Blended diallers drive efficiencies

Contact centres, especially outsourced ones that provide services to a multitude of customers, face the challenge of balancing resources and technology between the two main types of service – inbound and outbound, says Marco van Biljoen, executive head: Gauteng and...

Machines as contact centre agents

Artificial Intelligence is not yet a reality. But very smart computers are. They’re poised to take over all sorts of routine, repetitive tasks. After all, a robot doesn’t make mistakes, it can’t get tired and slack off, it won’t lack motivation, and it doesn’t hurt...

2015 is the year of customer obsession

Becoming customer-obsessed is one of the top five trends that will impact the contact centre industry this year, according to one of the experts at the Interactive Intelligence panel discussion. To be truly competitive today, companies have to become “customer obsessed”, contact centre experts say. Enhancing customer experience is one of the top five trends in the contact centre industry this year, and new strategies and technologies must be harnessed to ensure that customer expectations are met and exceeded.

Avaya upgrades RCOM’s call centre

Reliance Communications (RCOM), India’s fully-integrated telecommunications service provider, today entered into a multi-year, multi-million dollar mega-agreement with Avaya to transform its call centre operations. With more than 110-million customers, Reliance...

F&S recognise Interactive Intelligence

Based on its ongoing analysis of the contact centre systems market, Frost & Sullivan recognises Interactive Intelligence Group with the 2014 EMEA Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award. Interactive Intelligence’s end- to-end suite of scalable, rich,...