ERC ramps new hires 20% faster while driving an 87% improvement in efficiency

‍The Story

ERC is an agile, technology-driven company that provides business process outsourcing (BPO) and account recovery services for Fortune 500 companies. ERC leverages the latest innovations in technology to deliver unparalleled end-to-end customer experience solutions, making ERC a top performer for their clients.

With offices spanning four continents and the best talent in the business, ERC is dedicated to changing the BPO landscape through artificial intelligence and data analysis, and their commitment to creating a highly trained, empowered workforce.

ERC needed a powerful, speech analytics and workforce management platform that improved onboarding & ramp-up, drove better agent performance and offered business insights while reducing overhead costs in order to pave the way for digital transformation and an intelligent workforce.

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The Solution

With Observe.AI, ERC can uncover a wealth of customer care insights in 100% of voice calls, and in turn, create opportunities for tailored, relevant coaching for individual agents. Additionally, the platform uncovers inefficiencies and gives operations leaders the opportunity to improve them.

Utilizing Observe.AI’s best-in-class transcription functionality, ERC is able to monitor 100% of customer calls. Within four weeks of going live, ERC reported an increase in 87% in QA efficiency. This meant that QA managers are no longer bogged down in manual quality checks, freeing up more time for strategic tasks, like focusing on digesting speech and customer analytics to understand customer sentiment and improve customer experience.

Proactive Compliance Monitoring

Data protection and privacy are increasingly important. With Observe.AI, ERC is able to improve its ability to encrypt and redact data, as well as limit the PII data it retains while accessing speech analytics. Through its program, ERC merges compliance and QA, creating a proactive, constantly evolving process for monitoring compliance gaps. 100% compliance coverage has helped ERC build its end client’s confidence.

“Observe.AI enables us to have full visibility into customer conversations so we can train agents faster and unlock new insights on customer care.”

- Marty Sarim, President & CEO, ERC BPO

Tailored, Relevant Coaching for Every Agent

With detailed, all-encompassing reporting on every agent’s performance, ERC can create better training programs for agents to address gaps in performance and understand what top-performing agents do best. This enables QA managers to provide more prescriptive feedback by quickly accessing the most critical moments on calls and leaving in-line comments. Agents receive insights on areas like compliance violations, negative sentiment scenarios, dead air instances, and many more, providing individual agents greater transparency on performance.

"Innovation and empowering our agents with the latest technologies is critical to our mission to delight customers at ERC and attract top talent. We are excited to leverage Observe.AI's Contact Center AI platform to have full visibility into customer conversations so we can train agents faster and unlock new insights on customer care. I'm very impressed with the agility and accountability demonstrated by Observe.AI's team. This has been one of the most seamless integrations we've had in recent times." - Marty Sarim, President & CEO, ERC BPO

Looking Forward

ERC has significantly improved customer experience, harnessing the benefits of comprehensive voice call analysis to deliver best-in-class agent coaching and training. Understanding performance and customer sentiment across the entire organization, down the individual agents, ERC is confident that their agents are their best brand representatives.