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Univerge Blue Pulse™ Artifical Intelligence Overview

What is Univerge Blue Pulse Artifical Intelligence?

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE™ AI by NEC is a groundbreaking artificial intelligence technology that enhances business communication solutions. It aims to make businesses more intelligent, efficient, and customer-focused by incorporating AI into their communications platforms. This technology facilitates smarter decision-making and improves productivity and customer service through advanced AI capabilities.

Why Should I Care About Univerge Blue Pulse Artifical Intelligence?

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE Artificial Intelligence is crucial for businesses seeking to harness AI for enhancing productivity and customer service. It offers an immediate pathway to integrate AI, enabling smarter work processes, increased productivity, and an enhanced customer experience. This aligns with the desire of many businesses to leverage AI for competitive advantage.

What AI-Powered Features Does Univerge Blue Pulse Have?

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE incorporates cutting-edge AI to optimize business communications, focusing on enhancing productivity, streamlining operations, and elevating customer interactions. For a complete list of its AI-powered features and how they can transform your business, please refer to their detailed table on the next page for specifics.

How Do I Know I Need Univerge Blue Pulse?

Questions you can ask yourself include:

What role does artificial intelligence play in my business strategy? What do I hope AI will do for me?

If greater employee productivity and better customer experience is part of that strategy, you should consider NEC’s UNIVERGE BLUE intelligent business communications platform powered by PULSE.

How much time does it take your team to document customer interactions?

Every minute an employee spends making notes is less time to answer calls. AI-powered capabilities like transcriptions and AI Interaction Summary can help reduce documentation time.

Univerge Blue Pulse Artifical Intelligence Components

AI is used across NEC’s UNIVERGE BLUE business cloud communications platform

Product Line

AI Application

Description

CONNECT (Voicemail),
ENGAGE (Call Recordings),
MEET
Transcription

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE includes a feature for automatic transcription of audio from calls or meetings into text post-event, enhancing record-keeping and review processes.

ENGAGE
AI Interaction Summary

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE offers a feature that automatically generates summaries of calls based on the transcribed text, accessible to both supervisors and agents, enhancing review and feedback processes.

AI Evaluator

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE leverages AI to identify key words in transcribed conversations, flagging them for quality assurance review, streamlining the monitoring process.

AI Sentiment Analysis

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE automatically analyzes transcribed voice calls to detect and categorize the emotional tone of conversations as positive, negative, or neutral, facilitating enhanced understanding of customer sentiment.

AI Transcription Redaction

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE features a security mechanism that automatically detects and redacts sensitive information from call transcriptions, such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Payment Card Industry (PCI) data, and Personal Health Information (PHI), to ensure privacy and compliance.

MEET
Notes, Action Items, and Virtual Backgrounds

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE analyzes conversations for key topics and actionable items, enhancing meeting productivity. It also offers a virtual background feature for privacy in remote work settings.

How do you monitor calls to ensure a positive customer experience? How do you choose which calls need to be reviewed?

Monitoring calls for positive customer experience involves analyzing transcribed conversations for sentiment, key topics, and compliance with quality standards. Calls are chosen for review based on specific triggers, such as keywords or phrases that may indicate a need for further quality assurance. Summaries and sentiment analysis help supervisors quickly understand the nature of a call, prioritize which calls to review in detail, and ensure customer interactions meet company standards.

How does a customer-facing employee know what was talked about if a customer from a prior interaction calls again? How much time does that take?

Customer-facing employees can quickly access summaries and key points from previous interactions thanks to advanced call transcription and analysis features. This ensures they’re informed about past conversations, significantly enhancing customer satisfaction by making interactions more personalized and efficient. The process is streamlined, minimizing the time needed to catch up on a customer’s history.

How often do people go back and listen to meeting/call recordings? How much time does that take?

Reviewing call or meeting recordings is time-consuming, often leading to people either spending excessive time on this task or avoiding it due to the commitment required. Transcriptions can significantly reduce this effort, allowing for quicker review of key points and decisions, making it an efficient tool for those who find listening to full recordings impractical.

Getting Started

How Do I Get Started Using Univerge Blue Pulse?

To start using UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE, if you’re a CONNECT customer, you already have access to certain AI features like voicemail and meeting transcriptions. ENGAGE customers with call transcription services can use all AI features. ENGAGE COMPLETE includes monthly transcription hours, while ENGAGE ADVANCED offers it as an add-on.

Can I Enable And Disable Univerge Blue Pulse Features?

Admins can manage the availability of various AI features for CONNECT and ENGAGE, such as enabling or disabling meeting transcriptions, queue-based transcriptions, sentiment analysis, and the redaction of sensitive information in transcriptions

How Do Admins Turn On Engage AI Features Like Transaction Analysis?

Admins can activate ENGAGE AI features through the Admin Portal. After enabling call transcription services for their ENGAGE accounts, they can use the Queues page to manage settings for call transcriptions, sentiment analysis, and transcription redaction.

Customers with access to AI Interaction Summary can enable the “Transcription Summary” feature for more insightful overviews of conversations. AI Transcription Redaction is automatically activated for voice queues where transcription is enabled, enhancing privacy and compliance, while voicemail queues default to having redaction turned off for flexibility.

Supervisor Experience

How Do Supervisors Across Engage AI Capabilities?

Supervisors can access and review AI-enabled analyses, such as transcriptions, call summaries, and sentiment, via the Admin Portal’s “Analysis” section, under “Recordings” and specifically “Voice Recordings.” This includes options to search by various criteria and view calls with Interaction Summaries. Sentiment tags and summaries are also available in the Evaluator tool, enhancing oversight and quality control.

Pricing

How Much Does Univerge Blue Pulse Cost?

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE AI features are included with certain CONNECT PRO/PRO PLUS licenses at no extra cost. For ENGAGE users, additional fees apply for AI features like Call & Voicemail Transcription, Transcription Redaction, Interaction Summary, and Sentiment Analysis. These are billed based on transcription usage in 5-hour blocks per concurrent license monthly. ENGAGE COMPLETE includes transcription services in its subscription, whereas ENGAGE ADVANCED offers them as an add-on. Admins can monitor usage via the UNIVERGE BLUE CONTROL PANEL under the ENGAGE tab.Click here to learn more.

Understanding The Technology

How Does Univerge Blue Pulse Work?

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE utilizes a combination of natural language processing and Generative AI to understand and contextualize spoken words, enabling the analysis of interactions and the generation of highly accurate records. This advanced technology ensures that businesses can effectively analyze and improve their communication strategies.

What Is Generative AI And How Does AI Interaction Summary Use It?

Generative AI, utilized in UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE’s AI Interaction Summary, creates content by understanding patterns in data. It crafts concise summaries from call transcriptions, highlighting key points for efficient review.

What Is Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of AI focused on enabling machines to understand, interpret, and respond to human language in a way that is both valuable and meaningful. This technology underpins systems that can analyze text or speech, providing the foundation for various applications like translation, sentiment analysis, and automated summarization.

Do You Own The AI Technology That Powers Univerge Blue Pulse?

NEC’s UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE leverages a leading AI engine through API integration for transcription and analysis, ensuring high-quality, efficient processing of recordings.

What Languages Does It Support?

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE supports transcriptions and summaries in English (U.S.), with the capability to recognize various accents, ensuring broad accessibility and understanding.

Are There Any Privacy Or Security Concerns With Transactions That Hold Sensitive Information?

UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE prioritizes privacy and security by not storing voice or meeting data with third parties. Its AI Transcription Redaction feature further ensures the protection of sensitive information in transcriptions.

What Information Does AI Transaction Redaction Remove?

AI Transcription Redaction by UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE ensures the removal of sensitive information, including Personal Identifiable Information (PII), Payment Card Industry (PCI) data, and Protected Health Information (PHI), along with general information like events and URLs, enhancing privacy and security in communications.

For comprehensive details, it’s recommended to refer to their support article.

https://support.univerge.blue/app/articles/detail/a_id/26247/kw/26247

Can I Choose What Information AI Transcription Redaction Removes?

Once AI Transcription Redaction is enabled in UNIVERGE BLUE PULSE, there is no option to selectively choose the types of information it removes from transcriptions.

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Houston, TX 77079