2013/3/7 - Acme Packet and CallMiner Provide Cloud-Based Speech Analytics to Clearwire

News Highlights:

• Clearwire selected CallMiner Eureka to record and analyze customer interactions in their contact center. By automatically analyzing the content of each customer contact -- including what is said, how it is said, and the context in which words are said -- Eureka helps Clearwire uncover agent performance metrics and hidden business intelligence within contact center conversations.
• CallMiner leverages the Acme Packet Net-Net Interactive Session Recorder (ISR) to provide cost-effective and scalable network-based IP session recording for its cloud-based service. Based on a highly scalable and modular architecture, the Net-Net ISR lets CallMiner fully capture all customer conversations -- from start to finish -- without compromising security or reliability.
• The tightly integrated solution delivers high quality speaker-separated call recordings and sophisticated voice analytics with unmatched accuracy and quality in the form of a convenient and cost effective cloud-based service. By fully recording and analyzing all customer interactions, Eureka helps Clearwire improve agent performance, boost customer satisfaction, mitigate risks, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Clearwire Benefits:

• Rapid solution turn-up, with no upfront capital equipment expenses
• Improved contact center performance, sales effectiveness, and customer experience
• Risk mitigation and compliance assurance

Quotes:

• "Customer service is paramount in the highly competitive mobile broadband market," said Geoff Levy, Head of Customer Care, Clearwire. "By automatically scoring 100% of our customer exchanges in the cloud, Eureka helps us optimize contact center performance and boost customer satisfaction without all the hassles and expense of a conventional premises-based solution."
• "Forward-looking businesses are continuously seeking innovative ways to gather business intelligence and improve the customer experience," said Jeff Gallino, Chief Technology Officer, CallMiner. "By moving voice capture and analytics into the cloud we can help them achieve their goals in a highly scalable and cost-effective manner."
• "Enterprises all over the world are turning to the cloud to accelerate business innovation," said Tim Ziemer, vice president of North America and Asia Pacific Japan sales, Acme Packet. "Leveraging Acme Packet's highly scalable and flexible Interactive Session Recorder, CallMiner's cloud-based service helps improve customer interactions and increase agent productivity, while minimizing cost and complexity."

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About CallMiner
CallMiner is the market leading cloud-based solution for improving agent performance through Voice of the Customer analytics across all channels. Eureka automates the overwhelming process of monitoring information from 100% of interactions -- calls/audio, chat, email, surveys and social -- to uncover consistent and reliable information about agent performance. Real time business intelligence can be leveraged by enterprises to dramatically improve customer service and sales, reduce the cost of service delivery, mitigate risk, and identify areas for process and product improvements. For more information, visit www.callminer.com or follow on Twitter @callminer.

About Acme Packet
Acme Packet (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session delivery network solutions, enables the trusted, first-class delivery of next-generation voice, video, data and unified communications services and applications across IP networks. Our Net-Net product family fulfills demanding security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in service provider, enterprise and contact center networks. Based in Bedford, Massachusetts, Acme Packet designs and manufactures its products in the USA, selling them through over 309 reseller partners worldwide. More than 1,925 customers in 109 countries have deployed over 21,000 Acme Packet systems, including 89 of the top 100 service providers and 51 of the Fortune 100. For more information visit www.acmepacket.com.

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