What is XCALLY?
XCALLY Omnichannel Contact Center Platform is an innovative software developed in the Xenialab research center that has quickly become one of the best contact center management platforms that enables customer engagement via Inbound/outbound Voice, Chat, Email, SMS, Video, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, and Custom Channels (i.e. additional social media and instant communication apps) - all seamlessly managed from one single user interface in a unified platform!
XCALLY is currently installed in over 60 countries between EMEA, USA, APAC. Thanks to the straightforward configuration and intuitive web interface supervisors and agents can quickly learn how to use XCALLY and focus on what really matters: their customer satisfaction!
XCALLY is one of the leading solutions in the following sectors:
Omnichannel Contact Centre platform
Contact Centre Automations with AI
The Omnichannel platform is designed to support organizations that need to interact with their customers through multiple channels: Voice, Video, Chat, SMS, and Social Media, including the ability to analyze the Customer Journey, Contact Cards, and Analytics. . The Contact Centre Automation capabilities address the following needs: a. Conversational AI: human-machine interfaces to automate conversations on all channels (Conversational AI, Machine Learning, Chatbot, etc. ) b. Dialers: contact-lists are automatically processed, based on certain criteria, for Telemarketing, Booking Confirmation, Credit Collection, Lead Generation etc ... c. Workforce Management: prediction, through AI algorithms and resource allocation with the most appropriate skills for the management of each service in the company.
KEY BENEFITS
Faster and more effective support thanks to multiple channels managed through a Single, Unified and Integrated Environment.
Increased customer satisfaction and loyalty thanks to customer history knowledge and personalized contact service approach.
Self-service and live-agent interaction blending.
Proactive service attitude.
Optimized human resources management thanks to realtime omnichannel monitoring environment.
XCALLY Plans Description:
PLUS | The best choice for companies that want to offer customer service via voice channel, thanks to the robust interactive voice response (IVR) that allows business to handle tons of calls via sophisticated tools like automations, skills routing, queues, voice recognition, voice-bots enabling the customer to self-serve for faster resolution.
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OMNI-GOLD | The best choice for companies that want to offer an inbound omnichannel contact centre from a unified interface able to handle customer interactions from multiple channels in a way that allows customers to seamlessly switch back and forth across channels, by offering a consistent experience across customer service channels available at every touchpoint.
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DIALER-GOLD | The best choice for companies that want to manage outbound campaigns for lead generation, telemarketing, appointment reminder activities etc. via four different types of dialers, including the predictive mode for high volumes. Dialers use various algorithms to analyze call metrics and optimize agent efficiency and support an optimal environment for a growing business.
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ULTIMATE | The best choice for companies that want to adopt a 360-degree omnichannel customer experience via both inbound and outbound activities in a blended way from a unified interface. This plan offers high flexibility i.e. when inbound calls volumes are high, outbound campaigns can be paused as agents make live inbound calls a priority. managers also have access to much-needed insights with real-time reports, charts and analysis that can be evaluated to further drive productivity increases.
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General Architecture
XCALLY Motion V3 is the innovative solution that integrates Asterisk™ 18.x with the Motion technologies, developed in the Xenialab research center.
The Solution is based on a scalable multi-process asynchronous architecture to provide the best user experience on both the customer service agent and supervisor side.
Moreover, it can be easily installed on a cloud instance or on-premises, as needed, providing the highest level of flexibility.
The following diagrams illustrate the main building blocks involved in the XCALLY Motion architecture, both physical and logical.
Requirements
Server Side Requirements
XCALLY Motion can be deployed on a dedicated on-premise server, virtual machine or on the cloud.
XCALLY Motion runs on Debian 11.x and the server specification depend on the type of service you are offering and the number of agents in the call center.
Operating System
Debian GNU/Linux 11 "Bullseye" - 64 bit (netinst)
Important: The following requirements are general guidelines for getting started with XCALLY based on concurrent agents.
Recommended minimum server sizes | Voice (Plus) | Voice + Dialer (Dialer-gold) | Omnichannel (Omni-gold) | Full (Ultimate) |
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 Up to 30 agents (concurrent) | RAM: 2 GB CPU: 2 HDD: 32 GB | RAM: 4 GB CPU: 4 HDD: 32 GB | RAM: 4 GB CPU: 4 HDD: 32 GB | RAM: 4 GB CPU: 4 HDD: 32 GB |
 Up to 100 agents (concurrent) | RAM: 4 GB CPU: 4 HDD: 60 GB | RAM: 6 GB CPU: 6 HDD: 60 GB | RAM: 6 GB CPU: 6 HDD: 60 GB | RAM: 6 GB CPU: 6 HDD: 60 GB |
 100 + agents (concurrent) | RAM: 4 GB CPU: 4 HDD: 100 GB | RAM: 6 GB CPU: 6 HDD: 100 GB | RAM: 6 GB CPU: 6 HDD: 100 GB | RAM: 8 GB CPU: 8 HDD: 100 GB |
Keep in mind:
Configure your system SWAP AREA properly (at least the double of the RAM).
For security reasons, consider to install a proper firewall in front of your XCALLY server, especially if it is deployed on the Cloud.
During your XCALLY operations some other parameters must also be considered (such as the number of queues per agent, IVR complexity, the use of external APIs): the growth of any of these parameters could lead to redefine server requirements.
If you are planning to use complex IVR scripts (DB access and custom scripts) consider to double the RAM.
If you need to store a lot of logs and call recordings, please evaluate a large HDD space. Calls recorded in wav format need about 1MB per minute, in GSM format about 300k per minute.
The system backup is not included within the standard architecture/infrastructure.
Please note that any change of any kind applied on your XCALLY server (i.e. CPU, memory, HDD, network) can invalidate your XCALLY assigned license: for this reason any move and change of your XCALLY server must be carefully planned and notified to the XCALLY team.
How to scale
For large scalable deployments and to be able to interact with the Motion DB from external application - without affecting the operation - we suggest at least 2 or 3 Linux Debian 11 servers:
Recommended architecture if you need to scale over 50 agents: | Recommended architecture if you need to scale over 200 agents: |
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Please contact our XCALLY Team for help and more details about this scalable deployment solution.
Client side requirements
Agents can manage any interactions coming from multiple channels using a single unified user interface.
To run the Omnichannel web interface:
Browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, MS Edge
To manage voice calls, Agents can use Motion Phonebar, WebRTC bar or external SIP clients.
To use the Phonebar:
OS: Windows from 10 on with .Net 3.5 installed
To use the WebRTC bar:
Browsers: Opera, Google Chrome, Safari
OS: MAC OS, MS Windows from 10 on, MS Edge, Linux OS, Chrome OS, Chromium OS
To use external SIP clients:
OS: MAC OS, Linux OS, MS Windows from 10 on
System Features
General
GDPR Compliance
Secure Cookie
Telco-independent
Installation
Installable both on the Cloud (SAAS) and on Premises
Compatible with Debian 11.x
Compatible with Cloud Provider (i.e. AWS, Azure)
Docker container
Architecture
High Availability
Disaster Recovery
AGENT Experience
General
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Contact Management
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Agents can immediately start to manage interactions from different channels thanks to the ease of use.
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Agents can access to the assigned Lists of the Contacts manager, a light CRM that useful to effectively handle interactions with customers. Agents can easily retrieve contact information, track their activities and quickly call them or start a dynamic script, for example for Customer Satisfaction.
The web interface helps Agents to better interact with customers and solve their issues, since it provides a lot of useful data on the same screen!
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Channels Management
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Calls Management
Phonebar
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ADMIN Experience
General & Settings
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Dashboards
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Staff Setup and Management
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Contact Management
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Channels Management
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SMS
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OPENCHANNEL
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FAX
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WHATSAPP CONNECTOR
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FINO A QUI
Other Key Features
 MOTION BULL Motion Bull is an automated outbound dialer that helps you to increase productivity and maximise the Agents talk time thanks to the Preview, Power, Progressive or Predictive dialing. The dialer generates calls from the lists you have imported in Motion. You set a Queue campaign if you would like to put your customers in touch with an operator, or a IVR campaign if you would like to do a survey or just playback a message. | |
QUEUE CAMPAIGN | IVR CAMPAIGN |
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CALLY SQUARE | JSCRIPTY |
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APP ZONE | TOOLS |
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USER Experience
The Users are the Contact Center Supervisors, whose role is profiled by the System Administrator.
The permissions of a User can be assigned in order to guarantee from a wide set to a reduced set of operations. For example, they can be profiled in order to have limited access to:
the activities performed by the Agents, focusing on a specific group of them
the modules used and available in XCALLY environment
the channel activities (interactions, views and reports)
and any other resource available on the system
They can also have or not restricted editing functions (ReadOnly, Read&Edit, Read&Edit&Delete) and be prevented to display some menu entries, according to the permissions set by the Administrator.
In the full extent, the Users can have operational permissions similar to those of the Administrator, except for strict System operations (e.g.: installation, setup, licenses, maintenance, general environment configuration) and so on, which are activities for the administrators only. Also Users Creation and Users Permissions management are functions offered to the Administrators but not to the Users.
Typical User activities in a Contact Center context are presented:
Workflow Setup
Define and manage Contact Center Staff (only Telephones and Agents)
Design call center surveys using Jscripty
Design IVR flows using Cally Square
Use/Modify the plugins installed by the Admin in the App Zone
Tools Setup
Define specific Canned Answers, Dispositions, Intervals, Pauses, Schedulers, Tags, Triggers, Sounds and other feautures
Customize the Dashboards and Reports
Monitor Activity
Monitor Activities and Agents in Realtime
Run the Reports to monitor organization performance
Monitor Activities on the Custom Dashboards
The Users can perform many other activities and tasks : the Administrator can design specific User Profiles for each (group) of them in order to provide a proper applications and resources availability!
Integrations
XCALLY Motion provides integrations with 3rd party applications. The key benefit is to provide your customer care agents a Unified Agent Desktop Experience.
By integrating with third party apps with Motion, contact information can be shared among the platforms and your agents can better manage customers and offer quality service.
Integration is obtained in several ways:
triggered and ready-to-use integration;
integration via external apps, which the customer can choose and install;
integration as new Channel;
integration as a new extension of XCALLY modules;
integration hints for developers;
procedure or configuration steps.
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Asterisk |
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Bandwidth |
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Clickatell |
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Clicksend |
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Connectel |
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CSCTelecom |
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Dynamics 365 |
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Freshdesk |
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Freshworks (formerly Freshsales) |
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Grafana |
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Infobip |
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IntelePeer |
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ISpeech |
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Line |
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Lumenvox |
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Plivo |
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Salesforce |
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ServiceNow |
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Sestek |
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Skebby |
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Skype for Business |
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SugarCRM |
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Teams |
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Telegram |
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Tilde |
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TVox |
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Twilio |
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Unix |
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Viber |
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VTiger |
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XLite |
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Zendesk |
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Zoho |
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Zoiper |
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EU GDPR COMPLIANCE
Since its first projects, Xenialab approach focused towards a strong commitment to privacy, transparency and safety in order to protect our Clients personal data.
To confirm the trust of our Clients and our Partners, our analyses and procedures are built to guarantee the conformity of XCALLY Motion with the UE General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): the overall architecture, as well as of the single components of the solution, always follows the prerequisite of protecting the data.
For this purpose, we put into action several activities to guarantee the maximum safety of the product:
Specific tests of intrusion detection at several levels of complexity are periodically executed
Adopting the last version of the software and of the safety patches of all the base components, configuring the system firewalls and checking the Asterisk system protections are considered fundamental to manage and develop the solution
We use safe protocols as SSL/TLS for external functions of reading and feeding
The WebRTC technology used for XCALLY Motion supports safe protocols as WSS and HTTPS
Information containing personal data (such as sent and received messages, account information, contacts, calls recordings) are saved in the database using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
Relating to Phonebar, we are working on replacing the use of SIP and RTP protocols with the safer SIPS and SRTP TLS.
In order to enhance the agent password security and privacy according to the GDPR rules, we provide specific features (under General Settings section) and we strongly recommend to enable them:
The Security Suite enables a set of rules for Administrators, Agents, Telephones and Users accounts concerning the password format, reset and expiration after 90 days
XCally Motion Phonebar allows Agents passwords reset and management, according to the Security Suite
The Voice Recording Encryption protects your recorded calls from unauthorized use or file system breach. The encryption is highly recommended if the stored call recordings contains sensitive or personal data. The encryption is turned off only if the files containing the voice recordings are accessed from the Motion user interface.
COOKIES POLICY
To make XCALLY Motion work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device.
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.
Cookies are built to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember stateful information (such as language or type size) or to record the user’s browsing activity (including clicking particular buttons, logging in, or recording which pages were visited in the past).
The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time. That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.
XCALLY Motion stores cookies for:
Authentication: the cookie keeps the session active until the log out is performed
Preferences and Filters: the cookies remember filters and other settings you applied before
XCALLY Motion Chat module uses HTML5 local storage to save:
layout format data
online customer's data
data about the actual interaction
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish.
You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set your browser to prevent them from being used.