Cisco - Contact Center

JANUARY 21, 2020

Europe, with its 24 official different languages, is certainly posing some extra challenges to those companies delivering services across countries part of the union, and that’s nothing considering that there are more than 200 languages spoken on the continent. Narrowing the Call Center Gap.

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Real Blue Sky

MARCH 6, 2023

There are many reasons to consider whether to outsource your contact center. Before the internet, customer service was typically limited to a brick-and-mortar storefront, letter-writing, or a phone call to customer service. Thankfully, this perspective on the contact center has shifted significantly.

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Real Blue Sky

MARCH 6, 2023

There are many reasons to consider whether to outsource your contact center. Before the internet, customer service was typically limited to a brick-and-mortar storefront, letter-writing, or a phone call to customer service. Thankfully, this perspective on the contact center has shifted significantly.

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Expivia

OCTOBER 4, 2021

However, finding and training staff to handle your customer service isn’t the easiest (or cheapest) task. . This is when contact center outsourcing comes into play. Contact center outsourcing can take the weight of customer management off your shoulders. What Is Contact Center Outsourcing?

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Spearline

APRIL 3, 2023

Contact centers typically aim to handle as many calls as possible and resolve customer issues quickly while maintaining high customer experience (CX) standards. Technical issues – These can include problems with the telephony system, call routing, and other technology that supports your contact center.

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Monet Software

JANUARY 16, 2020

Blended agent assignments have been a staple of the contact center since the advent of automated call distribution (ACD) systems. Enabling outbound agents to fill in on inbound lines when call volumes spike, for example, has offered valuable options for enhancing call center metrics, like service levels and abandonment rates.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Contact center managers know that quality monitoring and management is necessary to maintain or improve Customer Satisfaction (CSAT). It can be difficult, however, to tie contact center contributions to CSAT and then to resulting dollars, making it even more difficult to justify needed quality management investments.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 19, 2024

Call center dashboards play a vital role in contact centers. Call center dashboards provide the kinds of insights and metrics that contribute to having improved agent performance and more successful campaigns. Types of Call Center Dashboards So what types of call center dashboards are there?

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NICE inContact

MAY 14, 2019

For example, leveraging 40+ advanced patented algorithms and machine learning, CXone Workforce Management Pro can deliver the most accurate predictions of future call volume and create optimized schedules accordingly. For more ways on how to elevate your contact center, check out these resources.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 6, 2018

SLA stands for, of course, Service Level Agreement. You could say at its most generic, an SLA is almost like a promise that a service provider makes to a customer about the quality of service they will provide. How is a Service Level Calculated? . Service Level = [ In SLA ] / ([ In SLA ] + [ Out SLA ]) .

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BlueOcean

MARCH 31, 2022

If you’ve been a reader of Blue Ocean’s blog for any length of time, you probably know we love sports and particularly baseball. Let’s look at what sports can teach us about consistency in achieving contact center service levels—and how to adapt to even the most unexpected outcomes. Practice Makes (Almost) Perfect.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

As a call center stakeholder—be it an owner, manager, or supervisor—the task of harnessing call center reporting to pinpoint areas for improvement, optimize agent performance, and ultimately enhance customer satisfaction can seem daunting. What are the Benefits of Call Center Reporting?

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 4, 2019

Like a lot of contact centers, Superior Contact, a subsidiary of TelNet Worldwide, found itself at a fork in the road: Keep pouring resources into its outdated premise-based system or take the leap into the cloud with new and knowledgeable partner.

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TASKE Technology

AUGUST 4, 2019

Last month, we talked about how KPIs can help you measure whether your contact center is meeting business objectives. We also covered a few KPIs that are generally accepted as core measures of service levels in a contact center: first call resolution, telephone service factor, and abandon rates.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s the most common measure of how much of their time your call center agents spend dealing with customers. For example, if your call center had an occupancy rate of 90% yesterday, that meant that your agents were handling customer enquiries for an average of 54 minutes out of every 60 minutes. Very important indeed!

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Jive

AUGUST 21, 2019

However, many believe that despite its numerous features, Hosted VoIP isn’t robust enough to handle an industry where calls and communication are the backbone—like contact centers, for example. Contact centers receive a high number of calls every day. The post Is Hosted VoIP Robust Enough to Run a Contact Center?

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Cisco - Contact Center

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Artificial Intelligence Transforming Call Centers. The Contact Center business is going through a series of very important changes driven by the technology innovation, the raise of socials and the new consumption models being evaluated by most of the companies. 73% want the ability to solve product/service issues on their own.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In the world of contact center metrics, service level has always held a special place. Its origins go back over five decades, to the earliest days of call centers. What is the Purpose of Service Levels? And for many call center managers, maintaining these service levels is a top priority.

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Aspect

JANUARY 7, 2020

Truth be told, WFM is a bit of a mystery to most contact center employees. . Forecasting likely contact center volumes . Scheduling enough agents to service these volumes . And, for the planning team, it’s the best tool for understanding and managing how the labor matches contact center volumes. .

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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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VHT

APRIL 9, 2019

One of the fundamental responsibilities of any financial services provider is to avoid potentially risky activities and to ensure that there is regulatory compliance at every level, including the customer-facing contact center. Also known as GDPR, this European law is a game changer for financial services contact centers.

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teleopti

JUNE 18, 2019

As contact centers continue to grow in both size and scope, so does the layers of management involved. Unfortunately, this also means that communication from the operational levels tends to get muddled. I don’t mean that they don’t know that your service level goal is 80/20, but they don’t know WHY the goal is set to that.

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TLC Associates

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Rather than call center chatbots outright replacing people, they can provide ways to enhance the capabilities of your contact center agents. Customer service is a prime example. For holiday season customer service especially, this is particularly helpful as customer volumes spike and demand heightens.

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Hodusoft

JULY 6, 2022

Today, 83% of customers expect to engage with someone when contacting a business. While meeting these expectations every time might be impossible, enhanced call routing strategies will get call or contact centers close to increasing customer satisfaction. This routing strategy is called service level routing.

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Vistio

APRIL 2, 2022

She is an expert in the design and continuous improvement of the remote working model for contact centers, support functions, and enterprise, both in-sourced and outsourced. And that was actually in my first contact center assignment, it was with an outsourcer. Yeah, sure. My career began in HR actually.

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teleopti

MAY 8, 2019

By far the biggest gripe is having to handle last-minute time-off requests with 55% of contact center professionals complaining about the issue. A 2018 Call Center Helper survey revealed that only 52.3% A 2018 Call Center Helper survey revealed that only 52.3% to 30% since 2015. to 30% since 2015.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This efficiency reduces idle time and increases overall contact rates. NobelBiz OMNI+ takes the capabilities of Predictive and Power Dialing to the next level, transforming the contact center landscape with its versatile suite of dialing options. Among its standout features is the Preview Dialer.

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Monet Software

JANUARY 6, 2020

Forecasts are never 100%, but real-time call center data analysis helps fill the gaps. As we discussed here , contact center leaders spend significant time and energy creating detailed workforce management forecasts. Plan for too few and service levels degrade as agents become overwhelmed.

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Monet Software

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

So, how should you track and manage shrinkage in your call center? Shrinkage can be a major factor in failing to meet service level targets. Call centers that take shrinkage parameters into account in their forecasting and scheduling typically achieve higher service levels at lower operating costs.

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NICE inContact

MAY 6, 2019

On a high level, the company’s contact center solutions — WestIP, Moxie, and Outlook — were siloed and just weren’t talking to each other. The post Gant Travel Goes the Distance with CXone appeared first on NICE inContact Blog. The problem?

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COPC

APRIL 19, 2023

Previously, we discussed the importance of a well-designed scorecard in our blog, Benefits of a Balanced Scorecard for Performance Management. For instance, service level may be necessary for your organization, but giving individual feedback on performance versus your service level goals would be less meaningful.

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Blueship Call Center

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Consider how the vendor can help you with short- and long-term difficulties as you carefully assess their whole range of services and vertical knowledge. Does the vendor have a good reputation both with clients and in the contact center sector? The post How does a professional call center outsourcing vendor streamline business?

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Global Response

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Although call centers provide essential support and benefit to your business—including increased customer service availability, improved productivity and efficiency, stronger service levels and more—if a legal dispute or non-compliance issue is uncovered, your call center can end up costing you more than you imagined.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 21, 2019

In its second annual global research study of businesses , NICE inContact set out to compare perceptions of business contact center leaders and consumers in key areas of customer experience. What is surprising is the number of companies that I work with that are only routing voice interactions via their contact center solution.

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Global Response

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Call centers may focus on simply inbound or outbound customer calling (or both), or they may serve as a contact center and manage multiple types of customer communications. Since call centers are a broad category, there are a wide variety of use cases. Reduced quality and service levels.

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Global Response

JULY 17, 2023

For example, you’ll need to manage an in-house HR team, as well as managers, QA agents, team leads and so on—and of course, all of the salaries and labor costs associated with those roles as well. For example, consider that outsourcing can provide resources to: Streamline call handling processes.

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Callminer

AUGUST 6, 2019

.” – Sandie Simms, 12 Questions to Ask When Choosing Contact Centre Software , West UC; Twitter: @West_UC. Know the latest call center trends. Contact center software has evolved as customers’ expectations and needs have shifted with the rise of mobile devices and social media. Social media.

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