Taylor Reach Group

MAY 30, 2017

It seems there is no shortage of experts and pundits weighing in on what they see as the trends that will impact the Call Center/ Contact Center industry. In this post, I want to focus on trends that are already starting to ‘bite’ in Call and Contact Centers. . . .

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The Northridge Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Read any publication and you’re sure to find conversations revolving around Artificial Intelligence (AI) helping to power (if not completely replace, in some instances) human interaction. In the contact center, one thing is certain: positive human connections between agents and customers are critical to building brand loyalty.

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NobelBiz

AUGUST 3, 2021

What are the flaws in your contact center? How many consumers stick with you after their first interaction? After all, running a contact center without taking human, technological, and managerial facts into account in every operational element is comparable to driving a car without a dashboard.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 16, 2019

Workforce Optimization Ushers in the Real-Time Contact Center. It’s hard to overstate how much the contact center technology sector has progressed in the past 15 years. Thirteen years ago, DMG Consulting published the book The Real-Time Contact Center. who interact with them. By Donna Fluss.

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VocalCom

MAY 21, 2018

The technologies used in modern contact centers are instrumental in delivering great customer experiences. However, when companies do not optimize the use of these tools, each interaction becomes unnecessarily complicated. Here are five ways to reduce customer effort through the efficient use of contact center technologies.

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The 3 Contact Center Applications That Pay for Themselves. Almost every year, contact center leaders are asked to reduce operating costs and improve productivity while enhancing the customer experience. There are three emerging contact center technologies that can deliver all of these benefits.

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Hodusoft

AUGUST 30, 2022

Companies, especially the call/contact centers, sales and service teams, and many others are reorganizing and updating their communication strategies to stay competitive. CCaaS is the short form of Contact Center as a Service. In this blog, we will get a detailed insight into all these three cloud-based technologies.

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Aspect

DECEMBER 27, 2017

This brings us to the contact center – where conversations happen. Due to the criticality of the contact center to a business, as well as the fact that it is still (wrongly) considered a cost center to many C-suites, decisions are generally made conservatively. And this is where chatbots can help.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 9, 2020

Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. Contact center WFO suites have been steadily enhanced and expanded over the past decade, transforming into analytics suites. When: Today, 18 February 2020.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Just about everyone has an IVR horror story to share. Wanting to throw the phone against the wall in frustration after hearing an automated voice announce, “I’m sorry, but I didn’t get your response.”. Being forced to listen to repetitive menus. This is why conversational AI over telephony is a really difficult challenge.

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VocalCom

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Big data is another important resource for designing proactive customer experiences. For example, long average handling times may indicate miscommunication among departments or insufficient use of contact center technologies such as CRM databases. Give your customers the support they need proactively.

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Natalie Petouhof

AUGUST 15, 2022

The authors describe how Systems of Listening should include capabilities for monitoring and tracking customer event data, such as “when a customer navigates a website, pushes an IVR button or receives input from IoT (internet of things) devices.” All of these support the Systems of Understanding and Predicting.

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AWS Machine Learning

JULY 29, 2022

Establishing highly efficient contact centers requires significant automation, the ability to scale, and a mechanism of active learning through customer feedback. In traditional contact centers, one solution for long hold times is enabling self-service options for customers using an Interactive Voice Response system (IVR).

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Balto

MARCH 29, 2023

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your contact center can help you solve even the most challenging customer experience problems. And with customers having higher service level expectations than ever, deploying AI solutions into your existing contact center systems is vital for business success.

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Xaqt

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In it, we paint the picture of a utopian contact center in which systems are fully integrated and intelligently automated. At the time, Latigent was the leading Business Intelligence provider for call centers, and we were focused on leveraging emerging technology to move that value proposition forward.

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Dialer 360

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Visual IVR. Already with over billion smartphone user globally and growing the trends toward IVR. That go with transferring the existing IVR technology onto their phones screen. They can access an intuitive, user friendly visual IVR menu interface. Huge Data Analytics.

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Call Experts

JANUARY 23, 2019

Fortunately, the latest technologies utilize artificial intelligence and big data to address customer concerns and process inefficiency. Upgrade your property management services with a contact center. When do medical centers need professional contact center support? Do you need to upgrade your IVR?

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Think “P2P”, “big data”, “IoT”, or “blockchain”. It’s part of a continuum of web sites, smart speakers, mobile apps and IVR. In general, companies and consumers are both getting better at handling more interactions via self-serve. But “AI” is a different animal.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

With evolving customer expectations and service complexities, contact centers are poised to deliver strategic value and profitability to organizations. Businesses need to bolster their customer interaction and create a regular dialogue with customers. Your system needs to be equipped with the needed technology and tools.

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COPC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Being an internet-based company, we instinctively started to think about how we could use new technologies and big data to overcome the obstacles we were finding in our service delivery. We needed to work out how to ensure our service capabilities — as well as our resources — were keeping up with our phenomenal growth.

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COPC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Being an internet-based company, we instinctively started to think about how we could use new technologies and big data to overcome the obstacles we were finding in our service delivery. We needed to work out how to ensure our service capabilities — as well as our resources — were keeping up with our phenomenal growth.

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

So, in the case of contact center software, you have good things to look forward to in 2020. Still, these trends point to making life easier for contact centers and helping them to serve customers better and faster. We can expect it to gain even more ground as call centers based around WebRTC become more popular.

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NobelBiz

MAY 10, 2022

The efficiency of a contact center depends on one very important and key factor: the experience of its agents. You may enhance both agent and client engagement by making a few adjustments to the way you operate your contact center. How to define an excellent call center agent experience? How to tackle this problem?

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Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

What’s happening is that the ways customers and companies interact is changing. For example, phone-based IVR gets replaced by text-based chatbots. Every business has a long-tail of interactions that are too rare, or too volatile, to be worth adapting into self-serve. Back to the Economic Big Picture. Plus so Much More!

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DMG Consulting

JULY 16, 2019

CJA solutions include big-data capabilities that capture, measure, analyze and evaluate the quality and outcome of the customer (or prospect) experience for all customer-facing self-service and agent-assisted interactions, channels and activities.

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COPC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Being an internet-based company, we instinctively started to think about how we could use new technologies and big data to overcome the obstacles we were finding in our service delivery. We needed to work out how to ensure our service capabilities — as well as our resources — were keeping up with our phenomenal growth.

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Avaya

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s when an Avaya industry-leading contact center solution is put to its ultimate test. Every day, Avaya contact center solutions handle millions of customer calls, web chats, and texts around the world. Big data analytics. Integrating all customer contact channels is critical to success.

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TechSee

MARCH 7, 2019

The contact center industry continues to face extremely high agent turnover, with some outbound and telemarketing centers experiencing attrition rates as high as 27% annually. Contact centers are ready for change. Artificial Intelligence-powered contact center tools. Building a better VEA.

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NICE inContact

JULY 23, 2015

If ignorance were really bliss no one would be talking about big data or business intelligence like it’s the best thing since the light bulb was invented. What is an Intelligent Contact Center? The reality is that all people and businesses alike crave intelligence at every opportunity. Single Multi-Channel Interface.

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Dialer 360

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The delivery call center with a large picture imperative. Guidelines for the Contact Center of the Future. The call center is growingly becoming responsible for more and more calls. Usually, contact center technologist believes on the web chat. Contact Center Experts.

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JustCall

AUGUST 23, 2022

Businesses are rapidly adopting big data, and artificial intelligence, particularly in response to the pandemic’s pressures. If you’re still relying on on-premises legacy systems for your contact center and other telephony needs, you could be wasting a lot of money. What about communication though?

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 10, 2017

DMG Consulting defines CJA as both a strategy and an application; it captures, measures, analyzes, and evaluates the quality and outcome of the customer experience throughout all interactions for all customer-facing touch points, channels, and activities. This is the kind of knowledge that enterprises have been seeking for generations.

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Verint

JULY 28, 2017

In a recent ETCIO.com article , Firstsource’s Aparajita Gupta, senior vice president, digital support and analytics, describes how using Verint Speech and Text Analytics helped the India-based business process outsourcer analyze huge volumes of data and—importantly for its customers—find root causes to a variety of challenges.

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Calabrio

JANUARY 6, 2016

CEO of Calabrio shares his predictions for the Contact Center, for 2016 and Beyond. Yes, cows: A company in the Netherlands developed a sensor that attaches to a cow’s ear, monitors its vital signs and transmits the data to a computer, which reports back to the farmer via email or text. The ticket is closed.

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JustCall

APRIL 26, 2022

AI-based assistants enable salespeople to deal with big data to attribute results with greater precision. In all, the JustCall IQ conversation intelligence tool empowers salespeople to make decisions based on data instead of random opinions. Use Cases for AI in Sales. Sales Attribution. Learn more about JustCall IQ here.

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