Christie Managed Services Expands Customer Support Services with Powerful New System

Christie, a global leader in digital cinema, announced that Christie Managed Services has implemented a powerful new customer service solution that has dramatically streamlined its customer response process, strengthened its problem-resolution capabilities, and increased the efficiency of its Customer Service Engineers (CSE). The new system from Amdocs, Ltd. is an integral part of the expanding range of products and support services offered by Christie Managed Services to monitor and maintain the exhibition industry’s rapidly growing base of digital cinema equipment.

A winner of many industry awards, Amdocs provides software and services for billing, customer relationship management (CRM), and operations support systems (OSS). Its clients include AT&T Mobility, Cablevision, Sprint-Nextel, T-Mobile, Vodafone, ComCast, Bell Canada, and Rogers Communications.

“The service and maintenance of high tech digital cinema equipment is an increasingly critical consideration as more and more theaters go digital,” said Sean James, vice president, Managed Services at Christie. “We have invested heavily in the Amdocs CRM system as part of our ongoing commitment to provide our customers and industry partners with world-leading technical support.”

Amdocs has enhanced Managed Services’ ability to address and rapidly resolve technical issues at every step of the process. From Christie’s high tech Network Operations Center (NOC), supervisors can monitor all data being entered in the field and track precisely the engineer’s activities throughout the service call. They are aware when field service engineers start their jobs, where they are en route, what kind of equipment they are working with, and what additional assistance and resources they might need.

“With Amdocs, field technicians can easily search for support data relevant to their specific case within Christie’s extensive knowledge base, order any necessary parts, assign them to the theater, and track their delivery – all directly from their mobile device,” said James. “The Amdocs system has also greatly relieved the workload of our NOC supervisors by automating many repetitive processes so that more time is spent managing cases and resolving customer calls on the first contact. Our new system has proven so successful that we’re already being contacted by other major players in the exhibition community to assist them in better addressing their own customer service and staff management needs.”

“Christie Managed Services is not only rewriting the book on superior customer service – we are forging a new path of innovation that raises the bar on excellence,” said James.

Christie Managed Services offers exhibitors customizable predictive and preventative technical support and ongoing maintenance, with a state-of-the art Network Operations Center that runs 24/7. The NOC monitors, maintains, and services tens of thousands of digital devices across North America and is easily scalable to support tens of thousands more.

About Christie
Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc. is a global visual technologies company and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ushio, Inc., Japan, (JP:6925). Consistently setting the standards by being the first to market some of the world’s most advanced projectors and complete system displays, Christie is recognized as one of the most innovative visual technology companies in the world. From retail displays to Hollywood, mission critical command centers to classrooms and training simulators, Christie display solutions and projectors capture the attention of audiences around the world with dynamic and stunning images. Visit www.christiedigital.com.

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For more information contact:

Dorina Belu, Christie
(519) 749-3323
dorina.belu@christiedigital.com

Mario Almonte, Herman & Almonte Public Relations
(212) 616-1190, ext. 257
malmonte@Herman-Almontepr.com

Christie is a registered trademark of Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc

Christie is celebrating its 80th anniversary as a leader in visual solutions for world-class organizations, offering diverse applications for business, entertainment, and industry. With expertise in film projection since 1929 and professional projection systems since 1979, Christie has established a global reputation as the world’s single source manufacturer of a variety of display technologies and solutions for cinema, large audience environments, control rooms, business presentations, training facilities, 3D and virtual reality, simulation, education, media and government. Christie has installed over 75,000 projection solutions worldwide.

Herman & Almonte Public Relations
261 Madison Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Mario Almonte
212-616-1190 ext. 267

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