Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2018

It’s going to be a big year in the world of contact center and in customer service technology. Will this be the year that messaging platforms from Facebook, Apple and others reach critical mass as a channel for customer service? Our favorite chart: The Current State of Customer Care.

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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. For Customers.

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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 to modernize my customer and agent experiences to remain competitive.”. “I Do These Challenges Sound Familiar? You’re not alone! Highlights of What’s New.

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Cisco - Contact Center

JANUARY 27, 2020

Delivering superior customer experiences is more important now than it has ever been for companies of all sizes. In a study by Bain & Company, a 10x disparity was found between how brands perceive their customer service and how customers perceive that same service. Announcement Highlights.

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pindrop

MAY 7, 2020

Access to personal information leads to validating the data with targeted institution’s own customer services tools, mainly through contact center agents directly, or through the automated interactive voice response systems. . Travel-Related Inconveniences and Emergencies . Caretaker Fraud.

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Guru

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

With the advent of things like chatbots, artificial intelligence (AI), interactive voice response, and machine learning, novel technologies continue to disrupt the contact center industry. These advances often fuel the fear that automation will someday replace humans.

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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. Collaboration Improvements Drive Customer Engagement and Satisfaction. Efficiently.

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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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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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NobelBiz

JANUARY 3, 2022

Many contact centers must develop methods and use their resources to manage client expectations and create a pleasant customer experience. by 2022, 50% of major enterprises would have failed to combine interaction channels , resulting in a disconnected and walled customer experience devoid of context.

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Serenova

JULY 5, 2019

The customer experience movement is rapidly taking hold in many enterprises. Is your contact center there yet? Customer experience that truly differentiates is a strong competitive advantage. But to get it right, brands must incorporate organizational and operational change into contact center architectural design.

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pindrop

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

They start in your IVR. 60% of fraud begins in or touches it and while you are aware of the media reported mega-breaches that have plagued companies and consumers both, have you considered your contact center’s place in the journey from data capture to fraudulent transaction and account takeover? What is Contact Center Fraud?

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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. When you use plain language across the customer journey, you’re offering better customer service. This all leads to cost savings in your contact center.

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Toister Performance Solutions

APRIL 30, 2020

You have an urgent service issue, so you decide to call. The interactive voice response system (IVR) prompts you to enter some basic account information like the last four digits of your social security number. But first, let’s look at how contact centers are wasting time. Then your IVR steps in.

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Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. When the whole world went remote, people started calling in in record numbers, forcing businesses to reassess their customer service game. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

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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. Customer Journey Mapping.

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Serenova

AUGUST 5, 2019

Consistently creating those experiences, though, requires a holistic approach that incorporates organizational and operational change into contact center architectural design. You can access all three webinars in the series here. Here are highlights from the webinar that help make that balance easier. Automation.

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8x8

OCTOBER 25, 2017

All you need is a quick answer by an informed, competent customer service agent and instead, you get lengthy, unhelpful self-service menus, long wait times and apathetic agents without answers. If you took the time to dig into legacy contact center technology (yeah right, who does this?), But where to start?

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Fonolo

APRIL 9, 2019

Certain commentators in the customer service space have been predicting the death of the call center. While it’s true that channel preferences are shifting, it would be incorrect to conclude that the voice channel will be buying the farm anytime soon. Automated processes, when set-up incorrectly, can confuse customers.

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Babelforce

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

With this in mind, it’s easy to see why you might want to add WhatsApp as a customer service channel. Offering Customer Support With WhatsApp. Whatever your solution, the first step is integrating WhatsApp with your contact center. 6 Major benefits of WhatsApp for customer support. #1 If you don’t… why not?

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And as long as there have been customers, there has been customer service. Even as professional merchants began to flourish about 3,000 years ago, every exchange of goods and services remained face to face. That meant customer service was tailored to each individual. From phone service to digital.

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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. The majority of today’s customers are digital first and prefer to handle simple issues with self-service technologies.

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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. The majority of today’s customers are digital first and prefer to handle simple issues with self-service technologies.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Customer experience has been on a path of transformation since the days of "Press 1 for." 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. Then came "You can say things like.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Understanding Why Transforms the Customer Experience. Then assess how all these data-points interrelate and what actions were taken, how customers responded while considering how quickly these issues were resolved, and how well the customers rated the overall experience and whether they would make a repeat purchase.

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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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Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes . In our last blog , we explored how successful companies outperform customer expectations by leveraging video – a communications channel that customers have come to prefer.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Access the On-Demand Webinar Playback of “How AI-Enabled Super-Agents Improve CX” with Kate Leggett , Vice President and Principal Analyst Service Application Development and Delivery, Forrester Research, with Steve Nattress , Director, R&D and Jacki Tessmer , Vice President – Product Marketing, Enghouse Interactive.

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RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Did you miss this Customer Experience Update Webinar from the end of November? Read the transcript below: Nicholas Rodriguez: …the highest priorities for Contact Centers that focus on the customer. So, Talkdesk Enterprise Contact Center empowers companies to make their Customer Experience a competitive advantage.

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Serenova

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In a webinar drawing on ICMI’s industry-leading research and insights from the 2020 ICMI Featured Contributors (including Serenova Vice President of Customer Success Jen Jackson ) ICMI Group Principal Analyst Roy Atkinson explored what’s trending in 2020 and why contact center leaders should pay attention. Today, U.S.

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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. Virtual agents are powered by a centralized cloud-based AI “brain” that connects to your customer data via APIs.

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Enghouse Interactive

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

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. It’s Not an Option – It’s Expected (Blog Series). your FAQ on steroids.

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SmartAction

MARCH 7, 2023

Any business that wants to stay competitive, reduce operational costs, and take its customer service to the next level should take note. Perhaps most prominently, it helps companies provide a better customer service experience by providing greater – and faster – understanding of why a customer is reaching out and at what frequency.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2019

For the private sector, customer service has served as the cornerstone of a well thought out marketing strategy. Businesses make investments to improve all touch points across the customer journey to ensure that each one of those customers has an exceptional experience when it comes to engaging with the brand.

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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. In our first blog, we explored how Microsoft Teams, when integrated into a Contact Center, helps provide a better experience for the end-customer.

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NICE inContact

JULY 31, 2019

We’ve heard lots about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is redefining customer service — and it really hit home for me last week while I was out enjoying dinner and a show with my mother. Conversational AI: Solving problems for the contact center. Dig deeper into conversational AI in our upcoming webinar.

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NobelBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In today’s fast-paced digital environment, intelligent automation has become a powerful force, propelling change within call centers across the globe. Contact centers serve as the lifeblood of customer service for countless businesses, and the integration of intelligent automation holds the key to unlocking their full potential.

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