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How to Recession-Proof Your Contact Center, According to 360+ Executives

Balto

As the global economy shows signs of recession, the Conversation Excellence Lab wanted to understand how executives are planning to shift their contact center budgets, and how they view the future of the contact center as a whole. Is the contact center a drain on resources, a necessary expense to manage customer needs?

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IVR testing, the vanguard in automated call quality issue resolution

Spearline

Co-founder, Russ Leatherman provided his oft parodied voice for the well known automated movie-listing and information service in 1989 and while, sadly, consigned to history in 2014, the central premise of Moviefone’s automation technology survives to this day. . Nowadays, the IVR system is an integral part of the daily customer journey.

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Vonage Acquires NewVoiceMedia – What Does It Mean?

Fonolo

Alan Quayle, industry observer and friend-of-the-blog, tweeted about the Vonage move, saying it “shows its hard to resell CCaaS UCaaS CPaaS” and “Increasingly [you] need to own the tech for margin.” started soon after CEO Alan Masarek arrived in 2014.”. This industry is moving fast. The Twilio Angle.