June 9, 2013
7:15 pm [ manilatimes.net ]
by ROSALIE C.
PERIABRAS
REPORTER
Bayan
Business, the corporate solutions arm of Bayan Telecommunications Inc.
(Bayantel), is extending its service offerings to the property sector industry
in a pioneering effort.
“The pilot
number, 02 Camella, will connect their head office to all their remote sites
located nationwide, giving their customers the convenience of a single and easy
to remember access number that they may call for any queries, assistance or
information that they might need about the company’s products and services,”
said Manuel Paolo Villar, president and chief executive officer of Vista Land
and Lifescapes.
In
partnership with one of the Philippines’ top property developers, Bayan
Business will be deploying the contact center solution hotline, 02 Camella
(2263552) for the Vista Land Group of Companies via the phonewords system.
Phonewords
are easier to remember than numeric phone numbers, so when businesses use them
as a direct response tool in their advertising (radio, television, print,
outdoor, etc.) these have proven to be very effective in terms of easy recall
and response rates.
The 02
Camella project is an innovation that paves the way for a single contact number
for the customer service needs of Vista Land clients, regardless of which
contact center is taking the call.
Such a system
is common in the fast moving consumer goods and food retail industry, but
unprecedented in the real estate industry.
The Bayantel
chief operating officer (COO), Rafael Aguado, said that the company is proud to
be partnering with the country’s largest homebuilder, in its effort to put
customer focus as a top priority via a unified communication system.
According to
a property market report by Colliers International Philippines Inc. released in
March 2012, Vista Land is the largest homebuilder in the country.
The report
said that based on a market scan of various vertical and horizontal residential
projects in the Philippines developed by 14 major players in the real-estate
industry, Vista Land has captured 22 percent of the over 80,000 units of
reservation sales in 2011, with the middle-income as its primary market.
Internet
protocol system
One benefit
of the 02 Camella project is that the intra company Internet protocol
(IP)-based system is expected to significantly drive down operational costs for
long distance calls and improve overall efficiency and processing of customer
inquiries.
The system
will be supported by structured cabling across Vista Land offices. Advanced
data and voice infrastructure will enable Vista Land’s network to handle voice
over an IP PBX system or a business telephone based system that will link and
deliver data to more than 60 sites nationwide.
Initial phase
of the deployment in the Vista Land headquarters in Mandaluyong City and
throughout its other offices in Metro Manila, including key provincial offices,
was completed during the last quarter of 2012.
The system is
now up and running and currently Vista Land is completing the final phase of
the deployment in all of its provincial offices across the country.
The unified
system will be rolled out to every new site, thus linking current and future
Vista Land offices in an integrated telephony system. Vista Land is the holding
company of five business units—Brittany, Crown Asia, Camella, Communities
Philippines and Vista Residences. With the widest geographic reach among all
property developers in the Philippines, the company continues to solidify the
status of Camella as a truly national brand.
It is the
market leader by far in terms of total number of houses built, having
constructed more than 250,000 homes in 31 provinces, and 63 cities and
municipalities in Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao, and is recognized for its
themed and master planned communities that offer quality housing across all
market segments.
“A project of
this scale has never been done before in the real-estate industry, and with the
help of our telecom service partner Bayan and technology partner Alcatel Lucent
and solutions provider Logic Solutions, we are confident that we will be able
to deliver the promise of the vision of this innovation in the real estate
industry that will bring Vista Land closer to its customers,” Villar said.
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