This week the Contact Center Solutions Community news was dominated by the nuts and bolts of the business with focus on deals, partnerships and indications that the market is robust around the world.
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Now to all those industry developments starting with customer implementations:
Partnerships, expansions and new offerings were also highlights starting with the announcement from community host Interactive Intelligence that it will be adding 250 new jobs at its home based in Indiana this year to accommodate contact center solutions business growthrecording and quality monitoring solutions are being widely deployed across the globe. And, KANA Software revealed that it is experiencing considerable traction for its customer service solutions as evident in its achieving yet another record year of growth and profitability in FY 2012. . In fact, growth fortunately seems to be the order of the day. Verint Systems noted its analytics-driven
On the new offers and partnerships front:
You may not be aware of this, but Cluj, Romania has become a very hot place for locating outsourced contact centers. In recognition of the importance of this area and its growth, Imprezzio Global, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Imprezzio Inc., which specializes in enterprise cloud-based applications, software as a service, mobile apps, and a variety of contact center associated activities, helped launch on March 20, the very first “Cluj IT Innovation Days” event.
And while not exactly a contact center capability, community members should take note of the fact that AT&T plans to launch its AT&T Digital Life remote access from anywhere service in new marketing in the U.S. with the hope of the service being available in up to 50 markets by the end of 2013. The reason this is important to contact center solutions people is that the growing use of remote access and other types of self-service is helping transform the nature and scope of inquiries contact center agent are taking, and a good self-service capability is critical for optimization of contact center resources.
Easter holiday recommendations
First, we at ContactCenterSolutions would like to wish you and your families a happy Easter and Passover holiday season (and Spring break for those of you in the U.S.). A few days off should give you some extra time to looking at. In fact, if you did not have the chance, I still am recommending the webinar, Key Contact Center Trends and Priorities for the Upcoming Year – How you can be ready. And, of course urge everyone to avail yourselves of all of the community’s white papers, demos, videos, etc. And, for more information about areas of interest, our affiliated channels — Accounts Receivable Management, Business Process Automation, CaaS, Cloud-based Contact Centers and Insurance Technology which are great places to visit as well.