Ameritas earns prestigious Center of Excellence Recognition from BenchmarkPortal

May 28, 2009 - PRLog -- Ameritas traces its heritage back to 1887 and its founding in Lincoln, Nebraska, as Old Line Bankers Life Insurance Company of Nebraska (Bankers Life). In 1988, Bankers Life changed its name to Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. to reflect the company's broad product line and national scope. The Center of Excellence recognition is one of the most prestigious awards in the Service and Support industry that a company can acquire.  

Call Centers achieve the Center of Excellence distinction based on a best-practice metrics drawn from the world’s largest database of objective and quantitative data that is audited and validated by researchers from the BenchmarkPortal in conjunction with the Center for Customer-Driven Quality at Purdue University.

Since companies spend vast amounts of money implementing and operating call centers to ensure a competitive edge in customer service, it is vital that the call handling process be conducted at best practice standards. This need to function at best practice levels has, in turn, created the need for third-party certification that shows when call centers are operating at this high level of call handling performance. Please follow the link do discover what the 4 steps to certification are and how they will improve your centers performance. http://www.benchmarkportal.com/certification

About Ameritas
Within the mutual holding company structure, Ameritas Life, Acacia Life, Union Central Life and their affiliated companies retain their individual identity while benefiting from combined financial strength and scale to realize new growth opportunities. Within the mutual holding company structure, UNIFI Mutual Holding Company is the parent company and owns Ameritas Holding Company. Ameritas Holding Company, in turn, owns 100 percent of the stock of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp, Acacia Life Insurance Company and The Union Central Life Insurance Company.

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BenchmarkPortal is the custodian of the Purdue University Center for Customer-Driven Quality database of contact center metrics, the largest in the world. Founded in 1995 by Dr. Jon Anton, it provides reports, products and services for contact centers in the areas of operational metrics, customer satisfaction measurement and agent satisfaction measurement. BenchmarkPortal’s Web site can be found at: www.benchmarkportal.com