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Enterprise Contact Center Software Buyer’s Guide: Recommendations from Gartner

NICE inContact

It is time to modernize your contact center. Your current software is showing its age, unable to keep up with customer expectations or add new capabilities like digital channels (like SMS or WhatsApp) or artificial intelligence (AI).

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Contact Center Software can Balance Agent-assisted and Self-service Channels

NICE inContact

Both are hot topics when it comes to contact centers and customer experience. They introduce new channels and vehicles to interact with customers. In our new 2018 Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark the insights were clear on the importance of both.

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5 Ways That Digital Customer Service Is Influencing Customer Expectations

NICE inContact

It’s common for blogs related to customer service and customer experience to talk about how the increasing ubiquity of social media requires fundamental changes in the way that brands should conceive of customer service. 32% of customers expect a response within 30 minutes 42% expect a response within 60 minutes.

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An S.O.S. for Your Contact Center Software

Talkdesk

Considering that customers have changed and companies have changed, it doesn’t make sense that the contact center software hasn’t changed to bring the two closer together. Talkdesk was founded more than five years ago on the premise that contact centers don’t have to be stale. It shouldn’t be like that.

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Inbound Call Centers Need to Deliver Exceptional Experiences in an Omnichannel World

NICE inContact

Companies need to not only embrace omnichannel interactions but need to deliver them in a way that matches customer expectations – helping to steer them to the most efficient communication vehicle(s) and making it seamless to move between the channels.

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Seamless CX Meets Strategic AI

NICE inContact

Here’s the problem: 91% of customers expect a seamless experience when moving from one method of communication with a company to another (e.g., Yet only 24% of businesses give themselves an excellent rating in providing this seamless customer experience (CX). Which contact center software applications are the best suited for AI?

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Five Tips for Improving Contact Center Management

NICE inContact

Contact center management is hard. You need to keep up with constantly growing and shifting customer expectations. Let’s look into some ideas that will help you successfully manage you contact center environment while keeping your cool in the process. Very hard, actually.