[Asterisk-Users] Call Center and Predictive dialing

[Olivier Krief]

Matt,

Today, I'm working on a proposal for 150 seats PBX replacement.
Competitors are using Aastra Matra, Alcatel or Cisco IPBX.

Do you think I could name some of those call centers (those 100 using 
vicidial) to prove Asterisk is a safe choice ?
If positive, is there a way I could get in touch with them to testify their 
system is running OK ?

My prospective customer is a french local authority so a call center in 
Europe would be perfect.

Regards

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Florell" <astmattf at gmail.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Call Center and Predictive dialing


Hello,

We have been using vicidial for over 2 years now for our inbound and
outbound call centers. We have four locations with over 200 seats
across them. Recently we released a development version of VICIDIAL
that allows for load balancing across multiple servers. This has
greatly helped our effeciency and allows for a greater degree of
scalability.

As far as my last count there are close to 100 call centers, from 1
seat to 350 seats, that currently use VICIDIAL in production. It
certainly is not perfect, but it is becoming more fully featured every
month and being open source greatly helps with the fast development of
the codebase.

EASE OF USE- well, I think it's easy to use you just have to get used
to how it works just like any piece of software, not necessarily
simple to setup, but we do have a lot of documentation for setting it
up. All interfaces are web-based and work on any semi-modern OS that
supports a recent web browser.
STABILITY- Vicidial will run on Asterisk versions from CVS 2003-11-21
to 1.0 tree to 1.2 tree to the new development branch. It is basically
as stable as your Asterisk installation is.
FEATURE SET- Not up to the level of $2 million commercial call center
system, but the code and database are open so you can get it to do
almost anything you want it to and we are adding features all the
time.
OPEN SOURCE- That one's easy, it's GPL

There is another GPL-Asterisk-based dialer project out there too which
has also been making great strides in the last year: GnuDialer. They
have a different approach to the backend of the dialer and tend to
focus on some different elements that VICIDIAL has not spent as much
time on.

Hope that helps,

MATT---


On 1/16/06, C F <shmaltz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know this question has been asked a lot before, but please I would
> like to know from personal experience.
>
> I'm looking to use Asterisk in a call center environment, where most
> of the calls will be outbound calls. They will have at start 100
> agents.
> I have looked at vicidial and looks promising, however I would like to
> hear from users what they use and how they like it compared to other
> products they have tried.
>
> Of interest are:
> * Ease of use
> * Stability
> * Feature set
> * Open Source
>
> Thank You
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