South Africa sees boost in CCaaS uptake

Businesses are rapidly trying to reinvent the way they operate with many feeling the time to accelerate digital transformation has arrived almost overnight. By Shaun van Rooyen, strategic accounts and partnerships manager for Infobip Africa Increasing numbers are as a...

Cloud, AI, RPA move into call centres in 2020

As more businesses face the technical realities of digital transformation and advance towards 4IR, the customer experience is always front-of-mind – and it is little wonder the call centre has emerged as the frontline of technology-driven, fully automated service...

How to deal with rejection

The average sales agent goes through 180 ‘No’s’ before finally they get a ‘Yes’. It’s no secret that rejection is one of the hardest – if not the hardest – aspects of professional selling. Ronica Moodliar, one of the GMs...

Digital evolution key to contact centre success

For many contact centres today, the transition to digitised and highly automated systems and processes happen in a piecemeal fashion – with the underlying belief that certain business sectors and industries have varying requirements when it comes to digitisation...

Prepare your contact centre for an AI-driven future

There can be no doubt that every business and operational team has to get ready for a future in which artificial intelligence (AI) plays a key role. Already, certain aspects of AI such as machine learning are transforming the ways in which some business functions are...

Are contact centres soft targets for stealing personal data?

Hackers are becoming more brazen in the way they target organisations as they hunt for soft targets. Companies who see the value in outsourcing their customer experience to contact centres should be wary of the risks this brings, coupled with the adoption of new...