Article: Carnival Cruise Lines Chooses Lucent's CentreVu Advocate; Leading Cruise Line Latest to Install Cutting-Edge Call Center Tool.

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 1999--Lucent Technologies today announced that Carnival(R) Cruise Lines has installed Lucent's CentreVu(R) Advocate for its call center operations, making it the latest business to adopt Lucent's breakthrough expert system software.

CentreVu Advocate, announced by Lucent one year ago at Call Center '98, is revolutionizing customer care by eliminating the traditional "first-in, first-out" approach of queuing callers for the most idle call center agent. Instead, CentreVu Advocate uses predictive algorithms to match the skills and occupancy of the agents with the needs of the callers, regardless of their position in queue.

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