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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Best practices Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 84

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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Best practices Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time 83

Uniphore

AUGUST 6, 2021

Alliander Uses Virtual IVR to Improve Millions of Interactions. Almost immediately after the launch of Visual IVR on our national line, the number of calls reaching agents has reduced tangibly. Almost immediately after the launch of Visual IVR on our national line, the number of calls reaching agents has reduced tangibly.

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Education Interactive Voice Response Self service Contact Center 52

Hodusoft

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Contact Center Technology Trends to Watch in 2022. The contact center trends too, changed completely driven by the pandemic. 2020-21 saw most contact centers make a shift to cloud contact center software. So, what contact center technology trends can one expect in 2022.

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Callminer

AUGUST 1, 2017

To gain some insights into the strategies and tactics call centers can use to boost efficiency and arm you with effective strategies you can put to use, we reached out to a panel of call center experts , managers and leaders and asked them to answer this question: “What is the most effective way for a contact center to increase efficiency?”.

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Some 32% of organizations were running their contact centers with cloud technology at the end of 2020. Whether your contact center intends to go back to the office or stay remote, the acceleration of digital transformation projects and jumps to cloud technology will continue. McKinsey & Co.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

Brands have already made the move to upgrade from basic call centers to contact centers for the agility and flexibility that they provide. Addressing this gap between expectation and capacity, contact centers offer extended functionality and better efficiencies. What is a Contact Center?

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Aspect

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It’s clear, voice alone is no longer enough. But that doesn’t mean that the prospects for contact centers are glum. Thanks to continual innovations, self-service has moved beyond press 1 call routing to seamless interactions like Visual IVR, Facebook Messenger, automated chatbots and disposable web apps.

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Enghouse Interactive

AUGUST 26, 2020

Register for our upcoming w ebinar “How and Why Customers Use Self-Service” with Steve Morrell, Managing Director and Principal Analyst of ContactBabel . For many businesses, self-service is evolving into becoming a key factor for success. Proper messaging is invaluable in shortening the self-service journey.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2019

Every year we ask: What can contact centers do to bolster their productivity, efficiency, and customer service offerings in the future? This year’s soundbites are rich with well-researched insights that a) act as a warning; and b) can help your contact center win. This is a trend that is not going away.

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Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 9, 2021

An omni-channel contact center with its multiple touchpoints across the customer journey – using a mix of voice, text, SMS, social media, or video –can provide an organization with the info needed to personalize the customer engagement process. Well, maybe that’s not an accurate statement.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2015

Customer contact center managers want to keep engagement costs down, which often means live agents spending as little time on the phone by deflecting as many customers as possible. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, utilizes layers higher-level “thinking” atop traditional IVR. Can’t managers and customers find middle ground?

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Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 17, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). This new reality presents the contact center industry with an excellent opportunity to integrate with Teams and provide seamless company-wide collaboration capabilities across their customer’s organizations. Help Customers Help Themselves with Self-Service.

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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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Expivia

MAY 4, 2021

6 Ways to Save Your Call Center’s Customer Service. Educate Your Employees on Customer Service. Most companies put all their education into how to run a specific program, skill, or channel. Don’t rush call center education for your agents. Don’t Depend on Self-Service Only.

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Hodusoft

APRIL 17, 2024

Auto attendant, also known as Interactive Voice Responder (IVR) system is an advanced business phone system feature that automates and simplifies the incoming call process and routes the callers to the most appropriate agent or department. As per a research, two out of every three customers prefer natural language IVR systems.

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Enghouse Interactive

MAY 27, 2021

An omni-channel contact center with its multiple touchpoints across the customer journey – using a mix of voice, text, SMS, social media, or video –can provide an organization with the info needed to personalize the customer engagement process. Well, maybe that’s not an accurate statement.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Self service Chatbots CRM 52

Aspect

MAY 15, 2018

Looking specifically at the contact center industry, we have seen a recent flurry of activity around chatbots, intelligent IVRs and virtual agents. At Aspect, we call this new application of Artificial Intelligence “Workforce AI”, and it portends radical change in the way contact centers will operate.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Nowadays, with the advent of technology, customers have multiple channels to interact with businesses that include self-service options like voice-enabled assistants, online portals, and mobile apps. As a result, self-service is becoming a cornerstone of customer experience in contact centers.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 29, 2019

With the “era of the customer” in full swing; the increase in customer expectation for omnichannel communication; and the never-ending developments in communication methods through AI-powered self-service; it is easy to overlook the importance that the call center plays in the customer experience. That’s a whopping 25.2%

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For both, services can be enhanced by utilizing a blend of self-service (for routine inquiries and requests) and live support. The importance of a healthy company culture—in which the specialists feel they are supported and part of something worthwhile—cannot be overstated for either customer care or customer service.

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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. Changing Demographics.

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Fonolo

MARCH 7, 2019

Popular AI tools like chatbots use NLP (or, the ability to understand human language) to interact with customers on a more sophisticated level than the IVRs of old. This is vital for technology that is, among other things, programmed to answer frequently asked questions and enable customer self-service. The Panelists.

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VocalCom

AUGUST 12, 2019

Make self-service a part of the omnichannel experience. Customers love to save time, and self-service offers an ideal solution. IVR menus should be checked frequently to ensure that people are routed promptly to the correct agents. Educate and motivate your staff. Test your tools.

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Expivia

APRIL 1, 2021

Most companies put all their education (Notice we said Education, not Train, you TRAIN animals…you EDUCATE people) in how to run a specific program, skill, or channel. Most companies want to educate as fast as they can so they can have reps producing as quickly as possible even to the detriment to their client or customer.

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Fonolo

JUNE 6, 2019

Popular AI tools like chatbots use NLP (or, the ability to understand human language) to interact with customers on a more sophisticated level than the IVRs of old. This is vital for technology that is, among other things, programmed to answer frequently asked questions and enable customer self-service. The Panelists.

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Engineering Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Chatbots 52

Expivia

APRIL 1, 2021

Technology is evolving so quickly that every year there is something new that will make our call center life easier. With that in mind, let’s look at ten changes that will be coming to contact centers in the next five years. Cloud Contact Centers. AI chatbots are starting to catch up with the self-service model.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Today, the biggest challenge facing global service organizations and traditional contact centers is delivering a quality of service experience in line with the expectations of the modern customer – one that keeps the customer satisfied and instills loyalty to their brand. Customers now expect: Their time be valued.

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

AUGUST 3, 2018

For customers who prefer to get in touch with customer service over the phone, a clear and straightforward IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system can direct customers to the right department, reducing hold times and unnecessary transfers. Provide self-service options to empower your customers.

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RapportBoost

DECEMBER 10, 2018

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. Multi-channel usually includes voice, email, chat, SMS and even fax interactions.

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Uniphore

JULY 21, 2021

Why are so many knowledge bases inefficient to use when contact centers invest so much money in them? Gartner’s newest customer service report “Delivering Relevant Content and Knowledge to Customers Is Key to Great Customer Service” focuses on just these dilemmas.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). 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. Blog #2 Microsoft Teams Drives Agent Productivity.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Organizations with Contact Centers are in an enviable position – each and every day, they gather customer data that is constantly refreshed and upgraded. Visit us at kiosk #507 to find out how. Click here for discounted tickets! When you think about it, they are getting a steady stream of new information from an unbiased focus group.

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JustCall

APRIL 12, 2023

Useful features Call Routing Call Recording Call Management Blended Call Center Call Logging, Virtual Call Center, Call Reporting , etc. Native conversation intelligence platform and call analytics to ramp up agent performance Agent performance & coaching: Call monitoring and performance evaluation.

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Real estate Interactive Voice Response CRM Call Center 52

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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JustCall

APRIL 5, 2023

However, less than one-third of companies offer self-service options such as a knowledge base. This is why businesses need to integrate a customized platform with self-service features if they want to elevate their customer experience and improve customer success rates. out of 5. out of 5 stars.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 13, 2020

They need to aggregate data from across the complete spectrum of CX activities, from online with context-aware assistance, to chat and messaging solutions using chatbots and live agents, to voice with intelligent IVR, and email with linguistic routing and intelligent auto-response and finally to analytics with AI insights.

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