Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). Access the on-demand playback of our recent 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.

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Fonolo

MARCH 12, 2020

Even if you provide 24/7 live support, there are many situations where a customer can’t get in contact or doesn’t have the time to wait for an agent to become available. Self-service lets users resolve problems without waiting for your response and lightens the load on your customer support team. Blogs, tutorials and guides.

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Self service Best practices Customer Support Chatbots 118

Calltools

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Utilizing self-service options can help save your agents’ time and provide a better experience for your customers. According to Cisco, implementing AI chat resources has improved the customer experience for 53% of call centers. Self-service portals are now an expectation.

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Self service Interactive Voice Response Customer Experience Chatbots 52

ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This week we feature an article by Nogol Tardugno who tells us how to get our contact center interactive voice response (IVR) to deliver the best customer experience. Any reports of the death of interactive voice response (IVR) as a customer service channel have been greatly exaggerated. Get Straight to the Point.

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Cisco - Contact Center

APRIL 27, 2020

Today customers want to be independent, they want access to self-serve solutions , they do not like to be sold things, they love to buy solutions to their problems and needs, thus a key to delivering amazing customer experience is to quickly resolve a customer’s problem – ideally on the first contact, even better if through self-services.

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VocalCom

OCTOBER 24, 2017

At one time, self-service meant forcing customers to perform tasks on their own without the information and support they needed. Today, savvy companies offer self-service as a means of empowering customers to help themselves with confidence and minimal effort. Integrate self-service with your omnichannel strategy.

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Upstream Works

AUGUST 11, 2020

The difference between good and excellent contact center CX is providing customers with a human touch. The key to excellent contact center CX is to create meaningful human connections between the business and its employees. Utilize Video Calls and Co-Browse. Hire Emotionally Intelligent Agents.

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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. AI-Enabled Self Service (34.8% Back office support. Accessible NOW!

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Upstream Works

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Contact center success is heavily dependent on the agents working the frontlines to service customers every single day. Contact center agent happiness and engagement go hand-in-hand with customer happiness and satisfaction. According to ICMI , contact centers have a fairly high turnover rate of 33%.

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Calabrio

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

These changes in consumer behavior and expectations, combined with new technologies, are starting to completely transform the contact center. We’ve entered an era where simply keeping abreast with the latest contact center tech advances is not enough. Technology Fuels Contact Center Transformation.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 30, 2023

QnABot allows you to quickly deploy self-service conversational AI into your contact center, websites, and social media channels, reducing costs, shortening hold times, and improving customer experience and brand sentiment. Generated answers can be modified to create the best experience for the intended channel.

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Upstream Works

JULY 16, 2021

It’s easy for contact centers to build a business case for adopting cloud technology – reasons ranging from meeting the needs of today’s customers to finding an economical path to modernizing the contact center. Learn more about our omnichannel contact center solutions here.

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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. That’s where sophisticated UCaaS contact center software can be of immense use.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #4 of 4 The MORE you know. That “ any desired information or service should be available on any device, whenever they need it or want it, and that it be delivered in a personalized manner. Key Learnings from Kate Leggett and Steve Nattress. The more YOU KNOW. .

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Self service Contact Center Benchmark Chatbots 76

Upstream Works

OCTOBER 21, 2022

As contact centers transition to the cloud, there are several areas where AI is poised to play a leading role, including providing seamless customer experiences (CX). One reason is that many contact centers are more focused on internal performance than the customer. Contact Center Applications.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Customer centricity Chatbots 78

Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #1 of 4: The Customer Experience. Each engagement must be a positive experience, quick, seamless, and painless, regardless of the channel or channels they choose to use – voice, SMS, video, email, social media, or any combination thereof. . Customer Perception = Their Reality. What is it?

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Interactive Voice Response Chatbots Self service Enterprise 80

Hodusoft

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

How to Find Best Hybrid workforce Contact Center Software in 2022. Contact centers and several other industries’ survival through the first few months of COVID-19 meant swift operational reboots primarily through work from home transitions. Role of contact center software in managing a ‘hybrid workforce’.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Which customer service blog posts helped to shape the last decade for you? . There are more customer experience management blogs and articles than ever before — not to mention the growing libraries of video and interactive content. Here, we cover the 20 best customer service blogs and influencers to follow in 2020.

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Aspect

JANUARY 14, 2021

2020 was a difficult year for enterprise organizations across the globe, one that also forced digital transformation at an unprecedented rate – the contact center industry was not spared this shift. This easy and convenient method of communication will continue to pay dividends for the contact center.

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Contact Center Government Self service CRM 116

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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Contact Center Analytics Self service Finance 56

Upstream Works

JULY 16, 2020

This is Part 3 in our 3-Part series about how contact centers can adapt and thrive during a global pandemic. As the pandemic wears on, contact centers face challenges on two different but highly related fronts. Technology #1: Omnichannel Contact Center Solutions. See Part 1 and Part 2.

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Cisco - Contact Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

They’re also seeing the role of the contact center evolving from not just problem solving, but playing a part of the greater customer journey and influencing the experience of the customer. Transform Your Contact Center . Be sure to also check out these resources: View the Cisco and Google Cloud solution video.

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Enghouse Interactive

JANUARY 13, 2021

AI, Teams UC and Video. . Blog Series #1 of 4: New decade! will have extended Teams to their contact center for voice and 31.1% Video enablement: either use internally to manage remote agents, or externally for communications with customers. 43% using video for customer interactions, and 67.2% New approach?

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 3, 2024

Everything You Need to Know About Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) The introduction of Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) heralded the beginning of a new era. An era where small and medium-sized businesses could provide similar customer service as their larger counterparts. billion by 2030.

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ShepHyken

JUNE 2, 2017

To compound all this, traditional service – which waits until customers called the contact center before addressing a problem – has become much less effective. The team at British Gas integrated all their inbound and outbound customer programs, including their call-center, email, web, and other channels.

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Wireless Banking Analytics Call Center 189

ViiBE Blog

JULY 30, 2021

ViiBE Blog. What is a contact center? Call Center , Customer experience , Remote operations. Considered a relatively new solution, contact center is an omnichannel customer support platform. What is an inbound contact center? How to enhance the contact center experience.

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Rise of Virtual Banking: Contact Center Software as the Backbone of Remote Financial Services Over the past few years, the state of virtual banking has evolved greatly with financial institutions utilizing digital technologies to provide innovative and expedient banking services.

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bold360 Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We heard multiple takes on how various approaches to self-service can fuel that leftward shift—most notably the use of AI in knowledge management. Employees want more and better self-service knowledge. So it’s not surprising that 68% of employees say they want user-facing knowledge (self-help) at work.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Contact centers are the heartbeats of customer service, enabling seamless communication between businesses and their clientele across the globe. Play Video Table of Contents The Pitfalls of Conventional Voice Services For most clients, the difference between voice services is undetectable until significant issues arise.

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Balto

JANUARY 22, 2024

We’ve seen generative AI being applied in different industries with great results, specifically in the contact center domain. This blog aims to uncover the numerous use cases of generative AI in the modern contact center. Monitor and Ensure Compliance Maintaining compliance is foundational for your contact center.

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VocalCom

APRIL 29, 2019

When designing great customer experiences, every brand should think about its self-service. Gartner states that 81% of customers attempt to find solutions on their own before contacting an agent. Here are five rules for creating self-service options that truly benefit your customers. Use video tutorials.

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Upstream Works

MARCH 3, 2021

Next generation technologies for the contact center are readily available and quickly becoming core drivers of digital transformation. While many contact centers are still running on legacy, premise-based technology, the expectations of today’s digital customers have surpassed what these legacy applications can provide.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). Blog #2 Microsoft Teams Drives Agent Productivity. In our first blog, we explored how Microsoft Teams, when integrated into a Contact Center, helps provide a better experience for the end-customer. Self-Service Helps Agents Too.

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ViiBE Blog

AUGUST 11, 2021

ViiBE Blog. The best contact center software for your needs. Call Center , CRM , Customer experience. Contact centers vary widely to suit the needs of a wide range of businesses. A customer-facing company and business-to-business (B2B) sales will have different needs from a contact center.

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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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Upstream Works

JUNE 25, 2020

This is the second article in a three-part series about how COVID-19 is impacting contact centers and how they can adapt to this new normal. In the first part of our three-part series, we addressed the important role the contact center plays in business continuity during this global pandemic. What We’ve Learned So Far.

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Contact Center Management Self service Consulting 78

Hodusoft

JULY 26, 2023

Ameyo Alternative: A Comparison of the Best Contact Center Software If you type “ best contact center software for small businesses ” or “most affordable contact center software” or “top 10 contact center software” and type enter, you will get about a dozen of websites on the first page of the search engine results page.

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