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Microsoft Teams Contact Centre

Boost your Team’s performance with an Enghouse contact centre solution certified for Microsoft Teams

A Microsoft Teams contact centre from Enghouse is natively integrated with Microsoft Teams, unifying your business for immediate, tangible results.

Enghouse Interactive is in the top 1% of elite Microsoft solution providers. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a member of Microsoft’s Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for Lync, Skype and Teams, we’ve worked with Microsoft for nearly two decades at the forefront of communications technology with customers all around the world trusting us to deploy leading-edge contact centres in a Microsoft environment, no matter how complex their vision.

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Communicate more effectively

Leverage a single, powerful platform to manage all communications

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Customer Service Ownership

Front, middle and back-office all work together towards customer satisfaction and supporting your brand

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Manage calls effectively

Enhance Teams’ standard routing to get calls to the right destination every time

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Reporting and visibility

Monitor, track and build actionable intelligence to improve outcomes

Advanced Interaction Handling
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Advanced Interaction-Handling

Intelligently route customers to your frontline workers – then native integration to Microsoft Teams lets them effortlessly engage back-office experts for the best resolution available.
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The Ultimate Partnership

Whichever stage you are at with your Microsoft strategy, Enghouse has the expertise, referenceability and best partners to help you transition from your current voice platform to a Microsoft Teams Contact Centre. Enghouse can guide you at each step.
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Enghouse Interactive is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, putting us in the top 1% of elite technology providers, and a member of Microsoft’s Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for Lync, Skype and Teams. We’ve worked with Microsoft for more than 14 years at the forefront of communications technology and more than 600 customers have trusted us to deploy leading-edge contact centres in a Microsoft environment. This means you can relax knowing you’re in safe hands, however complex your vision.

Guide to Migrating your Contact Centre to Microsoft Teams

To help deliver efficient, high-quality service, businesses are increasingly implementing Microsoft Teams, one of the fastest growing applications in the history of the Microsoft ecosystem.

Teams brings greater collaboration, communication, and offers organisations a way to respond more efficiently and effectively to customer interactions. Brings agility to contact centres, across multiple channels from chat and voice to social media, email and video and provides a strong foundation to build an omnichannel future.

Download our guide which explains the key benefits of an Enghouse Interactive and Teams contact centre to improve customer service performance and productivity.

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Leverage your investment in Microsoft Teams technology and embrace its phenomenally successful collaboration for your own customer communications. Select from Enghouse’s world-beating portfolio of complementary fully-integrated solutions to expand your contact centre capabilities.

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“The tight integration between Microsoft technology and Enghouse solutions plays an important role in
facilitating and simplifying the migration experience for customers—and their resulting collaboration,
communications and productivity gains.”

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An Enghouse-Teams Contact Centre Unifies Your Business for Immediate, Tangible Results

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Speak to Enghouse to leverage your investment in Microsoft technology

Whether you are an existing Skype for Business user or a prospective or recently migrated Teams user, your organisation will benefit from a connected solution that’s available anywhere.  Enghouse Interactive can offer you a fully integrated, native Microsoft contact centre solution that allows your critical frontline staff to collaborate seamlessly with the rest of the organisation, providing your customers with a superior experience that perfectly represents your brand.

Further Reading

Brochure: Microsoft Teams Contact Centre

Case Study: Whangarei District Council

Hitachi Case Study: Hybrid working in a Cloud Contact Centre with Microsoft Teams

eBook: Microsoft Teams User Stories

Webinar: Teams contact centre User Stories

Video: Enghouse Interactive Ignite 2020

Microsoft discusses its tight integration with Enghouse

UC Today: Moving your contact centre to Microsoft Teams

Infographic: The Journey – Make the move to a collaborative contact centre

eBook: The Future of the Teams Omnichannel Contact Centre

Watch on Demand: A closer look at an integrated Teams contact centre

Playbook: Contact Centre for Microsoft Teams

Whitepaper: Collaboration benefits of integrating your contact centre with Microsoft Teams

eBook: The ROI of Microsoft Teams for your contact centre

Webinar on Demand: Contact Centre for Microsoft Teams Tech Clinics

eGuide: 7 Steps to Reduce Call Abandon Rates

eGuide: Microsoft Teams Call Recording

FAQs

A Microsoft Teams contact centre via a third-party provider works in the same way that contact centre or call solutions have always worked with legacy telephone systems (for example, Cisco, NEC, Avaya etc), that is, via a unique API (application programming interface) from the platform provider. In practice, the phone system or voice platform receives the call, and passes it to the contact centre solution, which then uses its own more sophisticated routing engine to deliver the call to the right person. While a basic phone system, and even Teams, can only provide very simple call routing, a designed-for-purpose contact centre solution can do much more. There are several features that a telephony platform can’t provide, that can only be offered in Teams via a third-party Microsoft Teams contact centre.

A Microsoft Teams contact centre allows agents to easily seek and obtain assistance from colleagues, either individuals or teams. For example, an agent who needs expert help from the Marketing department about the website can simply send a chat to a specifically created Marketing group on Teams, to be picked up by one of the group members.

Benefits of using a Microsoft Teams Contact Centre that is integrated with Teams include:

  • Contextual voice announcements (as well as music) for callers while they wait
  • Intelligent rules-based routing (dynamically routing calls differently based on predefined priorities for different dial-in numbers and/or recognised callers, times of day, call volumes etc – not just the next person in a group)
  • Omnichannel queuing across a range of channel options such as email, SMS, webchat, video, messenger apps and social media – as well as voice
  • Call monitoring (authorised supervisor listening) and whisper coaching
  • Real-time activity dashboards
  • Contact centre activity and performance analytics across all channels

A Microsoft Teams contact centre especially suits organisations looking to:

  • Maintain a single voice platform across all parts of the business including the contact centre
  • Enable staff to work effectively wherever they are located, including contact centre staff
  • Enhance Teams’ out-of-box standard routing with advanced, intelligent routing
  • Extend Teams’ native AI and analytics with built-for-purpose business intelligence providing real-time and historical performance and activity data
  • Widen the reach of the contact centre team to middle and back-office staff using Microsoft Teams’ collaboration tools
  • Unite the organisation to work together towards customer satisfaction and supporting your brand
  • Monitor, track and build actionable intelligence to improve outcomes

Microsoft Teams Calling for a contact centre is essentially the method used to empower contact centre users to make and receive calls in Microsoft Teams. Calls can be delivered to (and from) a Microsoft Teams contact centre via three primary models: Microsoft Teams Calling Plans, Microsoft Phone System Direct Routing or Microsoft Operator Connect. Each of these is described in more detail below, along with some considerations to help ensure you find the right model for your organisation.

If you are thinking about a Microsoft Teams Calling Plan for your contact centre, you first need to understand if this option is available in your region.

Secondly, you need to consider the level of contact centre functionality your contact centre is looking for, to service your customers effectively. This is a critical consideration, because connecting a Teams contact centre via Microsoft Calling Plans uses Microsoft’s native Teams calling API (application programming interface) which may not necessarily provide the functionality your centre is looking for. Microsoft is actively developing this API, with regular updates being released, however it will take time to reach parity with the experience delivered to contact centres using, for example, the legacy Skype for Business API.

In the meantime, a fully featured contact centre to Microsoft Teams IS available right now from a small number of Microsoft development partners, fully endorsed by Microsoft, that uses the alternative model of call delivery to Teams, see below. Depending on the provider, this certified alternative already has a mature feature set that enables organisations to migrate seamlessly from their current platform to Teams.

For this reason, even if a Microsoft Calling Plan is available in your region, organisations who require rich contact centre functionality – will want to look at one of the other options for Teams Calling: either Microsoft Phone System Direct Routing or Microsoft Operator Connect.

Essentially this option allows you to use your own preferred telephony carrier to connect PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) calls to Microsoft’s Phone System Direct Routing. From here the calls will be delivered to your Enghouse contact centre (or other solution of choice).

With Direct Routing, you would also need to connect an SBC (Session Border Controller) to Microsoft Phone System. Depending on your Microsoft delivery partner or Systems Integrator, different options are available. Some will provide the SBC themselves while others opt to work with you and your own SBC.

Microsoft Teams Operator Connect is another method of connecting PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) calls to Microsoft Phone System for Teams. Very simply, this option sits between Direct Routing and Teams Calling Plans, providing some of the benefits of Direct Routing while allowing organisations to choose their own carrier (from the list of operators in the Microsoft Operator Connect program) and manage their own communications, or have their integrator manage them on their behalf.

About Enghouse Interactive

Enghouse Interactive is a leading expert in customer communications. The contact centre is at the heart of your business, which provides opportunities to differentiate your company’s service, as well as gain feedback and build customer loyalty.

With over 25 years experience, across industries served, our communication platform is agile enough to efficiently respond to customers from any channel, while providing actionable intelligence to drive ongoing improvement. Our unique omnichannel contact centre solutions offer choice and flexibility. They are also scalable in deployment, size, complexity and integration to ensure successful and effortless customer interaction, whatever your budget.