NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2019

NICE inContact Doubling Investment in Western Europe to Support Rapid Customer Growth Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, Western Europe, has just been released. This year, NICE inContact has been recognised as a Visionary, with the furthest overall placement for Completeness of Vision in 2019.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

Agents remain the most critical resource in any contact center. But, every contact center continues to struggle with big challenges when it comes to engaging, motivating and retaining agents. What your agents like the most working in contact centers is helping customers. But that is not where it stops.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 16, 2019

Agents remain the most critical resource in any contact center. But, every contact center continues to struggle with big challenges when it comes to engaging, motivating and retaining agents. What your agents like the most working in contact centers is helping customers. But that is not where it stops.

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NICE inContact

JULY 21, 2020

The consumer wave of the 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark reveals the latest on customer service behaviors, expectations, and attitudes about digital channels and omnichannel service.

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 20, 2020

NICE inContact Global CX Benchmark study, 2019 shows that great service can build brand loyalty among 81% of customers and turn 87% of them into advocates. Customer experience (CX) is the new tool for competitive differentiation and every company large and small is investing in creating better experiences for their customers.

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Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your contact center is planning for the future, be sure to make employee experience and getting the right technology in place top priorities. We recently participated in a discussion with two industry experts that focused on megatrends that will impact contact centers in 2022. Technology always needs focus.

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Call Experts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

omnichannel management that supports digital transformation. By actively harnessing a set of cloud-based AI-powered technologies, contact centers are infusing intelligence across the entire customer contact landscape. In 2019, automatic call distribution sported 23.3% Key 2020 Trends: Cloud Contact Centers.

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CSM Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

With this in mind, here are 10 top trends for contact centers and the customer experience in 2019. There are increasing numbers of brands focusing on the CX rather than basic contact center metrics, which is a positive move for the industry as a whole. Omnichannel was so ‘last year’ – it is now about the CX.

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Playvox

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Let’s explore five current shopping trends, and what this behavior means for those of us in the contact center industry. Having an omnichannel strategy that serves consumers across a variety of channels will only continue to grow in importance when it comes to customer service. Hybrid Holiday. Safety and Security.

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Kustomer

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The final days of 2019 are drawing to a close, and that means it’s time for Kustomer’s year-end wrap up. Here are some of the most memorable highlights: Top Customer Service Trends of 2019. Omnichannel Not Multichannel. Multichannel support simply means offering customers more than one method for contacting customer service.

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CSM Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2021

The omnichannel approach has been used by marketers to reach as many customers as possible, especially in the current circumstances, where most physical stores remain closed and rely on product deliveries and online purchases. Omnichannel Contact Centers for Improved Customer Service. trillion mark. trillion mark.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This week, we feature an article by Nick Bandy, Chief Marketing Officer at LiveVox , an omnichannel platform that helps brands seamlessly communicate with their customers. What do customers expect from contact centers? . But what exactly do customers expect from your contact center? Reduced customer churn .

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

What do companies report after they move their contact center technology to the cloud? We surveyed more than 900 contact center leaders in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia about key customer experience topics, including contact center plans and metrics. How important is this?

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NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

Is your contact center keeping up? How do cloud contact centers meet these digital-forward needs? With new innovations in omnichannel strategies, it’s possible to overcome traditional barriers to exceptional customer engagement and provide a complete digital experience. This is the future of customer experience.

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NICE inContact

MAY 23, 2019

We live in an omnichannel customer service world now. With so many touchpoints in play, it’s more important than ever for contact center leaders to have their fingers on the pulse of their customers, and then align their own performance with what customers actually experience. This is the nature of life in the digital age.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This is just one of the many insights we discovered when we surveyed more than 900 global contact center leaders about key customer experience topics, including near-term investment plans. The latest results and analysis appear in the 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark.

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Answer Dash

JANUARY 1, 2019

There are five such areas where I see significant gains for your contact center by upgrading in 2019 if you haven’t already. Integrate Slack with support tools Slack has revolutionized contact center communication. To conclude, it’s been a good year of product demos and I expect the same in 2019.

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Call Experts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In 2019, Salesforce forecasts a "sustained and solid U.S. With this steady growth and increase in demand, contact centers are a vital partner to support the holiday rush. . . With this steady growth and increase in demand, contact centers are a vital partner to support the holiday rush. . . More Blogs Menu.

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NICE inContact

MAY 8, 2019

Are you delivering seamless omnichannel customer experiences and creating promotors rather than detractors? These are questions that keep contact center leaders up at night. The 2019 business wave of the NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark explores many of these questions at a global level.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 19, 2019

In today’s omnichannel customer service environment, savvy organizations offer their consumers multiple ways to interact with them, including agent-assisted and self-service methods. We surveyed over 900 decision makers in the contact center to get their opinions, and we compared these perceptions to what consumers say.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 7, 2019

When it’s time to upgrade your contact center to the cloud, one of the biggest headaches is doing the homework on viable solutions. In their 32-criterion evaluation of cloud contact center providers, Forrester identified the 11 most significant vendors and researched, analyzed, and scored them. Plan for 2019 trends.

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ShepHyken

MARCH 18, 2019

Why Omnichannel is the Future of Customer Interactions (And How You Can Get Started) by Josh Brown. My Comment: The technical term “omnichannel” is really about a customer being able to connect with a company through any means they desire; phone, social media, messaging, etc. Here’s some sound ideas that will help you on that journey.

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Talkdesk

JANUARY 22, 2019

2019 has brought news that Talkdesk is a finalist in the 2019 Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service in the Innovation in Customer Service – Computer Industries category. Talkdesk is quickly garnering attention from customers and industry leaders as the enterprise cloud contact center.

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Interactions

JANUARY 16, 2019

We wrapped up 2018 with a look back at the year’s biggest customer care trends , and we’re excited to see what 2019 has in store for the technology industry. So, 2019 may be the year we see more companies ditching the DIY effort and turning to the IVA experts. Conversational AI. Rethinking success. What does success look like?

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NICE inContact

MARCH 5, 2019

The baseline: Customers expect omnichannel choices in our contact centres. In our upcoming webinar, Fulfilling Changing Customer Expectations with True Omnichannel , we’ll explore all this and more based on recently published Nice inContact research: the 2018 Customer Experience (CX) Benchmark report. REGISTER NOW.

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Talkdesk

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2019, small businesses generated 44% of the US economic activity and, as a whole, they create two-thirds of net new jobs and drive U.S. Since many banks have shuttered their branches they are leveraging the contact center as their client experience hub. innovation and competitiveness.

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BlueOcean

APRIL 15, 2019

From the retail experience to social media connections to issue resolution via the contact center, customers want their individual needs known and reflected in the interactions, services, and products they pay for. Are You Using 1999 Metrics to Measure 2019 Customer Care? Cue the angry phone calls and spiteful social posts.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2019

Traditionally quality management in the contact center has been focused on evaluating agent-assisted interactions — mainly phone. We already discussed the gap between the number of digital channels for CX that are supported in the contact center and the number of channels that are evaluated as part of a business’ QM programs.

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UJET

JUNE 25, 2021

We’re long past the days where customer experience is an afterthought and the contact center is viewed as a cost center. Unsurprisingly, mobile usage skyrocketed during the pandemic, and the percentage of mobile interactions with the contact center is now estimated to be 80% or higher globally.

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CX Accelerator

OCTOBER 25, 2018

There is no doubt that the contact center industry is poised for massive changes. As Justin Robbins says, even the basic tool sets in most contact centers are broken. How can we bypass the milestones of Omnichannel and a useful knowledge base, while expecting to virtualizesupport?

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

In our 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark study , we found that businesses greatly underestimate customers’ likelihood to recommend their company based on their experiences with online chat, apps and websites. Studies show I am not alone in this preference. And it only gets worse from here!

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NICE inContact

JUNE 17, 2019

In our 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark study , we found that businesses greatly underestimate customers’ likelihood to recommend their company based on their experiences with online chat, apps and websites. Studies show I am not alone in this preference. And it only gets worse from here!

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NobelBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

In our article, we will explore the inner working of the customer journey, the mapping aspect of it, and also how it works in the omnichannel environment. The contact center is an important part of the client journey because of this. The contact center is an important part of the client journey because of this.

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NICE inContact

APRIL 30, 2019

That’s why, as the global leader in cloud technology, NICE inContact helps contact centres all over the world deliver consistently exceptional customer experiences in the kind of omnichannel environment customers expect…outstanding CX that solidifies brand loyalty and turns customers into lifelong brand advocates.

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Team HGS

JANUARY 9, 2019

HGS Roundtable: Top Customer Experience (CX) Trends in 2019. For our 2019 predictions, we are honored to share unique and well-informed perspectives from an elite group of industry thought leaders. Michael discusses how, in 2019, customer experience (CX) will be king. Ben Tresham, Operations Director, Hello Customer.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The business wave of the 2019 NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark analyzes survey results from over 900 contact center professionals in the US, the UK, and Australia. Customers still value the option of interacting with agents.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2019

It often eliminates the “on hold” frustration of voice calls and lets contact centers increase productivity by having agents work with 3 or 4 customers at the same time. According to WhosOn , 68% of people prefer to have root canal without anesthetics, a tax audit or a dinner with mother-in-law, rather than to wait on hold.

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