Wed.Dec 20, 2023

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Will AI Render the Human Call Center Agent Obsolete?

CCNG

Artificial intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) remain two of the hottest topics in call centers. The promise of AI and RPA to solve service issues and reduce labor costs is gradually becoming a reality. Thanks to technological improvements and broader adoption, AI is beyond the "hype storm" and has demonstrated significant value across industries.

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Totango recognized as CS leader in G2 Winter 2024 reports

Totango

We are delighted to share that Totango was recognized in the G2 Winter 2024 reports for its exemplary performance in the customer success software category. These awards reflect superior engagement and commitment from our users, who continue to highlight and share the key aspects of Totango and our software they find most beneficial. The best of both worlds: unmatched enterprise-grade implementation and usability The G2 Winter 2024 reports ranked Totango as the number one customer success softwa

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Elevating Customer Support: Five Goals to Strive for in 2024

TeamSupport

As 2023 comes to a close, now is the time to reflect on wins and losses from throughout the year. Maybe you had a banner year—or maybe you’re celebrating just getting through turbulent times. Either way, before you pop that bottle of champagne, it’s time to start thinking about New Year’s resolutions for your customer support team. In today’s increasingly competitive marketplace, people—particularly those in customer support—are key to setting your company apart from the crowd.

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Features, Bugs, Insights and the Art of Solving Customer Problems

Customer Service Life

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay It’s been 10 years since I wrote an article on this blog about the importance of never saying “No” to customers. I also shared about how the company I worked for at the time went even further and banned the word “unfortunately” from our ticketing system. Company leadership felt like there was almost always an opportunity to solve a problem for a customer and it just required the right amount of creativity.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.

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Healthcare Analysis in 2024: Leveraging AI and Cloud Contact Centers for Optimized Patient Experience and Engagement

LiveVox

It’s a balancing act to seamlessly navigate patient care alongside the demands of healthcare administration. On the one hand centering patient experience and delivering exceptional care is paramount, but the reality of integrating all of the tools necessary to be able to make those exceptional experiences a reality poses a not-so-small challenge. Here we delve […] The post Healthcare Analysis in 2024: Leveraging AI and Cloud Contact Centers for Optimized Patient Experience and Engagement a

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The Importance of Active Listening in Sales

Integrity Solutions

So often, we listen to respond. We’re waiting for the other person to finish talking so we can tell them what we know. Effective sales conversations, however, are rooted in a mindset of listening to understand. Let’s explore why that distinction is so fundamental in sales, and what you can learn about active listening in sales from the best sales coaches.

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Understanding the Dynamics: AI Chatbots vs. Self-Service Portals in Contact Centers

Win the Customer

In the realm of contact centers, the pursuit of enhancing customer service while streamlining operations remains a top priority. As technology evolves, two prominent solutions have emerged: AI-powered chatbots and self-service portals. AI chatbots and self-service customer service portals both offer unique advantages and challenges, prompting contact center leaders to navigate a landscape of choices.

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Keeping the Lights On: Brazilian Power Utility Wins Cybersecurity Award for Securing Grid Network with Cisco

Cisco - Contact Center

Cyberattacks on electric power utilities are on the rise. From 2020 to 2022, weekly attacks more than doubled.

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The Power of Visual Storytelling: Enhance Your Brand with Creative Website Design

OctopusTech

Creative website design is becoming a potent weapon for brand promotion in the modern market, where first impressions matter more than ever. Combining interactive features, graphic design, and visual communication can boost company identification and have a big impact on user engagement. In this blog post, we’ll examine how creative website design affects branding, highlighting the significance of user experience, visual content, and captivating imagery.

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The Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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Cisco and Nutanix Team Up in Response to Customer Demand: Another Win for Customer-Centric Innovation

Cisco - Contact Center

In the ever-evolving landscape of IT, organizations continually seek solutions that simplify complexity, break down silos, and enhance agility.

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Time’s Up: It’s Cloud Call Center Software or Bust

TCN

Cloud-based vs. on-premise platform Contact centers have existed in companies for years to offer customers. The post Time’s Up: It’s Cloud Call Center Software or Bust appeared first on TCN.

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Managing API Contracts and OpenAPI Documents at Scale

Cisco - Contact Center

Cisco DevNet presents at API Days Paris 2023 Year after year, this global event for API practitioners gets bigger.

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Features, Bugs, Insights and the Art of Solving Customer Problems — Jeremy Watkin

Vistio

Contact center agents don’t actually like to tell customers they can’t do something. It’s not until they are slowly beaten down by product limitations, silly policies, and unapproachable leaders that they resort to the dreaded “no.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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5 Important Financial Decisions that Can Have a Serious Impact on Your Business

CSM Magazine

Your financial decisions can be your business’s lifeblood, circulating resources when and where needed and sustaining your operations. Just as a healthy heart is vital for life, sound financial decisions are fundamental for your business’s sustained well-being and success. That is why it’s best to look into some of the most important financial decisions that may seriously impact your business.

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Enhancing Holiday Customer Experiences: The Power of Visual IVR and Self-Service Options

Zappix

The holiday season is undoubtedly the busiest and most festive time of the year. As businesses prepare for the influx of customers seeking products, services, and support, the importance of efficient customer service cannot be overstated. The post Enhancing Holiday Customer Experiences: The Power of Visual IVR and Self-Service Options appeared first on Zappix.

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Balto Ensures Unparalleled Contact Center Visibility with Screen Recording

Balto

New Feature Available Now From #1 Real-Time Guidance Platform St. Louis – Balto has added a new layer of visibility to the #1 real-time guidance platform for contact centers: Screen Recording. The feature integrates with Real-Time Guidance and is available as an add-on for new and existing Balto customers. Screen Recording is an essential piece of modern contact center operations.

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How Education Institution Technology Needs to Evolve

Cisco - Contact Center

The 2023 Education Summit event – co-hosted by Cisco and CAUDIT – provided higher education technology leaders an opportunity to gain new insights and perspectives on some of the rapid technology i… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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How to Benefit from Czech Casino Deposit Bonuses?

CSM Magazine

The exciting adventure of online casino gaming in the Czech Republic presents a multitude of possibilities, with one particularly alluring aspect being the field of casino bonus for deposit. These bonuses offer additional funds to try a diverse array of games and heighten the potential for winning. Within this detailed guide, we will explore successful approaches to selecting optimal deposit bonuses.

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Recap from Singapore FinTech Festival

Cisco - Contact Center

This was my first time attending the Singapore FinTech Festival and I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the conference, chatting with colleagues, listening to sessions, and visiting booths.

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Making the Most of Remote Meetings

Help Scout

Advice from Help Scout leaders on planning better, more effective remote meetings that move the business forward.

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How Cisco and Wipro are Improving the Airport Experience

Cisco - Contact Center

The airport experience can be hectic, overwhelming, and stressful.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Llama Guard is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning

Today we are excited to announce that the Llama Guard model is now available for customers using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Llama Guard provides input and output safeguards in large language model (LLM) deployment. It’s one of the components under Purple Llama, Meta’s initiative featuring open trust and safety tools and evaluations to help developers build responsibly with AI models.

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The Future Of Customer Success: Key Trends And Innovations For 2023

SmartKarrot

The landscape of Customer Success (CS) is experiencing a transformative shift. In this blog post, I, as a seasoned customer success expert at Chili Piper, will delve into the key trends and innovations shaping the future of customer success. Our discussion revolves around the dynamic changes witnessed within Chili Piper and the broader industry, focusing on strategies that can impact businesses positively and elevate customer relationships.

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Identify cybersecurity anomalies in your Amazon Security Lake data using Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

Customers are faced with increasing security threats and vulnerabilities across infrastructure and application resources as their digital footprint has expanded and the business impact of those digital assets has grown. A common cybersecurity challenge has been two-fold: Consuming logs from digital resources that come in different formats and schemas and automating the analysis of threat findings based on those logs.

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The Future Of Customer Success: Key Trends And Innovations For 2023

SmartKarrot

The landscape of Customer Success (CS) is experiencing a transformative shift. In this blog post, I, as a seasoned customer success expert at Chili Piper, will delve into the key trends and innovations shaping the future of customer success. Our discussion revolves around the dynamic changes witnessed within Chili Piper and the broader industry, focusing on strategies that can impact businesses positively and elevate customer relationships.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the