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Interactive Intelligence has been showcasing its customers at conferences over the past couple of weeks.

Sheila McGee-Smith

October 27, 2011

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Interactive Intelligence has been showcasing its customers at conferences over the past couple of weeks.

My title is homage to my dad, who could often be heard calling "Colleen, Maura, Sheila...whatever you call yourself," running through the first few names of his eight children and then just giving up. It begins to feel that way about finding a simple term to describe communications-enabling business processes. IPA is the Interactive Intelligence solution, Interaction Process Automation. iWD stands for Intelligent Workload Distribution, the Genesys flavor. Whatever you call it, Interactive Intelligence has been showcasing its customers at conferences over the past couple of weeks.

At Gartner Symposium last week, I was told that the IPA Customer Panel, held in a room with seating capacity for 75, had to turn away another 70 conference attendees. Interactive Intelligence made sure they had plenty of seats when a similar panel was moderated by Senior Director for IPA Rachel Wentink at the Global Partner Conference in Indianapolis this week.

One of the presenters was Joanna Thomas, General Manager for insurance aggregator iSelect in Australia. On the video she answers questions about why iSelect began looking at process automation solutions, why they chose Interactive Intelligence and how long it took to implement the solution.

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.