contact center

Do you have customers who come to your website, but are unable to find what they need? Do your contact center agents have to try to explain over the phone how to find something on the website? Or verbally walk customers through forms and processes? What if your agents could guide customers directly…

We’re all bombarded with opinions and predictions from so-called experts. But who do you trust? I believe it’s important to have a strong track record if you want people to take you seriously. Last year, I made five predictions about the Customer Care industry for 2016. You can read abou…

Today I’m pleased to announce general availability of Cisco’s next-generation software for contact centers operating in the age of digitization. This release establishes a platform offering a Connected Digital Experience. As a result, companies can deliver contextual, continuous, and cap…

Regardless of where you are in adopting collaboration technologies, we’re focused on delivering what works best for your needs. Since starting with VoIP, we’ve expanded our portfolio’s depth and breadth. We continue to lead in the enterprise voice space, with a worldwide market share of 39%, b…

We did it again! Gartner recently published its annual Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure, Worldwide report. And for the fifth year in a row, Cisco is positioned highest in “Ability to Execute.” Gartner bases Ability to Execute on several criteria, including the breadth, qu…

Fun at work? For me, it’s making stuff customers need. I admit that I have long been a skeptic of the “Fun at Work” movement. It’s not that I don’t like to have fun at work, but “the movement” seemed so shamelessly upbeat and forced. This fun was not natural for me. I was vigorously nodding my head…

Most of us use video in personal and enterprise interactions, but how is video doing in contact centers? We are seeing growth in video as a channel within customer care world, both based on recent reports and deployments by Cisco customers. I think that’s good news. Dimension Data’s 2016 global cont…

Last week’s Enterprise Connect event was an eye-opening experience from many perspectives. A tour of the exhibit area seemed like a real-time stroll through the history of contact center technology. Several traditional contact-center providers were present, but some former industry powerhouses were…

Enterprise Connect definitely got underway today in Orlando. The sessions grew more crowded throughout the day and the halls got busier. I heard a lot of talk about cloud, hybrid, UCaaS, and WebRTC just in passing conversations. (And I finally stopped looking for small dogs – the jingle of the badge…