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Are Automation and AI the Same Thing in the Contact Center?

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If you received a penny for every time you heard “automation” or “AI” in the contact center, you could pay off the national debt in about a month. However, understanding the differences between these technologies is crucial for any organization striving to optimize operations in its contact center.

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Cutting Through the Buzzwords of AI in the Contact Center

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Do you sometimes feel like you are playing buzzword bingo when reading anything about AI in the contact center? A lot of customers who have spent a lifetime in the contact center and survived a world of acronyms like AHT, CSAT, and PICINC are feeling alienated in their own world. You are not alone.

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THE KNOWLEDGE (R)EVOLUTION: IS YOUR CONTACT CENTER BURNING LABOR DOLLARS?

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In response, contact centers have been forced to evolve operationally. Recently, it became obvious to me that the definition of knowledge management has also evolved—and in a big way. The question is, have our contact centers kept up with this knowledge evolution? This is where we are with knowledge management.

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The Fine Art of Contact Center Management

Contact Center Pipeline

Part 2 of 2) In my January Contact Center Pipeline article, my topic was on the Art and Science of contact center management and its three driving forces: Random Call Arrival, Visible and Invisible Queue, and Caller Tolerance. The five factors of Caller Tolerance.

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The 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index

Verint is named an Exemplary Leader in the 2023 Customer Experience Management Value Index by Ventana Research. Building a successful CX program requires teams to share data seamlessly across multiple functions, including support services, contact center, marketing, and sales.

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Contact Center Workforce Management Best Practices

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Managers know that call center workforce management matters. Put it another way: if customer interactions are at the heart of a contact center’s success, then effective workforce management is the backbone. That’s why contact centers are investing in it in droves. The results?

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Enterprise Contact Center Solutions: A Game Changer

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At the core of this modern transformation lie Enterprise Contact Center Solutions , sophisticated platforms designed to streamline communication, enhance productivity, and drive customer satisfaction. They serve as centralized hubs for managing multichannel interactions, voice calls, emails, chats, social media, and more.

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The Health of the Contact Center: Are You Ready for 2019?

A survey of 1,000 contact center professionals reveals what it takes to improve agent well-being in a customer-centric era. This report is a must-read for contact center leaders preparing to engage agents and improve customer experience in 2019.

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The Challenges of Omnichannel: Why so Many Contact Centers Struggle with Digital Self-Service

To find how contact centers are navigating the transition to omnichannel customer service, Calabrio surveyed more than 1,000 marketing and customer experience leaders in the U.S. about their digital customer communication strategies. Read the report to find out what was uncovered.

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2021 Industry Expert Contact Center Predictions (Replay)

Speaker: Richard Kenny, Sr Marketing Manager - Contact Center, Poly; Roger Lee, VP Customer Success, Gridspace; and Ron Owens, SVP Operations, Avtex

Learn how to address, manage, and utilize: People. Each participant will provide recommendations on how to address people, process, technology, and strategy as we continue to serve the needs of our employees and customers in an ever-changing customer service business environment. Technology. Implementation Strategies for 2021.

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The Top 3 Ways to Forecast for Your Contact Center

Forecasting is no easy task. It can be difficult to schedule the right amount of agents at the right time. Download our ebook to learn how to reduce overstaffing and understaffing, lower customer wait times and improve the customer experience with proper forecasting.

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Transforming Customer Care with AI

Speaker: Laura Bassett, Senior Director Product Marketing, NICE inContact

Gartner predicts that by 2020, 85 percent of customer relationships will be managed without human interaction. With the increase in artificial intelligence tools we see in the marketplace, it’s important to understand how AI is transforming our contact centers. Why does my contact center need to adopt AI now?

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Customer Context at the Speed of the Conversation

Reliable communications are mission critical - leading companies are tapping into cloud technology by moving to an omnichannel contact center that lowers costs, plus streamlines IT support processes and the management of hosted software and infrastructure.

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The Number One Factor in Your Contact Center’s Success

Speaker: Jim Rembach, President of Call Center Coach

Keeping up with constantly changing contact center technologies, economic issues, business issues, and personnel issues requires you to become skilled in a wide range of areas. The most important journey to your contact center (and no, it's not the customer journey). June 12th, 2019 11:00am PDT, 2:00PM EDT, 7:00PM GMT

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3 Must-Haves on the Path to a Better Customer Journey

Speaker: Alton Harewood, Contact Center Consultant, and Kara Allen, Global Workforce Management and Optimization, 8x8

As customer loyalty is tested by limitless options, the need to understand and manage the customer journey has become essential to competitive differentiation. And far from being the domain of only large corporations – organizations of all sizes must now seek to gain insight into how customer experience is executed and ways to improve.