Call Center Forecasting & Scheduling Software

Automate forecasting and simplify scheduling

Accelerate forecasting, eliminate time-consuming tasks, and streamline your shift planning process with Calabrio’s complete contact center scheduling solution.

Optimize schedules in just minutes. Scheduling tools simplify shift planning and empower managers.

Harness historical data with automated forecasting. Anticipate spikes and lulls in advance to maximize efficiency.

Eliminate admin tasks and accelerate approvals. Give managers more time to focus on what matters most.

Empower agents and managers with intuitive drag-and-drop scheduling and convenient self-scheduling via mobile app.

See how Scheduling and Forecasting works

Explore Calabrio’s comprehensive call center scheduling software with a free demo.

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Transform workforce planning, scheduling, and management

Put your agents in the best position to deliver winning experiences with powerful forecasting and scheduling tools—part of Calabrio’s leading workforce optimization suite.

Predictive Forecasting

Staffing tools that understand your business

Help workforce planners and analysts set more accurate scheduling with predictive forecasting that understands your unique business. Advanced analytics and machine learning–driven automation mines historical data to accurately forecast volume and demand, understand seasonality and trends, and anticipate even sudden changes.

Omnichannel Scheduling

Speed up scheduling and focus on what matters most

Eliminate hours of tinkering with schedules. Leverage Calabrio’s powerful call center scheduling software to set optimized employee schedules in just minutes. Rules-based automation makes it easy to balance budgetary requirements, employee requests, and compliance needs while delivering improved customer experiences.

Real-Time Adherence (RTA)

Detect and correct problems immediately

Monitor employee status and agent availability with customizable overviews—in real time. The RTA information, visible alongside schedules and employee state data, makes tracking adherence and maintaining optimized schedules effortless. Ensure service-level targets throughout the day and meanwhile, over the long term, access historical adherence data to spot behavioral patterns.

Agent Self-Scheduling Tools

Give employees increased flexibility and control

Easy-to-use self-service scheduling streamlines shift planning and bidding, making it easier than ever to balance employee needs with customer demand. Calabrio My Time empowers employees with easy access to their schedules, keeps them in sync with managers and planners, and drives engagement for improved productivity and engagement.

The importance of contact center forecasting and scheduling tools

When it comes to maximizing efficiency, accuracy, and ultimately quality of service, the forecasting and scheduling process may be the single most important thing to get right.

An accurate forecast is foundational: it informs every single aspect of contact center preparation and performance; it ensures that budget, staffing, and compliance standards are adhered to; and it ensures that agents are in the right position to deliver exceptional experiences. And it all starts with having the right software.

Why forecasting and scheduling software matters

Forecasting itself is something of an art form. But without the right tools on their side, even the most experienced workforce planners and analysts will struggle to maintain accuracy.

What to look for in call center scheduling software

Historical data analysis

Forecasting forward starts with a look back. Look for forecasting tools that enable the selection of custom date ranges to ensure more accurate forecasting.

Advanced AI and ML

The latest forecasting and employee scheduling software need to rely on the latest technology for added automation and predictive power.

Intuitive, easy-to-read dashboards

Save even more time on scheduling with clear, customizable dashboards that offer instant visibility into key metrics that matter most.

Robust reporting tools

Forecasting and scheduling are part of a collaborative process. Equip your team with tools that make it easy to generate and share detailed reports on forecasting accuracy.

Real-time responsiveness

Monitor and rapidly adjust to unexpected changes with real-time updates and dynamic, rules-based scheduling adjustments.

Multichannel and multiskill functionality

Today’s agents engage customers over an array of channels. Choose call center scheduling software like Calabrio’s that offers seamless planning across all channels, skills, and locations.

A trusted ally to leading brands looking empower employees and maximize performance

Calabrio ONE is trusted by Fortune 500 brands and counted on by top technology partners. See how we’ve helped leaders in an array of industries get the very most out of their customer experience data.

“When we were first offered Calabrio Quality Management as a proposed solution, we were intrigued by the innovative architecture, simple administration and impressive roadmap. We have found that it has been precisely the right fit for our business.”

Vice President
Integrated Managed Service Delivery Getronics
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Analyzing hold times among new agents helped Thomson Reuters pinpoint training opportunities to drastically reduce call times and improve customer satisfaction.

 

“We suspected—then proved to be true—that Calabrio’s combination of quality analytics and desktop analytics would give us the important contact center insights we needed.”

Jonathan Schaffer
Contact Center Team Leader, Thomson Reuters
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GreenPath Financial lacked data to understand marketing impact. With Calabrio Analytics they harnessed the voice of their customer to rapidly increase NPS, drive 150% more call volume to their target audience, and much more.

 

“For years we’ve run marketing campaigns to try to reach people, but we never knew if they were effective or not. We were never able to track that before the Calabrio system.”

Kristen Holt
CEO, GreenPath Financial
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At Broad River Retail, Calabrio WFM maximizes agent productivity without negatively impacting contact center service levels.

 

“[Calabrio’s] tools are easy to use and logical to navigate. And, it doesn’t require a large team to administer! It has helped us elevate our contact center performance to a much higher level.”

Wynn White
Sr. Manager of Customer Experience
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The City of Vancouver used Calabrio WFM and QM tools to enhance employee work-life balance and handle significantly more calls, achieving 0% agent turnover in 16 months despite the 397% increase in volume.

 

“In a call center, we measure time in seconds. If I can get 10 more minutes per day of productivity out of someone multiplied by all our agents, then I can save money by not hiring another employee.”

Marc Dubé
Team Manager (Workforce), City of Vancouver
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Calabrio ONE

One suite to understand and elevate every interaction

Get all the tools you need in one fully integrated workforce performance suite.

Why Calabrio

Powering more meaningful, more human connections

Calabrio solutions are trusted by millions of agents and counting because we help unlock the true voice of the customer and deliver what brands crave: engaging interactions, real data-driven intelligence, and sustainable growth.

540%+

ROI

20%+

Increase in Handle Time

40%+

Decrease in Agent & Customer Effort

91%

Customer Satisfaction
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Leaders in contact center workforce satisfaction

See why customers choose Calabrio to quickly turn insights into revenue-boosting action.

“This is the best system to use for workforce management in the BPO industry. Live monitoring of employees status and schedules to avoid lost hours. You can also access daily records of agents' workflows. Work avoidance can be easily determined by this tool.”

Charles Angelo V

Outsourcing/Offshoring Quality Analyst

“We have a global workforce and Calabrio has been absolutely instrumental in allowing us to schedule and manage coverage worldwide.”

Lisa P

Enterprise Workforce Analyst

“I was a long-term user of a different WFM tool when I started using Calabrio to assist with forecasting and scheduling. It was a very intuitive learning curve to input call volumes and forecasts based on historical drivers. I find it very easy to set up new users and build schedules.”

Brian W

Mid-Market Workforce Management Planner