Aspect Leads North American Outbound Market in Frost & Sullivan Report

Chelmsford, Mass. – Aspect, a unified communications (UC) solutions provider, today announced that the company is the leading outbound contact center vendor in market share, according to the Frost & Sullivan 2009 North American Outbound Dialing Systems report. Specifically, Frost highlighted Aspect’s wide range of predictive outbound modes and the company’s enterprise market across a wide range of industries in the report.

“The outbound market grew about 3 percent in 2008 and Aspect’s leadership in the space speaks to the company’s wide range of solutions and services to address the needs of the contact center,” said Joe Outlaw, principal analyst, Frost & Sullivan. “The features work seamlessly with other Aspect product platforms and third-party solutions, making them a leading option for companies that require flexibility and scalability in the contact center. Companies that require advanced outbound solutions such as financial services, outsourcers, and telecommunications industries will continue to look to Aspect.”

Aspect’s outbound capabilities are components of several UC applications for the contact center, including Blended Interaction™ and Streamlined Collections™. Aspect’s UC applications help companies target operational objectives with specific capabilities.

“Despite a volatile economic climate, Aspect has continued to thrive in the outbound contact center market because we understand our customers’ needs and deliver capabilities that improve agent productivity and enhance collections, sales, telemarketing, proactive contact, and notification processes,” said Serge Hyppolite, director of interaction product management, Aspect. “By taking a unified approach to implementing outbound functionality, combined with other key capabilities such as inbound routing, voice portal, and campaign management, companies can lower costs by up to 20 percent and improve sales by up to 10 percent. We’ve built these requirements into our UC applications to help companies see bold business benefits and a return on investment almost immediately.”
 
About Blended Interaction™
Blended Interactionis a unified communications application for the contact center that provides inbound, outbound, self service and workforce optimization capabilities. By eliminating complex integration and providing common management, reporting and administration, Blended Interaction gives you greater visibility, control and staffing efficiency in your multichannel contact center to enhance customer satisfaction and improve business results.

About Streamlined Collections™
Streamlined Collectionsis a unified communications application for the contact center that automates early stage collections and enables expert agent engagement for a more effective delinquent account targeting strategy so you can get more promises to pay faster, reduce servicing costs and write-offs, and improve collections results.   
 
About Aspect
Aspect provides software and consulting services that turn the potential of unified communications into real business results across the enterprise and in the contact center.  Applying 35 years of insight and experience, Aspect helps more than two-thirds of the FORTUNE Global 100, as well as small and medium enterprises, power their business processes with communications. For more information, visit www.aspect.com.