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Its advisory and implementation work spans communications, contact centers, networks, data, AI, and cybersecurity, with hands-on project management that reduces the workload on client teams.","mission":"Help lean IT teams get their technology projects done by taking the work off their plate, from vendor evaluation through implementation and support.","directory":{"industryName":"IT Services & Consulting","agentCount":56,"indexable":true,"hubUrl":"https://nowen.ai/industry/it-services-and-consulting"},"categoryDirectory":{"name":"IT Consulting","agentCount":39,"indexable":true,"url":"https://nowen.ai/category/it-consulting"},"aiReaderFamilies":["OpenAI","Perplexity"],"products":[{"name":"UCA Portal","anchor":"product-uca-portal","type":"Platform","url":"https://ucadvisors.com/start","summary":"Coordinate technology projects with a shared plan, clear task ownership, and visibility into progress and timelines.","description":"UCA Portal is UCAdvisors’ project management software for planning and tracking technology projects. Users can start with a ready-made project plan, use it as is or customize it, and manage tasks, owners, dates, statuses, and timelines in a shared workspace. Clients, their vendors, and the UCAdvisors team can work from the same plan. The portal supports projects across phone systems, contact centers, networks, security, AI agents, and data. Users can start at no cost, with one active project for up to ten people and no credit card required. 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The team can assist with negotiating vendor price and terms, while the client retains the final selection. Advisory work includes discovery of current operations and system requirements, followed by design for client review. Technology assessments are available at no cost to qualifying organizations.","pricing":{},"features":[{"name":"Vendor comparison and evaluation","value":"Compare Options With Clear Guidance","valueDescription":"Review vendors and solutions side by side with advisory support, while keeping the final choice in your hands."},{"name":"Vendor-agnostic recommendations","value":"Get Vendor-Agnostic Solution Recommendations","valueDescription":"Receive recommendations across communications, contact center, network, SD-WAN, and cybersecurity solutions without giving up control of the selection."},{"name":"Contract negotiation assistance","value":"Negotiate Vendor Pricing And Terms","valueDescription":"Get assistance negotiating vendor pricing and contract terms as part of the technology selection process."},{"name":"Technology discovery and design","value":"Define Requirements And Review The Design","valueDescription":"Clarify current operations, system requirements, and connections, then review and approve a proposed design before implementation begins."},{"name":"Technology assessments","value":"Assess Technology Needs At No Cost","valueDescription":"Qualifying organizations can receive a technology assessment at no cost, with eligibility confirmed in writing before the engagement."}],"marketCategories":[{"name":"IT Consulting","url":"https://nowen.ai/category/it-consulting"}]},{"name":"Phone system implementation","anchor":"product-phone-system-implementation","type":"Service","url":"https://ucadvisors.com/practice/communications","summary":"Move to a new phone system with managed planning, setup, testing, training, and support to reduce the work on your team.","description":"UCAdvisors manages phone system migrations using the platform the customer chooses. The service covers discovery and call-flow design, number porting, phone setup, testing, employee training, go-live coordination, and post-launch support. UCAdvisors plans the transition before making changes, tests call paths before the switch, and works with the customer to shape how calls are handled. UC Cares provides the first 30 days of hands-on support from named people on the team that installed the system, with a direct line to the vendor and the option to continue month to month.","pricing":{},"features":[{"name":"Call-flow configuration","value":"Build Call Flows Around Your Business","valueDescription":"Call flows are designed with the customer and configured to reflect how the business wants calls to be answered and routed."},{"name":"Number porting","value":"Move Numbers Without Dropped Calls","valueDescription":"Early planning and coordination of number transfers help move numbers to the new system without a dropped call."},{"name":"Call-path testing","value":"Test Every Call Path Before Go-Live","valueDescription":"Testing call paths before the switch helps identify issues before customers make calls through the new system."},{"name":"Post-go-live hands-on support","value":"Get Hands-On Support After Go-Live","valueDescription":"Receive hands-on support from the implementation team during the first 30 days after go-live. Work with named contacts rather than a ticket queue, benefit from their direct vendor access, and continue support month to month if needed."},{"name":"Migration discovery and design","value":"Plan The Migration Before Changes Begin","valueDescription":"Discovery and design establish how the business handles calls and map the intended call flows before configuration begins."},{"name":"Team training","value":"Train Your Team Before The Switch","valueDescription":"Employees learn the new system before go-live, and training recordings and standard operating procedures are handed off when the project is completed."},{"name":"Go-live coordination","value":"Coordinate A Monitored Phone System Switch","valueDescription":"UCAdvisors coordinates the switch and monitors the live transition, with go-live planned for midweek and early."},{"name":"Project visibility and coordination","value":"Track Tasks, Owners, And Status Together","valueDescription":"A shared plan keeps the customer, vendor, and UCAdvisors team aligned on project tasks and progress. UCAdvisors takes accountability for moving stalled work forward."},{"name":"Phone and headset setup","value":"Set Up Phones For The New System","valueDescription":"The implementation includes setting up phones for the new system before go-live."},{"name":"Phone platform compatibility","value":"Choose The Phone Platform That Fits","valueDescription":"UCAdvisors can implement the phone platform the customer chooses, whether they are already using it or evaluating it for the migration."},{"name":"Conditional no-cost implementation","value":"Qualify For No-Cost Implementation And Support","valueDescription":"Qualifying projects can receive implementation, training, and the first 30 days of support at no cost. Eligibility is confirmed in writing before engagement."}]},{"name":"Contact center implementation","anchor":"product-contact-center-implementation","type":"Service","url":"https://ucadvisors.com/practice/cx","summary":"Move contact center operations with configured routing, connected systems, trained teams, and reports supervisors rely on.","description":"UCAdvisors implements contact center platforms selected by clients, moving agents and routing while configuring queues, integrations, reporting, call recording, quality, forecasting, and scheduling. The team designs queues, overflow, after-hours handling, and callbacks with the client, then builds and tests every call path before the move. It connects the agent desktop and CRM, rebuilds reports supervisors rely on, and trains agents, supervisors, and administrators. Virtual agents can be added once the queue is stable. Many projects qualify for a no-cost implementation, training, and the first 30 days of support.","pricing":{},"features":[{"name":"Routing and queue configuration","value":"Configure And Test Call Paths","valueDescription":"Build routing around how customers reach the organization and test the call paths before migration to help avoid breaking call routing."},{"name":"Contact center platform migration","value":"Move Agents And Routing","valueDescription":"Transition agents and routing to the contact center platform the client chooses, with the aim of keeping customers answered during the move."},{"name":"System integration","value":"Connect Contact Center Systems","valueDescription":"Connect the agent desktop and CRM with the contact center as part of the platform move."},{"name":"Reporting configuration","value":"Rebuild And Create Reports","valueDescription":"Help supervisors keep the reports they rely on through the contact center move, with new reports created when needed."},{"name":"Agent, supervisor, and administrator training","value":"Train Contact Center Teams","valueDescription":"Prepare agents, supervisors, and administrators to use the new contact center before the queue moves."},{"name":"Call recording setup","value":"Configure Call Recording","valueDescription":"Include call recording setup in the contact center move."},{"name":"Quality setup","value":"Configure Quality Capabilities","valueDescription":"Include quality setup in the contact center implementation."},{"name":"Virtual agent implementation","value":"Add Virtual Agents","valueDescription":"Introduce virtual agents after the contact center queue is stable."},{"name":"Forecasting setup","value":"Set Up Forecasting","valueDescription":"Include forecasting capabilities in the contact center move."},{"name":"Scheduling setup","value":"Set Up Scheduling","valueDescription":"Include scheduling capabilities in the contact center move."}]},{"name":"Network implementation and readiness","anchor":"product-network-implementation-and-readiness","type":"Service","url":"https://ucadvisors.com/practice/network","summary":"Prepare every site and its connectivity before a technology change, helping protect call quality and keep go-live on track.","description":"UCAdvisors prepares networks for technology changes and phone system moves. The team assesses circuits and equipment at every site, orders circuits, addresses issues that could affect call quality, and coordinates SD-WAN, Wi-Fi, wireless backup, and network hardware work. It also replaces copper lines used for alarms, elevators, and fax before carriers retire them, tracking work across locations in one plan.","pricing":{},"features":[{"name":"Site, circuit, and equipment readiness assessment","value":"Check Every Site Before Go-Live","valueDescription":"Assessing each location’s circuits and equipment helps identify and fix network issues that could affect call quality before the switch."},{"name":"Network issue remediation","value":"Address Issues That Affect Call Quality","valueDescription":"Resolving identified network and equipment issues before the switch supports call quality when the new system goes live."},{"name":"Circuit ordering and coordination","value":"Coordinate Circuits Across Locations","valueDescription":"Circuit ordering and coordination help get required connectivity work underway for each site before the change goes live."},{"name":"Copper line replacement","value":"Replace Copper Lines Before Retirement","valueDescription":"Replacing copper lines ahead of carrier retirement helps prepare alarm, elevator, and fax connections for the change."},{"name":"Multi-site readiness planning","value":"Track Readiness In One Plan","valueDescription":"A shared plan tracks network readiness work across locations, giving teams visibility into site checks, circuit orders, and hardware refreshes."},{"name":"SD-WAN and wireless connectivity","value":"Support SD-WAN And Wireless Connectivity","valueDescription":"Include SD-WAN, Wi-Fi, or wireless backup connectivity in network readiness work, according to project needs."}]},{"name":"Cybersecurity and compliance projects","anchor":"product-cybersecurity-and-compliance-projects","type":"Service","url":"https://ucadvisors.com/practice/cybersecurity","summary":"Clarify security priorities and close cybersecurity and compliance gaps through scoped, scheduled projects.","description":"UCAdvisors helps organizations assess their current security, scope cybersecurity and compliance work, and close identified gaps on a schedule. Projects can include endpoint and email protection, mapping compliance frameworks to real controls, and addressing security questionnaires, insurance renewals, and audit findings. A cyber maturity check helps identify what is in place, what needs improvement, and what to address first. The check is a guided online self-assessment covering five levels and security measures, with an immediate result. UCAdvisors works with the security and compliance platforms clients choose.","pricing":{},"features":[{"name":"Security assessment and gap prioritization","value":"Identify And Prioritize Security Gaps","valueDescription":"Use a quick guided check to see current security maturity, identify gaps, and understand which areas to address first."},{"name":"Compliance control mapping","value":"Map Frameworks To Controls","valueDescription":"Translate compliance framework requirements into real controls to clarify the work needed to address compliance gaps."},{"name":"Scheduled findings remediation","value":"Close Findings On Schedule","valueDescription":"Work through identified findings as a scheduled project, with progress toward closing the gaps."},{"name":"Security control checklist","value":"Review Key Security Measures","valueDescription":"Check the status of measures spanning backups, endpoint and email protection, device patching, staff training, access controls, password management, and sensitive data monitoring."},{"name":"Endpoint protection","value":"Strengthen Endpoint Protection","valueDescription":"Include endpoint protection work in a scoped security project addressing the organization's identified needs."},{"name":"Email protection","value":"Improve Email Protection","valueDescription":"Include email protection work in a scoped security project addressing the organization's identified needs."},{"name":"Security questionnaire support","value":"Clarify Questionnaire Responses","valueDescription":"Use a clearer view of current security measures and project progress to support responses to security questionnaires."},{"name":"Insurance renewal and audit project support","value":"Address Renewal And Audit Needs","valueDescription":"Organize security work arising from insurance renewals and audit findings into scoped projects with scheduled remediation."},{"name":"Security platform implementation","value":"Implement Your Chosen Platforms","valueDescription":"Work with the security and compliance systems the organization already has or is considering; the platform decision remains with the client."}]},{"name":"AI agent implementation","anchor":"product-ai-agent-implementation","type":"Service","url":"https://ucadvisors.com/practice/ai","summary":"Automates recurring questions and workflows, routes interactions to people when needed, and gives teams time back.","description":"UCAdvisors implements virtual agents for calls and chat to handle recurring questions, with handoffs to live agents when needed. The service also includes custom agents that connect to other systems and automate workflows. UCAdvisors bases automation on real call volume and introduces agents after the underlying phone system or contact center is stable. Supported platforms include Zoom Virtual Agent, Kasisto, Posh AI, boost.ai, and Expedient.","pricing":{},"features":[{"name":"Call and chat virtual agents","value":"Automate Repeated Questions","valueDescription":"Virtual agents handle recurring questions through calls and chat, including questions a team may answer many times each day."},{"name":"Live-agent handoff","value":"Route Conversations To People","valueDescription":"When an interaction needs human attention, the virtual agent hands it off to a live agent."},{"name":"Call-volume-based automation design","value":"Prioritize High-Volume Questions","valueDescription":"Using real call volume, UCAdvisors identifies recurring questions to automate first."},{"name":"Custom integrated agents","value":"Connect Agents To Systems","valueDescription":"Custom agents can connect to other systems, supporting client-specific integrations and work beyond the phones."},{"name":"Workflow automation","value":"Automate Workflows","valueDescription":"Agents can automate workflows as well as handle recurring questions, extending automation beyond phone interactions."},{"name":"Stable-system deployment","value":"Deploy Agents After Stabilization","valueDescription":"UCAdvisors recommends adding virtual agents once the phone system or contact center is stable."},{"name":"AI agent platform implementation","value":"Implement Supported Agent Platforms","valueDescription":"UCAdvisors can implement AI agent platforms including Zoom Virtual Agent, Kasisto, Posh AI, boost.ai, and Expedient."}]},{"name":"Data projects","anchor":"product-data-projects","type":"Service","url":"https://ucadvisors.com/practice/data","summary":"Move data, connect systems, and maintain reporting through platform changes with clear ownership and project milestones.","description":"UCAdvisors manages data projects such as moving storage, connecting systems, and rebuilding reports after a platform change. The team scopes the work, sets milestones with named owners, and keeps reporting working through the change. 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