Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Childs
On 16 January 2010 06:04, Sean Brady sbr...@gtfservices.com wrote: Looking at all the docs I can find Asterisks looks like it should be able to do the job and a whole lot more. This is for a small call centre so ideally we want all the features of an average call centre, ACD, Call Recording,

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-15 Thread Peter Childs
Ok this has Probably been put to bed several time but never mind. Elastix, Trixbox, or AsterixNow, or DIY (ie Ubuntu or whatever installed with OpenPBX, Asterix etc by hand) I've got a new server to run Asterix on and want to get it working quickly and yet be configurable in the future with out

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-15 Thread Stephen Davies
2010/1/12 Jeff LaCoursiere j...@jeff.net That is so not true. FreePBX has hooks in a million places to do custom dialplan stuff - I do it all the time. I also link in custom AGI/AMI applications, custom provisioning, custom LCR, and am even working with one customer that has mastered making

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-15 Thread Stephen Davies
2010/1/15 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org Elastix, Trixbox, or AsterixNow, or DIY (ie Ubuntu or whatever installed with OpenPBX, Asterix etc by hand) I've got a new server to run Asterix on and want to get it working quickly and yet be configurable in the future with out having to reisntall

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-15 Thread Doug Lytle
Stephen Davies wrote: Decide if you are going to be a zealot for your preferred approach That's a little harsh, wouldn't you say? Do whatever your most comfortable with. But, to call me and those like me a zealot, for offering advice that was asked for is a little off, in my opinion. Doug

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-15 Thread Stephen Davies
2010/1/15 Doug Lytle supp...@drdos.info Decide if you are going to be a zealot for your preferred approach That's a little harsh, wouldn't you say? Do whatever your most comfortable with. But, to call me and those like me a zealot, for offering advice that was asked for is a little off,

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-15 Thread William Stillwell (Lists)
...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Davies Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 10:50 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre 2010/1/15 Doug Lytle supp

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-15 Thread Lyle Giese
Peter Childs wrote: Ok this has Probably been put to bed several time but never mind. Elastix, Trixbox, or AsterixNow, or DIY (ie Ubuntu or whatever installed with OpenPBX, Asterix etc by hand) I've got a new server to run Asterix on and want to get it working quickly and yet be

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-15 Thread Sean Brady
Looking at all the docs I can find Asterisks looks like it should be able to do the job and a whole lot more. This is for a small call centre so ideally we want all the features of an average call centre, ACD, Call Recording, Queue's etc etc. Any pointers on how to get started would be most

[asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Childs
This is currently still at a proof of concept stage. After being mis-sold a Alcatel phone system, that does None of the things we asked for (Ok it takes calls but that's about it) We are looking at alternatives to try and bring some of the features we previously had on our old Analogue STS

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread James Mutuku
http://www.google.co.ke/search?q=asterisk+for+call+centersie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialclient=firefox-a -- Best Regards, James Mutuku Ndeti Agile Systems Limited +254722490994 www.agile.co.ke mutuku.wordpress.com Has your organization implemented a customer relationship

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Childs
2010/1/12 James Mutuku listmut...@gmail.com: http://www.google.co.ke/search?q=asterisk+for+call+centersie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialclient=firefox-a I can use Google just as well as the next guy, and if you'd bothered to look at the results you could see they were extremely

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Danny Nicholas
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre This is currently still at a proof of concept stage. After being mis-sold a Alcatel phone system, that does None of the things we asked for (Ok it takes calls but that's about it) We are looking

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Doug Lytle
Peter Childs wrote: I'm not an expert on phones, I'm just an IT guy who thinks he might have a solution to a problem, that is not really his problem but is Then you'll need to be prepared to do a LOT of reading. You'll want to start off on: http://voip-info.org Then there is the

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
[mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Peter Childs Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:56 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre This is currently still at a proof of concept stage. After being mis-sold

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Danny Nicholas
-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeff LaCoursiere Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:46 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Danny Nicholas wrote: Since you

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Doug Lytle
Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I agree that FreePBX would be the ideal flavor for him, but I am a recent convert to Elastix. Much tighter GUI, more included stuff (like And, I'd be in the camp that would advocate getting your hands dirty and learn to program without the GUI. You'll learn a

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Richard Kenner
And, I'd be in the camp that would advocate getting your hands dirty and learn to program without the GUI. You'll learn a lot and then if you'd want to move to a GUI and something breaks, you'll have some idea on what and how to fix it. Knowing now what I do, I find a GUI to

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Robert Lister
Do you have any idea of numbers of users, and number/type of external lines as this can be quite important when deciding what type of asterisk setup and hardware to go with. (For example, if your lines are already presented over ISDN PRI or BRI, or if they are provided over IP, by an IP telephony

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Lenz Emilitri
Yes it is - we have thousands of happy clients worldwide. :) My suggestion is to go for somebody who has relevant experience and is going to do the install for you. Unless your CC is very small, you don't want to be looking up the manuals when you went live and start having quality issues If

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Richard Kenner wrote: And, I'd be in the camp that would advocate getting your hands dirty and learn to program without the GUI. You'll learn a lot and then if you'd want to move to a GUI and something breaks, you'll have some idea on what and how to fix it. Knowing

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Richard Kenner
Your comments both come from having taken a short look at FreePBX and dismissed it without investigating how powerful it can be. Yes, but the discussion is about COMPLEXITY, not power! Sure, there are hooks where you can do anything you want, but if you were to set up identical configurations

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Richard Kenner wrote: Your comments both come from having taken a short look at FreePBX and dismissed it without investigating how powerful it can be. Yes, but the discussion is about COMPLEXITY, not power! I thought the discussion was about how an IT guy with no

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Doug Lytle
Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I thought the discussion was about how an IT guy with no previous asterisk experience could get up and running the fastest. By FAR that answer is to No, actually he said, This is currently still at a proof of concept stage. By whose estimation? To even get

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Childs
2010/1/12 Robert Lister r...@lentil.org: Do you have any idea of numbers of users, and number/type of external lines as this can be quite important when deciding what type of asterisk setup and hardware to go with. (For example, if your lines are already presented over ISDN PRI or BRI, or if