Verint

AUGUST 24, 2017

The answers can drive business and workforce optimization at your organization—by incorporating advanced analytics as part of your customer engagement strategy. For example, if a customer consistently orders a gin and tonic on flights—that is useful to know when flight attendants interact with the passenger. Opportunity abounds.

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Verint

JUNE 6, 2017

As discussed in a recent blog post by Laurie Wickham, the 2017 Verint Engage Global Customer Conference took place recently in Orlando, Florida with attendees from 17 countries and a variety of industries.

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Verint

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Leading enterprises recognize that the effective adoption and implementation of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions within their customer engagement operations can be game-changing for the enterprise, potentially yielding higher revenue, lower operating costs and greater customer satisfaction.

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Vonage

MARCH 26, 2018

The estimated price tag of losing customers due to poor service has reached $1.6 according to Accenture’s Digital Disconnect in Customer Engagement report. Consider the ways a customer comes into contact your brand, and the emotions that may influence or result from each interaction. trillion in the U.S.,

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Blake Morgan

JANUARY 20, 2022

These 30 top blogs cover a wide variety of CX-related topics, from creating a customer-centric culture to refining the contact center or delivering personalized experiences. His blog, Customers That Stick, features interviews with top CX leaders and answers common customer-related questions. . Adrian Swinscoe .

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Verint

MARCH 22, 2017

However, millennials who work in a contact center may have an entirely different experience. Millennials, now the largest population segment, have grown up in this modern world and expect these technological conveniences in every aspect of their lives.

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Think Customers

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

For too many years, contact center measurements have been focused on efficiency instead of customer experience. Metrics such as average handle time (AHT), number of contacts handled, average wait time, and average speed of answer have all been heavily used and tracked.

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Verint

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

We have begun to see the boundaries of the contact center expanding as its functionality encroaches upon other departments within the enterprise, agents gain access to subject matter experts in other departments, and data silos have come together in the interest of improved customer service.

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Verint

JANUARY 8, 2018

Verint’s Ryan Hollenbeck, senior vice president, global marketing, recently spoke with Saddletree Research’s Paul Stockford for Contact Center Pipeline about the major trends in customer engagement for 2018. More than ever, the customer engagement center has become a focal point for automation and shared intelligence.

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Verint

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the contact center industry, the latest ripples of excitement are about artificial intelligence (AI) and the potential AI has to radically change customer service. While machine learning and AI continue to evolve, don’t overlook the multitude of great customer service solutions that are functional and deliverable today.

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Calabrio

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Calabrio developers work to continuously improve and expand our award-winning Calabrio ONE workforce engagement management (WEM) solution, which puts AI-driven insights at the fingertips of contact center users via a transformational design and embedded analytics. And that’s a big perk by itself.

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Verint

JANUARY 16, 2018

In today’s customer care environments, a strong quality management (QM) system is crucial to moving customer engagement interactions to the next level of performance excellence. For many years, companies have used QM software and techniques to optimize their customer service operations.

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Verint

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If yours is among the growing number of companies that have embraced customer engagement as a business strategy, you may be wondering, “Should we be doing something differently than before?”. The place to start is the customer journey. The bolded items comprise the core elements of a complete customer engagement suite.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Engaging customers is no different. It’s the year when your approach to customer engagement can begin a monumental shift—in both process and technology—thanks to expanding innovation and the first waves of touted success using it. However, some things—like traffic!—remain remain essentially the same.

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Verint

MAY 1, 2018

Today Verint announces a line-up of conferences and digital events taking place in May that focus on digital and omnichannel customer service, GDPR compliance, automation and artificial intelligence, as well as the upcoming Engage TM global customer conference. Verint Engage Global Customer Conference.

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Verint

OCTOBER 13, 2017

As fraudsters become more and more sophisticated, contact centers need to equip themselves with every advantage to outsmart them. At the same time, they have to protect the customer experience so that legitimate callers do not have to endure an authentication maze just to get something done. Sound too good to be true?

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Verint

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In my previous blog post , I discussed the rise to prominence of employee engagement in today’s contact center industry. As a reminder, 82 percent of participants in Saddletree Research’s recent survey of end-users ranked employee engagement as a highly important component of their contact center operational strategy.

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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.

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Verint

APRIL 23, 2018

The annual Verint Engage global customer conference will convene on Monday, May 14 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel. The $695 conference rate has been extended through April 27, so register today to secure your spot—and to sign up for a free subscription to Contact Center Pipeline ! It’s less than a month away!

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ShepHyken

JULY 12, 2021

(Sharpen) Microsoft says 90% of Americans use good customer service as a factor when deciding whether to do business with a company. Why would customers stay loyal to brands that are slow or can’t offer help? My Comment: When it comes to customer support and contact centers, the people at Sharpen CX are pretty sharp.

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Verint

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Contact center leaders and managers understand time and resource challenges all too well. Add an ever-increasing need for a great customer experience to the mix, and it’s clear that every advantage is needed to stay competitive.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A good customer support experience drives loyalty. (We A cause or social issue contributes to the customer experience, especially with Gen Z. Proactive customer engagement from the contact center will turn reactive customer support agents into brand ambassadors. Customer Experience by Tyler Gallagher.

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Verint

AUGUST 3, 2017

Ventana Research is seeking customer analytics professionals to participate in a benchmark research survey designed to uncover organizations’ current and planned use of analytics on all things customer related—marketing, sales, service, contact center and customer engagement.

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Verint

JANUARY 19, 2018

Have you or someone within your organization used software from Verint to optimize customer engagement? Has this person helped increase customer satisfaction, build customer loyalty, drive revenue, improve operational efficiencies, and/or heighten employee morale? Interested in speaking at Engage? Sound good?

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Think Customers

APRIL 14, 2015

Whether it''s the ability to see the full stream of transactions a customer has made with a company, the most recent channels they used to interact with the organization, or the feedback they''ve shared about their experiences in social media or with the contact center, there''s often one or more pieces that are missing from the customer picture.

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Verint

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Attendees will learn why it’s critical not to gamble with customer relationships and how to measure return on interaction by effectively listening to the voice of customers. Consero Contact Center Forum. October 22–24; Coral Gables, Florida. destination CRM.com Webinar. October 25; Webinar.

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Verint

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

This is particularly true of those B2C businesses which are continuously faced with the challenge of engaging with their customers at the right time, across multiple channels—all wrapped in the data-driven context of that customer’s relationship with the business. The contact center is no exception to this rule.

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Verint

JANUARY 17, 2018

Ongoing innovation in artificial intelligence technologies—such as machine learning, robotics and natural language processing—positions companies for accelerated growth by helping them modernize their customer engagement operations through greater automation.

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Verint

DECEMBER 5, 2017

As Ken Landoline, principal analyst at OVUM, stated in his blog, Back-Office Integration Coming to the Forefront in Customer Engagement , a number of trends are making it easier to link these two functions, including: In-sourcing previously outsourced contact center functions. The increase in channel digitization.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Contact Center Satisfaction Negatively Impacting the Customer Experience by Andrew Berger. Telecompetitor) Contact center satisfaction has worsened over the last two years despite investments in new customer engagement channels, according to new market research released by BoldChat.

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Integrity Solutions

JUNE 23, 2022

.” Find out what your customers are saying. Hold brainstorming sessions to find out potential solutions to their new needs and allow your staff to feel engaged and involved. Keep the focus of conversations on customer needs. Reinforce (or establish) the connection between customer service and sales.

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Customer Guru

AUGUST 8, 2018

He is the author of the book “@YourService” and helps businesses transform their customer experience in a digitally transforming world. Greg Ortbach is Engagement Catalyst at Arcane, where he helps businesses engage with their clients and teams better. Greg Ortbach Follow @GregOrtbach. Jackie Huba Follow @jackiehuba.

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Verint

JANUARY 31, 2018

In my last post on automation and AI , I discussed how conversational AI-powered intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs) are generating a large amount of interest in the customer engagement industry. As a rule of thumb, for every contact center agent at an organization, there are typically three associates who handle back-office work.

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Eptica

APRIL 5, 2016

15% of FTSE 100 companies did have someone on the board with a specific customer-focused remit as part of their role, but not as a CCO. Organizations therefore need explore how a CCO could help them win and retain customers, and boost revenues going forward. Share this page on: Tweet.

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Verint

APRIL 24, 2018

Bring your dance shoes and be ready to be a part of the excitement that the customer appreciation event brings. The Verint Global Customer Conference is three days of learning, networking and feeling inspired. Remember, your customer engagement transformation journey starts in Dallas. See you in the Big D! Click here.

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Verint

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Paul Stockford, Chief Analyst, Saddletree Research, mentioned in a recent blog post that “the contact center industry will be all about automation” in 2018. Verint’s Customer Advisory Board (CAB) met earlier this month and the agenda included a session on automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.

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ShepHyken

APRIL 25, 2022

CustomerThink) Customer loyalty best practices constantly evolve. So even if your program previously achieved great results, failing to update it frequently to keep customers engaged may mean you lose money, opportunities, or both. Go to The Customer Focus to learn more about our customer service training programs.

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