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Domain Expertise |
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Cogent has gained experience and brought best practices to various processes in the domains serviced. We provide a wide array of inbound, outbound and back-office services to clients in the financial services, insurance, technology, telecom, retail and travel and hospitality verticals. |
| Financial Services |
Bringing competitive advantage and cost savings through flawless execution
Cogent can provide support for a wide array of banking and financial services products and services. Our strong focus on speed of execution along with process improvement and quality control has provided the transformational benefits of outsourcing to our clients. This has been enabled through unique service competencies and our understanding of world banking and financial markets.
We deliver multiple processes from multiple locations and act as a node in our clients' global processing centers. Our strong adherence federal and state rules and stringent compliance to processes and systems have brought best in class quality performance across the client enterprises.
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Services
Some of the services include: |
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Information calls |
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Account - verification, confirmation, fulfillment and maintenance |
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Research, place investigations and resolution of queries |
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Bill payments |
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Technical queries |
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Welcome calls |
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Customer feedback program |
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Sell 'sticky services' |
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Offer sales referrals |
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Liability processing |
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Collections |
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Telesales for home loans |
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Welcome and insurance calls |
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Order / replace cards |
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Skip tracing |
| Incentive structures wherein incentives are given on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to motivate personnel. |
| Best practices sharing procedures to enhance other processes. |
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Handle voluminous transactions accurately and improve turnaround times
Cost savings, greater flexibility, consistency and reliability of services, quality of the customer experience and customization of processes is what Cogent offers to its clients. We understand customer support and back-office processing services prevalent in the global insurance industry and services insurance providers, carriers, brokers and administrators.
Our project management methodology along with the efforts taken to understand processes has provided immediate benefits to clients. Cogent has experience in delivery of multiple complex processes involving decision-making within the insurance domain and have successfully provided support for both transaction and voice processes. We also match profiling and hiring for insurance processes. |
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Services
Our range of services include: |
Claims processing / adjudication (traditional, managed care and coordination of benefits)
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| New accounts application processing |
| Data entry and data correction |
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Coordination of benefits |
| Outbound member satisfaction survey |
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Value-added services
Following are some real life examples where we have exhibited our capabilities in providing 100% track record on delivery of operational metrics. Al this while continuing to provide process innovation efficiencies: |
The in-house training team at Cogent has developed comprehensive multimedia training modules for insurance industry overview, process implementation, health care plans and operational excellence. This has amounted to 50% reduction in time and has reduced the ramp-up time. |
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First contact resolution and enhanced customer satisfaction
Cogent provides simple to high-end tech support including customer service, product feature / services support and troubleshooting. We have exceptional experience in supporting diverse hardware and software products.
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Customer service for consumer and SOHO |
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Tech support |
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Product support |
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Application and desktop support |
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Troubleshooting |
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Installation support |
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Software usage problems |
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Sales |
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Knowledge base management |
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Payroll processing |
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Value-added services
Cogent has developed a high level of expertise in servicing end customer contacts on behalf of its clients besides delivering cost as well as quality benefits that have a long-term impact. The following description summarizes some of the value add attributes and benefits that we have delivered: |
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Created a pre-product technical training module in collaboration with client's team, which provides orientation to the client on different hardware solutions. |
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Structured methodology and capability to handle rapid changes in business through a robust change management process to roll out new products and services. |
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Handling rapid changes in business through a robust change management process
Cogent is uniquely positioned in India to service the telecom vertical. We have maximum experience in providing customer service, technical support, complex query resolution, and back-office services to our clients.
Cogent has extensive experience in handling 24/7 customer care programs like activations, client services and correspondence management.
Our range of services include:
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Customer care
Cogent provides exceptional customer service to its clients and our performance has made us the 'Best Customer Care Partner' for our clients. The customer care services include: |
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Service activations |
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Billing queries |
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Service / plan changes |
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Order fulfillment |
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Product / service features support |
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Equipment warranty and replacement program |
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Cross-sell and up-sell |
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Correspondence management |
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Account maintenance |
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Marketing strategies |
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Sales and promotions |
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Contract extension |
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Technical support
Cogent helps the clients in providing simple responses and guidance to the complex queries of the consumers. These include issues related to troubleshooting, product programming, network and other queries. |
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Advanced support
Cogent has experts and specialist who provide support for the highest-level escalations that require extensive research and analysis. This also requires communicating with other functions of the clients' organization. |
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Value-added services
Cogent brings expertise in process improvements and re-engineering through sharing of best practices. We have brought productivity gains, quality improvements and more efficiency to the processes of our clients. |
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Increased customer loyalty through high customer satisfaction
We have significant experience in delivering customer satisfaction in a high volume environment and provide scalability with flexibility. Our service agents / associates can handle queries which require analyzing the situation and making decisions, trigger a purchase, manually allocate an order to a fulfillment center, compensate the customers for any inconvenience and educate the customer.
We orient our new hire agents / associates to develop an appreciation for 'Exceptional Customer Service' as a concept. Cogent holds the capability and experience in providing multi-lingual support over email. We have delivered high satisfaction levels for the customers even during the peak seasons of our clients.
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Services
Some of the services include: |
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Customer Service |
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Exceptions support for toll free numbers |
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Inbound sales |
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Technical support |
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Telesales for extended warranty |
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Telemarketing of co-branded credit cards |
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Account maintenance and updation |
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Fraud detection |
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Inventory management |
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Order processing |
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Value-added services
We can successfully manage partnership with our eCommerce & Retail clients and help them with outsourcing to India for the first time. Given below are some of the proven benefits to our clients: |
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Documentation of the entire quality process for the client's processes |
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Documentation of the entire process note for a process |
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Implementation of applications and enhanced efficiencies by customizing to client's requirements |
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Development of a software to facilitate the reporting system and performance analysis |
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Time and motion analysis to improve productivity significantly |
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| Travel & Hospitality |
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Generating sales through right product at right price at right time
Cogent understands that the travel and hospitality industry is very dynamic and the competition is increasing with the newer distribution models available. The agents / associates at Cogent help in fulfilling customer demands thus ensuring customer loyalty. We have the necessary competencies to deliver superior service for our clients in airline, hotels, car rentals, tour operations and travel management companies. |
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Services
Our range of services include: |
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Loyalty program |
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Information calls |
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Booking and reservations for leisure and corporate travel |
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Customer service |
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Cross-sell / up-sell |
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Value-added services
At Cogent, there is a constant exploration of the methods that enable us in providing better service levels to our clients thus increasing efficiency and reducing ramp-up times: |
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Customized hiring process and tests for both process knowledge and listening skills. |
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Development of domain and sales training modules for travel processes. |
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