In a contact center environment that relies on efficiency in order to satisfy the needs of their customers, finding systems and methods for improving productivity is critical. Customers want to resolve their issues as quickly as possible, and contact center teams want to deploy their time and resources efficiently. The following five solutions, when implemented Read More
Are You Using These 9 Contact Center Tech Tools?
Contact centers have become much more advanced and fulfill a vital role in the business world. For a contact center to stay relevant and grow in today’s ever-changing marketplace, it is important to take advantage of both the simple tools and high-end technology that is available. Read More
Create Customers for Life by Improving Interaction Quality with BroadSoft’s CC-One Salesforce Edition
As the global leader in cloud CRM technology, Salesforce Sales and Service Clouds have carved out a sizable chunk of the market with a feature set that includes a robust agent desktop, reporting and analytics, and support for multiple customer interaction channels. Read More
Gain Real-time Visibility of your Contact Center: BroadSoft CC-One Salesforce Edition
This is a continuation of the blog series sharing the capabilities and benefits of the BroadSoft CC-One Salesforce Edition. CC-One Salesforce Edition is perfect for contact centers using the Salesforce CRM system’s email and chat functionality for customer interactions. Read More
How Can Contact Centers Boost Customer Engagement?
Contact centers can take phone calls, respond to emails or chat in real-time with your customers. Read More
New Report From IDC Zeros-In on Customer Experience
This week we’d like to share a new report from IDC Research that takes a look at how organizations are approaching their Customer Experience (CX) strategies, and the components of a successful program. The report identifies five stages that organizations reach in terms of delivering customer experience, which we’ve outlined here: 1. Ad Hoc: Organizations Read More
Industry Perspectives: Customer Context and Adaptive Real-time Routing
This week, I’d like to highlight a great new report that echoes much of what we’ve been saying about the future of contact centers. A recent report from Donna Fluss of DMG Consulting “CRM + ACD = Personalized Service” provides further proof that Big Data is ushering in a new era of customer service and Read More
Using Big Data to Deliver Better Solutions: Industry White Paper
This week I’d like to share a new whitepaper “Big Data and its Impact on Contact Centers” from a kindred spirit, the Daitan Group. In the white paper, Daitan discusses how major brand contact centers are seeing an uptick in the adoption of analytics programs in an effort to better understand and interact with their Read More
How Human Variability Can Improve Contact Center Performance
As we get closer to the holiday season and the weather starts to cool, I’m reminded of the phrase, “no two snowflakes are alike.” The same rule applies to people, and that includes both agents in the contact center and the customers that they interact with every day. Each person has their own unique personality, Read More
What the New iPhone Implies About Contact Center Preparedness for Multichannel Data Integration
During a highly anticipated announcement yesterday, Apple met consumer expectations and confirmed that the new iPhone 6 will be released with NFC (near-field communication) technology. This means that in addition to admiring a beautiful new design, iPhone users all over the world can now easily make in-store payments, straight from their smartphones. As the iPhone Read More