SoundBite 6.0 Wins Prestigious Best of Show Award at Annual Call Center Exhibition
Call Center Magazine Editors Applaud SoundBite’s Automated Voice Messaging
Solution for its Enterprise-wide Management and Cost-Effective Hosted Model
BURLINGTON, Mass. – November 6, 2006 – SoundBite Communications Inc., a leading provider of hosted, automated customer contact solutions, today announced that the SoundBite 6.0 automated voice messaging solution was named "Best of Show" at the Annual Call CenterExhibition (ACCE) held in Seattle, WA on September 11-13, 2006.
SoundBite was among six vendors selected by editors at Call Center Magazine as having the best "new and improved technology" to enhance call center management. An in-person interview with SoundBite was taped at the ACCE Show and is available on the Call Center Magazine website (http://www.accecmp.com). Winners appear in the November 2006 issue of Call Center Magazine.
SoundBite 6.0 adds bold, new features such as Enterprise Manager, Campaign Strategy Manager, and Call Forecasting that accelerate an organization's ability to create, manage and execute highly effective, automated voice messaging campaigns. The SoundBite hosted solution requires no on-premise hardware or software and has no contracts or financial commitments. Organizations can rapidly execute proactive customer campaigns that increase revenues and debt collected per agent, notify customers about service issues, and improve call center productivity.
"Each year we present this prestigious award to companies that participate in the Annual Call Center Exposition and exhibit innovative solutions that will have a measurable impact on the call center industry," said Keith Dawson, editor of Call Center Magazine. "We selected SoundBite for their visionary approach to automated voice messaging which neatly ties together the cost benefits of a hosted solution with the value of a single view point to control and manage multiple campaigns across the enterprise."
"We're honored to receive the ACCE Best of Show award presented by Call Center Magazine for the latest release of the SoundBite solution," said Peter Shields, president and chief executive officer at SoundBite Communications. "The feature enhancements in SoundBite 6.0 enable our customers to create and execute more robust campaign strategies to achieve their business objectives. With this industry recognition, and the positive feedback we've received from our customers and partners, SoundBite is well positioned for continued long-term success."
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About SoundBite Communications
SoundBite Communications is a leading provider of automated customer contact solutions that are fully hosted and available on demand. The company's solutions help organizations grow revenue, improve customer service, and secure payments through an efficient, reliable and costeffective approach. SoundBite turns one-on-one customer contacts into results.
SoundBite's highly personalized calling and messaging solutions, used for sales, marketing, customer care and collections applications, reach customers faster and more effectively than any other customer contact alternative. Over 250 world-class organizations use SoundBite's solutions to deliver messages faster, increase call center productivity, improve results per customer contact and assess campaign results in real-time. Organizations across many industries use SoundBite including collections, financial services, retail, utilities, telecommunications, insurance, healthcare and media.
With over 500 million calls and 200 million messages delivered in 2005, SoundBite has the best practices know-how, virtually unlimited, on demand capacity, and robust campaign applications to deliver the customer communication results demanded in today's competitive business environment.