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Writing means you aren’t left on the ‘phone waiting to get through to people at call centres where a lot of other issues come into play too! Recording calls & the Law. I often hear people saying that they can record calls and that they will take this to an ADR scheme or Small Claims Court. The interception, recording and monitoring of telephone calls is governed by a number of different pieces of UK legislation. MORE
You may know from personal experience that low-performing, partially effective contact center technologies and overwhelmed customer service employees are not a winning combination. Being mindful with your contact center IVR and WFO strategies can help you get better at the things you care about for your business. MORE
“This call may be used for quality or training purposes…” Have you ever wondered about that notification when you call a business? While it’s easy to disregard, it reveals a common business practice: Call Quality Monitoring – a practice contact centers use to review and evaluate the quality of their agents’ interactions with customers. While call monitoring may be performed live at times, it isn’t feasible when there are large volumes of calls. MORE
Contact center teams have been evaluating call recordings for quality for years now. This offers your contact center the flexibility to introduce automation at your own pace, while providing visibility into the large volume of calls that have been recorded but have previously gone unheard. In an age where we all seek to do more with less—and do it better—it seems there’s always an opportunity to use the latest enhancements in technology to help. MORE
As call center agents move to fully functioning omnichannel contact center agents, the question of agent training comes into focus—particularly training contact center agents to multitask. Workforce Optimization Digital First Omnichannel Call Recording Call Center Best PracticesCan it be done? What is an agent’s capacity to multitask? MORE
Call recording is one of the core requirements for contact centers. With voice still being the most critical and main channel used, being able to securely and reliably record calls no matter where the agent sits is a must—especially in today’s environment. Look for a recording solution that affords proactive maintenance and monitoring capabilities from a single, web-based administration tool. MORE
Call recording software is a foundational component of contact center operations but often under valued and taken for granted. Similarly, recording software powers other contact center activities but it’s not until the contact center experiences a failure that most really stop to think about its critical implications. Why should you record? There are a plethora of reasons to record your calls and digital interactions. Call Analytics. MORE
Current quality management best practices dictate the review for scoring of a small percentage of random calls for each agent, typically less than ten percent. Also, if a new agent is having problems in his or her job, it often takes months of reviewing random calls to accurately discover the root of the problem. In the meantime, the agent continues to struggle through each call. percent of our survey respondents currently own a call logging solution. MORE
Everywhere you turn, the calls to move to cloud environments have become prevalent – regardless of system, workload or application, its no secret that cloud has redefined how our most critical systems are deployed and operated. Like other cloud systems, the architecture provides a more scalable environment allowing you to better support call distribution and IVR. MORE
As the world grows more complex, compliance regulations have made recording more important than ever. However, recording today involves far more than capturing calls—we must also include IM, video, desktop screens, app/screen sharing, white boarding, file transfer, SMS and other types of electronic communication. Waiting until after information is recorded before taking action can be risky. MORE
One of the big concerns with at-home agents is whether they have the right environment to effectively handle calls. voice contact center agent experience call recording IVR call center cx assurance voice quality custserv work from homeIn the face of COVID-19, many organizations have had to shut down their contact centers, and send agents to work from home. This has been accomplished on impossible time tables. MORE
Supervisors track metrics like number of calls taken, number of issues resolved or average wait time, but they might not have the time to listen to every call recording to see where improvements are needed. Customer support agents help customers resolve issues with the extra goal of building brand loyalty. MORE
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 Author: Trevor Davies, Head of Products, Enghouse Interactive 5 key trends that are impacting call recording in 2020. 19% of UK contact centres revealed that they were looking to update their call recording solutions. MORE
Luckily, call center analytics software can help alleviate much of these compliance headaches. Many organizations still rely on compliance managers to manually review a sample of call center interactions each day to identify compliance issues and problems. Advantages of the Cloud Call Center Compliance Call Recording Contact Center Management Contact Center Trends & Insights MORE
Contact centers have been using call recording for years, and consumers have come to accept and expect to hear the words “ this call is being recorded for quality and training purposes” when calling in. Call Center Compliance Call Recording Contact Center Trends & Insights Call Center Best Practices MORE
5 key trends that are impacting call recording in 2020. Date: Friday, October 16, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Remote Working 2.0: Optimising Contact Centres. Published on: October 16, 2020. MORE
load testing automated testing IVR testing regression testing Test Cases contact center cx customer experience issues vulnerability call recording validation IVR call center cx monitoring cx metrics voice quality performance testing Sev1A little while back, Cyara’s Senior Strategic Accounts Director, Kelly Zunker, wrote a post on our blog about how much a SEV1 costs an organization. MORE
Here is how call recording software can help protect your company against these issues. Call Recording Software for the Finance Industry. Call recording is a service that allows you to record incoming and outgoing business calls. You can store these calls for up to 6 years, in most cases, and review them in the future. This way, all calls related to your business phone system can be recorded, as predetermined by you. MORE
Call recording is a common call center practice. Call recording can be a valuable tool, but it must be used carefully. The burden is on the call center to make it a priority to be compliant with all relevant call recording laws, rules and regulations. This post is designed to provide a basic background on call center call recording and to point call center managers in the direction of resources. MORE
I decided to buy a new TV. Not that I really needed one, but my 32’’ set seemed awfully small next to my neighbor’s slick 50’’ panel. I had done my necessary online homework, went through the dazzling selection of brands, then narrowed it down through display sizes, high-definition (HD) technologies, resolution, contrast and a dozen other terms I’ve since forgotten. Of course, I researched price as well. MORE
Should all recorded calls be autoscored? Contact Centers Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Customer Experience customer engagement optimization employee engagement Call Centers Quality Management Data Quality automation customer engagement customer focus contact center call recording call center quality management softwareThe recent influx of news about advances in automation technology can create some employee anxiety—however, there’s good news. MORE
It’s where you’ll do everything from making and receiving customer calls, adding post-call notes, setting your availability and more. Thankfully, Callbar is incredibly easy to use, even if you’re brand new to call center software. Make and receive calls Callbar will be the main way you make and receive customer calls while on-the-clock as an agent. You’ll be constantly moving between being on calls with customers, updating customer contact information and more. MORE
Why is your customer calling? Understand why customers are calling. Understanding what types of calls are coming allows management to create training and best practices for the most common scenarios. Being able to handle the most common calls better will help you improve the customer experience. Most contact centers sample 1% or less of their total call volume. Don’t rely on data from small sample sizes or calls to Miss Cleo. MORE
Data about the interaction is also automatically exchanged between the contact center and CRM systems, for example inserting call recordings and email and chat transcripts into the CRM record for future reference and reporting. Efficiency. It’s a buzzword that has been around a long time in the business world. We are constantly asked to do more and increase efficiency. MORE
Lately, there seems to be a lot of discussion about voice over IP (VoIP) call recording technologies. I have received many questions from customers, and participated in many conversations about the pros and cons of various VoIP call recording options and the advances in emerging technologies in this area. MORE
Tools include recording, quality management, call monitoring, coaching, e-learning, and full reporting services. Common is currently using Workforce Optimization Select to record incoming and outgoing calls and capture desktop screens for 80 agents, and has a total of five agents dedicated to the Quality Management program. The Workforce Optimization Select call recordings are crisp and reliable, and by adding in QA, we have the perfect combination of solutions. MORE
One of the most exciting projects that I am working on right now is the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) draft for the standardization of session recording interfaces. The main idea behind this work is to take the opportunity – while almost all major telephony vendors are working on session initiation protocol (SIP)-based recording interfaces for their new SIP-based voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony systems – to create an interoperable standard for call recording MORE
This process will maximize the control a customer has over the call data and minimize the risk of a PCI compliance failure. Before we go into the process in depth, it’s important to clarify what this custom storage will mean for your call recordings. The in-call experience will be the same, but after the custom storage has been set up, all your call recordings will be housed in your custom storage bucket rather than in Talkdesk. Call Storage. MORE
If you’ve experienced the following situations in your organization, incorporating: Your evaluators know the type and length of interaction they want to evaluate — but tediously listen to multiple call recordings to find the “right” one. Advantages of the Cloud Call Center Best Practices Customer Experience Workforce OptimizationHave you noticed all the hype around using analytics in quality management, but haven’t utilized it in your organization? MORE
Call handle times have been reduced, resulting in cost savings. Incorporating CXone’s call recording capability with its own systems has enabled MSI to not only record calls but also to append recordings to customer records and to mask sensitive policyholder financial information within calls—all critical compliance tools for the company. Advantages of the Cloud Call Recording Customer Experience NICE inContact CXone MORE
In your current sales process, what happens to your phone conversations after the call ends? You input notes, do after-call work, schedule a follow-up call, but the actual conversation is over. You can’t go back and replay important parts to log details or analyze the call for mood changes. What if all of your sales calls were automatically recorded and filed in your CRM so you could go back and relive that conversation any time you wanted? MORE
Ben Knieff of AITE Group shares his view on how Real-Time Authentication can help contact centers get the most from their call recordings MORE
Simple call recording in today’s small to medium contact center (SMCC) is regarded as a standard vanilla-flavored ice cream. The tricky part is that tasty chocolate topping: namely, the more advanced call recording solutions that can really advance the SMCC. It’s a no-brainer commodity solution supplied today by a number of vendors which, all in all, don’t differ that much from one another (the working ones, that is…). MORE
If any of these situations hit close to home, you should consider incorporating analytics into your quality program: Your evaluators know the type of interaction they want to evaluate – but like Goldilocks, they tediously listen to multiple call recordings before they find the “right” one. Your evaluators listen to a call recording, and then fill out a Word or Excel form to send to the agent with feedback. MORE
You might also be interested in these posts: 5 key trends that are impacting call recording in 2020. Date: Friday, October 2, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Key to profitability - how UK customer experience is changing over the long-term. MORE
Provide new sales opportunities through indirect feedback such as emails and call recordings. Delivering superior customer experiences is a top challenge facing many organizations today. Maybe the top. The abundance of communication channels includes phone, web, mobile apps, chat and social channels—which add varying complexities to meeting these CX challenges and truly understanding customer sentiment. MORE
Imagine how much you’d learn if you were a fly on the wall whenever customers talked about your product or service. customer service Customer Experience Customer Support MORE
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NICE inContact
MARCH 19, 2020
Contact centers have been using call recording for years, and consumers have come to accept and expect to hear the words “ this call is being recorded for quality and training purposes” when calling in. Call Center Compliance Call Recording Contact Center Trends & Insights Call Center Best Practices
Calabrio
JUNE 1, 2020
Call recording is one of the core requirements for contact centers. With voice still being the most critical and main channel used, being able to securely and reliably record calls no matter where the agent sits is a must—especially in today’s environment. Look for a recording solution that affords proactive maintenance and monitoring capabilities from a single, web-based administration tool.
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NICE inContact
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
Call recording software is a foundational component of contact center operations but often under valued and taken for granted. Similarly, recording software powers other contact center activities but it’s not until the contact center experiences a failure that most really stop to think about its critical implications. Why should you record? There are a plethora of reasons to record your calls and digital interactions. Call Analytics.
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Here is how call recording software can help protect your company against these issues. Call Recording Software for the Finance Industry. Call recording is a service that allows you to record incoming and outgoing business calls. You can store these calls for up to 6 years, in most cases, and review them in the future. This way, all calls related to your business phone system can be recorded, as predetermined by you.
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Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 Author: Trevor Davies, Head of Products, Enghouse Interactive 5 key trends that are impacting call recording in 2020. 19% of UK contact centres revealed that they were looking to update their call recording solutions.
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Talkdesk
DECEMBER 4, 2015
Call recording is a common call center practice. Call recording can be a valuable tool, but it must be used carefully. The burden is on the call center to make it a priority to be compliant with all relevant call recording laws, rules and regulations. This post is designed to provide a basic background on call center call recording and to point call center managers in the direction of resources.
Customer Interactions
MAY 30, 2016
Ben Knieff of AITE Group shares his view on how Real-Time Authentication can help contact centers get the most from their call recordings
UJET
JANUARY 31, 2019
Imagine how much you’d learn if you were a fly on the wall whenever customers talked about your product or service. customer service Customer Experience Customer Support
Customer Interactions
JULY 7, 2015
Lately, there seems to be a lot of discussion about voice over IP (VoIP) call recording technologies. I have received many questions from customers, and participated in many conversations about the pros and cons of various VoIP call recording options and the advances in emerging technologies in this area.
Customer Interactions
JULY 7, 2015
I decided to buy a new TV. Not that I really needed one, but my 32’’ set seemed awfully small next to my neighbor’s slick 50’’ panel. I had done my necessary online homework, went through the dazzling selection of brands, then narrowed it down through display sizes, high-definition (HD) technologies, resolution, contrast and a dozen other terms I’ve since forgotten. Of course, I researched price as well.
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NICE inContact
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
As call center agents move to fully functioning omnichannel contact center agents, the question of agent training comes into focus—particularly training contact center agents to multitask. Workforce Optimization Digital First Omnichannel Call Recording Call Center Best PracticesCan it be done? What is an agent’s capacity to multitask?
Customer Interactions
JULY 7, 2015
One of the most exciting projects that I am working on right now is the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) draft for the standardization of session recording interfaces. The main idea behind this work is to take the opportunity – while almost all major telephony vendors are working on session initiation protocol (SIP)-based recording interfaces for their new SIP-based voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony systems – to create an interoperable standard for call recording
NICE inContact
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
Everywhere you turn, the calls to move to cloud environments have become prevalent – regardless of system, workload or application, its no secret that cloud has redefined how our most critical systems are deployed and operated. Like other cloud systems, the architecture provides a more scalable environment allowing you to better support call distribution and IVR.
NICE inContact
JANUARY 30, 2019
Call handle times have been reduced, resulting in cost savings. Incorporating CXone’s call recording capability with its own systems has enabled MSI to not only record calls but also to append recordings to customer records and to mask sensitive policyholder financial information within calls—all critical compliance tools for the company. Advantages of the Cloud Call Recording Customer Experience NICE inContact CXone
NICE inContact
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Luckily, call center analytics software can help alleviate much of these compliance headaches. Many organizations still rely on compliance managers to manually review a sample of call center interactions each day to identify compliance issues and problems. Advantages of the Cloud Call Center Compliance Call Recording Contact Center Management Contact Center Trends & Insights
Cyara
APRIL 30, 2020
One of the big concerns with at-home agents is whether they have the right environment to effectively handle calls. voice contact center agent experience call recording IVR call center cx assurance voice quality custserv work from homeIn the face of COVID-19, many organizations have had to shut down their contact centers, and send agents to work from home. This has been accomplished on impossible time tables.
Customer Interactions
JULY 7, 2015
Simple call recording in today’s small to medium contact center (SMCC) is regarded as a standard vanilla-flavored ice cream. The tricky part is that tasty chocolate topping: namely, the more advanced call recording solutions that can really advance the SMCC. It’s a no-brainer commodity solution supplied today by a number of vendors which, all in all, don’t differ that much from one another (the working ones, that is…).
NICE inContact
MAY 10, 2016
Why is your customer calling? Understand why customers are calling. Understanding what types of calls are coming allows management to create training and best practices for the most common scenarios. Being able to handle the most common calls better will help you improve the customer experience. Most contact centers sample 1% or less of their total call volume. Don’t rely on data from small sample sizes or calls to Miss Cleo.
Cyara
APRIL 21, 2020
load testing automated testing IVR testing regression testing Test Cases contact center cx customer experience issues vulnerability call recording validation IVR call center cx monitoring cx metrics voice quality performance testing Sev1A little while back, Cyara’s Senior Strategic Accounts Director, Kelly Zunker, wrote a post on our blog about how much a SEV1 costs an organization.
Avaya
AUGUST 24, 2016
Tools include recording, quality management, call monitoring, coaching, e-learning, and full reporting services. Common is currently using Workforce Optimization Select to record incoming and outgoing calls and capture desktop screens for 80 agents, and has a total of five agents dedicated to the Quality Management program. The Workforce Optimization Select call recordings are crisp and reliable, and by adding in QA, we have the perfect combination of solutions.
Verint
MARCH 8, 2018
As the world grows more complex, compliance regulations have made recording more important than ever. However, recording today involves far more than capturing calls—we must also include IM, video, desktop screens, app/screen sharing, white boarding, file transfer, SMS and other types of electronic communication. Waiting until after information is recorded before taking action can be risky.
Helen Dewdney
JANUARY 24, 2016
Writing means you aren’t left on the ‘phone waiting to get through to people at call centres where a lot of other issues come into play too! Recording calls & the Law. I often hear people saying that they can record calls and that they will take this to an ADR scheme or Small Claims Court. The interception, recording and monitoring of telephone calls is governed by a number of different pieces of UK legislation.
Verint
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Contact center teams have been evaluating call recordings for quality for years now. This offers your contact center the flexibility to introduce automation at your own pace, while providing visibility into the large volume of calls that have been recorded but have previously gone unheard. In an age where we all seek to do more with less—and do it better—it seems there’s always an opportunity to use the latest enhancements in technology to help.
Verint
AUGUST 29, 2017
Provide new sales opportunities through indirect feedback such as emails and call recordings. Delivering superior customer experiences is a top challenge facing many organizations today. Maybe the top. The abundance of communication channels includes phone, web, mobile apps, chat and social channels—which add varying complexities to meeting these CX challenges and truly understanding customer sentiment.
Verint
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Current quality management best practices dictate the review for scoring of a small percentage of random calls for each agent, typically less than ten percent. Also, if a new agent is having problems in his or her job, it often takes months of reviewing random calls to accurately discover the root of the problem. In the meantime, the agent continues to struggle through each call. percent of our survey respondents currently own a call logging solution.
Verint
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Should all recorded calls be autoscored? Contact Centers Customer Satisfaction Customer Service Customer Experience customer engagement optimization employee engagement Call Centers Quality Management Data Quality automation customer engagement customer focus contact center call recording call center quality management softwareThe recent influx of news about advances in automation technology can create some employee anxiety—however, there’s good news.
Verint
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
You may know from personal experience that low-performing, partially effective contact center technologies and overwhelmed customer service employees are not a winning combination. Being mindful with your contact center IVR and WFO strategies can help you get better at the things you care about for your business.
UJET
MARCH 28, 2019
Supervisors track metrics like number of calls taken, number of issues resolved or average wait time, but they might not have the time to listen to every call recording to see where improvements are needed. Customer support agents help customers resolve issues with the extra goal of building brand loyalty.
Eptica
OCTOBER 16, 2020
5 key trends that are impacting call recording in 2020. Date: Friday, October 16, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Remote Working 2.0: Optimising Contact Centres. Published on: October 16, 2020.
NICE inContact
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
If any of these situations hit close to home, you should consider incorporating analytics into your quality program: Your evaluators know the type of interaction they want to evaluate – but like Goldilocks, they tediously listen to multiple call recordings before they find the “right” one. Your evaluators listen to a call recording, and then fill out a Word or Excel form to send to the agent with feedback.
NICE inContact
JULY 19, 2018
Data about the interaction is also automatically exchanged between the contact center and CRM systems, for example inserting call recordings and email and chat transcripts into the CRM record for future reference and reporting. Efficiency. It’s a buzzword that has been around a long time in the business world. We are constantly asked to do more and increase efficiency.
NICE inContact
APRIL 18, 2019
If you’ve experienced the following situations in your organization, incorporating: Your evaluators know the type and length of interaction they want to evaluate — but tediously listen to multiple call recordings to find the “right” one. Advantages of the Cloud Call Center Best Practices Customer Experience Workforce OptimizationHave you noticed all the hype around using analytics in quality management, but haven’t utilized it in your organization?
NICE inContact
APRIL 9, 2019
“This call may be used for quality or training purposes…” Have you ever wondered about that notification when you call a business? While it’s easy to disregard, it reveals a common business practice: Call Quality Monitoring – a practice contact centers use to review and evaluate the quality of their agents’ interactions with customers. While call monitoring may be performed live at times, it isn’t feasible when there are large volumes of calls.
Talkdesk
MAY 12, 2020
It’s where you’ll do everything from making and receiving customer calls, adding post-call notes, setting your availability and more. Thankfully, Callbar is incredibly easy to use, even if you’re brand new to call center software. Make and receive calls Callbar will be the main way you make and receive customer calls while on-the-clock as an agent. You’ll be constantly moving between being on calls with customers, updating customer contact information and more.
Eptica
OCTOBER 2, 2020
You might also be interested in these posts: 5 key trends that are impacting call recording in 2020. Date: Friday, October 2, 2020 Author: Pauline Ashenden - Demand Generation Manager Key to profitability - how UK customer experience is changing over the long-term.
Talkdesk
AUGUST 31, 2017
This process will maximize the control a customer has over the call data and minimize the risk of a PCI compliance failure. Before we go into the process in depth, it’s important to clarify what this custom storage will mean for your call recordings. The in-call experience will be the same, but after the custom storage has been set up, all your call recordings will be housed in your custom storage bucket rather than in Talkdesk. Call Storage.
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