Call Centers

EGUIDE: Overhauling legacy contact center technology is often costly and time-consuming, but it doesn't have to be. This expert e-guide offers advice on deciding when it's time to upgrade your contact center, making the business case for an overhaul, and important change management considerations.

Posted: 10 May 2013 | Published: 10 May 2013

EGUIDE: For service organizations looking to cut costs, the contact center is the go-to department, seeing as it often has high staffing counts within the company. Check out this expert e-guide to learn how you can effectively identify opportunities and decrease spending in your contact center, without sacrificing customer experience.

Posted: 10 May 2013 | Published: 10 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how cloud security may be the safer investment for businesses, including customer-oriented organizations and contact centers. Discover why moving applications to the cloud could better protect your data than if it were kept on-premise.

Posted: 07 May 2013 | Published: 07 May 2013

CASE STUDY: Providing your customers with accurate, timely, pertinent information is the cornerstone of success for any client-based business. Check out this brief case study to lean how Navy Federal Credit Union implemented a cross-servicing platform to monitor customer interactions and provide more relevant services and information to their clients.

Posted: 01 May 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

CASE STUDY: Read this brief case study to learn how NJ-2-1-1 implemented a cloud-based virtual contact center that successfully handled over 90,000 calls when 2012's Hurricane Sandy hit. Read on to discover the benefits they are enjoying from this system.

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 | Published: 26 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: Uncover the multiple next-generation unified communications solutions available that can help boost and increase productivity without resorting to the "rip and replace" model.

Posted: 04 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

VIDEO: Discover how you can enjoy all the benefits of a next-generation unified communications system, all while protecting your current TDM and IP-PBX telephony infrastructure.

Posted: 29 Mar 2013 | Premiered: 25 Jan 2013

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper unveils how Class of Service within Cisco's Unified Communication Manager can help you control which phone numbers can be called by particular devices. View now to learn how this simple, flexible solution can be effective in numerous situations.

Posted: 14 Feb 2013 | Published: 14 Feb 2013

EBOOK: You need to deliver a positive experience without sacrificing profitability—which requires balancing the needs of your customers with the realities of your business. Gain insight from a recent study to discover what today's consumers think about contact centers. In this eBook we will build on these insights and evaluate the results.

Posted: 11 Feb 2013 | Published: 11 Feb 2013

WHITE PAPER: Customers have more power than ever before in the buying process thanks to social media – experience can quickly be posted or tweeted, either boosting or slandering your brand reputation. Read this Forrester report to learn 6 features they recommend for future contact centers and a 4-step roadmap to better customer service.

Posted: 20 Dec 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: In 2010 when Ofcom, the United Kingdom's regulatory authority for communications industries, revised their regulations regarding outbound calling, businesses were outraged. Companies feared that the revisions would hinder their success. Read on to learn how complying with these changes can actually lead to improved performance and productivity.

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In order to remain competitive, you need exceptional, 24x7 customer service. Savvy companies are integrating contact center processes with workforce management practices in order to enhance their service strategies. Read this expert report to learn 9 key business processes and 6 technologies required for a successful initiative.

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 | Published: 30 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Failing to adopt a customer service strategy for mobile devices could put your business at a serious disadvantage. Gartner research suggests that 80% of companies will suffer revenue loss from the lack of customer support on mobile devices by 2013. Read this paper to learn how to utilize the opportunities mobility offers customer service.

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 | Published: 29 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: One of the biggest dangers in establishing best practices for your contact center is to do so in isolation from your self-service stakeholders. Instead, all customer "touch-points" must be viewed as part of a continuum. Customer touch points include Web Self-Service, Interactive Voice Response, Contact Center Agents, and Face-to-Face transactions.

Posted: 10 Oct 2012 | Published: 10 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: This e-book looks at how the call center in particular can help drive a proactive, rather than reactive, approach to business. Experts from the call center world share strategies and mindset shifts that must take place as customers demand more and more information about the products and services that they consume.

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores how cloud-based telephony can help increase call efficiency, improve manageability, and ensure that a sales opportunity is never missed.

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 | Published: 29 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores and explains why the contact center is a key strategic focal point for customer engagement via social channels.

Posted: 21 Sep 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: It's no secret that social media has changed consumer behaviors – but most companies are struggling to capitalize on the unique opportunities it has to offer. Review this resource to learn how incorporating social media into knowledge management, contact centers, and the Web can substantially enhance your customer's experience.  

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Is your current customer relationship management (CRM) software negatively impacting your selling potential? Many of the CRM software options today have lost focus on their primary users – sales professionals – and are actually decreasing sales activity. Read on to learn how a call-centric CRM strategy can alleviate this challenge.  

Posted: 23 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 Aug 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Discover how you can take advantage of the mobile revolution to deliver an improved and expanded service experience for your mobile device wielding users.

Posted: 15 Aug 2012 | Published: 15 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: Delivering an optimal web experience not only helps you engage with your customers, partners, and employees but also improves relationships and increases your competitive advantage. This resource explores why investing in web experience solutions can help you achieve this.

Posted: 09 Aug 2012 | Published: 30 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover how one organization replaced their legacy PBX-based telephone system with an IP telephony system which helped increase flexibility, mobility, and productivity.

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn about a purpose-built for IP platform that can help you fully integrate rich communications capabilities across your organization to increase connectivity and boost productivity.

Posted: 07 Aug 2012 | Published: 31 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: Good customer service involves leveraging policies, people, and technology to answer customer questions and solve problems with accuracy, speed, and consistency. Check out this paper for tips on how to relieve customer service pain points and get your agents able to answer calls with ease, and keep customers coming back time and time again.

Posted: 22 Jun 2012 | Published: 22 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Knowledge management can be a useful tool for improving the quality and efficiency of your contact center operations. This paper outlines a series of best practices to help you achieve maximum results from knowledge management within the contact center that will ultimately lead to better customer service, and higher revenues.

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 | Published: 21 Jun 2012