LISBON, Portugal, June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

ClickConnect 2013 - ClickSoftware Technologies Ltd. (CKSW), the leading provider of automated mobile workforce management and optimization solutions for the service industry, today announced ServiceOptimization 8.1.9, featuring a host of enhancements that leverage context-aware computing to make businesses smarter, embedding more artificial intelligence (AI) and automation into its solutions. New tools enable supervisors and dispatchers to more easily and efficiently manage a massive number of customer calls, and field resources to improve the customer experience while maintaining operational excellence.

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New features build on ClickSoftware's robust mobility solutions and the recently released ClickButler technology to create smart personal assistants for all business roles across the service chain. They make proactive decisions by understanding the business's context (e.g. customer profile and service contract, call urgency, time of day, location, activity, personal availability), learning behavior, and anticipating users' needs. The smart personal assistants also act as a compliance watchdog with company and regulatory procedures, and provide overall support to automate "social" communication with customers, peers and managers. These translate into incremental business value to ClickSoftware's clients by improving customer care, increasing efficiencies by saving hours a day of excessive swiping and typing, and minimizing costly errors by safe-guarding and facilitating compliance.

Dr. Moshe BenBassat, Chairman and CEO, ClickSoftware, states: "This new release is all about making your service business more intelligent, not just more efficient. Artificial Intelligence has always been an important part of our solutions - it is one reason why we are the market leader and our customers achieve such astounding results. This latest version sees that intelligence extended through a host of new functions designed to assist back office and mobile workers in delivering remarkable customer experiences to those at the end of the service chain. The solution-wide use of context awareness and artificial intelligence in ServiceOptimization 8.1.9 underpins our vision to enable organizations to achieve both outstanding customer experience and operational excellence."

The new tools and intelligence features include:

ClickSoftware's latest release will be showcased for the first time at ClickConnect EMEA, ClickSoftware's annual European conference taking place in Lisbon from 4 -7 June, 2013. More than 200 customers and partners will meet at the conference to experience cutting edge technology and company updates, including a live demonstration of ClickSoftware's latest release, ServiceOptimization 8.1.9 featuring ClickButler technology. For more information and to register for the conference, please visit the ClickConnect Libson 2013 site.

About ClickSoftware

ClickSoftware (CKSW) is the leading provider of automated mobile workforce management and service optimization solutions for the enterprise, both for mobile and in-house resources. As pioneers of the "Service Chain Optimization" concept, our solutions provide organizations with end-to-end visibility and control of the entire service management chain by optimizing forecasting, planning, shift and task scheduling, mobility and real-time management of resource and customer communication.

Available via the cloud or on-premise, our products incorporate best business practices from 20 years of experience, and advanced decision-making algorithms to manage service operations more efficiently, in a scalable, integrated manner. Our solutions have become the backbone for many leading organizations worldwide by addressing the fundamental question of job fulfillment: Who does What, for Whom, With what, Where and When.

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