Integrated multimedia disruption for the enterprise

The enterprise communications market is in need of an integrated multimedia solution that will provide business with an opportunity to build a client community through integrated interactive communication via multiple media touch points. “If your customers...

Analytics is critical, but data is being left out

The digitisation of business has spread the ‘customer experience’ (CX) right across organisations. Managing and understanding customers is no longer confined to frontline sales and contact centre staff, but requires constant attention from all employees in...

Only a few months left to meet 2017 targets

Ask any executive or marketing professional what salespeople need to sell in tough economic times, and they will say one thing: more leads. Moreover, with April holidays having thrown a spanner in the works, and winter looming in SA, businesses really only have seven...

Why CEM will make its mark on business

User experience, customer satisfaction and value-add: concepts that are banded about quite easily, but more often than not overlooked and neglected … until now. Today, we have customer experience management (CEM) and it is very much the next “big...

Mapping your customer journey transformation

Danny Drew, Avaya’s MD for South Africa, outlines the five things you shouldn’t miss when planning your customer journey. A customer journey map puts the user front and center in the organisation’s thinking. It shows changes in customer behavior and...

Your business’s worst enemy is a ringing phone

Everywhere, businesses are wrestling with how to offer an omnichannel experience to their customers. But in pursuing digital customer strategies, many companies often try to run before they learn to walk, letting important fundamentals fall by the wayside. “It...