Boost Your IT Efficiency Today with Intelligent Automation

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Today’s modern contact centres handle millions of calls a day across thousands of agents around the globe. To connect, route and record all of these calls, IT personnel must manage a complex web of applications across multiple vendors throughout the communications infrastructure.

Cloud-based software and Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) introduces even more points of failure and complexity. With so many moving parts, it can be hard to even discover when there’s an issue. … Read More

Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Increase Capacity & Employee Job Satisfaction

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In a previous blog post, What Is RPA? I discussed the three types of robotic process automation: unattended, attended and hybrid automation. Hybrid automation is the newest iteration of RPA–and as such there’s some confusion on how it actually works.

So let me paint a picture for you.

Jane is a loan officer. She comes into work, grabs a cup of coffee, sits down and opens up her queue of work for the … Read More

Contact centres 2030: The shape of automation to come

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The evidence is now unmistakable. Customers are more and more ready to interact with service providers not just by going online, but using other methods too. About one in eight consumers worldwide currently deal with banks and travel companies through web self-service or mobile apps–and the same proportion actually prefer to sign up with or buy from a provider by using Web self-service. 

A 2018 survey by Opinium LLP and Verint reveals that, among 18-34 … Read More

IVA is the future of voice self-service

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Intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs) are systems that use artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and natural language understanding (NLU) to automate the handling of customers’ and employees’ requests and tasks that can be addressed and resolved without requiring the cognitive capabilities of human beings. For customers and, increasingly, employees, IVAs can automate routine tasks and can process and personalise the handling of interactions in most self-service channels. 

Revolutionising IVRs 

After more … Read More

Customer communities and the self service revolution

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Many important aspects of the global contact center industry are slowly but surely changing. While some of these changes are proving to be quite subtle, others will essentially revolutionize what we accept today as an efficient and memorable customer experience. One of the solutions leading the industry revolution in the field of customer self-service is the customer community. 

The customer on-line community is not a new concept, but it is evolving to take on a … Read More

What Is Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Unattended, Attended and Hybrid?

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Essentially, RPA is the use of software robots that can be programmed or trained to execute repetitive, rules-based tasks currently performed by employees.

Examples include data entry, data capture and categorisation, copying and pasting, and many of the steps in such processes as billing and accounts payable, claims or loan processing, or order fulfillment. 

But wait! RPA is not a one-size-fits-all solution. In fact, currently there are three forms of RPA: Unattended, attended and a … Read More

Verint goes from strength to strength in the APAC region

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It’s clear that Verint’s enhanced functionality and omnichannel capabilities are like that of no other vendors in the region.

We understand the contact centre environment intimately, and we appreciate the evolving landscape means new customer channels, such as social and mobile contact, require extra attention to be truly effective.

Our automation capabilities of routine customer interactions through bots, Virtual Assistants and Robotic Process Automation are just some of the areas of digital transformation that customers continue to seek … Read More

Verint once again confirmed as the number one APAC contact centre application vendor

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Following on from a press release issued today, we’re delighted to let you know that Verint continues to lead the way in customer engagement technology across the region, according to a study recently published by the esteemed analyst group Frost & Sullivan®.

The study shows that we have once again increased our APAC leadership over 40 other market players to take the number one position in the combined technology categories that make up the … Read More

It’s CX Day—and we celebrate the great differentiator

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This week we celebrate National Customer Service Week—and today we celebrate CX Day. We are so grateful for our employees on the front lines in Customer Service—they take a relatively challenging job and deliver business-changing results. Every day. We could not run our business without them.

However, there’s more to the story. It’s the reason those employees work so hard each day. You may have heard us say this before, but it’s still true—in fact, … Read More

Celebrating the employees on the front lines of our business

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This week we celebrate Customer Service Week–an annual week-long event that spotlights the people who do an increasingly complex job that presents new, unpredictable challenges every day. It’s a mission-critical function that greatly impacts the overall customer experience. Even with all the automation technology such as artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms and robots, our people continue to make the difference when it comes to service.

Have you considered that great customer service is the foundation of … Read More