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Contact Centre stories - Page 29

Once known as ‘Call Centres’, the modern Contact Centre incorporates traditional telephony along with web chat, text messaging, remote access services, and video conferencing to manage customer interactions. Contact Centres are most associated with the provision of support, assistance or guidance on products or services offered by companies serving large numbers of customers. Some are ‘outbound’ – that is, they reach out to customers for sales or other purposes, others are ‘inbound’ and receive incoming contacts from people looking for help. Many combine both inbound and outbound functions. Contact centres are often large facilities with tens or hundreds of workers – but they can also be virtual, with people working ‘in’ the contact centre from home.
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Adobe and Microsoft expand cloud productivity partnership

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Adobe Sign is now Microsoft's preferred e-signature solution; Microsoft Teams now preferred chat-based workspace across Adobe Cloud Services.
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Learn how to learn, find global opportunities - Xero CEO

Mon, 28th Aug 2017
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Xero CEO Rod Drury inspires Hawke's Bay youths with tales of tech hub potential and the power of continuous learning.
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Gartner hype cycle outlines the technologies for workforce digital dexterity

Mon, 21st Aug 2017
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Augmented data discovery, personal analytics, conversational UI and virtual assistants - welcome to the digital workplace of the - near - future.
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Tech connects Skype users with non-Skype users - earns Microsoft certification

Thu, 3rd Aug 2017
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Pexip Infinity Fusion allows Skype for Business meetings and calls to be joined by non-Skype users using video teleconferencing.
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Surging demand among businesses for more interactive enterprise messaging

Tue, 25th Jul 2017
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Ovum's survey explored the rapidly-evolving business-to-consumer communications market with some interesting findings.
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Seven pieces of the IOT puzzle from Microsoft

Fri, 14th Jul 2017
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Microsoft unveils an expansive IOT toolkit, poised to revolutionise business, healthcare, and government operations.
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Going rogue: The challenges of AI in customer service

Tue, 27th Jun 2017
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AI technologies are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and can add immense value to organisations — but they are by no means foolproof.
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Sennheiser: 'Why your unified communications solution needs us'

Thu, 15th Jun 2017
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So you deployed your world class, award winning, enterprise transforming, non-covfefe unified communication solution….but something's not quite right.
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Pegasystems announces AWS integration in customer service solution

Thu, 8th Jun 2017
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Pega clients can now embed the Amazon Connect experience directly into Pega Customer Service to provide agents with full customer context.
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Trustwave exposes backdoor in DblTek devices; vendor issues poor patch & goes silent

Mon, 6th Mar 2017
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DblTek left vulnerabilities in its IoT devices, tried to hide the vulnerability, issued shoddy patches and cut off all contact with Trustwave.
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The biggest tech & digital trends we're getting excited about this year

Mon, 20th Feb 2017
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We're at a huge moment in time for the digital and technology world. With new ideas testing the boundaries, we're entering an exciting new phase.
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IBM Watson has a new job: Cognitive cybersecurity expert

Wed, 15th Feb 2017
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Watson has spent the past year training in cybersecurity language from more than one million security documents, and is now being integrated into SOC.
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The chatbot comeback – is your business ready?

Thu, 19th Jan 2017
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Despite being born in 2011, it has only been in the last couple of years that businesses have begun to realise how valuable chatbots could be.
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Why becoming part of the 'Republic of Digital' will increase your profitability

Mon, 16th Jan 2017
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The global impact of digital transformation is estimated at $20 trillion, creating the 'Republic of Digital' valued at $6.6 trillion.
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Your brand needs something else before it has a digital transformation

Mon, 14th Nov 2016
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Customer experience management helps your brand to understand the digital and real-world touchpoints your customer values.
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Microsoft Teams - a workspace for those who 'don't do email'

Mon, 7th Nov 2016
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Transforming the way that work gets done means shifting from legacy industrial norms to modern digital processes and workflows.
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Snapchat and Skype not up to scratch with user privacy

Tue, 25th Oct 2016
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Snapchat and Skype amongst apps not protecting user privacy, according to Amnesty International. Only 3 of 11 tech firms provide end-to-end encryption.
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Are chatbots just a fad? One app developer shares his thoughts

Mon, 10th Oct 2016
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Based on a computer program that mimics conversations with people using artificial intelligence, chatbots can transform the way people interact.
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Ignite 2016: Move your business communication to Skype

Thu, 29th Sep 2016
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Over the past year we've been working on making the best experience for communicating with others, across all the devices you use for work.
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The incredible system that every IT department needs

Sat, 24th Sep 2016
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Discover Netscout, the hidden gem revolutionising IT monitoring with InfiniStream, the 'big data device' essential for any tech department.