Call Center Management Featured Articles

Verizon Business announced it is now using Genesys Cloud for its global customer experience and contact center offerings to continue to push forward a…
2/26/2021

NICE is a provider of both cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions that empower organizations to make smarter decisions based on advanced …
2/23/2021

Sitel Group has joined Tent and other companies to provide employment opportunities to Venezuelan refugees.
2/22/2021

New research reveals that contact centers are a major focus of the healthcare industry due to the ongoing pandemic.
2/17/2021

Omnichannel contact center technology company Noble Solutions recently conducted a contact center market survey to explore changes in customer behavio…
2/16/2021

Avaya's OneCloud CCaaS platform has seen an expansion in its network of partners offering the product. In the UK, popular solutions and services provi…
2/10/2021

Phone scam artists are taking advantage of people in Maine attempting to schedule COVID-19 vaccination appointments. The scammers are calling individu…
2/10/2021

Saudi Arabia now requires all call centers to be operated by Saudi citizens.
2/5/2021

Novelvox's Freshdesk CTI Launcher is now available for Cisco, Avaya and Genesys clients.
2/1/2021

An alert Disney call center agent may be credited with helping a Pennsylvania domestic abuse victim. The caller pretended to buy tickets while activel…
1/26/2021

The Department of Health and Environmental Control of South Carolina will be replacing a clunky and complicated system for vaccine distribution.
1/25/2021
Anywhere365® has been officially certified after rigorous testing by Microsoft Teams' Connect Contact Center program.
1/21/2021

One of the best ways for financial services organizations to guard against fraud is to analyze transactions for red flags. These red flags might inclu…
1/21/2021

As the trend of remote working continues during the pandemic, companies are turning to virtual reality for training.
1/13/2021

Haptik and Audiocodes have co-developed a customer support service that uses AI to deliver more realistic automated responses to users.
1/12/2021

Enghouse announced the acquisition of Lisbon-based omnichannel contact center solution provider Altitude Software. The purchase provides Enghouse an e…
12/31/2020

Retail companies are beginning to move away from emailing customers and switching to SMS, which allows direct connection at a much lower cost.
12/30/2020

Using Verizon's One Talk unified communications service, NORAD call center volunteers will be able to answer calls to the North Pole remotely to answe…
12/22/2020

Digital transformations are happening across businesses today as the need for fast, convenient online services grows. For El Paso Water (EPWater), a m…
12/15/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the customer service landscape, and those changes are likely to outlive the pandemic. Businesses realize they mu…
12/10/2020

This week, SugarCRM announced that it's expanding its relationship with Amazon by becoming an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner wi…
12/8/2020

Maintaining the proper balance between self-service and live agent support is essential today. For BGL Group, an insurance provider and household fina…
12/2/2020

Fraudsters are using new and updated versions of old scams to leverage the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 community response, as well as opportunist…
12/1/2020

Today's contact center is under more pressure than ever to deliver excellent customer experiences. With a global pandemic and digital channels being r…
11/25/2020

Cloud communications platform provider 8x8 is well known for its ability to transform the way businesses communicate and how workforces collaborate. A…
11/18/2020

The 2020 holiday shopping season is already underway in the U.S. While a few weeks earlier than the typical after Thanksgiving kick-off, this year has…
11/16/2020

The viral spread of poor customer service is (or should be) at the top of every customer-facing company's mind. Once upon a time, bad choices made by …
11/12/2020

The global pandemic and COVID-19 shutdowns that began months ago here in the U.S. have changed how businesses operate and how employees work. In New Y…
11/6/2020

To help contact centers keep up with these demands, CPaaS provider IntelePeer has launched a new offering that makes it easy to add cloud-delivered CX…
11/6/2020

Facebook noted that over the last year, total daily conversations between people and businesses on Messenger and Instagram grew over 40 percent. For b…
10/30/2020

Following its north star of "fueling exceptional customer experiences," Avtex announced the acquisition of Calgary-based contact center and customer e…
10/28/2020

Scorebuddy, a contact center quality assurance solution provider based in Dublin, Ireland, recently announced that it has released a new version of it…
10/21/2020

Valor Global, call center solution providers, announced the purchase of DRS Services USA, an Arizona-based healthcare and medical call center services…
10/16/2020

Verint announced honors in two categories of the 2020 CRM Industry Leader Awards by CRM Magazine. The Customer Engagement Company earned awards for Be…
10/12/2020

QVC, the television-based home-shopping retailer, recently announced that it has put its 52,911-square-foot Chesapeake, Virginia call center on the ma…
10/8/2020

Today, Blue Prism announced Blue Prism Service Assist, a service that promises improved average call handling times (AHT), enhanced first call resolut…
10/7/2020

Improving agent performance and boosting efficiency has long been the goal of call center managers. When agents work more productively and help caller…
10/7/2020

Wisconsin's Department of Workforce Development answered less than one percent of incoming unemployment calls at the height of the coronavirus pandemi…
10/1/2020

Five9 named CallTower its US Reseller of the Year - 2020 as part of the Five9 2020 Global Partner Awards.
9/30/2020

The Voice of the Customer (VoC) and related programs are important metrics for customer service success. Creating and maintaining a successful VoC pro…
9/23/2020

Global enterprise software company IFS recently announced the availability of new and enhanced capabilities in its customer engagement software that c…
9/21/2020

This week, Aceyus announced Visionary User Experience (VUE), an integrated system that offers reporting and analytics to the enterprise for end-to-end…
9/18/2020

Omaha, Nebraska-based AnswerPro, LLC recently announced that it has been chosen by Current Health as a strategic partner to provide patient monitoring…
9/10/2020

While most companies understand the need for an omnichannel customer support experience, far fewer are able to put it into practice. In a recent inter…
9/3/2020

PelicanCorp's OneCall Access solution will be used in tandem with technology from Pass Word Inc. to upgrade Wyoming's 811 Call Before You Dig Call Cen…
8/27/2020

Covid-19 is dramatically changing the contact centre landscape as we know it. So, what critical disciplines and tools are the very foundation of great…
8/25/2020

Knowing exactly what is going on in a contact center by recording and analyzing every interaction between what transpires between customers and agents…
8/21/2020

Salesforce abruptly announced in a short note that it has retired Einstein Voice Assistant as of July 10, 2020. The note contained no explanation of t…
8/20/2020

In Wyoming, unemployment call centers have struggled to keep up with volume. The state's Department of Workforce Services has reported continued high …
8/13/2020

As a reflection of strong investor confidence in its offerings, Talkdesk recently announced that it received Series C funding of $143 million from bot…
7/30/2020

3CLogic announced a new offering for Microsoft Dynamics: a solution designed to empower enterprise organizations to easily manage customer or sales en…
7/29/2020

Examination Management Services, Inc., or EMSI, surprised its Waco, Texas-based employees recently when it abruptly shut down for good in advance of t…
7/24/2020

Virtual call center agents have been used to help companies expand their hours, offer additional support and decrease overhead. They're also a key too…
7/20/2020

Verizon is piloting Google Cloud's Contact Center AI solution to improve customer service. The offering uses machine learning and natural language rec…
7/15/2020

In Mexico, the government of Mexico City and its Digital Agency for Public Innovation have implemented a strategy they're calling the "Detection, Prot…
7/13/2020

In a move that will help further expand its operations into the European Customer Experience (CX) space, Sabio Group, a provider of customer solutions…
7/10/2020

Frost & Sullivan honored Avaya with the 2020 North American Growth Innovation Leadership Frost Radar Award for work behind the Avaya future forward st…
7/6/2020

Improved customer service is at the top of the list for many businesses today. Especially with the changing economic and business landscape, it's impo…
7/2/2020

Contact Point 360, a 12-year-old contact center outsourcer headquartered in Toronto, owns and operates six contact centers across three continents, em…
7/1/2020

Last week, Denver-based Journey came out of stealth mode after two years of R&D, launching what they call their Trusted Identity solution, based on th…
6/26/2020

To aid intelligence research company ASAPP with its efforts in the AI space, data center colocation, and hybrid IT solutions provider Flexential is pr…
6/26/2020

Servion announced it has earned Cisco CMSP Master Certified Partner Status in the U.K. The certification puts the contact center and digital customer …
6/19/2020

Insurance companies have unique needs for call center flexibility. Insurance is a high-touch industry when it comes to customer support, and a unified…
6/17/2020

A Rochester, NY-area call center has been sued for failing to pay rent during the coronavirus pandemic. The suit also alleges United Call Center Solut…
6/10/2020

At Tucson, Arizona's main communications center, which handles emergency calls, at least 17 employees have tested positive for the virus, according to…
6/10/2020

In recent weeks, Verint received two Business Intelligence Group 2020 Excellence in Customer Service Awards, a CUSTOMER Magazine 2020 Product of the Y…
6/5/2020

Across the United States, nearly three million people filed unemployment claims in mid-May, bringing the total two-month tally to more than 36 million…
6/4/2020

In today's uncertain times, with a global pandemic, growing job losses, and business shutdowns, the number of contract changes and cancellations are o…
5/29/2020

For companies using Cisco's "call center in a box" solution, Unified Contact Center Express (Unified CCX), there is urgent news that could lead to maj…
5/28/2020

Numeracle is offering call blocking and labeling solutions so businesses know that calls coming through are verified and vetted
5/22/2020

Government services provider MAXIMUS recently announced a partnership with Genesys to offer the MAXIMUS Genesys Engagement Platform, an integrated, cl…
5/21/2020

Call centers are responsible for providing good customer service, which is directly linked to business growth and positive business outcomes. Call cen…
5/15/2020

While many companies pay lip service to customer support excellence, far fewer put their money where their press releases are and consistently provide…
5/15/2020

State unemployment departments are receiving a record number of calls amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Many agencies are upgrading their call center tech…
5/8/2020

As of today, Georgia has reported more than 30,000 cases of COVID-19, and more than 1,300 deaths, with both infection cases and deaths still on the ri…
5/7/2020

Some businesses are coping by turning to an untapped workforce: people who are ready and able to work from home, and highly motivated to do so. The ca…
5/1/2020

Cisco's 2020 Global Contact Center Survey reveals more contact centers are moving to the cloud and adopting AI and chatbot technologies. Contact cente…
5/1/2020

CallVU announced a new program allowing companies leveraging the NICE inContact CXone cloud contact center platform users to put the CALLVU call exper…
4/24/2020

New York City-based customer acquisition solutions provider PX recently announced the launch of its Lead to Call Tracking module, which it's calling "…
4/21/2020

Google announced the addition of the Rapid Response Virtual Agent in the Google Cloud. The Rapid Response Virtual Agent will allow call centers to qui…
4/14/2020

Five9 is enabling businesses to quickly adopt teleworking strategies with its cloud contact center and Verint's WFM solution.
4/9/2020

Remote working is at an all-time high. In the call center, agents working from home are still expected to continue to deliver optimal care for custome…
4/8/2020

As cities across the country scramble to protect populations, keeping people educated on COVID-19 is critical, and Five9 Intelligent Cloud Contact Cen…
4/3/2020

State officials announced a Department of Motor Vehicles call center agent from the Riverside, California contact center tested positive for COVID-19 …
3/30/2020

Several states have experienced a surge in unemployment claims thanks to the coronavirus, causing their call centers to be overwhelmed. Many states ar…
3/24/2020

If you have a business continuity plan and a call center, chances are good that your plan involved ramping up home-based agents in case of a weather e…
3/23/2020

Different leadership styles bring about different consequences, which have direct or indirect impact on the attitude and behaviors of the employees. M…
3/18/2020

Earlier this week, representatives from a Verizon Call Center in Elgin, South Carolina announced they had to temporarily close after finding out that …
3/17/2020

Yale New Haven Health set up a call center to answer questions regarding COVID-19. Patients can be accessed via video or phone to be determined whethe…
3/13/2020

Noetica, a software company specializing in the development and delivery of global customer contact systems, is working to eradicate silent calls and …
3/12/2020

New research from the Harris Poll finds that AI and automation are being embraced by call center managers, driven by the desire to improve customer in…
3/5/2020

Verint announced that for the 13th consecutive year, DMG Consulting's 2019/2020 Workforce Optimization Product and Market Report named The Customer En…
3/2/2020

Telestax, an Austin, Texas-based CPaaS enablement and application provider, has added a feature that's likely to be attractive to the call center indu…
2/28/2020

In most organizations, the main operations are overseen by a chief. The chief financial officer oversees the bottom line. The chief technology officer…
2/25/2020

While we may think of artificial intelligence (AI) in customer support as robots relaying information over the phone to frustrated customers, the trut…
2/21/2020

Call center software provider Ozonetel has announced the launch of an all new AI-powered Speech Analytics Dashboard for Call Centers that company offi…
2/21/2020

As call centers walk the fine line between a quality customer experience and cost control, it can become difficult for call center management to under…
2/6/2020

When it comes to retirement accounts or pensions, many workers often find they're leaving benefits across multiple companies, which can make it awkwar…
1/31/2020

There is some evidence that working humans have become about as productive as they can. Studies have shown that productivity has stalled in the last d…
1/28/2020

It's not enough to post a job ad and expect to find the most talented call center agents in the field. Companies need to work to foster a positive and…
1/23/2020