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Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND 5 User Manual

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MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0
System Manager’s Guide

555-650-118

Issue 1

June 1997

Putting the System to Work

Page 5-26

Scenario 3: A Dual-Location Company

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Table 5–8.

Work Group Needs

Work Group

Needs

President and
vice-presidents,
W. Coast Division
Mgr., Plant Mgr.,
Personnel Mgr.

Ability to meet frequently, face to face, without incurring travel costs

Executive
Secretaries

Ability to receive bosses’ calls directly, without those calls going
through an operator/receptionist

Call-covering by other secretary or voice mail

Vice-President of
Product Design

Product engineers

Quality Assurance
Engineers

Plant Manager

Drafters

Ability to exchange and work together individually on documents and
computer-generated images

Ability to meet as a group without incurring travel costs

Vice-President of
Marketing and
Sales

Ability to access either system remotely for calling customers and
associates. Ability to assess performance of order-takers and
customer service reps as well as field sales personnel.

Order-Takers and
Customer Service
Personnel

Ability for small-order customers to access an automatic ordering
system in which they use their touch-tone phones to enter account
numbers, product codes, and so on, without having to wait for an
agent. They have the option of speaking to an agent.

Ability for calls from customers who buy in large quantities to be
directed to the groups of agents, bypassing the operator, so that the
most-idle agent (Release 5.0 and later systems) can answer a call. If
no agents are available, the caller should hear an initial
announcement stating that an agent will soon take the call. For callers
who must wait longer, a second announcement (Release 5.0 and
later systems) is needed to urge callers to stay on the line. While a
caller is on hold, he or she should hear music.

Ability to use a LAN-based software application, in conjunction with
Caller ID services from a telecommunications provider, to rapidly pop
up database information about a customer, based on the caller’s
telephone number.

Hands-free operation of their telephones so they can enter order
information, review customer history, or check on orders in progress
while talking to a customer.

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