Category: Landis Technologies LLC News

11/11/2020 – Landis Technologies becomes the inaugural Certified Contact Center for Microsoft Teams after Microsoft unveils its Certified Microsoft Teams Solutions for Contact Center website.

“We have worked very closely with Microsoft to bring contact center functionality to Microsoft Teams in as native of a way as possible and are honored to be the very first Microsoft Teams Certified Contact Center”, says Landis Technologies managing owner Matt Landis. “We are dedicated to being the very best contact center solution for Microsoft Teams. Our solution is not merely connected via a Direct Route/SBC connection, but is Powered by the Microsoft Teams calling & meeting infrastructure. We have designed it to be drop dead easy to buy & implement, it has the familiar look & feel of Teams combined with the powerful features you need.”

The Certified Microsoft Teams program notes “Certified Microsoft Teams solutions for Contact Centers…help contact center agents deliver faster issue resolution and better service…Certification leverages industry best practices to offer assurance and confidence that enterprise organizations’ data and privacy are secured, protected, and compliant”.

Landis Contact Center for Microsoft Teams brings live analytics, advance call queuing, policy call recording, reporting, wallboards, skills routing, sophisticated IVR designer, CRM integration and more into a native Teams App.

You can read more about the Landis Contact Center for Microsoft Teams here, or you can setup a Preview of the service for your Microsoft Teams tenant here.

Certified Microsoft Teams solutions for Contact Centers:
https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/partners/contact-center-solutions

Sept 22, 2020 – Microsoft Ignite 2020  – In the next few weeks Landis Technologies will be rolling out a significant update to our Contact Center for Teams Preview & after that we expect to release the first parts of our Contact Center call queuing and routing to GA.

The soon coming update will include new charts, IVR designer diagram view, additional routing methods, queue service level statistics along with underlying system and Preview customer suggested improvements.

This update will also be in preparation for the first parts of our Contact Center call queuing & routing to go GA in early Q4-2020. We now have enough Microsoft Graph Communications API’s that we can starting providing value to a subset of our customers and with additional MS Graph Communications APIs expected from Microsoft in Q4-2020 & Q1-2021 which will improve user experience for a wider set of contact center customers.

To try out the Landis Contact Center for Microsoft Teams PREVIEW today, browse to https://cc.landis.cloud and the get the Teams App in Apps right inside the Microsoft Teams client.

We will be available to answer questions about Landis Contact Center for Microsoft Teams throughout Microsoft Ignite 2020 and will have a webinar on Friday September 25, 2020. Email sales@landistechnologies.com for an invitation.

Read more about the Landis Contact Center for Microsoft Teams here.

9/1/2020 – Gartner Research analysts Pankil Sheth and Steve Blood, in a report entitled “How to Optimize Microsoft Teams With Cloud Contact Center Platforms” write that “Microsoft Teams, an established enterprise collaboration platform, lacks contact center capabilities largely for key use cases. This note will help application leaders evaluate how and when to collaborate with Microsoft Teams partners for contact center functionality in an increasingly distributed workplace” in report published on July 21, 2020.

Landis Contact Center for Microsoft Teams is one of several contact center vendors in the “Connected Contact Center for Microsoft Teams Certification Program“, and one of the only contact centers built “Microsoft Teams First”, that is, built specifically for Microsoft Teams and entirely on top of the Microsoft Teams Graph Communication APIs and Teams Communication Platform. This means that the Landis Contact Center is very  quick & easy to setup and utilizes Microsoft Teams meetings, video & calling for all communication.

The report, “How to Optimize Microsoft Teams With Cloud Contact Center Platforms”, includes strategic planning assumptions, analysis, impacts & recommendations and Gartner further recommended reading. It is available to Gartner client at Gartner.com.

Landis Technologies welcomes you to join CommsvNext ‘s annual Microsoft Ignite event “Don’t Hate…Federate” on September 21st from 4-6pm PDT.

CommsvNext organizer Adam Ball notes “The annual Microsoft Ignite CommsvNext party! Since we can’t be live in person, we’re going virtual, reality that is! We are going to bring the party to everyone with AltSpaceVR.”

Microsoft Ignite is always a place for those doing Microsoft Teams voice and collaboration to learn from Microsoft and others in the industry.

Please register to join us on September 21st, from 4-6pm Pacific Daylight Time.

8/6/2020 – The Landis Contact Center for Microsoft Teams is participating in the Microsoft 365 App Compliance Program for Teams Apps to make it easier for your security and compliance group to bring the Landis Contact Center Teams app into your Microsoft 365 environment.

The Landis Contact Center App for Microsoft Teams is “Publisher verified”, and “Microsoft Teams App Security & Compliance Publisher Attested” at this time and is currently in the process of Microsoft 365 App Compliance certification.

“Landis is among the first to take a Teams Contact Center through this verification and certification process and this demonstrates Landis Technologies’ deep commitment to bringing a contact center to market that is built on the Microsoft 365 & Microsoft Teams communications platform and not merely integrated to Teams via a Direct Route” says Landis Technologies CEO Matt Landis. “The Microsoft 365 App Compliance Program provides app security and compliance to IT departments in a standard way to more easily get security & compliance clearances.”

These verifications and certifications are also part of the ongoing process for the Landis Contact Center to certified as part of the Connected Contact Center for Microsoft Teams Certification Program.

06/26/2020 – Landis Technologies is glad to support the Microsoft Teams Community by being a Gold Sponsor of the Commsverse 2020. 📺 We welcome you  to register now at Commsverse Online.

“Commsverse 2020 organizer Mark Vale has put a lot of effort into making this online Teams community event as social and interactive as possible, including a Commsverse AltSpaceVR exhibit hall, and we are looking forward to participate.” says Wendell Martin, “We’d also be glad to chat with your about our native Microsoft Teams Contact Center solution at our virtual Commsverse vendor booth.”

The Landis Technologies’ team will be presenting on our native Microsoft Teams Contact Center, Policy Call Recording, Call Flow/IVR Builder and Attendant Console and will give our roadmap based on Communication API progress. The session will repeat 4 times July 6,7 & 8.

BST	EST	Register	Join
Mon, July 6 10pm	Mon, July 6 5pm	Link	Link
Tues, July 7, 6pm	Tues, July 7, 1pm	Link	Link
Weds, July 8, 12am	Wed, July 8, 7pm	Link	Link
Wed, July 8, 8pm	Wed, July 8, 3pm	Link	Link

Get the Landis Contact Center App Inside Teams to preview right now:
https://bit.ly/landisapp

or Get a quick quote on Landis Contact Center