Fonolo

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s been an exciting year so far in the world of contact centers. In just the last month we saw the release of Apple’s Business Chat, the announcement of Twilio’s new Flex call center platform and the acquisition of Altocloud by Genesys. You should also check out, 4 Contact Center Reports to Start Off Your Year.).

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Contact Center Call Center Self service Surveys 99

TechSee

MARCH 12, 2019

But while happy customers are vital to the success of a business, happy representatives are equally important, especially with high agent attrition rates presenting a real challenge for contact enters in 2019. Alternatively, customers can visually interact with AI-powered assistants in self-service mode, alleviating pressure on human agents.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time First call resolution Self service 111

Cisco - Contact Center

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Recently, Cisco partnered with Gartner Research to create a set of deep insights on five subject areas that contact center practitioners and customer experience experts can leverage to guide their planning for the year ahead. He’s the VP and General Manager of Cisco’s Contact Center Business Unit. The ultimate goal?

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Contact Center Technology contact center solutions Cloud contact 101

Fonolo

JULY 5, 2018

What does the future hold for customer service? A common theme in answer to this question is, “Improvements in automation and self-service will erode the importance for call centers.” It also gets strengthened by the marketing efforts of all the vendors selling self-serve technology. Another Way to Think About it.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 29, 2018

This is especially true for those of us involved in the cacophony of contact centers; we are essentially the appointed, trusted ‘brand listeners’ who hear many, many voices on a given day, including those of both customers and colleagues. Contact center professionals? It’s simply become too loud.

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UJET

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In the past 50 years, the underlying technology powering voice self-service solutions has been transformed but, unfortunately, many of the uses of these solutions have not. The current generation of self-service solutions, intelligent virtual agents (IVAs), are smart, omni-channel systems that automate many types of inquiries.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Self service Virtual Agent 72

Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2018

It’s going to be a big year in the world of contact center and in customer service technology. Will this be the year that messaging platforms from Facebook, Apple and others reach critical mass as a channel for customer service? Their “Inner Circle Guide to Self-Service” was included in our last report round-up post.)

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Calabrio

JUNE 13, 2017

Contact centers have been going through a change for some time. Self-service has put the customer in charge of their experience , leaving call centers tasked with facing only the most complex and difficult calls. Our websites are a bustling foundation for self-service. Self-service has seen to that.

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Calabrio

JUNE 13, 2017

Contact centers have been going through a change for some time. Self-service has put the customer in charge of their experience , leaving call centers tasked with facing only the most complex and difficult calls. Our websites are a bustling foundation for self-service. Self-service has seen to that.

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Self service Contact Center Call Center Customer Service 40

Calabrio

JUNE 13, 2017

Contact centers have been going through a change for some time. Self-service has put the customer in charge of their experience , leaving call centers tasked with facing only the most complex and difficult calls. Our websites are a bustling foundation for self-service. Self-service has seen to that.

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Self service Contact Center Call Center Customer Service 40

Calabrio

APRIL 27, 2017

The telephone is no longer the only way to contact a company, and email and social media options are more appealing to a lot of people. As companies have expanded self-service options on their websites and have adopted new channels, many questions have been eliminated or filtered through email or social media channels.

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Contact Center Call Center Self service Technology 65

Cisco - Contact Center

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The All-New Webex Contact Center Lays the Foundation for the Next Generation of Customer Experiences. And throughout the year, the physical world was impacted such that a significant increase in digital interactions and an elevated status for contact centers came to be. End-to-End Customer Experience Management.

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Customer Experience Contact Center APIs Analytics 111

UJET

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In the past 50 years, the underlying technology powering voice self-service solutions has been transformed but, unfortunately, many of the uses of these solutions have not. The current generation of self-service solutions, intelligent virtual agents (IVAs), are smart, omni-channel systems that automate many types of inquiries.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Self service Virtual Agent 56

Fonolo

JULY 19, 2018

The demand for real-time human-assisted help – whether by voice or text – is not primarily a result of insufficient self-service tools. There are already many ways for companies to offer self-serve interactions to their customers. and How to Think About AI and the Call Center (And Not Go Crazy). cctr #AI #custserv. —

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Call Center Self service Contact Center Interactive Voice Response 72

Fonolo

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Related content for you: 3 Major Contact Center Trends in 2020. Top content for you: Top Contact Center Trends in 2020. If you haven’t heard of AI in the last couple of years, you might want to check that your contact center hasn’t fallen under a rock. Moving your call center to the cloud.

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Calabrio

JULY 29, 2016

Smart contact center leaders know that the benefits of a strong quality assurance program stretch far beyond the walls of the contact center. Technology has made huge advances in recent years as the contact center has shifted from an unsightly but necessary business function to the cornerstone of customer experience.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2018

Companies are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI)-powered contact center solutions to meet consumers’ growing demand for better CX, reduce costs and alleviate pressure on agents. Computer vision also enables gradual automation towards full self service with device recognition and augmentation.

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Call Center Technical Support Contact Center contact center solutions 84

teleopti

APRIL 30, 2019

Empower employees with self-service – allowing people to take control of their work-life balance boosts engagement levels by reducing stress and absences. Then use advanced WFM technology to balance and schedule different contract types and see the difference flexible working makes to employee satisfaction.

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Employee engagement Management Self service Strategic Value 80

VocalCom

JUNE 18, 2020

Before the pandemic even started to disrupt business, the contact center industry was already widely migrating to Cloud. Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant report anticipated that, by 2022, contact center as a service (CCaaS) would become the preferred adoption model for about half of contact centers, up from about 10% in 2019.

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VocalCom

JULY 2, 2020

The necessary acceleration of contact centers’ digitalization will bring to the fore the crucial value of the human touch. Digitalization is quickly sweeping through contact centers. However, this does not mean that agents will totally disappear from contact centers.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 14, 2020

Top Pick: Promoting a digital-first mentality throughout the contact center. Top Pick: Customer self-service and the role of cloud contact centers. NEW REPORT – Call Center Trends 2020: A New Age for the Contact Center. Making your contact center omnichannel ready.

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ConvergeOne

JUNE 28, 2022

WHITE PAPER] Six Steps to Engaging + Empowering Agents with Workforce Engagement Management. Download the white paper to learn how to improve workforce engagement for an optimal customer experience. This is a switch from the last two years, where they were focused mainly on the customer.

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Self service Quality management Contact Center Technology 74

DMG Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

Real-Time Adaptive Scheduling Improves Contact Center Dynamics (whitepaper). This white paper presents the concept and benefits of real-time adaptive scheduling, which will enhance customer satisfaction and improve employee engagement while enabling managers to meet their service-level objectives and reduce operating expenses.

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Contact Center Employee engagement Consulting Consulting 48

DMG Consulting

JULY 11, 2017

Real-Time Adaptive Scheduling Improves Contact Center Dynamics (whitepaper). This white paper presents the concept and benefits of real-time adaptive scheduling, which will enhance customer satisfaction and improve employee engagement while enabling managers to meet their service-level objectives and reduce operating expenses.

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Contact Center Employee engagement Consulting Consulting 48

VocalCom

JUNE 24, 2020

The use of emerging technologies such as automation and AI to manage customer experience will be key to improve significantly contact centers’ efficiency and reduce costs. In parallel, automation and AI are transforming the processes of contact centers themselves. Want to know more about the evolution of contact centers

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying.

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Monet Software

DECEMBER 19, 2019

No, not the holidays—the deadline for the 2020 annual call center budget ! Contact center managers are putting the pieces together to get a full picture of their future resource needs. Ironically, such simple tools make the contact center budgeting process more complex. 3 Occupancy and Shrinkage Predictions.

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InGenius

JULY 27, 2017

To keep up with this evolution, contact centers must go beyond basic CRM and telephony connectivity, to provide a modern customer experience. Today, when a customer needs service, they typically try three to four self-service channels before contacting support by phone.

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Contact Center Education Self service CRM 48

Fonolo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

to real-time messaging, simulation, self-service and crypto-currency. These technological breakthroughs point toward a future with remarkable changes in the customer service landscape. To learn some easy tricks for ultimate customer satisfaction, read our whitepaper on The Contact Center Playbook for improving CSat.

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Serenova

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Because of improved self-service, customers often resort to calling the contact center only when they have complicated issues or have been frustrated by other channels. For example, embed your contact center solution in the agent’s CRM interface so they have access to customer and interaction history in one place.

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Contact Center Customer Service Wait times Surveys 53

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Too often, efforts to improve contact center performance are based business goals like increasing labor efficiency, or lower operating cost. But contact centers are not built to serve managers, they are built to serve customers. Here are five key takeaways, in no specific order, to improve contact center performance.

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Fonolo

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s been an exciting year so far in the world of contact centers. In just the last month we saw the release of Apple’s Business Chat, the announcement of Twilio’s new Flex call center platform and the acquisition of Altocloud by Genesys. You should also check out, 4 Contact Center Reports to Start Off Your Year.).

Contact Center 57

Contact Center Call Center Self service Surveys 57

Fonolo

JUNE 5, 2018

So if one imagines a “fixed pie” of all customer service interactions, then the slice of that pie occupied by voice is getting smaller. Another argument is that self-service options are getting better and better. White Paper: The Secret Sauce for Increasing Customer Happiness. How do we make sense of this picture?

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Call Center Metrics Average Handle Time Self service 79

Avaya

MAY 20, 2019

1 in the global contact center systems market and Verint a recognized global leader in Workforce Engagement ). Self-Service Applications: The rise of self-service applications in the workplace has helped optimize agent productivity, reduce burnout, and increase overall engagement.

Marketing 11

Marketing Self service Contact Center Quality management 11

teleopti

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The first is to recognize the strategic link between employee engagement and productivity, the second is to turn the customer service department or contact center from a reactive cost-cutting organization to a proactive profit-making powerhouse and finally harness the power of data. Download White Paper.

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Management Customer advocacy Employee engagement Contact Center 57

Calabrio

APRIL 27, 2017

The telephone is no longer the only way to contact a company, and email and social media options are more appealing to a lot of people. As companies have expanded self-service options on their websites and have adopted new channels, many questions have been eliminated or filtered through email or social media channels.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Call Center Self service Technology 40

Calabrio

APRIL 27, 2017

The telephone is no longer the only way to contact a company, and email and social media options are more appealing to a lot of people. As companies have expanded self-service options on their websites and have adopted new channels, many questions have been eliminated or filtered through email or social media channels.

Contact Center 40

Contact Center Call Center Self service Technology 40