contact center

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…

March 6, 2019

COLLABORATION

Analysts’ Day: The Experts are Impressed with Cognitive Collaboration

Cisco’s Collaboration Vision Receives Third Party Validation It’s certainly a great feeling when industry analysts – those people charged with the responsibility of knowing the market and scrutinizing its players – come out on social media with positive assessments of a company and its products. Thi…

February 11, 2019

COLLABORATION

Customer Journey Solutions Release 12.0 has arrived

Contact centers play an essential role in shaping a company’s direction and have become a strategic imperative to driving customer loyalty, innovation and business growth. No other organization touches customers more closely.  The agent experience in particular has a direct correlation with how your…

February 5, 2019

COLLABORATION

Going Nowhere Fast?

Studies show that even under perfect driving conditions, speeding over short distances leads to marginal savings in getting to your destination. Add a few traffic lights, a couple of curves, a bit of traffic or weather, and the time-saving benefits taper down to little or none. So why cutoff, tailga…

December 13, 2018

DEVELOPER

Hybrid Chat for Cisco Journey Solutions

The Solution presented in this article is the winner of the Cisco & Google Cloud Challenge contest in 2018 – achieved with Bucher & Suter and Expertflow: Cisco Customer Care, now Cisco Customer Journey Solutions (CJS), is by definition the best architecture to ride and support the cur…