Call Center Management Featured Articles
How mature is your customer experience management initiative? It's an excellent question to ask. Customer experience efforts are one thing, but they'r…
5/7/2021
For the 13th year in a row, Verint has been selected by Gartner as a Leader in the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Workforce Engagement Management
5/5/2021
The travel industry is turning to contact center solution provider Bright Pattern to boost customer service operations in the opening economy.
5/4/2021
AI-powered communications solutions provider Dialpad has announced it is continuing it's go to market expansion strategy and will be increasing its pr…
4/29/2021
Thoma Bravo is a 40-year-old private equity firm that focuses on software and technology. The company owns more than 300 software and technology compa…
4/26/2021
For years, we have heard about how important it is for customers to be satisfied with call center experiences. In addition to stellar customer support…
4/26/2021
A deal was reached between Deutsche Bank and Union officials that will allow the company's call center employees to be eligible for wage increases and…
4/23/2021
Semafone and Avaya have announced they teamed up to offer a solution for this need in the market. As part of their global reseller partnership, they w…
4/16/2021
Lee Kayne will now be leading Carousel Industries' business strategy for contact center solutions.
4/15/2021
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently announced it plans to improve the standards for banking call centers by revising and consolidating regulator…
4/9/2021
Avaya has announced that the company's flagship CCaaS solution is now available for businesses in 40 new countries.
4/7/2021
US banking customers are continuing to call their financial institutions at least once per year, leading to elevated amounts of call center traffic. N…
4/1/2021
Lingo Communications helped Tahoe Forest Hospital create a new COVID19 call center in less than one week.
3/31/2021
A recent analysis by Frost & Sullivan revealed Avaya to be the leading provider of cloud-based communication services in the Southeast Asian market.
3/23/2021
Looking to strengthen expansion into the advisory and technical services market, Inflow Communications, a provider of strategic advisory, consulting, …
3/22/2021
British telecom provider BT will now be utilizing NICE contact center solutions for business clients.
3/19/2021
Alorica and Talkdesk are combining resources to deliver a complete and scalable CX package for clients.
3/18/2021
Zappix announced a new partnership with Lifesize to deliver automation, artificial intelligence and improved self-service options into the contact cen…
3/12/2021
Due to high call volume and increasing fraud, the Kansas department of labor will be expanding its call center staff to help process the requests.
3/9/2021
A study by Forrester Research found that [24]7.ai Engagement Cloud helped businesses cut business costs significantly, while also improving customer s…
3/8/2021
StarTele Logic has collaborated with Ucall, Angola for a customized contact center platform.
3/5/2021
Power outages due to a surprise Texas storm led the state government to open a call center for damage reports.
3/1/2021
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
