Avaya and Afiniti Partner for Integration of AI and Contact Centre

Avaya and Afiniti partnered to improve enterprise customer experience and contact center performance through a unique integration of artificial intelligence into contact center routing technology. This first-of- its-kind collaboration will natively integrate Afiniti Enterprise Behavioral Pairing with Avaya Contact Center platform on which enterprise customers around the world depend for reliability at scale.

Afiniti Enterprise Behavioral Pairing discovers and predicts patterns of interpersonal behavior to optimally pair customers with agents. With over 90 patents, Afiniti’s technology examines data and commercially available information tied to customer identity to determine patterns of successful behavioral interactions and applies these patterns in real time to drive improvements in health, enterprise profitability, and customer satisfaction.

“Every enterprise is looking to get more out of their contact center, and AI is the next major shift in the

way contact centers operate,” said Jim Chirico, Avaya President and CEO. “Working with Afiniti provides a unique, proven AI offering, and is another example of Avaya investing in transformative technologies to deliver unparalleled contact center performance to companies around the world.”

“This partnership highlights the shift in the communications and collaboration marketplaces towards

artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies as a transformational tool for large enterprise,” said Zia Chishti, Afiniti CEO and Founder. “Today, Afiniti’s AI is helping save lives and delivering billions of dollars in profitability to our global clients. Our new partnership and native integration with Avaya will accelerate the pace at which our joint clients will drive precisely measurable value to their shareholders and customers.”