Why is Multi-Tenancy So Important to
Contact Centers?
Multi-tenancy is the key to enabling different contact
centers or business units within one enterprise, or many, to
securely and independently co-exist on a single contact
center system. Tenant self-administration enables each
individual tenant to manage its own call center without
depending on or waiting for the service provider. CosmoCom’s
CosmoCall Universe (CCU) was designed from the ground up to
be a true multi-tenant platform with advanced tenant
self-administration features. This makes CCU the ideal
platform for enterprises who want the cost savings and
increased control of consolidating their call centers on one
virtual contact center platform, and for Service Providers
who want to offer hosted contact center services efficiently
and profitably.
Tenant Self-Administration
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Tenants can easily and securely
provision agents
with a browser-based wizard
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Tenant Self-Administration is a win-win proposition that
makes call centers easier and more cost effective for both
Service Providers and tenants. Service Providers benefit by
being able to offload routine administration to their
tenants. Tenants benefit by gaining control and having the
flexibility to add agents and change self-service and
routing applications at any time. A rich security model
empowers call center managers to create unlimited,
customized access profiles to match almost any conceivable
organizational structure, no matter how complex,
hierarchical, or overlapping. This ensures that every person
associated with a contact center can see and do exactly what
he or she is supposed to see and do – no more, and no less.
True Multi-Tenant and Multi-Instance
It is important to deploy a contact center platform that
is truly multi-tenant to realize the full benefits of
consolidation. Some technologies claim to be multi-tenant,
but in fact use a separate, dedicated platform for each
tenant. For the tenant, the difference is small, but the
economies of scale that justify consolidation are seriously
diminished by a multi-instance architecture.
System Level Multi-Tenancy Features
- System-wide Administration. Service
Providers can manage all tenants from a single,
easy-to-use browser-based interface.
- Security and Isolation. Advanced security
modeling and system partitioning features assure
tenants that their operations will be secure and
isolated from other system tenants.
- Flexible Resource Allocation. Leverage
servers and supporting personnel across multiple
customer accounts, or, optionally, guarantee
dedicated resources like telephone connections
and server resources for premium service offers.
- Billing. Open access to complete system
data for speedy and accurate customer billing.
Use standard reports or deliver call detail
record (CDR) information to other billing
systems.
- Scalability. A single system is scalable
to 1000 tenants.
Tenant Level Multi-Tenancy Features
- Tenant Self-Administration. Tenants can
manage their call centers without the
intervention of the service provider. They have
full control over day-to-day activities such as
adding and modifying agent queues, groups and
skills, changing call routing and producing
reports.
- Browser-Based Interface. Tenant
Self-Administration can be performed from a
standard Internet browser. The easy-to-use, but
secure, interface allows for on-the-fly
modification of queuing and routing parameters,
in reponse to the dynamic needs of their
environment.
- Customizable Web Contact Interface.
Tenants can customize both the click-to-call
buttons and the page layout for web initiated
chat, voice, and video calls.
- GUI-Based Call Flow Design. Tenants can
use CosmoDesigner, CosmoCom's graphical tool for
call flow generation, to create custom IVR and
routing scripts. CosmoDesigner is browser-based,
and enables drag-and-drop creation of call flows
without requiring programming skills.
- Reporting. Tenants can review the
performance of their call centers, both
historically and in real-time, with CosmoCom's
browser-based reporting tools.