Aspect Leads Global Outbound Contact Center Market

CHELMSFORD, Mass. – Aspect, a unified communications (UC) solutions provider, today announced the company is the leading global contact center vendor for outbound capabilities, according to a report from Datamonitor, an international business intelligence firm. The Market Share Insight: The Contact Center Universe report found that Aspect has 29 percent of the market, with the next leading vendor maintaining a 16 percent market share.

“Outbound contact center capabilities continue to be heavily in demand in 2009 as companies search for advanced capabilities to reach their audiences at the right time for business processes that are critical to revenue goals, such as collections and sales,” said Ian Jacobs, senior analyst, Datamonitor. “We’ve found that many companies are turning to Aspect for these outbound features due to the depth and breadth of the vendor’s offerings, in addition to their reputation in the market.”

Aspect offers outbound capabilities as part of a number of UC applications for the contact center, including Blended Interaction™ and Streamlined Collections™. Aspect’s UC applications help companies target operational objectives with specific software capabilities.

“More companies are looking to increase the effectiveness and productivity of their outbound contact center processes, and our UC applications provide all the capabilities these organizations need to improve their outbound campaigns,” said Serge Hyppolite, director of interaction product management, Aspect. “Our leadership in the outbound market offers a strong proof point that organizations are turning to Aspect for our innovative UC solutions, our reliability, scalability, reputation, and ultimately our ability to help improve their business results.”

About Blended Interaction
Blended Interactionis a unified communications application for the contact center that provides inbound, outbound, self service and workforce optimization capabilities. By eliminating complex integration and providing common management, reporting and administration, Blended Interaction gives you greater visibility, control and staffing efficiency in your multichannel contact center that helps enhance customer satisfaction and improve business results.

About Streamlined Collections
Streamlined Collectionsis a unified communications application for the contact center that automates early stage collections and enables expert agent engagement for a more effective delinquent account targeting strategy to help you get more promises to pay faster, reduce servicing costs and write-offs, and improve collections results.

About Aspect
Aspect provides software and consulting services that turn the potential of unified communications into real business results across the enterprise and in the contact center. Applying 35 years of insight and experience, Aspect helps more than two-thirds of the FORTUNE Global 100, as well as small and medium enterprises, power their business processes with communications. For more information, visit www.aspect.com.