 2.0 interface - no client-side installations are required, thus reducing your TCO. The Cisco Finesse desktop also provides a Web 2.0 software development kit (SDK) and gadgets to enable developers to get started quickly with implementing in your environment.
Table 1 lists the features and benefits of Cisco Finesse 9.1.
Table 1. Features and Benefits of Cisco Finesse 9.1
| Desktop Features |
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| Call control gadget |
● Allows both agents and supervisors complete call control including answer, hold, retrieve, conference, transfer, end call, and-single step transfer. In addition the phone book feature allows agents and supervisors to click to call from a directory
● Provides supervisors added control with barge and intercept
● Provides agents with screen pops containing customer information and provides wrap-up capabilities
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| Team performance gadget |
● Shows supervisors the agent state, time in state, and extension of all agents that are on the supervisor’s team
● Includes controls for supervisors to silent monitor the agent or change the state of the agent
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| Queue gadget |
● Shows supervisors the number of calls in queue, time of longest call in queue, and a list of the number of agents in each state across all queues; the queue gadget also supports Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise 9.0 precision queues
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| Mobile agent support |
● Allows agents to log into their Cisco Finesse desktops remotely and receive calls regardless of the type of phone they are using
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| Outbound dialing support |
● Supports outbound dialing including progressive, predictive, and preview modes, allowing agents to handle both inbound and outbound dialing tasks
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| Cisco VXI support |
● Supports the ability to virtualize the contact center using the Cisco Virtual Experience Infrastructure (VXI)
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Platform Support, Compatibility, and Specifications
Consult the Cisco Finesse release notes for hardware and operating system requirements, for compatibility with other Cisco and third-party products, and for additional product specifications: http://developer.cisco.com/web/finesse/docs.
The Cisco Finesse solution is licensed by seat. For more information regarding licensing, please contact your Cisco representative or Cisco authorized partner.
Find warranty information about the Cisco Finesse Desktop on Cisco.com at the Product Warranties page.
To place an order for the Cisco Finesse desktop, visit the Cisco Ordering Home Page. To download software, visit the Cisco Software Center.
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The combined strengths of Cisco and our partners provide a portfolio of services that can help you prepare your infrastructure for future changes aligning to long-term business goals. Together we create innovative, network-centric architecture solutions resulting in a scalable and responsive foundation that can help you realize the full value of your IT and communication investment.
For more information about Cisco Unified Contact Center Services, please visit: http://www.cisco.com/go/ucservices.
Cisco Advanced Technology Partners and Cisco Unified Communications Advanced Partners are authorized to sell and install the Cisco Finesse desktop. To find an authorized reseller, contact your local Cisco representative or visit the Cisco Partner Locator at: http://tools.cisco.com/WWChannels/LOCATR/openBasicSearch.do.
The Cisco Developer Network program offers a formalized means for developers to develop value-added applications, solutions, and gadgets for use with the Cisco Finesse desktop. Information about Cisco Developer Network partners is available at: http://developer.cisco.com/web/finesse/overview.
For more information about the Cisco Finesse desktop, please visit http://www.cisco.com/go/finesse.
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