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Contact Center Terminology – Abbreviations & Key Terms Explained!

Babelforce

Do you know your DTMF IVRs from your ACDs? There’s a lot of terminology to get your head around in call centers and customer experience. Working with contact centers around the world, we know that better than anyone!). Active waiting calls metric. This does not include time spent navigating an IVR system.

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Call Center Outsourcing: Pros, Cons, and Best Practices

OctopusTech

Call center outsourcing refers to a strategic business decision made by a company to delegate its customer support inquiries from a third-party source often called a Business Process Outsourcer (BPO) rather than hiring an in-house team of employees.