The pillar · UC&C

Unified IP telephony.

Multi-site on-premise/cloud IPBX, PC/web/mobile softphones, intelligent IVR, systematic call recording, real-time supervision and local numbers — on a single infrastructure for all your teams, regardless of location.

95–98%
Guaranteed
answer rate
−45%
Inter-site telecom
cost
100%
Calls recorded
and archived
D+15
Full deployment
completed
📞

GLOBAL CS IPBX

ACTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE

💻
Web Softphone
PC / Mac · Browser
📱
Mobile App
iOS · Android · Offline
🎙
Intelligent IVR
Multi-level · French
Call Recording
100% of calls · EDM
📊
Live Supervision
Real-time dashboard
🔀
Multi-site
Branches · Warehouses · Sites
All sites connected 0 lost calls
What the UC&C pillar includes

Six components.
One complete infrastructure.

Every component of the UCC pillar is native to the GLOBAL CS platform — not a third-party integration, not an add-on. Deployed together, they form your organisation's communication infrastructure.

01 · IPBX
🏗
Cloud IPBX
Multi-site

Fully managed hosted IP switchboard. Handles all your sites, branches and worksites simultaneously on a single unified internal numbering plan. Automatic 3G/4G failover when fibre is unavailable.

02 · SOFTPHONES
💻
Softphones
PC · Web · Mobile

Softphone clients for Windows, macOS, browser (WebRTC) and iOS/Android. Your teams make and receive calls from their workstation, browser or smartphone — with a single professional number everywhere.

03 · IVR
🎙
Intelligent IVR
Multi-level

Interactive voice response configurable by department, time of day and priority. Professional welcome message, hierarchical menus, conditional transfer, schedules and queues with custom hold music.

04 · CALL RECORDING
Call Recording
100% of calls

All inbound and outbound calls are automatically recorded. Archived in EDM with timestamp, caller identity and duration. Exportable for CIMA compliance or legal use.

05 · SUPERVISION
📊
Real-time
Supervision

Live operational dashboard: active calls, available agents, queues, average handling time. Automatic alerts when a threshold is exceeded. Historical reports by agent, department and period.

06 · LOCAL NUMBERS
🇨🇮
Local numbers

Geographic number allocation for your sites and departments. Short codes, toll-free numbers and DIDs. Portability of existing numbers. Mobile Money / bank transfer billing available.

Use cases by sector

How UCC transforms
your specific business.

Each sector has different communication pain points. Discover the UCC configuration tailored to your industry and the results achieved.

🛒 Commerce & Distribution

Every inbound call is a potential order. Zero margin for error.

Wholesalers, importers, retail chains, FMCG distributors — your phone lines are your primary sales channel. A missed or misrouted call means a competitor picks up in your place.

Business pain points
Lines overwhelmed during peak hours — sales reps unreachable, customers hanging up
Sales calls on personal phones — no trace, no recording
Multi-site (HQ, warehouses, branches) with no unified internal numbering
No data on missed call volume and its revenue impact
Recommended UC&C configuration
🔀
Sales IVR — Orders → 1, After-sales → 2, Management → 0
Automatic routing of inbound calls to the right department. Outside business hours, a voicemail with automatic callback the following morning.
📱
Mobile softphones for field sales reps
Your mobile sales reps receive customer calls on their smartphone using the company's professional number — not their personal one.
🔗
Unified internal numbering — HQ + warehouses
All your sites on a single infrastructure. Free internal calls, one-click transfers, multi-site conference calls for weekly sales reviews.
📊
Daily missed call report → responsible sales rep
Every unanswered inbound call automatically triggers an alert to the area manager — with the number called back within 30 minutes.
+38 pts
Sales answer rate
−70%
Average order processing time
−45%
Inter-site telecom cost
🏗 Construction / Building / Real Estate

Coordinating worksites, sales offices and rental after-sales without communication chaos.

Developers, builders, rental agencies — your teams are spread across worksites, offices and locations. Prospective tenant calls come in on weekends, and worksite emergencies arise at any hour.

Business pain points
Site managers unreachable — worksite decisions made over personal WhatsApp with no record
Property prospects lost on weekends — the switchboard rings unanswered
Tenant complaints with no ticket, no acknowledgement, no response commitment
Worksite meetings requiring costly in-person travel
Recommended UC&C configuration
🔀
Three-branch IVR — Properties → 1, Works → 2, Tenant after-sales → 3
Each flow is routed to the right contact. Outside business hours, prospective tenant calls are placed in a priority callback queue for Monday morning.
📱
Mobile softphones for site managers
Reachable via their professional number from the worksite. Calls are recorded — worksite decisions made by phone are traceable and archived.
🎙
Multi-party conference for worksite reviews
The project manager brings together the architect, site manager and subcontractor on a single conference call from their respective softphones — no travel, no Zoom.
Tenant call recording — legal protection
Every tenant after-sales call is recorded and timestamped. In the event of a dispute, you have proof that the complaint was received and handled.
−93%
Missed property prospect calls
−80%
Tenant complaint handling time
−50%
In-person worksite meetings
🏦 Microfinance / Banking / Insurance

Structured collections, compliance, unified branch network.

MFIs, SFDs, regional banks — your telephony is at once a collections tool, customer interface and regulatory obligation. Every unrecorded credit advisory call is a risk.

Business pain points
Collections without structured scripts or call history — agents improvising
Zero credit advisory recording — CIMA compliance risk
High inter-branch telecom costs (GSM calls between HQ and branches)
No supervision of collections call volume by agent and by portfolio
Recommended UC&C configuration
Systematic recording — full compliance by design
All collections and credit advisory calls are automatically recorded. Exportable for CIMA audits. Archived in EDM for 5 years.
📊
Real-time collections supervision
The collections manager sees live: calls made per agent, average duration, payment commitments obtained, scheduled follow-ups — without waiting for the monthly report.
🔗
Branch network on unified internal numbering
HQ, branches and field agents on the same infrastructure. Free internal calls. Instant transfer to the right advisor by branch code.
🎙
Customer IVR — Credit services → 1, Claims → 2, Complaints → 3
Automatic routing in French and local languages by customer profile. 40% reduction in per-call handling time.
× 1.9
Collections calls per agent/day
100%
Compliant calls
−65%
Inter-branch telecom cost
🏥 Healthcare / Clinics

A switchboard that answers every call — and appointment slots that are never wasted.

Private clinics, polyclinics, laboratories — your switchboard is the first impression you make. At peak hours, a patient who can't get through goes straight to your competitor next door.

Business pain points
Switchboard overwhelmed at peak hours — patients hanging up and booking elsewhere
20–30% no-show rate — physician slots wasted, direct revenue loss
Physicians on rounds or in rooms unreachable from the switchboard
Emergency calls mixed with appointment calls — poor triage, wasted time
Recommended UC&C configuration
🔀
Patient IVR — Appointments → 1, Results → 2, Emergency → 0
Emergencies are routed directly to the reception nurse, absolute priority, with no hold time. Appointments flow to the online scheduler or the secretariat.
📱
Softphones for physicians on rounds and in rooms
Physicians are reachable on their mobile softphone from any room or externally. One-touch transfer to internal staff or on-call duty.
📊
No-show statistics by slot and by physician
The IPBX tracks unanswered confirmation calls and generates a priority callback list every morning at 8 a.m. — reducing no-shows by 55 to 65%.
🔗
Multi-site — Main centre, satellite clinics and laboratory
All your facilities on a single switchboard. Lab results can be communicated directly from the lab to the relevant practice without a GSM call.
+52 pts
Peak-hour answer rate
−60%
No-show rate
−40%
Per-call handling time
🌿 Agro-industry / Trading

HQ, plant, field buyers and export purchasers — on a single infrastructure.

Cocoa, coffee and cashew exporters, processors, cooperatives — your teams are spread between HQ, collection zones and ports. Coordination today runs on personal GSM, with no trace.

Business pain points
Field agents and zone managers unreachable — field information impossible to relay upward
HQ ↔ plant ↔ port communications on personal GSM — costly and completely opaque
No recording of telephone negotiations with export buyers — dispute risk
Network failover impossible in 3G rural areas — calls lost in collection zones
Recommended UC&C configuration
📱
Mobile softphone with automatic 3G / GSM failover
In low-data coverage areas, the softphone automatically switches to GSM while retaining the professional number. Zero lost calls in rural areas.
Recording of negotiations with export buyers
All price, volume and delivery discussions with overseas buyers are recorded and archived. Protection against after-the-fact disputes.
🔗
Unified infrastructure — HQ / plant / collection zone / port
Common internal numbering across all your sites. The purchasing director at HQ reaches the zone manager on a single short code — free internal call.
📊
Call flow supervision by zone and by campaign
Call volume by collection zone, export buyer call duration, missed calls by manager — real-time campaign dashboard.
−95%
Field-to-HQ information delay
100%
Export negotiations recorded
0
Calls lost in degraded 3G zones
⚖️ Lawyers / Notaries / Accountants / Architects

Every call minute tracked, every client called back, every piece of advice documented.

Law firms, notarial practices, chartered accountants, architecture studios — your time is your capital. An untracked call is an unbilled hour. An unrecorded oral consultation is a professional liability risk.

Business pain points
Untracked phone time = 20–35% of billable value that disappears
Lawyers and architects on the move (hearings, sites, clients) unreachable on their professional number
No recording of telephone advice — professional liability risk in case of dispute
Poorly qualified inbound calls — secretariat overwhelmed by dead-end requests
Recommended UC&C configuration
Automatic time-tracking by file and by partner
Every inbound/outbound call is timestamped and linked to a file via phone number or client code. Consultation fee billing without manual re-entry.
📱
Mobile softphone for partners on the move
Partners are reachable on their office number from hearings, client premises or worksites. The call is recorded, timestamped and archived to the file.
Consultation recording — professional compliance
Telephone advice is recorded with explicit consent (automatic legal announcement). Encrypted archive, access restricted to the file partner.
🔀
Qualification IVR — New file → 1, Follow-up → 2, Billing → 3
New enquiries are routed to the qualification secretariat before being assigned to a partner. 40% reduction in unsolicited calls.
+32%
Billable hours tracked
−95%
Missed client calls
100%
Consultations recorded
🚛 Transport / Logistics / Freight

Dispatch, drivers, freight forwarders and clients — connected on a single infrastructure.

Road hauliers, customs brokers, freight forwarders — operational coordination happens by voice. A poorly communicated incident, an unconfirmed delivery, a transit decision on a personal phone: anything can go wrong.

Business pain points
Dispatch on personal phones — incidents with no trace, no escalation possible
Customers calling to track their shipment — switchboard overwhelmed, "we'll call you back"
Field freight forwarders unreachable on a professional number
No data on incident call volume and resolution times
Recommended UC&C configuration
🔀
Logistics IVR — Tracking → 1, Incidents → 2, Sales → 3
Shipment tracking calls are handled by a voice or SMS IVR. Incidents are escalated as a priority to the on-duty dispatch team with a simultaneous alert.
📱
Mobile softphones for field freight forwarders
Your agents at the port or in customs are reachable on their professional number. Communications are recorded — transit decisions are traceable.
Dispatch recording — protection in case of transport dispute
Every loading instruction, deviation or delivery order given by phone is recorded. In the event of a customer or insurance dispute, you have the evidence.
📊
Customer SLA tracked per call — guaranteed response time
The IPBX measures the time between a customer call and the first human response. The dispatch dashboard displays pending calls and breached SLAs in real time.
−85%
Incident pickup time
100%
Field instructions tracked
−75%
Communication-related complaints
🏛 Municipalities / Prefectures / Courts / Ministries

An institutional switchboard that answers — and citizens who no longer need to make unnecessary trips.

Municipalities, sub-prefectures, regional services — your telephone switchboard is the primary interface between the institution and citizens. A switchboard that rings unanswered means a citizen making a pointless trip and an institution losing credibility.

Business pain points
Switchboard overwhelmed or silent — citizens making unnecessary trips
Internal services without a common numbering plan — impossible to reach the right agent
Field agents (inspection, investigation) unreachable on an official number
No record of citizen enquiry calls — the same unanswered questions keep recurring
Recommended UC&C configuration
🎙
Multilingual institutional IVR — French + local languages
Voice welcome in French and local languages by region. Menus: Civil registry → 1, Planning → 2, General enquiries → 3. Immediate reduction in walk-in traffic at the counter.
🔗
Unified internal numbering across departments and directorates
Main municipality, neighbourhood offices and decentralised services on the same system. A misdirected citizen is transferred with one click to the right service without hanging up.
📱
Mobile softphones for field agents
Land inspection or investigation agents are reachable on their official number. Exchanges are recorded — field decisions are traceable.
📊
Weekly citizen enquiry report by type
Automatic analysis of call volume by department, type of request and time of day. Enables staffing levels to be adjusted to real peak periods.
+62 pts
Citizen switchboard answer rate
−60%
Unnecessary counter visits
−58%
Inter-department telecom cost
📱 Fintech

Telephony infrastructure that scales with your user base — without hiring.

Mobile money, neo-banks, payment aggregators — your support contact volumes explode with every acquisition campaign. Your telephony infrastructure must scale up instantly, with no provisioning delay.

Business pain points
Inbound call capacity saturated at every peak (month-end, promotions)
Distributed support teams (Abidjan, Lagos, Paris, Montreal) with no unified infrastructure
No real-time operational supervision — incidents discovered after the fact
No call recordings — inability to handle fraud complaints
Recommended UC&C configuration
On-demand scalability — peaks without provisioning
The cloud IPBX automatically allocates additional channels during call spikes. No technical intervention, no waiting — capacity follows volume in real time.
🔗
Distributed support teams on a single platform
Your agents in Abidjan, Lagos, Paris and Montreal share the same queue, the same scripts, the same dashboard. Routing by language, skill or time zone.
📊
Real-time ops dashboard — SLA and resolution rate
The Head of Support sees live: queued calls, average answer time, abandonment rate, first-contact resolution rate. Automatic alerts when a threshold is crossed.
100% recording — fraud and complaint handling
Fraud or disputed transaction complaints are handled directly from the recording of the original call. 70% reduction in case processing time.
× 2.5
Support capacity without hiring
−70%
Fraud complaint processing time
< 15 s
Additional capacity provisioning
95–98%
Guaranteed answer rate
across all sectors
−45%
Average inter-site telecom cost
vs mobile operator
100%
Calls recorded
and legally archived
D+15
Full UC&C
deployment
Features

What GLOBAL CS UCC does that others don't.

Every feature has been designed for the real-world constraints of SMEs: degraded connectivity, mobile teams and African regulatory compliance.

01
Automatic 4G → 3G → GSM failover
In areas with degraded coverage, the softphone automatically switches from VoIP to GSM. The call continues uninterrupted, the professional number stays displayed and recording resumes on reconnection.
02
Context-aware IVR by time and day
The IVR adapts its behaviour by time of day (open / closed / on-call), day of week (weekday / weekend / public holiday) and available queue. No-code configuration from the web interface.
03
Compliant recording — automatic legal announcement
Every inbound call automatically receives the legal recording announcement in compliance with applicable law. The recording is encrypted, timestamped and digitally signed.
04
Live supervision with push alerts
The manager receives a push alert if a call has been waiting more than X seconds, if the answer rate drops below a threshold, or if an agent answers without responding. Configurable by department.
05
Native integration with the other pillars
UCC shares its data with the CRM (customer record on ring), the Contact center (advanced routing), EDM (automatic archiving of recordings) and AI (transcription + post-call summary).
06
Existing number portability
You keep your current local numbers. Portability is managed entirely by GLOBAL CS — no service interruption, no customer communication required during migration.
REAL-TIME SUPERVISION · UC&C
📞
Inbound call — +225 07 84 23 11 → Sales Department
Answered 8 s
🔀
Transfer — Adjoa K. → Kouamé B. (North Warehouse)
Free internal
Active call — Karim D. (Management) · 4 min 12 s · Recorded
In progress
📵
Missed call — +225 01 45 67 22 · Queue: After-sales · Auto callback D+0 5 pm
Callback scheduled
📱
Field mobile — Fatou S. (Site Km4) · 3G → softphone switch
Connected
12
Active agents
97%
Answered this morning
0
Call > 30 s on hold
Why GLOBAL CS UC&C

Built for the realities
of African operations.

Not an imported solution retrofitted at the margins. A telephony infrastructure designed for partial connectivity, mobile teams, local regulation and local-currency billing.

📶
Built for African connectivity

Automatic VoIP ↔ 3G ↔ GSM failover. Softphone optimised for low-bandwidth networks. Zero lost calls in rural areas or on the move.

🇨🇮
Local numbers

Geographic number allocation, portability of existing numbers, short codes for your priority services. No foreign numbers that erode customer trust.

⚖️
Local regulatory compliance

Recording with legal announcement compliant with applicable law. Data archiving. Evidence export for audits — with no delay and no intermediary.

🔗
Native platform integration

UCC shares its data in real time with the CRM, the Contact center, EDM and AI. Not a fragile third-party API integration — an architecture built as a single unit.

Live in D+15

From signature to first recorded call: fifteen days. Existing number migration with no interruption. On-site team training.

🛠
Dedicated support

Technical team available 6 days/7 in French. On-site response for critical incidents. Not a ticket and three days' wait — a contact who knows your installation.

Your switchboard deserves
better than a personal GSM.

Discover in 30 minutes how GLOBAL CS UCC transforms your telephony infrastructure — and what it unlocks for your organisation when every call is answered, tracked and archived.