Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes . Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents. This reduces unsuccessful transfers, time in queue and average handle times (AHT).

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Aspect

MAY 7, 2018

If you have been following Aspect for a while, it is no secret to you that we believe in customer self-service as an important pillar of any customer experience (CX) strategy today. Accordingly, self-service capabilities are also a cornerstone of Aspect Via. Secure IVR. Context Continuity from Web to Voice.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contact centers play a vital role in today’s modern businesses. They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028.

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 17, 2024

Revolutionizing Customer Engagement: The Power of UCaaS Contact Center Software The term ‘UCaaS’ has been in the modern telephony lexicon for quite some time now. It’s the acronym for Unified Communications as a Service. By doing so, it enables agents to manage and handle customer communication across various platforms.

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BlueOcean

MARCH 13, 2023

Talk of ChatGPT is everywhere from your LinkedIn feed to the evening news to, yes, this blog. Like most people in the customer care sector, we are diving deep into where ChatGPT fits, or might fit, into the contact center world. Those first three are what we’d expect. Data and algorithms can only do so much.

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ConvergeOne

MARCH 16, 2021

This blog post was co-authored by Kathy Sobus (Senior Director, Customer Experience Strategy, ConvergeOne) and LumenVox. When it comes to contact center authentication, callers overwhelmingly prefer voice biometrics to knowledge-based security questions. Reduction in Average Handle Time (AHT). 50 per call.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Optimizing team productivity is the key to achieving this goal, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the steps necessary to unlock your call center’s full potential. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center? This technology is a component that takes calls and assigns them to the appropriate agent.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

If you’ve manage an aging contact center, then you’ve probably identified several inefficiencies which limit your success. Maybe its call volumes that exceed contact center capacity. When you transform contact center inefficiencies into proficiencies you are transforming money “wasted” into money saved.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

You’ve invested a significant amount of time and energy to hire highly skilled contact center agents, and you’ve invested a lot of money in the technology they use to handle calls/inquiries, so what is missing? However, many fear that the cost to implement this kind of self-service may outweigh the long-term benefit.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

You’ve invested a significant amount of time and energy to hire highly skilled contact center agents, and you’ve invested a lot of money in the technology they use to handle calls/inquiries, so what is missing? However, many fear that the cost to implement this kind of self-service may outweigh the long-term benefit.

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pindrop

AUGUST 22, 2021

The qualitative aspect of the caller-agent connection goes well beyond any statistics and metrics that contact centers use to measure and improve on their work performance. The AI Playbook for Contact Centers. How to add personalization without straining the contact center operation. Download the Playbook.

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teleopti

JULY 1, 2019

Let’s discuss how contact centers can address the questions above from the perspective of the WFM analyst and contact center management. With this capability, in a short amount of time, a BI tool can transform an analyst from a data novice to a data Rockstar. First the WFM Planner or Resource Planner.

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Hodusoft

JULY 19, 2023

It is designed to help businesses in efficient management and handling of large volumes of incoming customer calls. Choosing the right inbound call center software can help businesses in improving customer satisfaction, reducing wait times, and increasing operational efficiency.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Call4You Marketing implemented NobelBiz Omni+, an advanced, full-featured cloud contact center solution equipped with an impressive stack of options and features that can be easily integrated, customized, and optimized to any contact center use case. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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SmartAction

MAY 23, 2019

This is the fifth of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. Use this guide to automate your contact center and Customer Experience (CX) with AI self-service in voice, chat, and text. What does a best-of-breed CX team look like?

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

According to Forbes, poor customer service is costing businesses more than $75 billion a year. The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction.

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Natalie Petouhof

APRIL 7, 2016

Customer self-service is one of the key capabilities of any company that actually cares about their customers. Companies contemplating a self-service customer care solution to support digital customer experiences should consider the following five steps: 1. Tweet It’s just not true. As organizations make.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 24, 2020

In my previous blog , I took you through the key characteristics of a true AI-powered knowledge base. Now, we’re going to dive into the different stakeholders within and outside of the contact center who will benefit from this evolution of the traditional knowledge base, and how you can use it to transform your customer experience. .

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Today, contact center leaders who embrace the cloud are quick to see its benefits – powering engaging customer experiences while positively impacting business outcomes. As contact centers continue to become drivers of business growth, there are significant quantitative and qualitative results to consider.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

As a contact center manager, you’ve got a lot of metrics to choose from as your key performance indicators (KPIs). In this blog, we help narrow down this long list to help you focus on the metrics that, when improved upon, will really help your contact center thrive. Service Quality. Outbound Dialing.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying.

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Eptica

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Part of our series on optimizing CX with Eptica, this blog post explains how reporting can power customer experience improvement , as well as giving you the ability to enhance productivity. This builds over time, allowing comparisons between specific periods, such as the Peak season in retail. Share this page on: Tweet.

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VocalCom

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

First contact resolution, average handling time…many brands consider these KPIs critical for measuring their customer service success. For example, long average handling times may indicate miscommunication among departments or insufficient use of contact center technologies such as CRM databases.

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Toister Performance Solutions

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Advertising disclosure: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. A recent blog post outlined the increasing demand for phone skills. into a phone. Ready for the really good news?

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bold360 Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2020

When customers call your contact center, call routing sends customers to the right department for their inquiry. Intelligent routing thus helps personalize the customer experience and expedite service. By the way, “call routing” can apply to any contact center channel, like live chat, messaging, or email.

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Hodusoft

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

7 Best and Effective Inbound Call Strategies For Call Centers. Accessibility is one of the essential aspects of delivering an impeccable customer service experience. The inbound contact center serves as the point of access for customers for queries, complaints, issues, and feedback. Implement self-service options.

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Eptica

AUGUST 1, 2018

Author: Joanna Allouche - Consultant Optimizing CX with Eptica When it comes to the contact center, there is a clear link between happy agents and overall performance. Satisfied employees are likely to be more engaged, give better service, stay for longer and are generally more productive. Published on: August 01, 2018.

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Spearline

AUGUST 24, 2022

Support where it’s needed qualityRTC is the self-service panacea for all webRTC application ills. You are up and running with meaningful test data in no time. We work globally across business sectors, supporting contact centers, conferencing services, and more to successfully connect with their customers and employees.

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Expivia

APRIL 29, 2021

It will be easy to see how your call center metrics fluctuate. Average Handle Time. The average handle time is the best call center KPI to gauge how efficient your process is. This is the whole time your rep spends on the interaction. This is part of the average handle time as well.

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Monet Software

DECEMBER 19, 2019

No, not the holidays—the deadline for the 2020 annual call center budget ! Contact center managers are putting the pieces together to get a full picture of their future resource needs. Ironically, such simple tools make the contact center budgeting process more complex. 2 Handle Time Estimates.

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OctopusTech

AUGUST 31, 2022

Interactive voice response (IVR) is a phone system software technology used in contact centers that allow employees and customers to interact using a computer system through automatic voice or touch-tone dialing menus. . It offers self-service to customers for faster first-call resolution practices.

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Natalie Petouhof

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

List the strategic metrics you are measured on every day and then think about how AI can help you to: Reduce call volume (call deflection via satisfying self-service). Increase First Contact Resolution (FCR). Reduce Average Handle Time (AHT). Wasted time and money and longer time-to-value.

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VocalCom

MAY 21, 2018

The technologies used in modern contact centers are instrumental in delivering great customer experiences. Here are five ways to reduce customer effort through the efficient use of contact center technologies. Here are five ways to reduce customer effort through the efficient use of contact center technologies.

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pindrop

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It is commonly understood that KBAs are frustrating, not just for the consumers but for the contact centers themselves. We explore these topics in this blog. A few interesting trends are taking place in contact centers. . Source: Contact Babel The US Contact Center Decision-Makers’ Guide, 2018 and 2021.

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Babelforce

JUNE 9, 2022

We’ll also provide tips about how you can implement this approach in your contact center. In this blog: • What is customer centricity? How can contact centers become more customer-centric? How can contact centers become more customer-centric? Call centers are the front line of the customer experience.

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teleopti

OCTOBER 18, 2019

CX has also totally revolutionized the way front-line operations such as contact centers measure their success, switching from the number of calls answered and how quickly to how well do we understand customers? Put intelligence at the front end of employee and customer self-service.

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