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MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0
System Manager’s Guide  
555-650-118  
Issue 1
June 1997
Putting the System to Work 
Page 5-26
Scenario 3: A Dual-Location Company 
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Table 5–8. 
Work Group Needs
Work Group
Needs
President and 
vice-presidents, 
W. Coast Division 
Mgr., Plant Mgr., 
Personnel Mgr.
Ability to meet frequently, face to face, without incurring travel costs
Executive 
Secretaries
Ability to receive bosses’ calls directly, without those calls going 
through an operator/receptionist
Call-covering by other secretary or voice mail
Vice-President of 
Product Design
Product engineers
Quality Assurance 
Engineers
Plant Manager
Drafters
Ability to exchange and work together individually on documents and 
computer-generated images
Ability to meet as a group without incurring travel costs
Vice-President of 
Marketing and 
Sales
Ability to access either system remotely for calling customers and 
associates. Ability to assess performance of order-takers and 
customer service reps as well as field sales personnel.
Order-Takers and 
Customer Service 
Personnel
Ability for small-order customers to access an automatic ordering 
system in which they use their touch-tone phones to enter account 
numbers, product codes, and so on, without having to wait for an 
agent. They have the option of speaking to an agent.
Ability for calls from customers who buy in large quantities to be 
directed to the groups of agents, bypassing the operator, so that the 
most-idle agent (Release 5.0 and later systems) can answer a call. If 
no agents are available, the caller should hear an initial 
announcement stating that an agent will soon take the call. For callers 
who must wait longer, a second announcement (Release 5.0 and 
later systems) is needed to urge callers to stay on the line. While a 
caller is on hold, he or she should hear music.
Ability to use a LAN-based software application, in conjunction with 
Caller ID services from a telecommunications provider, to rapidly pop 
up database information about a customer, based on the caller’s 
telephone number.
Hands-free operation of their telephones so they can enter order 
information, review customer history, or check on orders in progress 
while talking to a customer.
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