This week’s Contact Center Solutions Community had a decidedly international flavor to it. In fact, the news literally spanned the globe, including developments from outsourcing to some interesting findings about the level of preparedness in Germany for contact centers to deal with the multichannel environment.
News from around the world:
On the new products and services front there were two announcements from Intradiem. The company revealed enhancements to its Intraday Task Management Platform that optimizes agent idle timeworkforce optimization platform. . It announced it will integrate with Aspect Software's
In other product and service developments:
This week also saw a number of items which contained lots of really sound advice. The first was ContactCenterSolutions Contributing Editor Susan Campbell look at the Top 5 ways to meet the needs of today's contact center customers which included multichannel interactions with consistent experience; cross-channel integration; Intelligent IVR; Obvious interaction options; and Seamless agent transfer.
She also gave some insight into the agent experience and its impact on customer satisfaction. And Kevin R. Kammer and Steven Parker – vice president and general manager, and director of Information Security for Arise Virtual Solutions, Inc. – both had a really good posting regarding security relating to remote call center workers.
Weekend review recommendations
For your weekend review, I recommend the webinar, Key Contact Center Trends and Priorities for the Upcoming Year – How you can be ready. And, don’t forget to check out the community’s white papers, demos, videos, etc. In addition, for more information about areas of your interest, our affiliated channels — Accounts Receivable Management, Business Process Automation, CaaS, Cloud-based Contact Centers and Insurance Technology, are great places to investigate.