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Expert Planet - Why and How We Use Virtual Agents

Expert Planet designs, develops and measures targeted sales and marketing campaigns for some of the largest organizations on the planet. Using a unique community of topical experts—talented agents with sales skills and specialized knowledge relevant to client programs—this outsourced contact center service provider is able to quickly deploy, test, measure, and optimize client programs, without operating a physical contact center.In four years, the...

Debunking 5 Myths of Hosted Contact Centers

No Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) discussion is complete these days until someone touts the multiple benefits of moving applications to the cloud. It’s hard to ignore the promise of CAPEX and OPEX savings, especially when many businesses are still recovering from the economic crisis and searching for ways to provide additional value to their customers. But not all SaaS offerings are created equal. Some applications are a better fit for the cloud than...

The main topics of interest at the IQPC Call Center Week Las Vegas were ‘cloud’ and ‘multi-channel’.  Attendees were also concerned with the use of social media.

How customers connect to companies is evolving.  Customers want to connect on their own terms with the channel that suites them best.  Vendors are attempting to respond to the customer’s needs with a variety of new solutions.  Below is a recap of exciting technologies and solutions that were at the event.

360'CRM   is a full spectrum CRM...

The following are some more information on the vendors who attended the IQPC event.  

Analytics

For companies frustrated with isolated or disparate data sources, 360'CRM's latest advances in its InSight data analytics tool provides new levels of actionable information for the Call Center or Channel Management practitioner.  InSight not only automatically draws call center performance data in to a common, universally comparable dashboard and report analytics library, it also integrates internal...

The staff of CRMXchange was present at the IQPC Las Vegas Call Center Week. IQPC did a commendable job with the content and speakers in the event. The exhibit hours were long, running close to 11 hours on day one, but the vendors were pleased with the amount of interest that people showed in their products and services. 

We traveled the exhibit hall. Below are some vendor highlights.

Analytics

Contact Solutions – The Continuous Improvement Practice (CI) is based on a unique methodology and supported...

Cloud computing is a hot topic in the IT world, and as with many hot topics there’s a great deal of marketing hype associated with it. Hype frequently keeps close company with its friends misunderstanding, unrealistic expectation, uncertainty and very often disillusionment. That’s not to say there aren’t real, and significant, benefits to an IT organization by embracing cloud computing concepts.

The key to success, as with many potentially over-hyped technologies, is being able to separate the...

In a recent Blog, we reviewed a report from Ovum that analyzed the growth of the hosted contact center market and ranked its leading vendors.

Today, we’ll look at a new white paper from Contactual, a global leader in hosted contact center technology, which concludes that rapid technological changes make on-premises contact centers obsolete soon after they are installed, and suggests how enterprises can eliminate capital expenditures, increase customer satisfaction and stay on the forefront of...

Companies invest time, money and effort to build brands and implement quality standards with one goal in mind: to enhance the customer experience and t drive customer acquisition and retention. But when you hire a partner, you give up a measure of control over your brand and service.

In an ideal world, your partner’s performance goals and strategies would be perfectly aligned with your own.  The reality, however, is that your partners have their own financial goals and operational challenges....

More executives are looking at hosted call center solutions. Hosting is a delivery model that allows you to secure needed contact center applications now – not “when the economy turns around,” or “when budgets free up.” Hosting goes by a lot of names. “Application service provider ASP is one. “Software as a Service (SaaS)” and “cloud computing” are currently in vogue. Another trendy term along is “on-demand” services.

The basic idea is that you secure applications you need by paying a...