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Increasingly, the contact center is used to deliver holistic customer experience throughout a lifetime of customers’ journeys. This makes sense since many of the activities designed to acquire and retain customers and to deliver and support products and services all utilize the contact center in some fashion. But what do you do if your outdated call center…

At first glance, the term “virtual call center agent” sounds like a Siri-like creature who exists in the ether, saving the day for troubled customers. Is it a bot? AI? No, a virtual call center agent is a regular human being. “Virtual” modifies the call center, so the call center is virtual but the agent is very…

I’ve been dealing with contact center fraud for the better part of my career, as a product manager and as a marketing professional. One thing that can’t be disputed is that fraud is on the rise. Stories of major data breaches now regularly make international news and something as significant as 100 million records being stolen doesn’t seem to surprise anyone.

I could take you through a litany of common contact center terms and definitions … but why? There are plenty of places you can go to find that information. In fact, I’ve included a link to an unbiased market source at the end of this blog. There are, however, some terms you should know today, that might not be…

​I dream with my eyes open… so do my fellow executives here at NiCE. It’s the only way I can explain our ability to constantly innovate and repeatedly stay ahead of the curve with our customer service solutions. We saw that the future is cloud back in 2017 when we were the first to launch CXone, the world’s no. 1 cloud customer experience platform. We visualized what a huge impact automation would have on customer experience and employee productivity when we unveiled NEVA, the world’s first employee virtual assistant. But I’m not writing this blog post to highlight our achievements but rather demonstrate our culture of innovation which is how I believe we should live, work and dream. So, let’s fast forward to what the future of customer service will look like in 2019 and beyond.

As Americans continue to re-think the whole question of owning versus renting their homes, the percentages of those who are choosing to rent is surging—across all regions and demographic groups. For Millennial Specialty Insurance (MSI), this definitely a case of being in the right place at the right time. Working with agent-partners rather than direct-to-consumer, MSI focuses on…

I’ve ditched a company due to bad customer service before… have you? If so, you and I reflect the 8 in 10 consumers that are willing to switch companies due to poor customer service. We, like most consumers, have come to expect high quality interactions at each company touchpoint. That’s why it’s critical that contact centers have solid quality programs bolstered by a…