Serenova

APRIL 26, 2019

For some technology solutions (customer relationship management (CRM), for example) the cloud is now the de facto standard. According to the report, “For the past few years, thousands of companies large and small have chosen contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) every year. The direction of change is clear.”.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For many remote contact centers, it’s time to shift into a busier season, when the stakes are especially high for customer experience. Most people, including customer service agents, are ready for a restart, which makes now the perfect time for contact center leaders to revisit their remote work playbooks.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

For most contact centers, surviving the first months of COVID-19 required swift operational reboots that began with major work-from-home (WFH) transitions. The strain of balancing the need to protect employees from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. The Cloud.

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Tethr

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Contact center reporting and analytics are essential for customer service and customer experience (CX) leaders to understand contact center performance accurately. That said, finding a good contact center reporting and analytics tool can be hard. The best contact center reporting and analytics tools.

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Serenova

MAY 29, 2020

The strain to balance taking care of employees to protect them from the coronavirus while maintaining business continuity continues for contact center leaders. As contact volume, customer anxiety and agent stress all still soar, what you once managed can now feel overwhelmingly un-manageable. Every time.

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Aspect

JULY 15, 2020

Contact centers, like most business, have had to find solutions to provide their essential service from somewhere other than densely populated offices where COVID – 19 might spread. For a period, it was mandatory that contact centers get agents out of the building.

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Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your contact center is planning for the future, be sure to make employee experience and getting the right technology in place top priorities. We recently participated in a discussion with two industry experts that focused on megatrends that will impact contact centers in 2022. Technology always needs focus.

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Calabrio

MARCH 2, 2020

Contact center as a service (CCaaS) makes the power of a modern contact center available to any business, regardless of budget or technical expertise. Twilio Flex: A programmable approach to the contact center. With it, any size company can move faster and be more competitive.

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Playvox

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a contact center setting, this can mean badges, a point system, and moving up to the next level when agents perform well. Gamification works well within a contact center environment because it leverages a number of game mechanics to keep agents engaged and focused.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

For businesses of all sizes, technology has also changed contact centers from an internal and customer-facing perspective. Contact center technology has evolved to enable more on-demand capabilities and scale, thanks to the cloud. So is it worthwhile to upgrade your existing contact center technology?

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DMG Consulting

MAY 6, 2022

The Cloud Contact Center Land Grab Is On. THE contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS) vendors have hit their stride by giving enterprises what they want—the ability to meet the dynamic omnichannel needs of their customers on an inbound and outbound basis. The future of contact center technology is in the cloud.

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Aspect

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The world of contact center solutions is just a microcosm of the myriad of software applications used by enterprises moving inexorably to a Software as a Service (SaaS) model in the public cloud. Subscribing to a cloud SaaS solution mimics the historical pattern of an autonomous WFM purchase.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The term “buyer’s market” is best known for describing the state of the real estate market, but it’s also applicable to contact centers. A related term, workforce engagement management (WEM), recently coined by Gartner, has rapidly become the business strategy, processes, and related technologies of choice.

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Playvox

APRIL 21, 2023

Customer service has gone digital — and your contact center needs to evolve with the times. Make sure your contact center is set up for digital success behind the scenes so that you can provide the experiences your customers demand.

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Playvox

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But now that tickets, emails, and chat have entered the picture, interaction avoidance encompasses any effort contact center agents make to bypass working with customers in any channel. What does that look like day to day in your contact center? Related Article: 3 Tips For Optimizing Your Contact Center Schedule.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

But how do AI and automation technologies actually help make your contact center more efficient? By applying them to this type of work, you can give time and energy back to your managers and agents to spend on activities that directly improve customer experience. What is Automated Quality Management? The results?

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NobelBiz

AUGUST 3, 2021

What are the flaws in your contact center? In order to find the accurate answer to these questions, business owners and managers must go beyond guesses and instinct and rely on scientific, clear, and quantitative facts. Team Management: how dedicated are your agents? Is your client satisfaction decreasing?

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. For example, the three most common barriers are situational, institutional, and dispositional.

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. For example, the three most common barriers are situational, institutional, and dispositional.

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8x8

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Most companies have implemented some sort of training or coaching program within their corporate structure and contact center. However, simply training your contact center personnel is not enough. For example, the three most common barriers are situational, institutional, and dispositional.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a great wave of contact center system and application overhauls and upgrades. In the past three years, AI has progressed from a concept with great potential to a practical set of technologies that are being used to reinvent the underpinnings of every contact center system and application.

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Playvox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As a contact center leader, there’s no question you’re at the heart of the conversation. In an omnichannel contact center , that may include email, text, chat, social, voice-based interactions, and more. Your customers are talking, and they have a lot to say. Support is okay.

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Cisco - Contact Center

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The All-New Webex Contact Center Lays the Foundation for the Next Generation of Customer Experiences. And throughout the year, the physical world was impacted such that a significant increase in digital interactions and an elevated status for contact centers came to be. End-to-End Customer Experience Management.

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Playvox

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

At Playvox, we prioritize what matters most to our customers — just like you do in your contact center! From quality management to workforce management , we strive to put not only the best, but also the most efficient and effective product on the market. you need a tool designed to deliver. Easiest Setup.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This particular kind of work environment has enabled many businesses and contact centers to retain service continuity. However, it is not a walk in the park to integrate remote work in contact centers. If you wish to implement remote work in your Contact Center, your agents must have a teleworking-friendly home.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This particular kind of work environment has enabled many businesses and contact centers to retain service continuity. However, it is not a walk in the park to integrate remote work in contact centers. If you wish to implement remote work in your Contact Center, your agents must have a teleworking-friendly home.

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Serenova

JUNE 6, 2019

Yesterday, at the Austin Contact Center Alliance ’s Emerging Technologies for CX event, Serenova and more than 30 contact center executives and technology thought leaders discussed customer experience (CX) challenges and how emerging technology can help. For most contact centers, the cloud means increased security.

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Serenova

APRIL 19, 2020

While most of us have been in lockdown mode, healthcare, financial services and other “essential” industries have had to continue to operate and serve customers through their contact centers. These contact centers are rising to the challenge of this global crisis. Choosing the Right Partner.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Cloud-based contact center infrastructure (CBCCI) vendors have spent most of the last 20 years playing functional catch-up to the leading on-premise vendors. It’s undeniable that contact center platform vendors are having a highly positive disruptive impact on the pace of innovation in the CBCCI sector.

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Playvox

JUNE 22, 2023

Tracking, reporting, and improving upon metrics are essential across all areas of business, including finance, sales, marketing, and contact center management. What Are Call Center Efficiency Metrics? Call center managers need metrics to successfully measure agent performance and improvements to call center operations.

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Global Response

MARCH 18, 2022

How improving your call center customer experience improves the customer journey. Although customer service may seem like just a small part of the customer’s experience, their experience with your call center or contact center actually impacts the entire customer journey. Collect and improve on customer feedback and data.

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8x8

DECEMBER 3, 2018

To highlight an example of a company that understands the importance of customer service as a real business differentiator, let’s look at Lenox Corporation. Lenox made this discovery because they have robust contact center analytics that give real-time notification of trouble areas so issues can be immediately rectified.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2021

Contact Center call volumes are increasing exponentially, resulting in supervisors dealing with agent assessments on more of an exception basis than as a normal course of business. While expectations are that all agents will adhere to call scripts, manage conflicts, and comply with regulations while treating customers with empathy.

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Global Response

MARCH 1, 2022

To decide which metrics are right for you, let’s look at a few examples. Example #1: Call center KPIs for a retail business. In this example, a small retail business is building out their call center. Example #2: Call center KPIs for consumer services.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 27, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog Series). Register for our webinar with Dane Smith, Enghouse Education and Training Manager, and Jacki Tessmer, VP Product Marketing. UCaaS, such as Microsoft teams will help speed transition into the future – the future of the contact center.

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Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes . Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Unified Communications (UC or UCaaS) are becoming integral to every contact center, with different benefits from each. Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Enghouse’s experience has shown that by leveraging semantic analysis, and industry-specific linguistics, terminologies, phraseologies and other proprietary algorithms and processing, NLP can better identify what the customer is experiencing and then, it can propose a possible solution from a specific set of options.

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