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Progressive
Modular Learning Skill Modes, Continued Series of Innovations,
Enhanced Reporting Features -- Reinforce industry leadership
position in performance enhancing technology
Salt
Lake City, UT, April 30, 2007 — Sivox Technologies
Inc., developers of the SIVOX RealCall™ platform for creating
and administering interactive contact simulations for initial and
continuous agent training, announced today the release of SIVOX
RealCall™ Version 6. V6 is an advanced platform that
enables a series of innovations including a suite of
applications that target unique business challenges; Screening
& Hiring, Certification, Skills Development, Enterprise
Assessment
and the traditional Training
modules. Building on the advances in the previous versions,
V6 will also introduce a Developers' Portal that will allow
learning content providers to deliver their solutions via an
advanced technology platform, without making large capital
investments.
The
V6 SIVOX RealCall™ release incorporates a number of features
that reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for simulation
technology and make this powerful technology available to a
broader customer set. These include complete browser-based
delivery of full-immersion simulations, and central content
management, thereby reducing the cost and hassle of managing
distribution and deployment of simulation software. “Sivox is
the only Contact Center Performance Optimization technology that
uses speech recognition for a realistic call interaction
experience,” said Corey Catten, CTO of Sivox. “With RealCall™
V6, organizations can easily deploy rich simulations including
advanced speech recognition and click-for-click interactive
application mockups without the need for a desktop installation or
a complicated and costly back-end integration.”
SIVOX
plans to use the SIVOX RealCall™ V6 release to support a
Developer’s Portal on the web where individual learning content
providers can join a community of like-minded learning
professionals and access the RealCall™ V6 authoring tools and
delivery platform; all hosted by SIVOX. “With the Developer’s
Portal, we open the doors of the most powerful contact center
simulation authoring suite to anyone who wishes to develop a
simulation,” added Catten. “Learning professionals will be
able to author content and publish simulations to the audience of
their choice, quickly and with minimal startup costs.”
"RealCall™
6.0 is a quantum leap over business class simulation technology
available in the market today. Not only does it further SIVOX’
mantra of ‘ease of use’, but its module approach specifically
focuses enhancing performance and solving business problems. While
statistically understanding business drivers is important, SIVOX
is the ‘action technology’ that actually drives the
improvements and translates them into business results,” said
Jon Cordova, COO of SIVOX. "With the addition of 'learning
modes' SIVOX is capable of teaching, practice and certification
from a single application platform, which increases our value
proposition. Finally, SIVOX 6 now offers a web portal that
Developer’s of Learning Content and Material can deliver their
solutions through SIVOX’ state-of-the-art technology and create
new revenue streams.”
Hiring
and Screening
Comprehensive
pre-employment skill assessment screening provided by RealScreen
gives Contact Centers the ability to package screening, testing
and initial interview responses. The results are lower costs of
recruitment, less time to conduct assessments and identify the
labor pool, as well as reduced attrition levels from increased
hiring accuracy. RealScreen provides a full immersion and
interactive voice and system simulation that duplicates the
conditions that the potential contact center agent will
experience. RealScreen reports provide managers with empirical
data to make the best hiring decisions based on objective data and
not subjective decisions. Flexible and easy to author RealScreen
can be customized to produce any questionnaire and simulation test
and is available in an ASP-based solution.
Training
Self
driven, CBT with coaching and interactive voice and system
simulation Sivox RealCall™ 6.0 training module with its flexible
architecture, easily authored simulations and enhanced reporting
capabilities combine to form the best and most complimentary
learning program. Progressive skill development techniques of
Show Me, Try Me, Test Me, voice and system full immersion,
interactive simulations achieve a significantly higher level of
learning and knowledge retention and decision making capability
than traditional record and playback software. Training module can
be an excellent platform for the At-Home workers and its coaching
capabilities, provides the student feedback and direction as they
are learning.
Certification
RealCall™
6.0 Certification module provides the platform to evaluate and
consistently score skills and competencies – hard skills, soft
skills, multi-tasking and critical thinking. This customizable
platform is designed to tutor, practice, test, and certify the
results for company specific content or industry professional
certifications. The Certification module provides a rich set of
multimedia capabilities, paper and pencil type testing and
enhanced reporting. Based on open standard technology, .all of
RealCall™ is designed to leverage your current content and
deliver it in a seamless fashion.
Skills
Development
Once
an agent is on the floor, RealCall™ Skills Development module is
designed to improve skill gaps and introduce new skills required
(i.e, new products, procedures). By leveraging your quality
management programs or other skill assessment tools, Skill
Development delivers a rich set of learning experiences that
reinforces best practices and is measurable, so managers can
clearly understand how agents retaining information and performing
with it. This can be a powerful tool in honing ongoing
competencies and along with Certification can be a basis for a
Career Plan model, both of which have a significant impact to
attrition.
Enterprise
Assessment
Most
managers understand that their agents need to be prepare to handle
the moment of truth with customers. “Being prepared” means
that an organization has established a baseline of the skills and
competencies required to be successful at the job function. The
challenge has been, other than tribal knowledge, it has been
difficult and expensive to benchmark contact centers performance
down to this level and then to evaluate ongoing performance.
RealCall™ Enterprise Assessment tool creates a platform to
assess your entire organization on their performance of key skills
and more importantly create benchmarks from which to improve/hone
your quality management systems. With its web-based delivery
system, enterprises can quickly establish baseline skills and then
at prescribed intervals can re-evalutate these skills, across the
enterprise. Repeatable, sustainable and MEASUREABLE.
About
SIVOX
Sivox
Technologies, Inc. develops dynamic, interactive simulations,
which optimize people performance. SIVOX is the leading provider
of employee performance applications used as agent lifecycle
support tools for the screening, hiring, training, certification
and quality assurance of operational best practices. SIVOX
RealCall™ users have seen a dramatic improvement in the
efficiency and effectiveness with which their agents handle real
calls. SIVOX customers have seen investment paybacks of less than
180 days with estimated cost savings of over $1.3 million per year
for every 1,000 agents. SIVOX RealCall™, the flagship product,
creates true-to-life contact center simulations for initial and
continuous agent training. SIVOX RealCall™ lets agents
'learn-by-doing', combining a speech recognition engine that
provides real-time coaching and feedback with simulated data
entry screens. The company has taken the lead in e-Learning
simulations with installations in a number of Fortune 500
companies, where its solutions have demonstrated effectiveness in
contact center worldwide. Currently SIVOX RealCall™ is in use at
over 80 contact centers employing 125,000 customer contact agents.
For more information contact: Sivox Technologies, Inc. at
http://www.sivox.com.
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