Managerial and Training

The Enhanced Service Through Consultative Sales Program equips service professionals with skills to deliver better experiences and to drive additional value.
Posted August 14, 2019

Global Relay has bolstered the analytics in its latest release.
Posted July 31, 2019

Customer service agents face many challenges, but a modern agent desktop could be the answer.
Posted July 19, 2019

Suggestions for driving positive customer experiences and improving brand loyalty with social media customer service.
Posted July 16, 2019

It's virtually impossible to improve customer service without consistent feedback—that's the philosophy that Kair Käsper and Martin Kõiva have brought to Klaus, an Estonian "conversation review" startup that has just disclosed $1.9 million in seed funding from Swedish VC firm Creandum.
Posted July 12, 2019

Training Dashboard compiles and annotates data from customer and agent interactions with the goal of advancing the intelligence of Talla's customer support system.
Posted July 02, 2019

CXsuccess customer services for CXone helps contact center leaders with ongoing business value realization and long-term success.
Posted July 02, 2019

Despite the many changes currently influencing the food service industry, the overall customer satisfaction score inched down only slightly to 78.9, dropping by less than 1 percent.
Posted June 28, 2019

The new offering aims to ease the transition to the cloud by augmenting existing on-premise systems with intelligent, cloud-based contact center applications.
Posted June 25, 2019

Microsoft Dynamics and Verint Monet systems are among the new integrations announced by UJET today.
Posted June 25, 2019

Last weekend was a tough one for Target, as its registers crashed nationwide. Nevertheless, the retailer handled the crisis effectively, demonstrating three lessons in crisis management.
Posted June 21, 2019

Customer service centers have a significant business opportunity to tap into insights in voice data, yet most organizations are not equipped to do so properly.
Posted June 10, 2019

NICE Quality Central Insight uses speech analytics and automation to aid in contact center quality management.
Posted June 06, 2019

Verint executives outlined a strategy to save companies time and money on customer experience improvements.
Posted May 22, 2019

Speakers on day two of the conference assert that transparency and culture are crucial to a strong organization.
Posted May 16, 2019

Research shows that agents are more likely to respond to incentives that feed their egos than their wallets.
Posted May 16, 2019

A customer-focused culture also requires collaboration and a special focus on contact center employees, speakers say.
Posted May 15, 2019

Customer Service Journey Consulting helps clients address the business impacts of poor customer service.
Posted May 07, 2019

Samsung's smart appliances require customer service providers to have a new skill set and be knowledgeable about servicing not only hardware but also software.
Posted April 22, 2019

Bold360 now includes the latest in real-time contact center agent collaboration tools.
Posted April 03, 2019

UCx Contact Center delivers advanced features like customizable call routing, automatic call-backs, built-in call recording, and dynamic reporting.
Posted March 27, 2019

UJET has added text, chat, and feedback capabilities to streamline agent performance.
Posted March 27, 2019

The partnerships enhance the compliance infrastructure for financial firms' contact center and customer support operations. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted March 26, 2019

Vonage's newest contact center offering is available with unified communications on a single stack.
Posted March 20, 2019

AXS incorporates new metrics into traditional efficiency and effectiveness measures.
Posted March 20, 2019

Talkdesk Workforce Management, powered by Talkdesk iQ, adds artificial intelligence to contact center staff management.
Posted March 19, 2019

Calabrio has released its latest analytics-fueled customer experience intelligence suite.
Posted March 19, 2019

8x8 Quality Management and Speech Analytics now span all voice communications inside and outside the contact center.
Posted March 19, 2019

RingCentral Persist maintains services in the event of an internet outage at customer locations.
Posted March 13, 2019

Solution enables those in customer-facing roles to derive actionable insights via conversational, AI-based analytics features. (Featured on SpeechTechMag.com.)
Posted March 12, 2019

You need to keep customer service employees engaged and motivated. Here's a list of things to avoid.
Posted March 08, 2019

TouchPoint One's new games include A-GAME Hoops and A-GAME Tiki Beach.
Posted March 07, 2019

NICE's Strategic Planner applies artificial intelligence to workforce management and employee engagement to aid in long-term planning.
Posted February 26, 2019

NovelVox has expanded its solutions for the credit union contact center industry with its new Credit Union Unity series—Credit Union Unity Lite, Credit Union Unity Plus, and Credit Union Unity Advance.
Posted February 22, 2019

In a new study, a majority of consumers say that customer service quality is a major factor in their shopping decisions.
Posted February 15, 2019

The investment will fuel company innovations in quality assurance and performance management.
Posted February 15, 2019

New capabilities improve interactions, workflows, agent and supervisor productivity, scalability, and security.
Posted February 11, 2019

The enhancements include a beefed-up integration framework, improved speech analytics, and real-time dashboards for contact centers.
Posted February 05, 2019

In the America's Best Customer Service 2019 report compiled by Newsweek and Statista, Chick-fil-A beat out runner-up Sonic and Arby's, which came up third.
Posted February 01, 2019

Cloud-based deployments bring new operational intelligence capabilities to more contact centers.
Posted January 23, 2019

Teleopti Insights uses embedded Power BI from Microsoft to enhance interactive, flexible workforce management reporting.
Posted January 23, 2019

One customer of the pet supplies e-retailer got a pleasant surprise when she left a negative review about a product sold on the company's site.
Posted January 18, 2019

For toy manufacturers like Mattel, a turnaround might be coming thanks to its commitment to customer service in this critical fourth quarter.
Posted December 21, 2018

The company's new holiday campaign is all about putting a positive spin on customer service during the busiest time of year.
Posted December 07, 2018

Dialpad Support for Call Centers features real-time AI tools
Posted December 05, 2018

The platform leverages the knowledge of expert users to help companies provide quick and effective customer service.
Posted December 04, 2018

The integration brings Aspect's Workforce Optimization to Amazon Connect cloud-based contact center. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted December 03, 2018

Lessonly's training software integrates with Zendesk to encourage contact center agent team learning and practice. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted November 13, 2018

New research reveals that there's a reason why some customers are able to get through to agents at call centers faster than others. It comes down to a 'customer score,' a calculation of how valuable that customer is to the business.
Posted November 02, 2018

The new offering is an AI-powered forecasting and scheduling service for workforce management. (Featured on DestinationCRM.com.)
Posted October 30, 2018

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