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Increase Your Call Center’s Efficiency with a Hybrid Dialer Solution

NobelBiz

Call centers are constantly facing the challenge of maintaining high efficiency while adhering to strict regulatory compliance. Traditional dialing methods, whether purely automated or entirely manual, often fall short of meeting these demands. This gap has paved the way for hybrid dialer solutions, which integrate seamlessly with existing call center technology to offer the perfect blend of automated and manual dialing capabilities.

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Boost employee productivity with automated meeting summaries using Amazon Transcribe, Amazon SageMaker, and LLMs from Hugging Face

AWS Machine Learning

The prevalence of virtual business meetings in the corporate world, largely accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, is here to stay. Based on a survey conducted by American Express in 2023, 41% of business meetings are expected to take place in hybrid or virtual format by 2024. Attending multiple meetings daily and keeping track of all ongoing topics gets increasingly more difficult to manage over time.

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Expansion is a Team Sport: Strategies for Aligning CS and Sales in 2024

Totango

Both CS and Sales leaders agree: Retention is the #1 priority. But there’s a problem. Achieving higher retention requires close alignment between CS and Sales teams, yet 87% of CS and Sales leaders told us there’s significant room for improvement in their collaboration. If you’d like to see more data around the top priorities and challenges for CS and Sales leaders this year, check out our report.

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How Veritone uses Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Transcribe, and information retrieval to update their video search pipeline

AWS Machine Learning

This post is co-written with Tim Camara, Senior Product Manager at Veritone. Veritone is an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Irvine, California. Founded in 2014, Veritone empowers people with AI-powered software and solutions for various applications, including media processing, analytics, advertising, and more. It offers solutions for media transcription, facial recognition, content summarization, object detection, and other AI capabilities to solve the unique challenges profession

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Gartner® Research: Boost Customer Service Performance with Smart Coaching Tools

Preparing for impactful coaching sessions shouldn't be a bottleneck to success. "Innovation Insight: Coaching Tech to Boost Customer Service Performance" from Gartner shows practical ways to turn this around. In the research, Gartner found that “customer service and support supervisors, who are responsible for coaching, often lack availability and only spend an average of 30% of their time on it.” 1 We believe this valuable resource offers an objective look at how technology can facilitate more

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INFRAM24: Measuring your IT strategy and capabilities to drive adoption and improve outcomes

Cisco - Contact Center

Learn about the enhancements made to the HIMSS Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM), which now incorporates IT strategy and measures the impact of infrastructure investments on clinical outcomes and operations.

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Empowering Cybersecurity with AI: The Future of Cisco XDR

Cisco - Contact Center

In 2007, there was a study from the University of Maryland proving that internet-connected systems were attacked every 39 seconds on average. Today, that number has grown more than 60%.

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Do you need a 24-hour answering service to grow your business?

AnswerConnect

Modern consumers expect an instant response, whenever they reach out. Could a 24-hour answering service help plug the gap in your customer service? The post Do you need a 24-hour answering service to grow your business? appeared first on AnswerConnect Blog.

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Cisco Observability Platform is a game changer for digital-first organizations

Cisco - Contact Center

Cisco can access and unify data across any domain, including networking, security, applications, end user computing, cloud services, and multicloud environments, enriching insights with business context. Learn more about Cisco Observability Platform.

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How to Streamline Customer Service – 7 Actionable Strategies

Comm100

The demand for fast, efficient, and personalized customer service is growing – and growing fast. 54% of global consumers have higher customer service expectations than they did just one year ago, according to a recent Microsoft study. So how can businesses rise to mee these expectations, while keeping a lid on budget and resources? The answer is to streamline customer service through intelligent technology, AI-powered automation, and empowering agents.

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The State of Digital Customer Experience Report 2024

This comprehensive report explores the evolving landscape of customer and business expectations, with five key trends that will help you understand your customers and stay ahead of the competition. Discover how your peers are implementing AI to improve customer experience with granular insights into their CX investments and specific AI use cases. For the first time, customers prefer digital channels when interacting with a business.

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Accelerating SaaS security certifications to maximize market access

Cisco - Contact Center

Announcing the public availability of Cisco Cloud Controls Framework (CCF) V3.0 - a “build-once-use-many” approach for SaaS compliance with global standards.

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Transforming the IVR Experience via Natural Language

Concentrix

Discover how one of the largest insurance companies in the world achieved $3.2M annual savings by transforming the IVR experience via natural language.

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Digital Empowerment on Display at the Cisco Broadband Innovation Center

Cisco - Contact Center

A recent visit by a Nigerian delegation to the Cisco Broadband Innovation Center in Raleigh, N.C. highlights Cisco’s efforts to work with government and private sector investors to help modernize network architectures through validated designs.

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Automated Customer Correspondence

Cincom

Effective communication is the lifeblood of positive customer relationships. Yet with siloed data, scattered document creation processes, and constantly evolving regulatory policies, even the most well-intentioned businesses struggle to deliver timely, compliant, and impactful correspondence. Manual document creation simply cannot keep pace. The solution lies in customer communication management (CCM) software that automates and streamlines correspondence at an enterprise scale.

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New Thinking About an Old Problem - Contact Center Employee Attrition

Discover a new approach to reducing contact center attrition with our in-depth eBook. After analyzing 20+ academic studies, we highlight overlooked causes like lack of leadership trust, emotional labor, and job shock, and introduce the Attrition Velocity metric to better understand attrition's real cost. Our guide doesn't stop at diagnosis; it offers actionable strategies and tools to address these issues head-on.

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Cisco Co-Selling Made Simple: Accelerate

Cisco - Contact Center

Accelerate is the second of 3 steps in the Ecosystem Co-Sell Go-to-Market (GTM) sales execution.

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Unlocking Business Growth with On-Demand Virtual Customer Service

Working Solutions

In today’s fast-paced world, businesses are constantly searching for strategies that not only streamline operations but also enhance the customer experience. On-Demand Virtual Customer Service emerges as a pivotal solution, offering significant cost savings, global 24/7 support, specialized skills without the overhead, and robust disaster recovery protocols.

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Engaging Team Building Exercises for Work: Boosting Collaboration and Morale

CSM Magazine

Hey, guess what? Getting the gang together for some fun team-building stuff is like the secret sauce to making your work vibe amazing! It’s all about shaking things up and getting everyone to mingle in a chill way, away from the usual grind. There exists a diverse range of team building activities and there’s something for everyone! Picture this: one day you’re untangling yourselves from a human pretzel, and the next you’re hunting for treasures like pirates.

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Why Managing Customer Pain Points is Essential for Driving Sales

Nicereply

To drive sales, you need to make sure that the product or service you’re offering was not made for the sake of it: it addresses a real need. It solves a problem. How do you do this? By getting to know your potential customers and learning about their problems. Or, to put it another way, you need to manage customer pain points to drive sales. This article explores what customer pain points are, and how you can learn about them and use them to your company’s advantage.

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3 Ways Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Can Improve Customer Experience

Today’s digitally savvy customers have high expectations of retailers for convenience, responsiveness, and ease of doing business both in-store and online. Our recent survey of over 2,000 US consumers found that retailers that can drive a seamless, omnichannel customer experience (CX) – across physical and digital channels – have huge benefits for brand relevance, profitability, and customer loyalty.

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Exploring the Virtual Casino Experience

CSM Magazine

The digital era has ushered in a new way to enjoy casino games, straight from the comfort of your home. A leading platform like jackpot city brings the excitement directly to you, with its online platform that mimics the thrill of being on a casino floor. It offers a diverse array of games, from the adrenaline of slot machines to the strategic gameplay of blackjack and roulette, presenting endless entertainment to its users.

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Burnout: An Executive Syndrome or a Strategic Priority?

Injixo

The World Health Organization defines burnout as “a syndrome … resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed”. Statistics reveal that, worldwide, more and more people are struggling with it. For many years, “burnout” was a word most commonly used together with the word “executive”: executive burnout , implying that it only affects business leaders.

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Contact Centres in 2030: The AI Frontier – Where Humans and Machines Unite

CSM Magazine

Imagine a world where artificial intelligence (AI) and human expertise seamlessly intertwine, transforming the contact centre landscape as we know it? As we embark on a journey towards 2030, the once futuristic notion of AI-powered contact centres is no longer a distant dream but a rapidly unfolding reality. At Sabio Group, we have witnessed first-hand the evolution of AI and its transformative impact on customer service.

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How I Found Work-Life Balance Through Fitness at Cisco

Cisco - Contact Center

See how Consulting Engineer Intern Bhavya M.'s competitive spirit led her to a fitness challenge where she discovered work-life balance and a new, healthy lifestyle.

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Reimagine Your Communications With A Unified Platform

Cut complexity and boost efficiency while empowering your customers with Nextiva's unified communications platform. Nextiva streamlines workflows and centralizes customer interactions, all while simplifying business collaboration, increasing productivity, and reducing employee burnout.