Today’s call centers offer businesses a wealth of valuable features to help answer customers’ calls faster and provide efficient customer service. They route incoming callers to the right person ...

The shift from traditional, on-premise phone-system call centers to cloud-based call centers provides greater flexibility, scalability and cost efficiency. Coud-based call center solutions are quickly ...

With IP telephony just starting to gain a foothold in many organizations, it’s not surprising that research firm McGee-Smith Analytics in Pittstown, N.J., estimates that just 1% of the 80,000 call ...

Why outsource customer service, tech support and outbound telemarketing to a call center when you don’t have to? Bring it all in-house instead. You can invest in user-friendly, state-of-the-art call ...

Making sure your call center monitoring solution is working properly is an ongoing challenge. Whether it's legal, healthcare, or financial services, large organizations need recordings to satisfy ...

The call center software industry could be getting a $2 billion boost. Thoma Bravo, a US-based private equity firm, is close to finalizing a deal to acquire call center software provider Verint ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. Working in a call center is no walk in the park. Agents deal with a constant influx of calls, ...

Artificial intelligence products with lifelike voices are being marketed to schedule or cancel medical visits, refill prescriptions, and help triage patients. Soon, many patients might initiate ...

Armen Kirakosian remembers the frustrations of his first job as a call center agent nearly 10 years ago: the aggravated customers, the constant searching through menus for information and the notes he ...