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TIM Professional is the market-leading call
logging system - no other software matches it for
price and features.
It's a Windows-based application that uses the data
output from your telephone system (PBX), checks it,
costs it and stores it automatically. From this, not
only can it produce a whole range of management
reports with vivid graphs, charts and tables,
custom-defined if required, but all of its functions
can be performed from anywhere in the world using a
standard web browser - no client software is
required.
Add to this the live, wallboard-type call-handling
statistics, and the fact that it costs a fraction of
the price of other, lesser-able call loggers, and
you'd be missing out by using anything else!
Control your costs
TIM gives department managers the information they
need to control their own telecoms budgets. Just
knowing the system is in place will itself reduce
general telephone abuse, allowing significant
savings. Give department managers access to their
own information - from their own desktop using a
standard web browser. Setup any number of users,
restricting access to specific departments if
required.
Improve service
TIM identifies when and where your calls are being
lost. Lost calls mean lost business, and customer
dissatisfaction.
TIM also monitors your phone line usage. Do you have
enough lines? Or too many? TIM scrutinises your
telephone traffic and can readily suggest line
optimisation.
Flexible
You can use TIM two ways... locally at the PC using
its simple Windows Explorer-style interface, and
remotely using any standard web browser, so now you
can produce reports, edit your organisation's
directory, or see live wallboard-type statistics from
anywhere on your network.
Fast and accurate
TIM retrieves information in seconds. It works
around a lightning-fast and incredibly flexible
costing algorithm allowing stats to be produced within
seconds of a call being made.
An introduction to call logging
Management Reports
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How fast is it?
TIM Professional, and it's big brother
TIM Enterprise, is used by multi-national
corporate companies and NHS hospitals, who generally
process thousands of calls per hour. In these
situations, the software easily handles the flow of
incoming data, whilst churning out reports over the
web, or locally, in seconds, to multiple users.
How many call records can TIM store?
For a medium-sized organisation, the software can
comfortably store call records over a year old in its
live database. Of course, at any time you can archive
data out of the live database and into storage, to be
imported and inspected years later.
How many lines and extensions can TIM support?
TIM works just the same on a 10-extension system as
it does on a 10,000-extension system! No upgrade is
required if you install more extensions, so you
needn't worry about expansion costs when you grow.
This naturally applies to number of telephone lines
too.
How quickly can I get information on calls that
have just happened?
As soon as a call has finished, within seconds it
will have been properly processed and safely stored by
TIM in its database, allowing immediate access from
the reports. Furthermore, any calls meeting
user-defined criteria can be set to start an audible
alarm, or their details sent by e-mail instantly.
I have several sites, each with their own
telephone system. How can I access this information in
one place?
TIM is built around a multi-site database - it
wasn't an after-thought. So, whether you have a single
PABX or hundreds, all your reports can focus on any of
your sites - or all of them! Sites can be connected to
the TIM server directly by serial cable, or over a
TCP/IP network using the integrated NetPBX tool.
How safe is TIM’s internal web server?
You can setup users to access only information from
their own group, or allow full access to designated
‘super users’. The interface is first protected using
basic authentication at the web browser, but backed up
by a powerful IP-security restriction. Couple this
with a firewall if you’re still worried, and you can
be sure that no-one will be able to see your valuable
call information.
Can TIM tell me if I have enough lines?
Yes. The Trunks Busy report shows how busy your
system gets throughout each day. TIM also advises how
long it takes to answer calls, through its Incoming
Call Analysis Report. These help in making decisions
about cutting off redundant lines, or getting new ones
installed to stop callers getting busy tone.
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TIM Professional produces a number of highly
flexible reports. All of these are available on-demand
at the PC running TIM, or through a standard web
browser anywhere on your network.
They can also be sent to a printer or to multiple
e-mail addresses on a scheduled basis, every hour,
day, week, month or quarter.
Each report is generated in standard HTML and TIM
uses template HTML files for its headers and footers,
meaning that every single report can be completely
customised to include your company logo, personalised
contact information - indeed, anything written in
HTML.
Some of the more popular reports are described
here, with a short description and a print preview...
Billing Report
This is used when you need to produce a telephone bill
for a client or group of clients, for example in a
business centre, a hospital, hotel or between your
company's departments.
Organisation Drill-Down
A powerful, fully-clickable report which begins with a
complete summary of all departmental activity with
totals.
By simply clicking on the department you're
interested in, the report zooms in to show the same
summary information for each individual extension in
that group.
Zoom in further to a particular extension to see a
detailed itemised list of all call activity on that
extension.
Trunks Busy Report
This breaks down each business day into half-hour
periods, showing the maximum and average number of
concurrent phones in use during any particular
half-hour. Standard filters apply, so you can choose
to concentrate on only incoming or only outgoing
calls, or exclude weekends so as not to distort your
figures when traffic may normally be low.
Call Geography
Shows vivid pie charts and a detailed table with
complete information about where you make your calls
to, out of local, national, international, mobile,
etc. Each segment is shown as a percentage of the
number of calls, and again to show how much of the
cost is made up of those types of calls. This quickly
enables you to see how just a handful of calls may
account for the majority of your costs!
Top Calls Report
Quickly identify your top calls in terms of cost or
duration. This is most useful for uncovering abuse or
for identifying expensive types of calls, for example
calls to directory enquiry services, mobile phones,
premium rate numbers etc.
Incoming Call Analysis
Breaks down your working day into half-hour
segments and reveals important information about your
incoming calls. See calls that are answered and
abandoned, how long it takes you to answer them, or
how long people are waiting before they give up and
abandon the call. These figures are shown as maximum
and averages so you can more effectively plan your
staffing requirements throughout each day.
Target Response Report
Quickly assess how well a group of extensions (or
your whole organisation) is answering incoming calls
within a pre-determined target. It provides a line by
line summary of each day along with a visual indicator
showing the percentage of incoming calls answered
within and outside your target.
Custom Report
An extremely flexible report, for those who feel
they want more information than is provided by the
in-built reports; you can specify exactly what search
terms you want to look for including Caller ID, and
LCR calls.
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We think TIM Professional breaks the mould in
call logging, and we want you to try it for
yourself.
So we offer a free, no obligation full trial
on your own telephone system for 14 days.
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TIM Professional |
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Single site |
£ 1195 |
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On-site cover |
£ 250 pa |
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Your telephone system (or PBX) produces a
packet of data (a call record) after every phone
call your organisation makes or receives, through
it. These call records contain important
information about each call, including whether it
was an incoming call, and outgoing call, or
another type, such as an internal (extension to
extension) call.
Call records contain details of the calling
party and the called party, as well as
extra information such as the length of time it
took to answer the call, the duration of the call,
the number that was dialled, the caller ID of the
calling party, and other information, such as
which telephone line (trunk) was used to carry the
call.
The practice of call logging involves capturing
these call records, sorting and storing them in a
central database, and their subsequent retrieval
by way of a call logging reports.
Connection to your PBX
The way those call records are collected varies
between the manufacturer of your telephone system,
but usually involves a physical connection using a
serial cable, or over an existing TCP/IP
network connection.
Serial cable connections are slightly more
difficult to setup because they run at different
speeds (ie. the speed at which the receiver of the
call records, your PC, has to match that of your
PBX, which can vary).
There are also different types of physical
serial connector cables, from 9-pin to 25-pin, and
other proprietary interfaces using telephone
handsets.
Network connections are usually much simpler to
setup and involve the call logging software,
running on a PC on the same local area network,
knowing the IP address of the PBX. Once a
connection is established successfully, the call
logger liaises directly with the PBX to receive
each call record as it arrives.
Traditional call logging software
In the early days of call logging, to obtain
call reports, the operator had to physically
attend the PC console and enter the parameters for
each report, wait by the printer, and finally
collate the reams of paper into meaningful
reports. Many call logging systems still operate
this way, but most now provide a web browser
interface over your local area network.
Web reporting interface
Because the operator can now access reports
from anywhere on the LAN using a standard web
browser, it's easy to run reports on demand, send
them as e-mail attachments to interested parties,
or print them for inclusion in wider research.
Advanced call logging systems include the
facility to offer this 'web reporting interface'
as part of the same product, whereas the thrifty
type will rely on there being existing web server
software in place, which can be an extra hidden
cost in most cases.
See our white paper on this issue:
Web call
loggers aren't all the same!
Maintaining the call logger
Many people have invested thousands of pounds
in call logging systems - sometimes monitoring
multiple telephone systems - but fail to keep them
up-to-date. Tariff pricing is the main cause of
cost discrepancies when it comes to reconciling
the call logger's reports to a phone company's
telephone bill. It's also important to update
your tariffs, since these reflect network changes,
such as local STD code changes and other number
group changes.
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