07 December 2016
Bolstering commitment to customer service excellence with world-class, Dubai-based Contact Centre

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Emirates Real Estate Solutions (ERES), the technology arm of Dubai Land Department (DLD), today announced the complete roll-out of the Altitude uCI solution at DLD contact centre to ensure excellence in customer care delivery.

A tie-up with Al Rostamani Communications LLC, the leading UAE-based information technology and telecommunications company, has resulted in the successful implementation of the Altitude uCI 8 customer interaction management solution at DLD’s head office in Dubai. Altitude solutions include inbound, outbound, blending, predictive dialing, email management, business campaign scripting and online monitoring. Altitude uCI allows workflow definition according to the scoring and situation of each customer, maximizing productivity while maintaining a good customer relation.

His Excellency Sultan Buti Bin Mejren, Director General of DLD said: “This customer-centric approach utilises technology in order to boost satisfaction and happiness of our customers. As well as providing enhanced DLD services, these improvements also tie in with the Government’s ‘Smart Dubai’ agenda - which aims to optimise technology in order to achieve high levels of happiness for all of the Emirate’s residents and visitors.”

Bin Mejren concluded: “’DLD continually strives to exceed citizens and residents satisfaction by providing a great number of services, that go beyond just providing registration and titling, but rather to provide a fully integrated experience for customer”. 

The DLD contact centre specifically aims at powering key DLD departments that include Real Estate Regulatory Agency, also known as RERA (the regulatory arm);  Real Estate Investment Management & Promotion Center (the investment arm); Rental Dispute Settlement Center (the Judicial arm) and Dubai Real Estate Institute (the educational arm). 

The main customer service campaign handled by the DLD contact centre is related to the EJARI support line, a revolutionary system that shall move Dubai real estate sector to be one of the best regulated rental market in the world. The system is aimed at creating transparency on the clauses and provisions of a private rental agreement signed by landlords and tenants and making such documents enforceable by law.

Improving contact centre efficiencies while enhancing citizen engagement 

With the Altitude Voice Portal solution in place, Dubai residents, landlords or property management companies can check the status of an Ejari account or application at any time. The contact centre handles all Ejari enquiries related to lease agreement registration, renewals, cancellations, transfers and terminations. 

DLD is also able to intelligently route interactions, automate outbound dialing, as well as utilize real-time performance dashboards. The flexibility of the new system specifically enables the advanced blending of outbound and inbound operations and campaigns, with a strong offering of built-in desktops for customer care and proactive service operations.

Since implementing the new customer interaction management solution, DLD and its customers received many benefits, such as reduced time and cost of generating manual reports regarding the overall activity of DLD’s customer service operations, boost in the usage of voice self-service channel by 65%, increase in voice interactions answered in 15 seconds or less by 65%, and decrease in abandoned calls by 42%.

"Our work with the Dubai Land Department is a clear demonstration of how ARC can provide robust customer interaction management solutions to public service organisations," said ​Youssef Fawaz GM at Al Rostamani Communications. ‘’Altitude's highly flexible and reliable contact centre technology address the GCC market’s evolving needs and are a key reason for our strong relationship in the region.’’

Leading Cities worldwide Prioritizing Citizen Engagement ProjectsThis successful implementation in Dubai bears out a recent Frost & Sullivan survey which found that improvement in citizen engagement is a major objective for leading “smart” cities in Europe, with 70% of respondents saying that engagement was a focus of their data-centric projects.

In this respect, Altitude Software and Frost & Sullivan, recently announced the release of a white paper “Omni-channel Citizen Engagement: A Foundation for Growth”, today available from Altitude Software.

In this Briefing, Frost & Sullivan explains why citizen engagement is more important to cities than perhaps it has been in the past. Secondly, it examines how the omni-channel contact center can assist local leaders in achieving their engagement goals. It also identifies five pillars on which cities should base their investment decisions—from self-service tools that meet the needs for convenience and time saving – just as with the DLD project in Dubai, to citizen-centric design that provides a consistent information model from the public-facing interface to the contact center.

“It has been a real pleasure working with such a citizen-centric organization as DLD and their culture of putting citizens in control of their service interactions,” states Riadh Boukhris, Altitude Software MENA President. ‘’The DLD initiative is another good example of our commitment to address Citizen Engagement Projects as well as to make our MENA region a world-leader in Customer-Service for the people to enjoy the right Customer-Service anytime, anywhere.’’

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Click here to download the free White Paper - “Omni-channel Citizen Engagement: A Foundation for Growth”- and learn about the five pillars on which cities should base their citizen engagement investment decisions.

About Dubai Land Department

Dubai Land Department (DLD) was founded in May 1960 to establish the most prominent real estate sector in the Middle East and in the world.

DLD provides outstanding services to all its customers whilst developing the necessary legislation to propel the real estate sector in Dubai, organizing and promoting real estate investment, and spreading industry knowledge. DLD seeks regional and worldwide innovation in real estate with the aid of its active organizations that include: Real Estate Regulatory Agency, the regulatory arm, Real Estate Investment Management & Promotion Center, the investment arm, Dubai Real Estate Institute, the educational arm, and Rental Dispute Center, the judicial arm.

Unified Toll Free Number:

In order for Dubai Land Department to provide the best possible service in a rapid manner and to ensure the comfort and happiness of our customers, it has activated a new toll-free call centre number [8004488]. This can be used for all Dubai Land Department and Rental Disputes Center enquiries.

About Altitude Software

Altitude Software (www.altitude.com) is a global provider of omnichannel solutions to deliver great customer experiences. Its solutions help companies and organizations unify all customer interactions and become more customer-centric. Altitude uCI (Unified Customer Interaction) is a robust, modular software platform that handles all customer interactions and unifies all touch points, in the contact center and throughout any organization.

More than 300.000 users in 1100 customers in 80 countries use Altitude uCI solutions to manage in real time enterprise functions like Customer Service, Telemarketing, Debt Recovery; Help Desk; Citizen Attention, etc. Altitude Software has a track record of 22 years of customer and industry recognition and has won dozens of awards for innovation and tangible results with customers in key markets worldwide. It has 12 offices in four continents, a 160-strong worldwide partner network and is ISO 9001 certified for its worldwide support.

Altitude Software Middle East & North Africa is located in Dubai Internet City, U.A.E, and is leading the multimedia contact centre market in those regions. Customers include National Bank of Abu Dhabi (UAE), Etisalat (UAE), G4S (KSA), Dubai World Trade Center (UAE), Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (UAE), Nestle Waters (UAE), Trust (Bahrain), Qnet (Kuwait), Ahli United Bank (Bahrain), Pizza Hut (KSA), National Bank of Oman, Advancia (Tunisia), Air Miles (UAE), and SNTTA (UAE).

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About ERES

Emirates Real Estate Solutions (ERES) is the partner of choice for providing technology solutions to the real estate developers, brokers, landlords and government to help them work better and build trusted, regulatory community for the real estate industry using innovative technologies. To ensure a complete solution offering, ERES provides real estate solutions that cater for all real estate markets governed by best practices set by Dubai Land Department (DLD) and Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) applying different commercial models that assures best service, quality and products are delivered.http://www.eres.ae/

About Al Rostamani Communications

Al Rostamani Communications LLC (ARC) is a leading IT & Telecommunication solutions provider and systems integrator, offering innovative, integrated technology solutions and professional services to customers in UAE and other GCC countries. ARC represents world leaders in technology which includes, Schneider-Electric, Alcatel-Lucent, NEC, HP, D-Link, Altitude Software, Digi, Fujitsu, McAfee, Symantec, Sonicwall,  Nagravision, Telcordia, Aztech, Sagemcom, Mediatrix, Samsung, Spirent. ARC’s loyal and trusted customers are in various segments which includes, Telecom Service Providers, Government, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Financial Sector, Education, Hospitality, Health Care, Industries, Transportation, Retail, Trading, Real Estate & Construction. ARC is a member of Al Rostamani Group, one of the largest and most respected business conglomerates in the United Arab Emirates, known for its commitment & care to all stakeholders, and vision. http://www.arcuae.com/

For More Information:

Altitude Software Middle East and Africa FZ-LLC

Mr Dhaval Makwana

Dubai Internet City

Dubaï, UAE

Tel. +971 43 91 88 80

info.mena@altitude.com

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