January 22, 2019 by Siobhan Climer
In the beginning of 2019, Mindsight traveled to the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) conference. We presented exciting contact center developments with the Legal Services of North Florida (LSF) team, and Mindsight engineer, Patrick Mathieu, focused exclusively on how screen pops improve the customer experience. When contact center experts consider the industry’s move toward omnichannel customer experiences, screen pops are one element of a seamless customer experience.
Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Conference: Innovations In Technology Overview
Each year, the Legal Services Corporation hosts a technology conference that examines the intersection of technology and America’s legal system. The LSC is the single-largest funding body of civil aid seeking to primarily assist low-income Americans across the country. The non-profit’s annual Innovations In Technology Conference focuses specifically on expanding “access to technological innovations in legal services delivery and pro se assistance.”
This year, the LSF team, which included Mathieu, presented at the conference. The team focused broadly on how integrated phone systems can improve case management, and Mathieu presented his innovations in screen pop engineering. The team included Xander Karsten, PSTI; Zahid Masood, Z Consulting; Leslie Powell-Boudreaux, Legal Services of North Florida, Angie Wagenhals, Montana Legal Services, and Mindsight’s Patrick Mathieu.
Integrated Phone Systems Improve Case Management
In their presentation, the LSC team demonstrated the long-lasting benefits of an integrated phone system:
- Expedites client’s ability to access and receive assistance
- Improves screening of non-eligible callers
- Decreases wait times
- Implements call backs
- Implements case look-up
- Improves time-keeping
- Improves online case notes
- Improves client services
- Improves overall customer experience
While this particular use case was implemented in the legal services field, the team noted the overall benefits of an integrated phone system to other industries, such as healthcare, education, and financial services. The ability to improve queueing and customer feedback metrics is useful everywhere. In these cases, screen pops improve the customer experience and harness the power of technology to improve overall call center operations.
Screen Pops Improve The Customer Experience
Mathieu focused specifically on how screen pops improve the customer experience, presenting on the technology he and Mindsight developed. Mathieu demonstrated how he used the phone system’s Java Telephony Application Programming Interface (JTAPI) to listen for incoming calls. Mindsight’s innovation lies in how the integration queries the Legal Server CMS to identify any open cases associated with the incoming caller ID, and then “pops” the case to the associated case agent.
Consider how many times callers are asked to repeat their case information, recall PII or PHI, and identify themselves. By removing this hassle, the screen pops improve the customer experience and provide improved metrics to the legal center.
Now apply that to healthcare. Or a bank’s loan officer. Instead of patients’ missing out on important care steps or potential home-buyers’ losing precious time in closing on big deals for the banks, these institutions can implement efficient, secure queuing systems using screen pops.
Screen Pop Benefits
- Saves time for both agent and client
- Improves time-keeping and documentation for each case
- Includes both on-premise/off-premise phone users and agents
- “Follows” calls during transference
- Improves security protocols around regulations and compliance policies
Implementing Screen Pops In Your Contact Center
We know this specific use-case may not meet your needs. That’s why Mindsight works with expert engineers like Patrick Mathieu who share their innovations broadly, improving outcomes for both contact centers and callers. To find out how Mathieu and the rest of our contact center solutions architect team can assist you in improving metrics, register for a Mindsight demo day – our weekly, hands-on (and free) lab experience – where we can test solutions to fit your unique environment. Or contact us today to discuss your needs and how our team can help you.
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About The Author
Siobhan Climer, Science and Technology Writer for Mindsight, writes about technology trends in education, healthcare, and business. She previously taught STEM programs in elementary classrooms and museums, and writes extensively about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, cloud services, backups, data storage, network infrastructure, and the contact center. When she’s not writing tech, she’s writing fantasy, gardening, and exploring the world with her twin two-year old daughters. Find her on twitter @techtalksio.