Strategic Data & Telecom, Inc.
Phone: (630) 355-7331
Fax: (630) 355-1971

  What Is Call Accounting?


By translating raw data from a variety of telecom sources (i.e. PBX, Centrex, IP-Based, PC-Based phone systems and key systems) into meaningful management reports Apogee call accounting software can help you grasp the relationships found in your data in a clear and concise way and make it simple to... Additionally, translation of PBX Specific SMDR or ACD data can provide important tools for assessing trends and improving customer service for ...

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Track Overall Phone Activity

Managers need quick access to data summarizing routine phone activity to pinpoint irregularities as well as access to immediate details identifying urgent alarms and potential malfunctions.  Apogee automatically displays important statistics and alarms in its Central Dashboard summarizing Daily and Monthly activity and listing typical Alarm Conditions. A Corporate Summary Report serves as a vignette of multiple standard graphical and abuse reports that can be created automatically or on-demand. Most importantly, a unique feature of Apogee data collection permits customization to detect a variety of conditions BEFORE the call is answered.



Corporate Summary
More Informations   Reports
  Central Dashboard   (RPT  JPEG Corporate Summary
  Real-Time Processing




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Allocate and Control Costs

Organizations need a way to efficiently and accurately allocate telephone expenses back to the users, departments, and cost centers that incurred them. In addition to distributing expenses, Apogee can also help organizations set and maintain budgets by forcing users to evaluate the cost/benefit trade off of expensive communication services and help promote responsible usage.



User Summary By Count
More Informations   Reports
  Cost Allocation   (RPT  JPEG User Summary By Count
  Call Type Summary
  User Summary
  User Detail




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Evaluate Sales Performance

Sales and service operations rely on call volume and destination data as a coaching and performance assessment tool to improve the level of service offered to your customers and to sharpen your competitive edge. Marketing managers need to analyze call center data to evaluate and optimize the effectiveness of promotional campaigns.



Phone Number ID Detail
Reports  
(RPT  JPEG Call Ranking Summary  
(RPT  JPEG Phone Number ID Summary
(RPT  JPEG Phone Number ID Detail
(RPT  JPEG Duration Summary




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Analyze and Forecast Telecom Traffic

Paying for phone lines you don’t need, or lines that are out-of-service can also be costly?   Or maybe you need additional lines? Apogee can answer these questions and provide a comprehensive resource for analyzing strategic network trends. The built-in algorithm analyzes your calling patterns, forecasts blocked calls, and allows you to simulate an increase or decrease in call traffic in order to see its effect on your line requirements.

Note the PBX routing digits on the Trunk Detail report.  All Apogee detail reports can be generated with actual digits dialed, NPA/NXX resolved digits, or PBX routing digits.



Trunk & Traffic Reports
More Information   Reports
  Traffic Analysis   (RPT  JPEG Trunk Detail
  Trunk Utilization (RPT  JPEG Trunk Summary
(RPT  JPEG  Trunk to Trunk




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Prevent Abuse

The telephone is intended to be a business tool but unfortunately that is not always the case.  Without monitoring, personal usage can easily exceed 10% in a typical organization – frequent phone calls to friends, radio stations, dial-a-joke, etc.   Apogee® solves the abuse problem by tracking individual phone use and immediately alerting departmental managers of inappropriate activity via email, pager, or monitor alarms.  Having policy enforcement delegated to departmental managers reduces abuse and improves productivity.



Freq Dialed by Volume
Reports  
(RPT  JPEG Frequently Dialed by Volume  
(RPT  JPEG Phone IDs Without Activity
(RPT  JPEG Extensions Without Activity
(RPT  JPEG Station to Station By User




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Detect Fraud

Telephone fraud is a multi million dollar problem.  Hackers are constantly trying to break into phone networks for the purpose of stealing access codes and placing fraudulent long distance and international calls.  Apogee® provides essential security monitoring tools to quickly spot suspicious activity and reports quickly identify the source of problems. Experience teaches it is always the unexpected that occurs.   Waiting for fraud to appear on your monthly phone bill can be an expensive lesson.


Calls Ranked By Highest Cost
Reports  
(RPT   JPEG Department Call Type Summary by Cost  
(RPT  JPEG Individual Calls Ranked By Highest Cost
(RPT  JPEG Individual Calls Ranked by Duration
(RPT  JPEG User Ranking by Total Count




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Provide Directory Information

Apogee also provides personnel listings for quick Directory lookup.  Apogee's Directory database has user definable fields that can be populated with an easy-to-use import wizard, thereby eliminating duplicate data entry in multiple systems.  A wide selection of Directory reports can eliminate the periodic task of manually creating corporate phone directories.



Directory Lookup
More Information   Reports
  Active Directory Import   (RPT  JPEG Last Name Listing
  Directory Lookup (RPT  JPEG Department Listing
(RPT  JPEG Non-Personnel Listing




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Manage Inbound Calls *


Your customers are calling.  How many calls are you losing due to long wait time?  How quickly are your attendants answering the phones and are calls being routed correctly?  Inbound call management is critical.  Apogee Enterprise and Apogee Desktop are designed to give you the detailed answers.  If you need management reports concerning your inbound calls such as abandoned call count, hold time, wait time, and queue efficiency then take a look at our enhanced Call Center reports. 



DNIS Summary
Reports  
(RPT  JPEG Console Statistics  
(RPT  JPEG DNIS Detail
(RPT  JPEG DNIS Summary
(RPT  JPEG Transfer Call Tracking




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Bill Tenants

Apogee Enterprise and Desktop are ideal for tenant billing applications.  The built-in Line Item Charge tool provides a means of recovering one-time charges, recurring expenses, or items prorated on time-in-service.  Additionally, customizable consolidated billing can be obtained through integration with the FMS Work Order system.

Note that your corporate logo as shown on the Tenant Detail Bill can be inserted into any report heading for Apogee Enterprise systems.


Tenant Detail Bill
Other Information   Reports
  Billing Methods   (RPT  JPEG Tenant Detail Bill
  General Ledger Export (RPT  JPEG Department Summary Bill




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Bill Clients and Projects

Professional firms often use account codes to accurately allocate costs incurred for clients or projects.  Apogee Enterprise and Apogee Desktop support major and minor account codes to achieve easy bill-back.  Optimized for large account code databases (up to 1 million account codes), the Apogee Professional Services System also includes tools for editing, exporting to third party Time and Billing systems, attaching memos to call records, and optional automatic dialing.



Tenant Bill
Other Information   Reports
  Professional Services   (RPT  JPEG Account Code Detail
(RPT  JPEG Account Code Summary
(RPT  JPEG Memo by Phone Number




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Call Center*


Call Center Reporting modules provide powerful analysis opportunities to address the important challenges of managing agents and inbound call handling efficiencies in small customer service departments or larger contact centers.



Monthly ACD Statistics
Other Information   Reports
  Combined ACD   (RPT  JPEG Avaya BCMS
  Call Center Generic (RPT  JPEG Nortel ACD




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Process PBX Specific Information*

As data and telephone communications continue their rapid convergence, Apogee continues on an evolutionary path to incorporate the novel information created by this synthesis.


Other Information  
  Intertel  
  BT Syntegra
  Mitel Extended Network




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Tally Third Party Call Info*

Apogee’s unique Call Processing Engine makes it simple to track Three Party or More Calls.   Most call accounting systems consider a call to have originated from a SOURCE and terminated at a DESTINATION.   Such calls are considered to be Two Party calls, but modern switches often store useful information in additional fields within an SMDR call record.   This important information is simply overlooked by most call accounting systems, but extensively tracked within Apogee as illustrated by the following typical examples.


Other Information  
  Pilot Number Recording  
  Rep Transfer Ratio Report
  Centralized Voice Mail Follow Along




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*Contact SDT to determine if PBX specific reports are available for your configuration.