SER launches Knowledge Enabled E-Mail Management System

SER Systems Limited, an international subsidiary of SER Systems AG, the global market-leading provider of knowledge-enabled software products and solutions, (Frankfurt Neuer Markt: SES), today announced the UK launch of its revolutionary knowledge-enabled e-mail management systems, SERiMail.  SERiMail enables organisations to automatically respond to the ever-increasing stream of inbound e-mail requests and web site inquiries with the right personalised answer by leveraging corporate know-how.  SERiMail enables organisations to meet the growing challenge of being more responsive to the needs of their customers, partners and employees through dramatically improved customer service and retention, and increased employee productivity.

With the average daily volume of e-mail around the world expected to rise from 10 billion in 2001 to 35 billion in 2005 according to industry analysts International Data Corp. (IDC), organisations are coming under increasing pressure to respond to inbound inquiries within an acceptable timeframe.  Yet, only 20 percent of companies are meeting their expectations according to a recent Jupiter Consumer Survey.

SERiMail delivers a wide range of business benefits, including:

  • Automatic response to inbound inquiries

  • Improved customer service

  • Personalised responses for increased customer retention

  • Increased agent productivity

  • Ensures consistency of responses according to corporate standards

  • Easy integration to existing business applications

  • Quickly identify customer trends or issues

  • Incredibly short learning curve for full production ready system

Knowledge-enabled E-mail Management

As inquiries are received, SERiMail analyses the content using SERbrainware, SER’s award-winning learning engine that understands the meaning and context of information, regardless of format or content.  Once the e-mail content has been analysed SERiMail can either answer the inquiry directly by means of a personalised response, or forward the inquiry to an appropriate agent or ‘expert’ in the subject area based on confidence levels.

SERiMail pulls e-mail responses from corporate knowledge bases to ensure that all inquiries are answered to a consistently high quality, reinforcing corporate standards, and eliminating variations arising from different agents answering similar questions.  If an inquiry cannot be answered automatically, SERiMail selects the most appropriate agent for the response based on pervious experience.  For example, if the inquiry relates to invoicing, the e-mail will be routed to an agent in the finance department, however if it was about pricing, it is routed to a sales agent.

The agent is then presented with a selection of possible answers that meet the criteria of the inquiry.  When the agent selects the appropriate response, the knowledge base is updated and SERiMail ‘learns’ from the experience in order that it can automatically respond the next time a similar inquiry is received.  This unique and powerful feature of SERiMail results from using SERbrainware at the heart of the system.

 

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For more information, please contact:


Euro Banking Solutions:

Keith Blankley
Managing Director
Tel: + 971 4 3210011
Email: kblankley@eurobankingsolutions.com