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Convince Your Boss: It’s Time for Digital Transformation

Aspect

Blockbuster, who at its peak in 2004, had more than 9,000 stores in the U.S., and asked for $50 million for the company he founded. **Spoiler Alert** Blockbuster declined. Today, Netflix is worth more than $60 Billion. now has only 10 franchise-owned stores remaining in operation in the U.S.: six in Alaska, three in Oregon, and one in Texas.

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Calls Are Taking Longer, and That’s a Good Thing

Fonolo

They report a 62% increase in service call duration since 2004. Contact Babel teased some data from their latest UK Contact Centre Decision Maker’s Guide. It’s planned for release in mid November. See chart below. Why is this so interesting? The net impact of self-service is to take simpler transactions off the plate of the call center agent.

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Conversational AI is Here to Stay, But What Exactly is it?

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In the contact center, the primary use for Conversational AI is IVR technology. IVR isn’t generally the best-loved piece of kit in customer services. That’s often because the IVR system is seen as a barrier to actual service. Natural Language Generation (NLG) is the technology that generates responses. Conversational IVR.

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New Customer Payment Options Take the Headache out of PCI Dss Compliance for Contact Centers

CSM Magazine

While these statistics show improvement, when the PCI Security Standards Council first published the PCI DSS in 2004, it was expected that organizations would achieve effective and sustainable compliance within about five years. An automated IVR process takes card details from the customer, cutting the agent risk out of the loop entirely.

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What’s All This Fuss About Composability?

ConvergeOne

Neumann in 2004 for an unbiased look at the approach: “One of the biggest obstacles to software development — and particularly system integration — is the difficulty of predictably composing subsystems out of modules, systems out of subsystems, and networks of systems out of systems and networking.”.

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Calls Are Taking Longer, and That’s a Good Thing

Fonolo

They report a 62% increase in service call duration since 2004. Contact Babel teased some data from their latest UK Contact Centre Decision Maker’s Guide. It’s planned for release in mid November. See chart below. Why is this so interesting? The net impact of self-service is to take simpler transactions off the plate of the call center agent.

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PCI DSS: The Forgotten Superhero

CSM Magazine

IVR Payments. Contact centres should take charge now, reassuring customers that it’s safe to make card payments by getting back to basics and embracing the functionality of secure Agent Assisted Payment solutions. Back to basics with PCI DSS. Omni-channel solutions include: Agent Assisted Card Payments. E-Commerce payments. Mobile Apps.

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