--- title: "Contact Center Solutions: The Ultimate Guide To Understanding" description: Contact center solutions allow for call flow management to maximize your available agents utilizing the right call center applications- check out this guide! image: https://blog.ronco.net/hubfs/call_center_agents_1_1%5B1%5D.jpg --- [1-888-84-RONCO](tel:1-888-847-6626) [Careers](https://ronco.net/careers) [Customer Service](https://ronco.net/customer-service) [![logo](https://blog.ronco.net/hubfs/Ronco_October2019/Images/Ronco_Logo_blk-300.png) ![logo](https://blog.ronco.net/hubfs/Ronco_October2019/Images/Ronco_Logo_wht-300.png)](https://ronco.net) - [Home](https://ronco.net/) - [Our Solutions](https://ronco.net/our-solutions/) - [Audio Video Systems](https://ronco.net/our-solutions/audio-video-systems/) - [Business Communications](https://ronco.net/our-solutions/business-communications/) - [Healthcare Efficiencies](https://ronco.net/our-solutions/healthcare-efficiencies/) - [Education Solutions](https://ronco.net/our-solutions/education-solutions/) - [Federal](https://ronco.net/our-solutions/federal/) - [Managed Services](https://ronco.net/managed-services/) - [Managed Service Assurance](https://ronco.net/managed-services/managed-service-assurance/) - [Staffing Support](https://ronco.net/managed-services/staffing-support/) - [Clinical Quality Initiatives](https://ronco.net/managed-services/clinical-quality-initiatives/) - [About](https://ronco.net/about-us/) - [About Us](https://ronco.net/about-us/) - [Meet The Team](https://ronco.net/our-team/) - [Blog](https://blog.ronco.net/) - [Connect](https://ronco.net/contact-us) - [Contact Us](https://ronco.net/contact-us/) - [Locations](https://ronco.net/locations/) - [Careers](https://ronco.net/careers/) ## Ronco's Blog | Knowledge is Power # Contact Center Solutions: The Ultimate Guide To Understanding Posted by [Liz Sujka](https://blog.ronco.net/author/liz-sujka) on 08/12/17 01:54 PM ![Liz Sujka](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/9584e85d0392715b36d37a4d9c8825ef) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) What are contact centers? How does it pertain to business operations?  These are great questions that require some insight we have provided to you here, before venturing down the path of choosing the best contact center solutions to incorporate into your business phone system.  **![contact center agents in a call center](https://blog.ronco.net/hs-fs/hubfs/call_center_agents_1_1%5B1%5D.jpg?width=320&name=call_center_agents_1_1%5B1%5D.jpg "contact center agents in a call center")** **What does contact center solutions do for your business? ** Contact center solutions allow for inbound call flow management to maximize the full potential of your available agents and staff. Which is crucial in assisting any influx in waiting customers, creating a quicker [service experience](https://blog.ronco.net/phone-customer-service), greater uniformity in the handling of incoming calls, and metrics to track performance.  **What are the benefits of using a contact center software?** - Increased service levels - Improved customer experience - Metrics to provide business intelligence - Enhanced staff utilization **What does contact center applications allow users to do?** When implementing contact center applications, it enables enhanced call routing based on your custom design. This allows you to manage the flow of incoming callers and map them to the appropriate resource that can efficiently help them.  **What features should I look for in a contact center?** | Call Monitoring | This allows supervisors to listen in on phone calls as they are occurring- keeping quality control amongst agents. | | --- | --- | | Real-time Coaching | Allows supervisors to speak to an agent when a customer is active on the line. The agent can hear the supervisor, but the customer cannot. | | Call Barging | Allows supervisors to drop into a conversation to intercede directly on an agent and customer interaction. | | Call Recording | Creates an archive of the transaction between the customer and the agent- helping supervisors understand what happened on a call.  | | Screen Capture | Recording the agent screen allows you to see the click-by-click actions taken for a full understanding of what happened on a call. | | Call Disposition | Allows agents to comment on the outcome of a call.  This provides insight into the call without having to play the recording. | | Metrics Dashboard | Provides **immediate** insight into queues and queue status. | | UC Interopability | Connects your Unified Communications System to your contact center, giving real-time agent availability and extending the capabilities for agents to reach the rest of the organization functioning outside of the contact center environment.  | **What is call center vs contact center and application vs software? ** A contact center is similar to a call center, but with more features. A call center uses either the public switched telephone network or VoIP for calls. A call center communicates only by voice. [(\*VoIP-Info)](https://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Call+Center+vs+Contact+Center)  The applications run on the system software and contact center solutions is all encompassing.   The applications are what truly adds value to a contact center. However, there are [some features](https://blog.ronco.net/phone-system-features-improve-performance) already included in a basic VoIP, digital or analog phone system that can provide reasonable functionality and so can unified communications system- if your main goal is to improve your customer experience but you don't have a lot of agents. If you are looking to upgrade your system check out Avaya's IP Office.  For more assistance in choosing the right option or are interested in learning more, call us today! 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