JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

Whenever you hear the term contact center, you imagine cubicles filled with employees, headsets on their heads resolving customers’ queries. Thanks to cloud contact center solutions, today, organizations can host their contact centers at a third-party data center.

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 13, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #2 of 4: Seeking th e Root Cause and Affecting the Right Outcome. But to achieve that objective and be transformative in their effectiveness, AI-platforms must broaden the range of information they gather while enhancing their analytical focus.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2023

In today’s digital age, contact centers play a critical role in customer support, sales, and overall communication between businesses and their clientele. Unfortunately, these centers have also become a target for fraudsters looking to exploit the vulnerabilities inherent in these systems.

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Upstream Works

AUGUST 5, 2021

As momentum continues to build for cloud adoption in the contact center space, the business case for supporting this decision becomes clear. These are a few specific examples of how cloud benefits the contact center and any one of these is sufficient to justify the investment. Cloud Flexibility Enables Greater Automation.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This blog post is co-written with Bruno Mateus, Jonathan Diedrich and Crispim Tribuna at Talkdesk. Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

They are “the ones to watch” and we recommend you follow them on Linkedin, Twitter, or YouTube or try meeting them at key industry events. Skilled in leading high-performing teams and utilizing customer insights to drive improvements, Agnes works on unique ways to build customer loyalty through community programs and events.

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Real Blue Sky

JULY 12, 2022

In our last blog post , we talked about how employee turnover rate can often be 100%+ annually in a contact center. The contact center is the heartbeat of every company. The days of training being a once-a-year event are long gone. Advanced Technology in the Contact Center. Speech Analytics.

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This is a free opportunity to hear from industry thought leaders on how to create an intelligent, efficient and customer-aware contact center through cloud, mobile and AI technologies. You will walk away with actionable tactics to immediately improve your customer interactions and design your intelligent contact center.

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JustCall

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In this blog, managers will learn how to turn their agents into seasoned experts at handling customers and prospects with call monitoring. Call Monitoring and Analytics: How to Turn Agents into Seasoned Experts. Call center managers take the onus of keeping the performance graph steady. Call Analytics Dashboard.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). Register for our upcoming webinar “When, How and Why Customers Self-Help” with Steve Morrell, Managing Director and Principal Analyst of Contact Babel and John Cray, Vice President – Product Management, Enghouse Interactive. Digital literacy is the new normal.

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Contact Center Pipeline

MAY 30, 2019

May is generally an event-loaded month for the industry. It’s also a time when blog readership spikes.

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Aspect

JUNE 5, 2018

Just a month and a half ago, Aspect president Chris Koziol made an unconventional proclamation to the Aspect Customer Experience event in Las Vegas: The contact center has got its mojo back. You may ask yourself, “what is mojo anyway and does my contact center really need it in the first place?”. Hell yes, it does.

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Quiq

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In this blog post, I’ll share with you what Quiq Insights is, why we built it, and what sets it apart from other analytical offerings. Quiq Insights is a data analytics tool that provides a powerful lens to view your customer interactions, journeys, and more. What is Quiq Insights?

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TechSee

JUNE 16, 2022

If you want to stay ahead of the game, follow them on Linkedin, Twitter, or YouTube or try meeting them at key industry events – their enormous impact is bound to become a catalyst for change in the space. He has 30 years of experience in inbound, outbound, chat, analytics, AI, and social media. Follow on LinkedIn.

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Fonolo

APRIL 2, 2019

One of our goals with the Fonolo blog is to expose our readers to a broad range of voices on a broad range of topics. Key quote: “The Contact Center is going to change more in the next five years than in the last 25.” Call Center Panel from Enterprise Connect. Read more on their blog post. I won’t spoil it here.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 1, 2018

Google made a major announcement at their “Cloud Next” event with the launch of Contact Center AI. It was the second time this month that the contact center world was rocked by a Google announcement. Analyst Sheila McGee Smith has a great slideshow here: Google Embraces the Contact Center.

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Etech GS

APRIL 30, 2019

Contacting a company in the hopes of resolving an issue only to receive less-than-impressive service is likely a scenario you’ve personally encountered at least once in your lifetime. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help meet your company’s needs. This blog was first published on LinkedIn.

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Monet Software

JULY 30, 2019

“Analytics” is one of those terms that many business people use, even while they may disagree on its exact definition. In fact, one Gartner survey asked users what it means and they received a range of answers in response, from “online analytical processing” to monitoring call centers, to data mining. Performance Analytics.

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Monet Software

APRIL 24, 2020

High-speed internet, cloud-based applications and other technologies have opened a new vista for the call center—the remote agents. Most contact centers have had to quickly transition to working from home as a direct effect of COVID-19. No longer is the company limited to the talent pool surrounding the contact center.

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The most obvious example of a channel would be Voice, or calls placed to a call center or contact center to be answered by the next available agent, courtesy of call center software. An organization offering multiple customer channels is often referred to as having a “multichannel” contact center.

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Aria Solutions

JUNE 24, 2019

In previous years, the contact center was seen as an operational necessity, an important but non-strategic wing of an organization. Contact centers, and the technologies enabling them, now feature prominently in strategic decision making. Silos are one of the great challenges facing contact centers today.

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Callminer

DECEMBER 17, 2019

When dedicated call center agents are focused exclusively on handling calls, there’s often an improvement in important call center metrics like first call resolution. Tools like speech analytics solutions help monitor QA, ensure compliance, and provide insights that aid in agent performance management , as well. Sales Pursuits.

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Aspect

MAY 18, 2020

It’s a brave new world for contact centers in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. In a recent survey of contact centers by Aspect, we found that about 70% of agents were “work-from-home” as of April 16 , and a recent Gartner poll of CFOs indicates that 74% think telecommuting will become permanent.

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ConvergeOne

JUNE 21, 2022

What factors determine whether a contact center interaction produces a positive outcome? To ensure the quality of every customer interaction, contact center managers need a business system – a repeatable approach. Adopting a disciplined approach to WEM activities is key to the growth of any contact center.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 2, 2016

Guest blog post from our friends at Momentum Telecom. A common theme for companies known for exceptional customer service is a robust, well equipped call or contact center. Simply put, these centers provide a human touch and a strong differentiator for the marketplace when deployed correctly. Register today!

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ConvergeOne

AUGUST 9, 2022

The first entry in this blog series, which details the first two steps to effective Workforce Engagement Management, can be read here. Unexpected events constantly disrupt scheduling – including lower- or higher-than-expected volumes, shift swaps, unscheduled training classes, illness, etc.

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Monet Software

MAY 27, 2020

While the event may be over, all content is now available on-demand until May 21, 2021. Whether you were able to join us for the event last week or had to miss it, the free, on-demand content is still at your fingertips for a full year. Thank you to everyone who made Verint Virtual such a success—and so much fun! That’s right!

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Jon Arnold

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Grateful to be busy, but with so many virtual events to follow, it didn’t leave much time for writing. 19 Webinar Preview: What Contact Centers Really Need - Big Analytics, not Big Data , JAA blog, Oct. 16 Why Voice Has Extended Value in Financial Services , Smarsh Blog, Oct. TechTarget, Oct.

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Stratifyd

MAY 30, 2019

Even if consumers have bad experiences with contact centers, most still prefer to speak with a human representative – 70%, to be exact – according to a study conducted by the Sitel Group. With that being said, contact centers play an influential role in customer retention strategies. How Does It Work?

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Callminer

AUGUST 6, 2019

Call Center Monitoring: All call analytics which can be tracked and measured are in call center monitoring software. These details allow for training reps and improving call center performance. The most sophisticated solutions offer multi-channel text and speech analytics. Know the latest call center trends.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 16, 2018

Leveraging today’s innovative speech recognition technology and predictive analytics is the key to creating a customer-centric culture in the call center. Leveraging today’s innovative speech recognition technology and predictive analytics is the key to creating a customer-centric culture in the call center.”

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC) provides a high security, high availability network in one of the most demanding environments in the world – the Black Hat event. The NOC partners are… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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Uniphore

AUGUST 6, 2021

These are some of top contact center pain points driving employee disengagement today. In our webinar, What Your Call Center Agents Rant About on Social Media , we went beyond the annual Voice of the Employee survey to explore how agents really view the contact centers they work in—and why they’re leaving at an alarming rate.

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Talkdesk

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This post is part of Talkdesk’s live-blogging series for Dreamforce 2017. Vivino has been at the center of the movement to digitalize the wine industry since it was founded in 2009, taking the wine-buying experience mobile with an app that allows for image recognition, community reviews and intelligent behavior monitoring.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 15, 2022

Ideally, listening uses advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover issues and opportunities. These systems should capture data from any and every customer touchpoint — website, digital channel, social platform, contact center or IoT device. All of these support the Systems of Understanding and Predicting.

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Spearline

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Centralized contact center hubs carry voice traffic around the world. Networking equipment has sophisticated event logging. Comprehensive call records enable you to form a complete picture of the performance history of your contact numbers. Analytics support the root-cause analysis of issues.

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