The term you are looking for to describe this behavior, is an Outbound Campaign.
There is no built in functionality in Cisco Call Manager (CUCM) itself to do this.
However, both of Cisco's Contact Center products do have this ability. Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) has a more limited capability for performing a Campaign, but is a much cheaper, much simpler solution to implement. It is still not cheap or simple though!
For more complicated out dialing ability, you'd want to look into Unified Contact Center Enterprise. At that point, due to the cost and complexity of UCCE, I'd recommend involving a Cisco Partner to design and implement the system for you.
With all of that said, if you were controlling a phone via one of the phone control APIs that Cisco provides, you may be able to rig something up yourself to do this. It just won't be as neat or integrated as the Cisco solution.
It might work something like this:
- UserA indicates to your software that they're ready to make an outbound call to a customer.
- Your software consults the list of customers to call, and sees that CustomerB is up next.
- Your software looks up the relevant info of CustomerB in it's database (phone number, account number, etc).
- Then, utilizing a Cisco TAPI configuration, your software takes control of UserA's phone.
- Your software makes UserA's phone go off-hook, and initiate a call to the retrieved customer number.
- UserA hears ringback on their headset and is now on a call to CustomerB, with all of their account info displayed on the screen via your software.
There are many other ways you could go about it, that's just one possibility. This doesn't give you supervisory ability to only connect the call if a customer answers, but that's part of what the UCCX and UCCE solutions provide.
