The ability for customers to reach a contact center through their preferred channel can be a major advantage for contact centers looking to improve customer service and increase efficiency. Moving to an omni-channel system, however, can present organization problems if contact centers do not have data that is easily accessible and can empower employees to quickly serve customers. Data integration can help contact centers organize and analyze data to better understand a company’s business performance and customer satisfaction. Read More
Improve Services with Contact Center Business Intelligence Technology
Evolving technology for contact centers now provides digital tools to improve customer satisfaction, enhance product and service quality control, and collect data for future innovation. Read More
Big Data and Analytics can Lead to Higher Customer Engagement
Outsourcing customer service and support to a call center can help you save time, boost your profits and provide your customers or clients with a better experience. 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
Industry Perspective: Customer Experience in the Telco Industry
This week, we wanted to share our take on a recent article from K.C. Neel, which takes a look at the evolving role – and increased use of big data – to enhance the customer experience within the cable, satellite and telecommunications industries. In markets like the US, the customer experience is vital to cable 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
Data-Driven Marketing Doesn’t Work in a Silo
This week I want to share a recent article that appeared on Forbes.com, which calls out the analytics industry as a catalyst for helping brands drive better customer engagement. According to a Forbes Insights survey referenced in the article, 74% of organizations that identify as early adopters of data-driven marketing programs also cite having achieved 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
The State of Customer Service in 2014
As we are well into the holiday season, we wanted to take a look at our recent survey, done in collaboration with Harris Poll, and consider the findings as they pertain to the contact center during this busy time of the year. When it comes to holiday shopping, brands are focused on two things: driving Read More