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. your FAQ on steroids.

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Cisco - Contact Center

JUNE 18, 2020

Driving Business Growth for Customers with the Intelligent Contact Center. Over the past year, Cisco has been advancing our contact center portfolio to help our customers drive business growth and competitive differentiation. Contact Center Installed Base. Identified by Aragon Research. Focus on AI.

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Contact Center Enterprise contact center solutions Cloud contact 132

Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2018

It’s going to be a big year in the world of contact center and in customer service technology. We’re going to tackle all of those topics in the months ahead on this blog, but first we’re reading everything we can so we can bring you the most accurate analysis. Who wrote it: Interactions. Where to get it: [link].

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #4 of 4 The MORE you know. As we saw in yesterday’s webinar, both enhancing the Customer Experience (CX) and understanding the Voice of the Customer (VoC) are inextricably linked… for the better. Key Learnings from Kate Leggett and Steve Nattress. The more YOU KNOW. .

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Cisco - Contact Center

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

“I need the business agility, flexibility, and speed of new feature delivery that cloud offers while protecting my contact center investments.”. “I I need easy access to cloud-based applications that work seamlessly with my on-premises contact center infrastructure”. Do These Challenges Sound Familiar? You’re not alone!

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Aspect

JANUARY 23, 2020

Join us for our upcoming Aspect Software User Group Association (ASUGA) webinar , Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 12:00PM EST : Going Beyond Channels: The Importance of Delivering Omnichannel Experiences. . Join this webinar to learn: . How contact centers can provide omnichannel experiences to their customers.

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ProProfs Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This trend of call centers for chat support shifted to contact centers for chat support when internet usage became quite popular. And that’s not the only change businesses had to accommodate while running a contact center for chat support. Challenges Faced by Contact Centers. That’s not all.

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Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 17, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). Register for our Webinar with Robin Gareiss, President and Founder of Nemertes Research . Blog #1 Enhancing the Customer Experience. IVR / Mobile IVR / Chatbots / CRM integrations. Efficiently. ChatBots (a.k.a.

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Cisco - Contact Center

JANUARY 27, 2020

In our own Cisco survey of 700 contact center executives across 7 countries, 79% agreed that customer experience has a significant impact on business results. Integration of new cognitive capabilities powered by Voicea and Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI that turn your agents into “super agents”. Announcement Highlights.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). Register for our Webinar with Robin Gareiss, President and Founder of Nemertes Research. Blog #2 Microsoft Teams Drives Agent Productivity. This blog will focus on how it helps enhance agent productivity. Self-Service Helps Agents Too.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 19, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #3 of 4 With context, AI seeks to improve more quickly than ever. Watch for our next blog on October 22nd: Key Learnings from our Webinar with Kate Legget of Forrester. Doing so, will transform your contact center from a cost-center into a revenue generator.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 20, 2019

How well does your system support modern call center requirements like omnichannel , digital channels , workforce management and more? How does all this impact your call center? Modernizing your contact center software may seem like a big job. What functionality do I need beyond the basics of ACD , IVR and reporting ?

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 20, 2019

How well does your system support modern call center requirements like omnichannel , digital channels , workforce management and more? How does all this impact your call center? Modernizing your contact center software may seem like a big job. What functionality do I need beyond the basics of ACD , IVR and reporting ?

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It’s plain and simple, using plain language in customer interactions is good business for your contact center. This all leads to cost savings in your contact center. The lack of clear communication in the contact center can result in significant costs to a business over time.

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Aspect

MARCH 26, 2020

A large technology company was being inundated with inbound calls and needed an approach to “insulate their contact center.” ” They wanted to throttle the amount of calls that route to an agent in their call center. The customer was in favor and immediately made the suggested changes to their IVR.

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Enghouse Interactive

AUGUST 26, 2020

It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). Blog #1 Into the Vortex “Cross Channel is the New Omni-Channel”. Watch for our next blog in this series, coming September 3rd: What Do Customers Want? Doing so can transform your contact center from a cost-center into a revenue generator. .

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Are you struggling to boost customer satisfaction, enhance agent efficiency, or increase lead generation in your contact center? So, as a call center owner, manager or supervisors how do you tackle these difficult challenges and improving the overall performance within your contact center?

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Call Experts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

According to The State of IVRs in 2018 webinar, 83% of users would avoid a company after a poor experience with an interactive voice response. To build an easy to use IVR that helps your customers follow these five tips! Call Experts' 5 Tips for a Successful IVR. More Blogs Menu.

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Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 13, 2021

Blog Series #1 of 4: New decade! will have extended Teams to their contact center for voice and 31.1% 43% using video for customer interactions, and 67.2% 43% using video for customer interactions, and 67.2% Using cloud contact center platforms drives more revenue (54.1% New approach?

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Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. Today, as companies look past the pandemic, one thing remains certain: we now expect more from remote support centers than ever before. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 29, 2018

What does this have to do with contact centers? Most IT systems have a lifespan of about seven years and call center systems are no different. Contact Center software and hardware is replaced every couple of years because it either wears out or because it no longer provides needed functionality.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 19, 2022

When there is an inconsistent experience, everyone gets frustrated because of the repetitive data collection by chatbots, IVR, and live agents. For instance, if a client switches from a conversation with an AI chatbot to a phone call, the IVR is unlikely to know that the user had just been conversing with the bot.

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Spearline

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Your contact numbers support sales orders and customer management and when they are “down” your business is not generating revenue and may be losing customers. In addition to agent-customer conversations, voice analytics, voice-bot call flows, and true interactive voice response (IVR) have a fundamental need for good audio.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

Today’s most popular assistants offer a multimodal experience — the ability to interact on multiple channels — and are a major leap from the voice-only assistants that dominated the market just a few years ago. Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 12, 2018

They have probably already used your digital self-service solution to find answers to common questions, so if they are calling your contact center, it means they have relatively complex issues. When customers call your contact center, their issues are likely urgent or complex.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

pay my loan, check my balance, or transfer funds," which became the new way to start a customer service conversation through traditional speech IVRs around 2016. A lot of contact centers don’t have a good understanding of why their customers are calling and exactly what they are calling about. Then came "You can say things like.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Like their private sector peers, the front line for engagement with government agencies lies in the contact center. Contact center investments can yield significant and rapid improvements to that. Understand the capital requirements and where they are aligned in your contact center. Call recording?

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NICE inContact

JULY 31, 2019

My call went directly to my bank’s automated IVR and, to be honest, this is when I started to panic and stepped out to the lobby… At this point, I’m thinking, “Oh great! Conversational AI: Solving problems for the contact center. Dig deeper into conversational AI in our upcoming webinar. The post The Show Must Go On!

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Noble Systems

MAY 11, 2021

In this blog, we’ll look at how speech recognition has evolved since it was first introduced. Businesses in a variety of industries rely on ASR to direct callers to the right department or person through an IVR system. Many companies, including contact centers, leverage ASR to provide advanced call routing.

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SmartAction

MARCH 18, 2019

IVR automation has been around for awhile, but for the most part, it just hasn’t been very good. Everyone knows the limitations of IVR systems, and customers have a gag reflex when they hear most call automation. For more examples, watch our webinar: 4 Ways Virtual Agents Are Automating the Contact Center.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Companies that have embraced services like interactive voice response (IVR) don’t seem to realize how indirect this method can be, and how frustrating it is for customers to have to press buttons on their phone repeatedly to get to speak with an actual agent.

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SmartAction

MARCH 7, 2023

Since 2002, SmartAction has helped 100+ industry-leading brands streamline their contact centers and take their customer experience to the next level through AI voice, text, and chat.

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Customer Service Life

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

This article was originally published on the ICMI Blog on August 22, 2017. Companies like OneReach and Chatdesk offer the ability to add an option in your phone IVR for customers to move the conversation to a chat or SMS. Click here to read the original post. This is a real savings you can track.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 12, 2017

Sheila McGee- Smith, founder of McGee-Smith Analytics, says, “True digital transformation touches every part of the business, but it begins in the contact center with customer care.” Why? The post To Unlock True Benefits of Digital Transformation, Moving to the Cloud is First Step appeared first on inContact Blog.

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SmartAction

JUNE 9, 2023

Let’s explore this growing technology by understanding what it truly is, reviewing some examples of its applications, diving into its inner workings, and highlighting the associated benefits and challenges businesses and contact centers should consider. Table of Contents What is Conversational AI?

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Help Scout

AUGUST 11, 2021

One of the best ways to stay current with trends and customer needs is by following customer service blogs. Below are nine customer service blogs we love, with breakdowns of what content you can expect to find on them and details on why they’re so amazing. Aggregated “toolkits” of paired blog posts, webinars, and ebooks.

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Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 18, 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 #4 of 4: Key Findings and Where to Focus Your Optimization Efforts . Here’s how to do the right thing, right now.

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