ZOOM International, a provider of omnichannel customer experience and workforce optimization (WFO) software for contact centres announced major news for the Cisco ecosystem.
For the first time, ZOOM is listed in the Cisco SolutionsPlus catalog. Industry-first catalogue packaging will help the Cisco ecosystem drive value, compete, and win in three unique ways. First, ZOOM is a channel-only company—they do not compete with Cisco sales teams or partners “by going direct.” Second, ZOOM is known for “being easy to do business with” and has award winning services and support across 90+ countries. Third, a “make things simpler” approach gives Cisco a strong pricing advantage in the commercial market—including subscription pricing and built-in maintenance items to make it easy for sales teams to understand and communicate.
Brian Shore, CEO of ZOOM International, highlighted the announcement, “We are first and foremost a world-wide service company with a stated purpose to serve the needs of others: employees, partners and customers. Our goal is to exceed expectations with our products, services and especially our channel model. We are one of very few companies in our space to deliver 100% channel loyalty and zero direct business. We have been fortunate to organically grow our joint Cisco and ZOOM customer base to over 1,500+ customers, 150,000+ Seats and share 361 world-wide channel partners in 90 countries. Our partnership with Cisco will allow us to bring the most advanced omnichannel quality management solutions and customer search engine that enables our customers to easily identify the brilliance in their service practices, while minimizing their challenging moments. Simply stated, ZOOM and Cisco are a powerful combination to reduce customer attrition and protect top line revenues.”
As of Q2 2018, ZOOM’s customer sat score is an NPS of 88 for the trailing 365 days. Out of approximately 70 WFO vendors worldwide, the company is one of seven on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WEM this year. ZOOM’s customer experience solutions are powered by the ZOOM omnichannel search engine—a platform for capturing any type of customer interaction—from Salesforce.com emails to UpstreamWorks chats to Hubspot page views—and provides both BI tooling and text analysis that is truly unique in the industry.
ZOOM’s coverage of Cisco is broad and deep, supporting every major platform in Cisco’s portfolio—unified communications, customer care, conferencing, and collaboration endpoints as well as integrations with Broadsoft and mobile recording. The ZOOM architecture supports other telephony platforms, which can help Cisco partners and sales reps win opportunities to consolidate telephony platforms and standardize on Cisco.
ZOOM’s recent customer survey paints a picture for why companies pick ZOOM. Here are the top 5 reasons—ZOOM products fit customer needs (not too simple nor too complex), partners recommend ZOOM, high customer satisfaction provided by ZOOM, ZOOM is simple and straightforward, and reputation and referrals from other customers.