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The demo of a new touch-based Supervisor desktop was so exciting I decided to conduct a video interview.

Sheila McGee-Smith

April 1, 2012

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Yes, Enterprise Connect is about the big players, like keynoters Avaya, Cisco, Siemens, IBM, Microsoft and Verizon. But it's also about smaller companies that use a much more limited marketing budget to bring their story and their wares to the show floor.

One such company was Voice4Net, who announced Contact Center HD at the show. The combination of a persistent PR person and great floor placement (across from the Genesys booth) led me to spend 30 minutes with Founder and President Rick McFarland. The demo of a new touch-based Supervisor desktop was so exciting I decided to conduct a video interview. In the video, Rick answers the questions shown below. In addition, Voice4Net sent over some screen shots which are included at the end of the video.

1. What does the "HD" mean in the new solution?
2. The first thing I noticed when I saw your screen is that it was set up to touch. Why did you go with a touch paradigm?
3. What will Windows 8 (because it is going to have some touch capability in it), mean for your product?
4. Contact Center HD is built in HTML. What does that mean in terms of availability on different platforms today?




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.