contact center platform

June 13, 2019

COLLABORATION

Introducing Plug and Play Business Application Connectors for Webex Contact Center

The contact center is one of the most interconnected applications in the enterprise, with dozens of integrations to multiple systems. A survey by the Aberdeen Group indicates that 60% of contact centers are using 7 or more systems to interact with customers. When these applications aren’t integrated…

June 11, 2019

COLLABORATION

Bringing Reality to the Cognitive Contact Center

Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Analytics, and Collaboration Create Cognitive Experiences in the Contact Center Every interaction between your contact center agents and your customers is a reflection of your brand – positive, negative, or neutral. According to a study by PwC, in the U.S. one bad expe…

May 23, 2019

COLLABORATION

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Contact Centers

AI is shaping the future of customer experiences and the contact center. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating a lot of excitement and there are good reasons for this. According to Forbes, 50% of IT professionals believe artificial intelligence and machine learning are playing a role in cloud com…

April 24, 2019

COLLABORATION

If We Could Save Time In a Bottle, Would We? Time Distortion and the Contact Center

Jim Croce’s posthumous #1 hit “Time In a Bottle” was noteworthy for two reasons – one, it had a waltz tempo, and two, only three instruments were used to produce the song. More importantly – Croce had it right when he penned “but there never seems to be enough to do the things that we want to do, on…

April 10, 2019

COLLABORATION

Cisco Contact Center in action at Google Cloud Next Conference

How Cisco is using AI to enhance customer experiences My team and I are excited to be participating at Google’s Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this week where we are announcing enhancements to some of the solutions we are building with Google for our joint customers. At the conference, we wi…

March 7, 2019

COLLABORATION

Shaping the Future of Contact Centers and Customer Experiences

Five Factors Shaping the Contact Center and Customer Experience in the Next Five Years In the words of author and entrepreneur Seth Godin, “It’s easier to love a brand when the brand loves you back.” So how do you love your customer back? Companies that put their customers at the center of everythin…