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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

Fonolo

As the focus of contact center turns to creating value rather than reducing expenses, KPIs like customer satisfaction and service level will become increasingly favored over metrics like Average Handling Time. Which Topics Are Most Important for Your Customer Service Department in 2017? Call Center Trends 2017.

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Five Steps to Strategically Choose AI For Customer Service

Natalie Petouhof

Reduce Average Handle Time (AHT). The customer record data lives inside the CRM platform. Since AI is only as good as the data it interacts with, look for an “AI-inside” solution; one where the AI is built into the CRM platform and the customer service application. Faster time-to-value.

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Aircall’s 2018 Customer Support Strategy Survey

aircall

CRM/Helpdesk Users | Respondents who use a CRM or Helpdesk software solution (ex. Non-Users | Respondents who do not use a CRM or Helpdesk software solution to manage support team operations. CRM/Helpdesk Users are 92% confident ( 52% very) in their data accuracy — 14% more than Non-Users. Making Investments.

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In Customer Service, You Must Choose Between Speed and Wow. Or Do You?

Customer Service Life

This article was originally published on CustomerThink as my monthly advisor column on May 11, 2017. While the values the company held to so firmly as a start up are still stated and even plastered on the office walls, pressure to meet productivity metrics like average handle time and tickets per hour becomes more prominent.

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Top Metrics that Measure Inbound Call Center Performance

Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

According to a 2017 report from Microsoft , 97% of global consumers say customer service impacts brand loyalty and their buying decisions. Getting ahold of the right person the first time also ultimately improves customer experience. Average Handle Time. Front-facing employees are the lifeblood of a business.

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Conversational AI: What It Is and How It Works

Netomi

According to data from Google Trends , interest in “conversational AI” was practically non-existent from 2005 through 2017. Integrate – Depending on your use cases, you might want to also integrate with your other back-end systems like your CRM or accounting software. What is Conversational AI?

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From Making Sandwiches to Making the CX Journey Better: An Interview with Customer Experience Expert, Nate Brown

Vistio

It did definitely start as a passion project back in 2017. There’s the CRM there. There are different types of interfaces that integrate in to pull data in from other custom applications in the product management area, the sales environment, so critical there, they might very likely have their own independent CRM.