FCR Solutions Spotlight – Contact Center Tech to Watch from Q2

It’s been an interesting quarter in the contact center technology space. Before jumping into some of the cool tools I’ve seen recently, let’s first run through four updates from technologies I’ve mentioned in the past.

• Zendesk just announced their new omnichannel platform. I’m particularly excited about their Guide and Explore products.
• Salesforce announced that Desk.com is going away in March 2020 and they’re moving customers to Service Cloud Lightning.
• Nanorep, a platform that we’ve mentioned for AI-driven self-help was acquired by LogMeIn.
• Wise.io, a machine learning tool to help agents with macro selection was acquired by GE and then spun out AnswerIQ to continue their work with contact centers.

Now, here are four technologies I’ve seen in the past few months that are worth your attention.

This is a customer engagement platform that gives us a fresh look at omnichannel customer service. Where in traditional platforms customer interactions might live in their own individual tickets on various support channels, Kustomer puts the interaction into a timeline regardless of the channel. Information about orders, shipping, etc can also be displayed in the same timeline, making it a snap for agents to have complete context about customers without having to open a bunch of windows.

The ability to see a customer’s screen is an incredibly powerful tool for support agents. Median has developed their CoBrowse tool that integrates with chat platforms like LiveChat, Olark, Intercom, Zendesk Chat, Kustomer, and several others. Not only can you see the customer’s screen but you can see where they are on the screen and highlight key information for them.

Great customer service is often fueled by the ability of support agents to follow processes accurately and consistently. To better facilitate this, BrightReps has developed an app called Sidekick that can be used with Salesforce, Zendesk, or as a Chrome plugin to create workflows for agents to follow while supporting customers. They also have integrations with EasyPower, ShipStation, Shopify, and others to be able to quickly see the order status information that customers frequently contact support about. One of my favorite features of BrightReps is the heat map functionality in each process flow that gives understanding of where agents are spending the most time in each process.

We’ve discussed other self-help tools in the past that put knowledge in the right places for customers to be able to self-solve their issues and AnswerDash has a great approach to this. Knowledge base content can be added to any web page so customers don’t have to hunt for it. With robust searchability, customers quickly locate the information they’re looking for and can indicate whether or not the content solved their problem. Furthermore, AnswerDash integrates with Zendesk, Salesforce, and others which means there’s no need to migrate knowledge from another platform.

That’s four updates and four cool technologies. Check these out for yourself, let me know if you have any questions, and certainly send me a note if you have any other must see tools for me to check out.

Source: http://www.gofcr.com/contact-center-tech-to-watch-from-quarter-2/

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OpsTel Services SPEED The SPEED solution solves for service level issues while cost optimizing the environment with automation. Provides an enhanced way to speed up & optimize invoking temporary agent skills configuration changes into the contact center environment. Speed allows you to schedule both future changes & temporary changes that auto-revert back to the original state when scheduled time expires. Speed features: *Automated / Scheduled Temporary Agent Skills Configuration Management *Immediate Temporary or Reoccurring Schedule Skills Configuration Changes *Easy to Use/Operations Administration Focused *Descriptive Monitoring Activity Dashboard *Detailed “End to End’ Audit Trail and Performance Monitoring

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PEC Telecom Virtual Phone Numbers (DID) and Business VoIP Phone Service Whether a customer is running a Call Center business, an IVR system to take phone orders or a voice mail service bureau, he still needs inbound lines and access numbers (DIDs). These lines and DIDs give customers the ability to call in and use the service. Traditionally, these lines and DIDs were obtained through the local telephone company (i.e. Verizon, AT&T or Time Warner) and a company could only purchase numbers with area codes in the region the system resided. With VoIP, this has changed. DID Live is an IP DID service that allows you to accept incoming calls via VoIP as an alternative to standard digital or analog lines. The service provides the same quality of sound you expect from... (read more)Whether a customer is running a Call Center business, an IVR system to take phone orders or a voice mail service bureau, he still needs inbound lines and access numbers (DIDs). These lines and DIDs give customers the ability to call in and use the service. Traditionally, these lines and DIDs were obtained through the local telephone company (i.e. Verizon, AT&T or Time Warner) and a company could only purchase numbers with area codes in the region the system resided. With VoIP, this has changed. DID Live is an IP DID service that allows you to accept incoming calls via VoIP as an alternative to standard digital or analog lines. The service provides the same quality of sound you expect from standard lines at a fraction of the price. In addition, it allows you to purchase DIDs all over the United States. A company in California can purchase access numbers in New York or Texas for the same price as access numbers in its local area. This feature gives the company the opportunity to provide local access numbers to its customers around the United States at a fraction of the cost of traditional phone lines and access numbers. Local phone companies often take weeks or months to install phone lines at a company's location; and in many cases they are unable to install more than a few lines do to physical limitations. The DID Live Virtual Number service only requires a company to have an Internet connection, therefore eliminating the limitations posed by local telephone lines. If the company has a solid Internet Connection, the DID Live service can be up and running within hours.

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Teckinfo Solutions Pvt. Ltd. IVR Edge IVR Edge is a high performance, robust and scalable ivr system that works on various leading hardware such as Dialogic, Keygoe and Synway etc. It can handle the simplest of simple to the most complex of requirements to when it come to creating an IVR. Integration with any 3rd party database, be it for banking, telecom, insurance, travel, payment gateway etc can be handled with ease. Ideally suited to create Hosted IVR and virtual patching solutions with scalabilities that can range from 4 to 128 E1’s per setup with voice recording and CDR functionality. Integration with leading text to speech (TTS) and speech recognition ASR engines add to the flexibility and functionality.

 

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