Midco Connections Selects All-in-One IP Communications Software Suite from Interactive Intelligence
April 06 2010 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Midco Connections has purchased the Interactive Intelligence
(Nasdaq: ININ) all-in-one IP communications software suite,
Customer Interaction Center™ (CIC).
Midco is replacing its existing communications system with the
Interactive Intelligence software to better accommodate growth and
to offer its outsourcing customers with new multichannel,
self-service, and reporting capabilities.
“As we began plans to move into additional vertical markets
beyond our core catalog outsourcing business we questioned whether
our existing communications system could accommodate the growth or
the services we wanted to offer to attract new business,” said
Midco Connections’ general manager, Cordell Brooks. “We believed
our existing vendor’s offering had become stagnant.”
Midco Connections selected CIC over 10 vendors responding to
Midco’s request-for-proposal. Minneapolis-based Avtex
(www.avtex.com), an Interactive Intelligence Elite Partner with
offices in Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin, assisted
with the RFP and served as the primary sales channel. Avtex will
provide Midco with deployment services and ongoing support for
CIC.
“We ultimately chose CIC because Avtex most effectively
addressed our questions and concerns about scalability and
functionality requirements,” said Midco Connections’ IT manager,
Brian Tuley. “They demonstrated how the Interactive Intelligence
solution could most simply and cost-effectively handle our need for
agents assigned to multiple workgroups, each with separate
reporting and statistics criteria.”
When deployment is complete, Midco will use CIC to support about
350 business users and call center agents located at its Sioux
Falls headquarters. CIC will provide Midco with IP-based switching,
skills-based and multichannel routing (including voice, e-mail and
Web chats), interactive voice response with text-to-speech,
real-time supervision, and customizable reporting.
Midco also plans to deploy CIC add-on applications for automated
post-call customer satisfaction surveys and for multichannel
recording and quality monitoring.
“We’re looking forward to expanding our services by offering
more communication options, coupled with tailored reporting
capabilities,” Brooks said. “We anticipate CIC’s depth and breadth
of features will help us improve customer service and win new
business.”
About Midco ConnectionsBased in Sioux Falls, S.D., Midco
Connections is an outsourced contact center that serves customers
largely in the retail industry. With more than 350 employees, calls
are handled professionally 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Behind
the strength and resources of parent company Midcontinent Media,
Inc., Midco Connections has T1 lines to all major carriers,
high-speed Internet access, and all other resources needed to send
data and communications flowing smoothly around the world. For more
information about Midco Connections, visit
www.midcoconnections.com, or call 1-800-843-8800.
About Interactive IntelligenceInteractive Intelligence
Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ) is a global provider of unified business
communications solutions for contact center automation, enterprise
IP telephony, and business process automation. The company was
founded in 1994 and has more than 3,500 customers worldwide.
Interactive Intelligence is among Software Magazine’s top 500
global software and services suppliers, is a BusinessWeek “hot
growth 50” company, and is among Fortune Small Business magazine’s
top 100 fastest growing companies. The company is also positioned
in the leaders’ quadrant of the Gartner 2008 Contact Center
Infrastructure, Worldwide Magic Quadrant report. Interactive
Intelligence employs approximately 650 people and is headquartered
in Indianapolis, Indiana. It has 14 offices throughout North
America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia
Pacific. Interactive Intelligence can be reached at +1 317.872.3000
or info@inin.com; on the Net: www.inin.com.
This release may contain certain forward-looking statements that
involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could
cause actual results to differ materially are described in the
company's SEC filings.
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