CX is likely the simplest way get started and reap the benefits of AI. Contact Center solutions have had AI in one form or another for some time now - Now, Generative AI brings a whole new perspective and world of possibilities.

A consultant is your partner, not an adversary. They can be the best good luck charm for your contact center and business.

Today, “a bad social media review is mightier than the sword.” The contact center is on the front lines of whether your company’s brand is nurtured or damaged by a customer experience (CX).

AI plays an important role in the call center It helps to reshape the way with think about helping customers. The impact of AI on customer experience is significant. As AI develops, we can expect to see even more innovative ways to use AI to improve business.

Has a gap formed between resources to meet customer demand and the exploding volume of customer interactions and communication channels?

We are now almost one-year into this ridiculous pandemic. There is certainly the smell of rebound in the air. As talks of rebooting and restarting take root, executives are already feeling the pressure to optimize, reinvest, and continue to reduce costs to help keep their companies moving forward.

Let’s face it, working from home is here to stay. And if you want your business to succeed, now is the ideal time to optimize your temporary remote practices that might be "good enough" now into something that you can scale and continue indefinitely as a team.

In the evolving Experience Economy, 2020 is shaping up to become the year to apply predictive technologies to the customer journey. Organizations must continuously re-calculate the next-best action for each customer, at each moment.

With the right call center tools in your hands, grow to be the customer service team other teams envy. In our ever-changing, tech-savvy world, learning how to deploy a call center system with your agents in mind makes a world of difference. Sharpen has many great tools available to make that happen.

NICE InContact and it's CXone platform is the cloud contact center leader and there's a good reason for it. Contact Cloud 9 Advisers to find out why and see if CXone is right for your call center needs.

Business leaders understand that having happy and loyal advocates is the result of a thriving CX practice. Looking from the outside-in, how do you cultivate an employee experience that creates happy, productive and loyal team members? That’s the $11 billion question.

Five9's omnichannel is a seamless flow across all customer touchpoints. The transition is smooth and natural - from social, to chat, to phone - just like a conversation between long-time friends.

With 2019 over, it is now time to check the rear-view mirror, reflect on the evolving realities throughout the past year, and to look further up the road as new trends set the pace of a decade ahead for contact centers and customer service strategy.

We don't have a crystal ball, but we do have great predictions from industry leaders in the UC/CC space from our friends at Channel Partners

RingCentral and Avaya entering into a strategic partnership. RingCentral to be Avaya's exclusive provider of UCaaS solutions!

By Zeus Kerravala, CIO | MARCH 05, 2019 11:00

Many businesses are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to improve customer experience. CIOs should be careful with the emerging technology, however, and use it as an assistive tool first to reduce risk.

A few years ago, Walker and ...

You’ve probably heard all the fancy acronyms – IVR, ACD, WFO, WFM, QM, CX – and more. And here is another acronym to throw at you: CCaaS, which stands for Contact Center as a Service. It’s another fancy term for Cloud or Hosted Contact Center. But the important question here is how do you know what ...

First off, CCaaS stands for Contact Center as a Service. As you may know “_____ as a Service” generally refers to a cloud-based or hosted type of solution. One where the core components and heavy lifting are done by the service provider in their datacenters/cloud. And where you and users get the ben...