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They are targeting centers with 20-50 seats and see themselves as a sophisticated call center alternative for the Avaya IP Office or Cisco UCCX reseller.

Sheila McGee-Smith

March 3, 2011

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They are targeting centers with 20-50 seats and see themselves as a sophisticated call center alternative for the Avaya IP Office or Cisco UCCX reseller.

One of the great things about Enterprise Connect is the opportunity to meet with smaller companies, those who spent a big chunk of their annual marketing budgets to come to the show to meet with potential customers and partners as well as press and analysts. Infratel's press person made it through the clutter of requests for a meeting by mentioning that the company had been started by former Genesys managers and engineers. For this all-contact center, all-the-time analyst, this fact piqued my curiosity.

Founded in 1999, Infratel's vision is to bring the power of sophisticated call center solutions to small and mid-sized businesses. Infratel’s Infra Call Center provides a suite of solutions that deliver call routing, reporting and analytics, IVR, call recording and proactive contact (including predictive dialing). Infra CommSuite serves the general telephony needs of small- and medium-sized businesses. Infratel has plans for full social media integration in the year ahead that enables agents to recognize user trends and sentiments.

Infratel has been successfully selling their solution in Europe and Asia and has 700 customers and 10,000 installed seats. Enterprise Connect, and the announcement of two US-based resellers (Robson and DialPro ), is the official coming-out party for Infratel in the US. They are targeting centers with 20-50 seats and see themselves as a sophisticated call center alternative for the Avaya IP Office or Cisco UCCX reseller.

In the video clip, Jim Southwell, General Manager Infratel for North America discusses the solution and its attractive price point. Also included are screenshots of select supervisory tools.

About the Author

Sheila McGee-Smith

Sheila McGee-Smith, who founded McGee-Smith Analytics in 2001, is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant focused on the contact center and enterprise communications markets. She has a proven track record of accomplishment in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for communications solutions and services.

McGee-Smith Analytics works with companies ranging in size from the Fortune 100 to start-ups, examining the competitive environment for communications products and services. Sheila's expertise includes product assessment, sales force training, and content creation for white papers, eBooks, and webinars. Her professional accomplishments include authoring multi-client market research studies in the areas of contact centers, enterprise telephony, data networking, and the wireless market. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, user group and sales meetings, as well as an oft-quoted authority on news and trends in the communications market.

Sheila has spent 30 years in the communications industry, including 12 years as an industry analyst with The Pelorus Group. Early in her career, she held sales management, market research and product management positions at AT&T, Timeplex, and Dun & Bradstreet. Sheila serves as the Contact Center Track Chair for Enterprise Connect.