SharpenCX

MAY 27, 2021

So today, let’s dive in on what customer service research reveals as the top three priorities for contact centers this year. Customers expect to reach out to companies on the channels they use most (like texting) and get a response. Today’s strongest contact centers meet the omnichannel expectation.

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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

In the past, contact centers could stay ahead of the curve as long as they ensured to utilize the right solutions and tools to service customers. According to a survey, CCaaS will grow to be the favored adoption model by 50% of contact centers by 2022.

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Aspect

JUNE 22, 2017

Contact Prequalification and Authentication. Just like an IVR integrated with the contact center would in the world that I’m sure Apple would love to call the “old world”, Business Chat lets you signal the reason for contact (they call it “Intent”), and the skill group or queue needed to handle the inquiry (they call it “Group”).

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DMG Consulting

MAY 15, 2018

Cloud Contact Center Solutions Continue Upward Trajectory. Last year could be seen as the breakthrough moment when cloud-based vendors began their takeover of the contact center infrastructure market. With more than 150 competitors worldwide, the cloud-based contact center infrastructure market is primed for success.

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

For reference, this count is almost 10 million higher than what we saw in 2016. With this steady growth and increase in demand, contact centers are a vital partner to support the holiday rush. . . With this steady growth and increase in demand, contact centers are a vital partner to support the holiday rush. . .

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Aspect

JUNE 29, 2017

air travel hit a record high in 2016, a recent report from ABC News found that airlines are anticipating an additional 9 million travelers between June 1 st and August 31 st this year. But with summer in full swing, we should find out soon enough. Can travelers help airlines by helping themselves?

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DMG Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

DMG Consulting Releases 2017 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. The growth rate of the overall WFO market between 2015 and 2016 was a modest 1.6%.

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Taylor Reach Group

JUNE 11, 2018

Over the next few weeks, we will be posting a series related to Contact Center industry statistics. Below, you will find Call Center Statistics related to the various Contact Center channels. 85% of organizations anticipate contacts will become more complex in the next 2 years (Deloitte). of the vote.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

DMG Consulting Releases 2017-2018 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. billion (excluding carrier revenue) as of the end of 2016. 11/30/2017.

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DMG Consulting

MAY 25, 2018

DMG Consulting Releases 2018 Contact Center Workforce Optimization Market Share Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 15th annual Contact Center Workforce Optimization (WFO) Market Share.

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Talkdesk

JUNE 24, 2016

Our founders entered the contest from their home country of Portugal and subsequently found themselves on a plane to the United States, winning a MacBook Air and embarking on the journey to becoming the leading cloud-based contact center software in the world. Peppered Tiger. Winner: Most Valuable Hack.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Whether buying goods online or paying bills over the phone, they happily relay accounts and credit card details to a contact center agent without a second thought, trusting that the company that they are dealing with will manage their card data securely. in 2016 and dipping well below 40% (36.7%) in 2018.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2018

Apocalyptic Predictions and the Contact Center . 2018 will be the year of driverless cars – circa 2016. The call center world hasn’t escaped its share of sensational claims, which include: Voice response units (VRUs, predecessors of the IVR) are going to replace the need for live agents – circa 1980s.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 31, 2017

DMG Consulting Releases 2017 Contact Center Workforce Management Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2017 Contact Center Workforce Management Product and Market Report.

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Babelforce

MARCH 9, 2022

But despite this growing movement to the cloud some contact centers are still running on legacy on-premises software that stunts the customer experience. In this post: What is a cloud contact center? What is a cloud contact center? How can the cloud improve customer experience? Scale quickly and easily.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Last month we shared 4 Call Center Reports Worth Your Time. A top mission of the Fonolo blog has always been to help you stay informed with the fast-moving contact center industry. Who wrote it: Call Center Week. 85% of organizations evaluate agents based on accuracy in interactions. Where to get it: [link].

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

JULY 9, 2018

How does a contact center know it’s consistently delivering high quality service? It is a direct reflection of an agent’s and a center’s capacity to solve problems, answer questions, and provide needs the very first time a customer calls. The Cost Per Contact refers to the expenses related to running a contact center (i.e.,

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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. A lot of contact centers don’t have a good understanding of why their customers are calling and exactly what they are calling about.

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Avaya

DECEMBER 1, 2016

According to the Wall Street Journal, 2016 Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales have already accounted for more than $3 Billion in “desktop spending”—aka, e-commerce. Avaya IP Office Contact Center enables a midsize business to offer web chat, email and voice as an integrated, multichannel customer interaction strategy.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Example: “1 in 4 US contact centers are looking to implement web chat within the next 12 months.” [ source ]. Example: “Contacts handled by chat increased from 1.6% between 2015 and 2016.” [ source via here ]. This is replacing what might have been a self-serve web interaction or a self-serve IVR interaction.

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Avaya

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Earlier this month, the CFI Group, which issues the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index, issued the Contact Center Satisfaction Index (CCSI). Here are some of the key findings : The index shows a four-point decrease in customer satisfaction from 2015 to 2016, sliding to the lowest score in the nine-year history of the report.

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Hodusoft

MAY 17, 2024

If you are in the call center or contact center industry, you must have come across the term at least once. CTI is a technology using which contact centers and call centers can integrate their telephony and business communication systems with their computer applications. percent from USD 2071.7

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

AUGUST 3, 2018

trillion in 2016. According to Edison Research , 39% of individuals expect a 1-hour response time via social media; however, businesses respond after 5 hours, on average. One of Forrester’s 2016 surveys shows that 41% of customers expect a response via email within a 6-hour time frame.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. Total company GAAP revenue for the vendors that offer a contact center WFO suite dropped by 5.2% million between the first half of 2016 and 2017. million from $1,669.7

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Aria Solutions

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Although voice is still the primary channel customers use to interact with contact centers, representing 54% of all interactions handled, according to Dimension Data , digital is on track to overtake phone by end of 2016. It’s important to understand whether your contact center requires the transition.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

As a contact center manager, you’ve got a lot of metrics to choose from as your key performance indicators (KPIs). In this blog, we help narrow down this long list to help you focus on the metrics that, when improved upon, will really help your contact center thrive. Service Quality. Outbound Dialing.

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Kayako

JANUARY 5, 2017

Yet, relatively few contact centers have focused on providing a consistent customer experience. HubSpot Support (@HubSpotSupport) December 29, 2016. Customers no longer have the patience to spend 10 minutes pressing buttons to get through an interactive voice response (IVR) only to wait on hold for a half an hour.

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Spearline

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Like many businesses, you may depend on international inbound telephone services for your contact center, or on outbound calling to drive new sales. ’ Spearline’s flagship service is ‘Voice Assure,’ which provides scheduled automation to monitor enterprise dial-plans and generates alerts for any service issues.

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Calabrio

JANUARY 6, 2016

CEO of Calabrio shares his predictions for the Contact Center, for 2016 and Beyond. Reassuringly, he predicts that, although machines will be automating more and more processes, humans will still be in control—and responsible for the outcomes. Prediction #1: Brands will be more “proactive.”. The ticket is closed.

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Eptica

AUGUST 3, 2016

Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Coping with the switch from phone to digital customer service. Published on: August 03, 2016. New research by contact center analysts, Contact Babel , in the US and the UK highlights how consumer usage of channels is changing and the pressure it is putting on organizations.

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Pointillist

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

It is the only performance metric that “has an effect on almost every other meaningful statistic and measurement in the call center.” ” Today’s call centers must balance many priorities while maintaining an intense focus on customers. As McKinsey & Company explains : The contact center.

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Avaya

JUNE 14, 2016

My first exposure to self-service IVR application development was back in the early 1990s. In fact, a study by Marchex released earlier this year estimated that I and my fellow Americans will be on hold in 2016 for more than 900 million hours. That’s a lot of wasted time. So what do I end up doing?

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

For reference, this count is almost 10 million higher than what we saw in 2016. With this steady growth and increase in demand, contact centers are a vital partner to support the holiday rush. . . With this steady growth and increase in demand, contact centers are a vital partner to support the holiday rush. . .

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Tenfold - Contact Center Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

With evolving customer expectations and service complexities, contact centers are poised to deliver strategic value and profitability to organizations. Businesses need to bolster their customer interaction and create a regular dialogue with customers. Your system needs to be equipped with the needed technology and tools.

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Aspect

JUNE 27, 2017

Simply connecting a call to the next available agent is no longer enough to satisfy the customer and it does not provide any benefit to the contact center. The 2016 Aspect Consumer Experience Index study found that 67 percent of consumers feel a personalized customer service experience is more important than speed of service.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

El Segundo, CA – November 19, 2019 – SmartAction, the top-rated virtual agent solution for contact centers, is pleased to announce its implementation with Purchasing Power was awarded the top honor in “Excellence in Self-Service” by Frost & Sullivan at the 15th Annual Frost & Sullivan Customer Contact Awards.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 25, 2023

A great number of contact centers are struggling to make ends meet but are still reluctant to make the necessary changes to achieve a better cost to benefits ratio. This article is here to tell you that cost reduction needs to be a top priority for contact centers worldwide in the present-day crisis environment.

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