Enkata Unveils Activity Tracker, a Data Capture Breakthrough for Analytics

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Tue Apr 6, 2010 9:01am EDT

Innovation Captures Data at the Point of Customer Interaction - the Agent
Desktop - to Lower Deployment Costs and Time
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Enkata, a leading provider of analytics-powered performance management software,
today announced the availability of Enkata Activity Tracker. This technology
innovation captures data directly from service agent desktops to support
analytics-powered applications thereby eliminating the need for costly,
time-intensive IT data integrations. 

The Impact on Contact Center and Customer Operations

* Enkata`s Activity Tracker is a major shift in how contact centers source and
leverage data - shifting from integrations with enterprise-based data sources to
capturing data at the point of customer interaction - the agent desktop. 
* The technology minimizes or eliminates the deep integrations with enterprise
data sources that are often associated with contact center analytics
applications. Projects can require integration efforts of 6-9 months and as a
result, routinely fail to pass IT governance. With Activity Tracker, solution
deployments are dramatically reduced to as little as 6-8 weeks and require
little or no IT resource commitments. 
* By simplifying implementation requirements, Activity Tracker delivers on the
promise of software-as-a-service (SaaS). Enkata performance management solutions
can now be fast tracked for deployment. As a result, the company expects much
wider adoption of analytics-driven performance management applications.

Industry Leader Assessments

* According to Donna Fluss, president of DMG Consulting, LLC. "The top two
enterprise goals for 2010 are providing an outstanding customer experience and
reducing costs. Executives are looking for innovative ways to optimize the
performance of contact centers to achieve these goals. They are increasingly
turning to analytical applications to provide actionable insights that empower
them to make improvements in near-real-time." 
* Ron Hildebrandt, founder and senior vice president of marketing at Enkata.
"This development is core to delivering on the promise of analytics to improve
contact center and customer operations. The data extraction problem that bogs
down analytics deployments has essentially been solved. With this technology,
companies can deploy performance management applications without the barrier of
a lengthy IT governance process."

Product Facts

Enkata`s performance management solutions, including Automated Contact
Reasoning, First Contact Resolution, Enkata Manage, and Enkata Discover, are now
available with Activity Tracker.

* Activity Tracker is a software component on an agent`s desktop that captures
any and all data relevant to the customer interaction. 
* Activity Tracker has the flexibility to capture data displayed for all types
of desktop applications, including mainframe applications, yet is secure enough
to mask and disable capturing of personally identifiable information. 
* Unlike screen-capture applications that simply capture and replay a "movie" of
desktop screens for quality monitoring purposes, Activity Tracker logs all
desktop activity as data, and captures screen patterns, field entries, displayed
data, and viewed information at the level of data fields within desktop
applications. 
* Activity Tracker is a highly secure, Windows-based service application that is
deployed with minimum IT involvement. 
* Activity Tracker will be delivered with Enkata`s performance management
solutions in Q2.

About Enkata

Enkata is the market and technology leader in software-as-a-service (SaaS)
performance management solutions for customer operations. Enkata`s
analytics-powered applications distill every customer interaction to provide
actionable data to improve the customer experience. Directed by Enkata`s
advanced analytics, service operations are able to optimize employee
development, service policies, and self-service channels to deliver
differentiated service on every contact. Enkata is deployed in customer contact
centers with 100 to 20,000 service agents. Enkata solutions analyze over 1
billion contacts per year for some of the world`s largest global service
operations.

Enkata
Joseph McFadden, 650-227-6508
jmcfadden@enkata.com
Carleen LeVasseur, 408-264-6767
carleenlevasseur@gmail.com



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