Sinclair Voicenet

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North Ayrshire Council have used NICE products provided by Sinclair Voicenet since the introduction of their call centre 7 years ago. Over this time, we have worked together with Sinclair to use the suite of products to help to improve the centre's performance. The introduction of call screen recording along with integrated call scoring has been invaluable in developing our advisers and in saving the Team Leaders valuable time. There were areas of the system that we were not fully utilising and Sinclair supported the Team Leaders to ensure we were getting the most from our investment. Voice recording has supported the Council to provide more services over the telephone, such as setting up Direct Debits which has saved money and improved the service for the customers.

Esther Gunn

Customer Services manager

North Ayrshire Council

Partners

Finance

NICE solutions lead in the finance sector, serving more than 85 of the Fortune 100 companies and the world’s top 10 banks, thousands of financial institutions, and most of the trading floors around the world.

NICE provides a range of leading solutions for recording, monitoring, and managing financial enterprise’s interactions, together with an advanced compliance technology that helps banks and others reduce the inevitable risk involved in protecting and defending financial information.

The NICE Perform Compliance Suite is an innovative, robust, flexible, mission-critical solution for enterprises exposed to risk as a part of their financial activities. With the NICE Perform Compliance Suite, for the first time, interaction analytics addresses the key challenges in regulatory compliance and corporate governance, such as preventing inside trading breaches, ensuring Best Execution, and detecting irregularities during blackout periods. The NICE Perform Compliance Suite offers:


  • Easy introduction of ad-hoc compliance policies thanks to flexible, modular, rule-based platform
  • Pro-active compliance approach using voice interactions, based on pioneering technology
  • Proven compliance recording and high availability
  • Improved enforcement of compliance and regulations by using new, structured sources of information
  • Comprehensive security capabilities for data protection and full audit trail
  • Innovative audio search capabilities to enable discovery and investigation process
  • Complete integration with transaction-based compliance solutions which enhances overall compliance
  • Solutions that help to discourage fraud and improve fraud detection rates
  • Using innovative audio analytics technologies, the NICE Perform Compliance Suite extracts valuable insights from recorded interactions. These can then be used (and integrated with information from additional applications) to provide an environment that provides comprehensive monitoring of company compliance regulations

The NICE Perform Compliance Suite also incorporates unique audio phonetic analysis and compliance playback workflow, as well as screen content extraction, to provide clear added value to financial institutions. Compliance officers can now discover essential information by searching all interactions for specific words or phrases. This information allows them to define and enforce specific policy models, manage investigations, and gain considerable insight concerning the risk factors involved in the organisation’s activities.

Additional risk management capabilities include:


  • Monitoring compliance policies by imposing blackout periods, best execution practices and advanced alerts concerning possible Chinese Wall breaches
  • Integrating transaction-related and interaction information to provide a holistic view of overall activity, giving compliance managers a more profound picture of organisational activity
  • Advancing investigations by enabling central access from dashboards and policy reports, and granting drill-in/drill-out capabilities
  • Handling playback calls as part of a compliance case management workflow

The NICE Perform Compliance Suite enhances existing models by providing earlier, more improved alerts and better detection rates, as well as higher scoring accuracy by reducing false positive identifications.

Solutions

Nice Storage Center ↓

A single interaction can generate a myriad of information. This may include call-specific content, agent evaluation, current transaction details, screen activity, past transactions, related cases, information about the products or services involved, and much more. Organisations are under increasing pressure to store and retrieve all this information safely and simply, whether for regulatory compliance purposes or for quality improvement.

This growing demand for advanced data capture and storage capabilities is playing a major role in increasing the number of archiving methods required. Choosing the appropriate storage method is one significant issue; another is the ongoing demand for flexible data management, which is required to utilise archived data for future needs and to manage the data lifecycle.

Because every organisation is different, NICE provides a vast array of storage options to let customers choose the solution that is right for their particular needs.

NICE Storage Center provides a comprehensive set of options that address the varying needs of different organisations, and lets users manage and administer their archiving and retrieval needs for all their captured data. NICE Storage Center archives captured activities taking place in the contact centre, trading floor or public safety environments, while leveraging existing storage investments and protecting the organisations’ assets.

Nice Playback Organiser ↓

Today’s trading floors are facing stricter compliance regulations, affecting both systems and processes. Telephone conversations on the trading floor are recorded for reasons of compliance with regulations, and also as a means of liability protection in cases of customer dispute. More attention is now required to ensure that the audio archives which store all these recordings are well protected, and that access to call recordings is both monitored and audited. The NICE Playback Organiser was specifically designed to comply with strict security requirements while still providing fast access to the audio archives via an easy to operate process.

NICE Playback Organiser is a browser-based application that provides an auditable workflow process for replaying calls. The application makes it easy for individual traders and other front- and back-office staff to find interactions of interest and then replay them directly from their own desktop once they have the approval of their desk managers and compliance officers. The approval workflow can be customised to match each site’s specific approval requirements, facilitating communication between traders, desk managers and compliance officers and ensuring that each playback request is reviewed and properly approved before calls are made available for replay.

Branch Extension Logger ↓

Branch Extensions Logger: The branch is back!

With clients seeking personalised service, the branch increasingly becomes a focal point for customer interactions. Organisations are looking to capture these interactions to better understand customer and market dynamics. Regulations also drive the need to record interactions even at the branch level.

Branch Extensions Logger is a cost effective logger designed to best fit recording of TDM extensions of branches. The logger is located in the branch and connected to the NICE Perform Data Centre.

NiceCall Focus III ↓

NiceCall FocusĀ is a single-box, full-featured, voice-recording solution designed to meet the needs of small to medium organisations. Utilising advanced PCI technology, NiceCall Focus III provides a range of sophisticated applications and solutions for single and multi-site enterprises in the financial, contact centre and public safety markets.

NiceCall Focus lll offers public sector organisations a range of unique advantages, including a recording system that can be easily operated by non-technical users functioning in a mission-critical environment. NiceCall Focus lll enables advanced scenario reconstruction with the synchronised playback of multiple channels, providing new possibilities for fully understanding the chain of events and rapidly creating evidence recordings. And all this in an easily installed, space-saving, single box.


The High Density NiceLog Logger ↓

The state-of-the-art, High Density NiceLog® Logger builds on proven NICE technology used worldwide in contact centres, trading floors, and air traffic control centres, and provides a complete, reliable and robust solution to audio storage problems. Utilizing a new PCI-based architecture, NiceLog provides a future-proof, digital, multimedia recording platform with a wide range of scalable recording solutions.

NiceLog Logger serves as the system voice capture and logging unit. It supports a wide range of telephony interfaces including analogue, digital, E1/T1, BT Megalink and SCSA. The high density NiceLog Logger uses familiar application software, and the user is unaware of which voice capture method is being used. NICE PCI-based architecture allows remarkably high density of recording within a single unit, reducing footprint size and total cost of ownership.

The High Density Logger utilizes NICE’s leading-edge board technology for stereo recording, separating customer and agent voices to make extended audio analysis (including word spotting, emotion detection and talk analysis) possible in a single unit.

Interaction Analysis ↓

  • Complete - Analyse 100% of audio in a cost-effective way
  • Context - Understand which side said what, emotional state, talk-over analysis
  • Categorisation - Automatically segment and trend calls for fast insights
  • Cause - Get to the core reasons why things happen using ClearSight
  • Combination - Add other interaction elements (screen content, CTI events, etc)
  • Consultative - Interaction Analytics thought leadership, subject-matter expertise

Business success depends on making the right decision at the right time. Decisions are based on a wide variety of information - industry reports, customer satisfaction surveys, random call recordings, even intuition and gut feelings.

Organisations are often missing the plain hard facts. NICE Perform Interaction Analytics delivers quantifiable, accurate and immediate business insight that improves decision-making and drives better performance.

Analysing contact centre interaction data empowers organisations to meet short-term objectives such as improving First Call Resolution and reducing Average Handle Time, as well as strategic goals such as predicting customer churn, increasing customer loyalty and satisfaction, and increasing marketing campaign effectiveness.

Key Benefits


  • Automatically analyse every captured interaction
  • Base business decisions on quantifiable, accurate information
  • Identify customers at risk in real-time
  • Expose root cause for customer dissatisfaction
  • Decrease the number of repeat callers
  • Reduce Average Handle Time (AHT)
  • Uncover and eliminate compliance issues