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Aspect, Intradiem Introduce Partnership
Intradiem and Aspect Software announced a co-marketing partnership that brings together robust WFO and real time automation for enterprise contact cen…
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Cloud Contact Centre v19 Announced
The latest version of Aspect Software's Cloud Contact Centre offering has been announced. With the release of version 19, agents and supervisors are e…
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Chilean Law to Protect Contact Center Worker Rights Goes into Effect
For many companies, outsourcing contact center services such as customer support to a foreign country makes sense. It saves on labor and allows compan…
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Edify Labs Wins $10 Million in Funding to Transform the Contact Center Market
Edify Labs has won $10 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital to revolutionize the contact center industry with it WebRTC, AI, and cloud-b…
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Is Your IVR Costing You Customers?
Recently, Vonage unveiled the 2019 Vonage IVR survey, illustrating some highly interesting results. Your IVR may be a big reason you keep losing custo…
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The Future of Call Centers Relies on AI
In recent years, companies have put more focus on improving the work conditions in call centers so that agents feel more at ease and enjoy their jobs.…
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6 Digital Trends Disrupting the World of Finance
Emerging technologies in the financial world are changing the way institutions conduct their operations and engage customers. Financial organizations …
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Popular Manchester locations for your next corporate event
There's no denying that corporate events can be somewhat lacklustre and your employees and/or guests can often be left feeling like they were better o…
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The Real Return on Investing in Intelligent CX
With the emergence of new technologies addressing the improvement of Customer Experience (CX), ongoing changes to what we used to refer to as "contact…
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Nuance Adds Intelligent Engagement Services, Supports Conversational AI Innovation
Nuance announced the Nuance Intelligent Engagement Platform is making the addition of Intelligent Engagement services as well back end integrations to…
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Aceyus, Upstream Works Software Partners Integrate to Improve Customer Experience Management
Upstream Works Software Partners announced a new partnership with Aceyus, the two aim to merge actionable data with customer experience management to …
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WFMSG Increases Automation in Release 4.4
WFMSG took the wrapping off Release 4.4 of its Community WFM solution. New additions to the platform focused on improving forecasting and schedule opt…
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Trisys is SMB Answer for Call Recording
Just Google it isn't always the answer. Anybody can buy anything on the internet today, but there is something to be said for speaking with another hu…
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CUSTOMER Magazine Announces Winners of the 2019 Contact Center Technology Award
TMC announced the winners of their 14th Annual Contact Center Technology Award, presented by its premier publication, CUSTOMER magazine.
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Study Finds Few Workers Understand How AI Affects Them at Work
While we know many technology and solutions providers are building machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) into their solutions, apps and pl…
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DataRobot and CallMiner Partner for AI-Driven Customer Experience Analysis
Customer interactions are a bit like icebergs: while there's a small amount of information - usually what goes into the ears of call center agents - v…
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The Next Generation of Speech Analytics
In this conversation with Jim Noble, President and CEO of Noble Systems, and Nancy Jamison, Principal Analyst at Frost & Sullivan, we learn about the …
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NICE inContact Announces FedRAMP Authorization for CXone
Cloud contact center software provider NICE inContact delivers a cloud customer experience platform that makes better one-on-one experiences possible …
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Using AI to Treat the Global Problem of Job Burnout
Job burnout is on the rise and poses a significant threat to the global workforce. AI technologies are increasingly being used to aid contact center e…
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How AI is Driving Workforce Management
Today, artificial intelligence (AI) helps us shop, navigate our computers, operate our in-car infotainment systems and more. It's increasingly showing…
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CoreDial Launches Certification Program to Drive Contact Center Opportunity for Partners
CoreDial has launched a formal partner certification program for its private-label hosted CoreNexa Contact Center platform.
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Pairing Call Center Agents with Virtual Buddies
The better a call center agent is trained, coached, guided and valued, the more likely he or she is to remain engaged with the job and to stick around…
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Perfecting Customer Experience
Customer Experience is all the rage, but so much of it is focused on the initial stage of the customer journey. This front-loaded approach to CX virtu…
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Why Gamification is a Game-Changer for Call Centers
In this conversation with Nancy Jamison and Jim Noble, we learn a few of the things that help Noble stand out from the crowd with its gamification pla…
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Solving Customers' Biggest Headaches in the Contact Center
If you were to make a list of all your customers' complaints, you'd probably find that a large majority of them are the same few complaints repeatedly…
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Verint Honored for Workforce Optimization Solution of the Year
Verint Systems has been honored for Workforce Optimization Solution of the Year, and received an honorable mention for Omnichannel Solution for the Ye…
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Online Gamblers Join the Virtual Reality Gaming Revolution
Much in the same way Virtual Reality (VR) changed the recreational gaming industry, the adult gambling industry is poised to go through the same revol…
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Edify Labs Revolutionizes the Contact Center
Edify Labs has taken the complexity of the contact center and smashed it with a rock, and then took the rock and broke apart the way we used to pay fo…
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Salesforce to Acquire WFM Firm
Salesforce announced a definitive agreement to purchase field service management provider ClickSoftware. Joining a robust platform, ClickSoftware will…
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Contact Centers Excel in Times of Crisis, Driving New Innovations in Customer Experience
Given the effectiveness of customer self-service, chatbots, and the growing field of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), live human support is becoming …
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Preparing to Improve the Customer Experience
While "the customer experience" has been on most company's radar for years, if not decades, most companies have had imperfect success when it comes to…
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Automated Coaching is the Next Phase of Workforce Management
Automated and AI-based coaching technologies are being integrated into workforce management and contact center solutions to help agents improve their …
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Five9's Continued Success Shows Cloud and AI are the Future of Work
Five9 announced increases in quarterly revenues, driven by its enterprise business and continued migration of contact centers to the cloud.
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Analyst Group Predicts Brisk Growth in Cloud-Based Workforce Management Solutions
As companies strive to do more with less workforce, workforce management becomes a critical element of operations. Workforce management, deployed prop…
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DMG Delivers Verint Top Marks
A new report from DMG consulting - 2019/2020 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report - put Verint front and center. The VoC solution provi…
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AI Technology Will Improve the Workplace for Customer Service Agents
AI and virtual assistant technologies stand to transform the entire customer service industry, improving the speed and quality of customer service whi…
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Reducing Customer Level of Effort by Automating Capture of Outcomes and Insights
One of the key pillars in assessing the effectiveness of customer service, and the quality of each customer's experience, is to reduce the effort requ…
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AI Already Improving Customer Service and Transforming the Call Center
AI has already made major inroads in customer service and is set to transform the entire contact center industry, improving both customer and agent en…
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The Next Level of Agent Training: Teaching Empathy, Organization and Communication
It's 2019, and we tend to still consider call center work "low skilled." While once upon a time, this may have been the case, customer support today i…
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Verint Riding Wave of Accolades
Verint, also self-proclaimed "The Customer Engagement Company", had the latter confirmed in not one, or two but three customer service evaluations boa…
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Boost Agent Performance in the Contact Center by Returning to Basics
The contact center is a complex place today. We have so many channels, so many solutions, so many screens and so many processes, that agents - once cu…
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What AI Can and Cannot Do for CX: The Next Generation Balancing Act of Data and Humans
Gartner's Hype Cycle traditionally shares the "peak of inflated expectations" and the "trough of disillusionment" that precede the "plateau of product…
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Why Speech Analytics Aren't Optional
In the contact center, speech analytics are invaluable. For firms not embracing this future-forward approach the ignorance is certainly not bliss. Let…
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Cloud or On-Premises Contact Center: It's Your Choice
Frost & Sullivan's Nancy Jamison speaks with Noble Systems CEO Jim Noble about the single-code base that allows customers to easily move their contact…
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How Your Agents Talk to Customers Matters
How your agents speak and the words they choose to use when responding to customers needs is directly related to the end result of the call. Upbeat ac…
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Verint Solutions 'Magical'
This week, Verint was the only vendor to be recognized in two 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrants. Specifically, the customer engagement company earned accol…
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Reducing Stress in the Call Center is Good for Business
If you made a list of the top 10 most stressful jobs, there's a good chance that call center agent would land on it somewhere, alongside "emergency ro…
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Innovative Ways to Make Visual IVR Work For You
Visual IVR merges IVR with digital technology, bringing it to smartphone and other digital device screens to give customers a user-friendly and easy-t…
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County Council Selects Verint to Improve Engagement
The Hertfordshire County Council recently announced the selection of Verint's government and public sector portfolio, making the management of governm…
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CUSTOMER Magazine Announces Winners of the 2019 CRM Excellence Award
TMC announced the winners of its 20th Anniversary CRM Excellence Award.
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