Calabrio

MARCH 22, 2025

When a single call, text, or even chatbot message is charged with so much potential impact, the task of effective contact center management has taken on a new level importance. At the same time, contact center operations have also taken on a new level complexity.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Contact centers have evolved into hubs for not only providing support but also gathering insights, fostering customer loyalty, and driving revenue. Limited Integration Options In today’s interconnected technology landscape, seamless integration with existing systems is crucial.

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Monet Software

MARCH 10, 2021

The contact center workforce was already going remote. The call center industry was beyond the experimental phase of work-from-home before COVID-19 hit. Numerous companies had adopted it as their sole workforce model, among them many SMBs that found in remote agents a flexible, low-overhead workforce option.

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UJET

JULY 7, 2020

Cloud-based customer service platforms have significantly helped companies rapidly transition their workforce without compromising the reliability to serve their customers. Other support tools, like workforce management and quality management, are following as well. The segmentation of tools leads to silos.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Below, well take a look at these solutions and provide a comprehensive look at five top Verint alternatives and competitors in the workforce management space. The Verint platform offers a robust set of workforce engagement management features, with noted strengths in quality management and monitoring, analytics, and scheduling.

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Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

Lack of Support and Communication: Poor communication from management, inadequate support, and a lack of feedback can create a negative work environment. Outdated Technology: Outdated or inefficient technology can frustrate agents and hinder their productivity. Develop a comprehensive onboarding program.

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Calabrio

MARCH 25, 2025

It can also reveal issues with technology or opportunities for automation. First Contact Resolution Rate (FCR): FCR tracks the percentage of customer issues resolved during the initial contact, minimizing the need for follow-ups. Why it matters: Optimizing ACW improves agent productivity and data accuracy.

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Noble Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

What is Workforce Optimization (WFO)? Workforce Optimization is a business strategy that joins business performance and workforce management. The strategy is supported by integrated technologies, cross-functional processes and shared objectives, with an emphasis on automated processes, data visibility, and staffing.

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Calabrio

MARCH 31, 2025

In part, its because customer service and sales work in the call center can become repetitive and monotonous for agents on the front lines. With agent-centered gamification, you can integrate game techniques or technology into team workflows to boost morale and employee performance.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

It has however morphed from the days of regarding the call center as a cost center to realizing contact centers and the agents who work there are valuable contributors to the customer experience. Automation solutions go hand in hand with workforce optimization, and are in fact, sometimes synonymous with WFO.

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Verint

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The groundswell of interest in automating many of the traditionally routine tasks in the contact center is creating a substantial impact on both employee engagement and the customer experience, and we expect this automation groundswell will do nothing but grow in the months and years ahead. contact center industry.

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Calabrio

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Add to that the challenge for enterprise organizations to manage their fast-paced, sprawling contact centers. Enterprise customers require technology that scales quickly based on contact center volume and heightened business requirements.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Sometimes, CX platforms are also referred to as CX management (CXM) software , platforms, or solutions. Features Interaction Recording and Quality Management: Capture and automatically 100% of customer interactions to quickly identify issues and take action to improve experiences.

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Fonolo

MAY 7, 2015

Our 7 tips for great call center management are: Talk to Your Support Agents. Make Your Contact Center a Great Place to Work. Keep Up With the Latest Contact Center Technology. Review Their Contact Center’s Data. What do great call center managers do? Act as a True Leader.

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Playvox

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Finding the Right Technology to Support Remote Work in a Contact Center. Remote work is much easier for everyone when you have key technology in place to support daily contact center operations. Related Webinar: Work From Home: 10 Lessons to Elevate Remote Agent Experiences.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Contact Center WFO Market Is Transforming. The contact center workforce optimization (WFO) suite market, also known as the customer engagement management (CEM) segment, has a 20-year history of executing well in both good and weak economies. August 5, 2021 Donna Fluss.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Those with cloud contact center solutions were able to make the transition quickly. In contrast, contact centers with older, on-premises technology often struggled, and as a result, many organizations fast-tracked their implementation of cloud solutions. Below are five major benefits offered by cloud technology.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 16, 2019

It’s hard to overstate how much the contact center technology sector has progressed in the past 15 years. We have progressed from interactive voice response (IVR) systems to intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs), from process optimization to process automation, and from technology as an enabler to technology as a partner.

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Verint

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

However, the opportunity exists now more than ever for you to help amplify how automation and AI can drive broader business and workforce optimization at your organization. Earlier in my career I managed the contact center workforce optimization group at one of the major North American wireless companies.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It has now reached a stage akin to how other contact center technologies such as Quality Management (QM) and Workforce Management (WFM) are viewed as must-haves by contact centers. SA transcribes and analyzes audio in every phone call to discover powerful, rich actionable insights.

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Hodusoft

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Before the advent of contact center software, customer service representatives would handle all customer requests and complaints through telephone calls. That transformed call centers into contact centers. It provides simple interfaces for non-technical users. It also lacks some integrations and inbuilt reporting.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Maybe you haven’t thought about this yet, but are you aware that contact centers are now using automation to modernize quality management? Automated Quality Management automates scoring of up to 100 percent of agent calls, ensuring modern, employee-empowering and cost-effective quality management.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 5, 2017

Such information could come from the automatic call distributor, CRM, quality management, speech analytics, or performance management solution. The point is that real-time adaptive scheduling should be able to look outside of the WFM application and call upon resources that are not part of the contact center.

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Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

At Calabrio, we apply both Erlang A and Erlang C principles to enhance and develop a comprehensive range of new forecasting technologies that drive efficiencies and performance in todays contact centers. Calabrio ONE users can simply choose the option that suits your set up best to give you the most benefit.

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