Abstract: Provided is a system which allows a user to efficiently locate and contact those individuals the user would like to communicate with. The system can also collect or access data about users in order to determine the best contact point to use at a particular time. Some of the data may include information pertaining to a user's appointments, schedule, activities, location and/or contact point usage. The system can monitor the data and may determine an individual's usage patterns in order to select or suggest contact points that are the best to contact a particular user at a particular time. The system may also determine or receive settings that allow for the routing of communications to particular contact points based on how the user receiving the communication would prefer to be contacted. Further, the system may securely route sensitive communications and prevent or limit forwarding of the sensitive information.

Abstract: A system and method for measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of individuals and automated systems by using transaction based measurements of communications that are normalized into a velocity score to depict excellent performance versus poor performance. Individual velocity scores may be aggregated to grade a person, a group, a department, a company or an industry or geography. The velocity score includes a plurality of weights that are used to provide higher or lower velocity scores depending on criteria selected by the entity.