Ascend Teams Contact Center Features Matrix

Platform Features

  • Integrated collaboration via UC or Microsoft Teams
  • Agent desktop and browser-based apps
  • Flexible audio options (desk phone, mobile, headset)
  • Web-based admin portal
  • Multi-tenant admin access for partners
  • Softphone-only agent and telagent options
  • Contact Center support documentation access

Agent Shift Management & Collaboration

  • Agent status (real-time + custom)
  • Live queue dashboard
  • Join and leave queues
  • Auto-return to available status
  • Desktop alerts for new interactions
  • Classification and disposition codes
  • Flag interactions for supervisor review
  • Create tasks from agent interface
  • Post-call wrap-up time
  • Agent chat (direct + group)
  • Broadcast messaging
  • Custom chat nickname
  • Context-aware conference and transfer

Supervisor Real-Time Queue Management

  • Live SLA monitoring
  • Active agent management
  • Custom SLA alerts with escalation rules
  • Live call monitor, whisper, and barge
  • Call bursting
  • AI Supervisor Assist
  • AI evolving customer sentiment analysis
  • AI call summary and topics
  • AI call transcription

Omnichannel Digital Engagement

  • Voice Queues
  • Call overflow handling/missed call treatment
  • Queued callbacks & voicemail
  • Queue-specific audio bulletins
  • Voicemail-to-email delivery
  • Inbound call context (caller ID, queue, skill)
  • Recording retention settings
  • Simultaneous agent ringing
  • Pre-ring device alerts
  • Agent skill prioritization
  • Chat/SMS Queues
  • Proactive/reactive chat mode
  • Chat interaction personalization and branding
  • Mobile-responsive chat experience
  • Customizable Interactive Chat Response (ICR)
  • Visitor-accessible transcripts
  • Custom webchat form fill
  • Automatic focus for new chat interactions
  • Email Queues
  • Routing by keyword, default routing, last-agent routing
  • Agent-initiated email composition
  • Suspend/resume emails
  • Response templates by team or queue
  • Automated outbound notifications
  • Multi-channel outreach (SMS, Email, Voice)
  • Customizable notification templates
  • Campaign scheduling and throttling
  • Campaign reporting
  • Embedded links (SMS/Email)
  • Notification acknowledgement/confirmation
  • Outbound Power Dialing
  • Blended outbound dialing
  • List-based dialing campaigns
  • Contact import wizard
  • Multiple list support
  • Campaign segmentation
  • Campaign throttling
  • External ID support
  • Agent-initiated campaign entries

Intelligent Call Routing & Self-Service

  • Skills-based routing
  • Skill assignments with competency levels
  • Multi-language support for IVR prompts
  • AI Intent Routing
  • Google Dialogflow support for voice-enabled IVR
  • Dynamic queue prioritization
  • Call treatment scripting
  • Customizable IVR menus and prompts
  • In-queue messaging (position, wait time, text-to-speech)
  • IVR Studio for advanced call flow design
  • Preferred/Last agent routing
  • DTMF (touch-tone) input recognition
  • Integration with external databases or CRMs
  • Self-service options for hours, locations, etc.
  • Custom error handling and fallback actions
  • Escape to agent option
  • Interactive Chat Response (ICR) configuration

AI Agent Assist (Real-Time AI)

  • Prior call summary
  • Real-time AI transcription
  • Real-time AI sentiment analysis
  • AI-powered, chat-based knowledge retrieval
  • Immediate, editable AI Recap

AI Quality Management

  • Post-call AI insights
  • AI Recap (standard processing)
  • AI Sentiment Analysis (post-call)
  • AI Transcription (post-call)
  • AI Agent Evaluator

Envision Data Intelligence

  • Real-time dashboards, wallboards, executive views
  • Scheduled delivery & multi-format exports

Custom Integrations

  • Embedded experience in Microsoft Teams
  • CRM Integrations (Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc.)

Security

  • End-to-End Encryption
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
  • Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC)
Ascend Teams Contact Center Features Matrix
Ascend Teams Contact Center Features Matrix

Ascend Teams Contact Center Features Matrix