NICE inContact

OCTOBER 17, 2018

billion in annual sales (2016). But the Houston-based company was losing sleep over its two contact centers. With average handle time (AHT) down by 21%, adherence up by 31% and QA scores up from around 50% to 70%, the positive impact on customer satisfaction is unmistakable.

Average Handle Time 121

Average Handle Time Contact Center Omni-Channel Retail 121

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Customer care QA processes are moving from limited sampling to real-time, holistic analysis thanks to emerging conversation intelligence technologies that impact every corner of the contact center for the better. The rate at which contact center technology has evolved accelerated during the pandemic years.

Contact Center 177

Contact Center Industry Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 177

Calabrio

MARCH 5, 2025

Thanks to advances in AI, the latest customer experience analytics tools are enabling businesses to analyze seemingly countless interactions in real time and driving a new level of precision for service, sales, marketing, product management, and beyond. Boosts in sales performance.

Analytics 130

Analytics Customer Experience Contact Center Effort Score 130

InMoment XI

APRIL 9, 2025

Sales forecasting is essential for anticipating demand, allocating resources, and setting realistic revenue goals. However, according to Gartner research, forecasting is one of the top areas where sales operations functions are least effective. It strengthens sales strategies. What Factors Impact Sales Forecasting Accuracy?

Trends 195

Trends Sales Analysis First Call Resolution 195

NobelBiz

JANUARY 28, 2025

With the advancement of the contact center industry, benchmarks continue to shift and challenge businesses to meet higher customer expectations while maintaining efficiency. Average Handle Time (AHT) : This measures how long agents spend on calls, including after-call work.

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Abandon Rate Self Service Average Handle Time 52

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

If you’ve manage an aging contact center, then you’ve probably identified several inefficiencies which limit your success. Maybe its call volumes that exceed contact center capacity. When you transform contact center inefficiencies into proficiencies you are transforming money “wasted” into money saved.

Contact Center 121

Contact Center Self Service Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 121

SurveySensum

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It’s no secret that your contact center is the first line of defense with your customers – making it the most important touchpoint in the customer journey. That’s where contact center analytics comes into play. What is Contact Center Analytics? However, what are the benefits of contact center analytics?

Contact Center 52

Contact Center Analytics Self Service Average Handle Time 52

NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

We’re making it easier than ever for contact center managers to bring together the most powerful solution to operate your contact center, to drive efficiency and productivity, and to give your agent a streamlined desktop with everything they need in one place. Easy-to-use, integrated agent desktop delivers productivity.

Contact Center 27

Contact Center Average Handle Time Self Service CRM 27

BlueOcean

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

When you think of a call center, the last thing you’d associate it with is baseball. But for those of us who work in contact center workforce management (WFM), the connections are obvious. When you partner with an outsourced contact center, you play a key role in getting your team in the best position for a championship win.

Contact Center 74

Contact Center Management How To Call Center 74

NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. An agent’s child gets sick, an unexpected website outage triggers an influx of inbound calls, marketing runs a sale without advanced notice, etc. Real-time adherence. That’s life!

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Management Employee Engagement Average Handle Time 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 22, 2019

In Part One of this two-part series, we sought to demystify the forecasting and scheduling components of contact center workforce management. An agent’s child gets sick, an unexpected website outage triggers an influx of inbound calls, marketing runs a sale without advanced notice, etc. Real-time adherence. That’s life!

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Management Employee Engagement Average Handle Time 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

A bad forecast can directly lead to under- or overstaffing, which then has cascade effects on average handle time, CSAT, labor waste… the list goes on and on! If the business expects nick-nack sales to increase throughout the year, you can assume to same for calls. What if I don’t have historical data?

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Data Management Average Handle Time 136

NICE inContact

AUGUST 13, 2019

A bad forecast can directly lead to under- or overstaffing, which then has cascade effects on average handle time, CSAT, labor waste… the list goes on and on! If the business expects nick-nack sales to increase throughout the year, you can assume to same for calls. What if I don’t have historical data?

Contact Center 136

Contact Center Data Management Average Handle Time 136

Calabrio

MARCH 7, 2025

Workforce Engagement How to Combat Call Center Agent Attrition Share You know the signs: increased average handle time (AHT), increased irritation, productivity decline. Even in a remote/hybrid workforce, contact center leaders (if theyre paying attention) can see when their employees are slipping.

Call Center 130

Call Center How To Contact Center Gamification 130

BlueOcean

AUGUST 15, 2016

One that integrates clear directions with real-time data about road construction, traffic jams, tolls, and alternative route options. It’s the same for contact center reporting. Reporting on Average Handle Times and Average Speed of Answer, as well as other key metrics, is standard in contact center reporting.

Contact Center 120

Contact Center Report Average Handle Time First Call Resolution 120

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It’s 2019, which means contact center metrics from 1999 are almost old enough for their first legal beer (and already knocking them back in Canada.) That said, the contact center accumulates millions of data points every single day. Contact us here. How do we use that data to improve the customer experience?

Metrics 219

Metrics Customer Care Measurement Contact Center 219

Comm100

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Contact center management is a difficult job. Even as an outsider, if you’ve spent any time at all working alongside a call center or contact center you’ve probably seen the same mistakes being made by management over and over regardless of the company, the market, the product or customer base.

Contact Center 164

Contact Center Tips Management Call Center 164

NobelBiz

JANUARY 17, 2022

However, it is obvious that insufficient training, incompatible interfaces and other factors might result in an increase of Average Handling Time. The AHT is a KPI that contact centers always strive to improve. But, how is the Average Handling Time (AHT) calculated?

Average Handle Time 52

Average Handle Time Contact Center Management Call Center 52

InMoment XI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Call Center Dashboard vs Contact Center Dashboard A call center dashboard tracks performance by focusing on phone-based interactions. On the other hand, a contact center dashboard covers multiple communication channels, including phone, SMS, email, chat, and social media. It highlights areas of improvement.

Call Center 195

Call Center Contact Center Social Media Effort Score 195

BlueOcean

DECEMBER 5, 2017

This multinational communications, electronics and IT corporation has a health solutions arm delivering connected devices for which Blue Ocean provides both sales support and customer service support. The Challenge. However, the IVR was not integrated with the client’s off-the-shelf, cloud-based help desk ticketing system, Zendesk.

Case Study 149

Case Study Study Communication Average Handle Time 149

Call Experts

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Companies would have all the resources they needed to operate a BPO contact center in-house in a perfect world. Many companies migrate to BPO contact centers for their customer service needs. BPO contact centers help businesses increase productivity, grow their customer base, and improve customer experience.

Contact Center 105

Contact Center Call Center How To Multi-Channel 105

NICE inContact

MARCH 10, 2016

As a contact center manager, you’ve got a lot of metrics to choose from as your key performance indicators (KPIs). In this blog, we help narrow down this long list to help you focus on the metrics that, when improved upon, will really help your contact center thrive. Service Quality. Outbound Dialing.

Call Center 120

Call Center Metrics Average Handle Time Self Service 120

Call Experts

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Contact center technology can be the nerve center of your organization’s customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. Depending on the services offered, the contact center can also be called a call center, service desk, or customer service department. What Is Contact Center Technology?

Contact Center 98

Contact Center Technology Self Service Average Handle Time 98

InMoment XI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Conversational analytics, also called conversational intelligence or conversational AI, is the process of analyzing natural language conversations between an organization’s customer service or contact center agents (both human and virtual) with that organization’s customers or clients. Why is Conversational Analytics Important?

Analytics 195

Analytics Data Social Media Average Handle Time 195

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2018

This article underlines the value of DSS in customer service and focuses on the potential computer vision brings to call/chat centers, where providing a positive customer experience (CX) at scale is critical to success in the current competitive business climate. Current state of DSS in contact centers.

Contact Center 95

Contact Center System Average Handle Time Virtual Agent 95

InMoment XI

MARCH 22, 2025

It leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze customer conversations, giving you real-time insights into customer sentiment and satisfaction with your brand. Great businesses arent built on sales alonetheyre built on relationships. Spotting pain points helps you connect, solve problems, and earn trust.

Effort Score 195

Effort Score Average Handle Time Contact Center Customer Retention 195

BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

When “Good Enough” Is Not Really Good Enough The customer experience is what happens any time a customer interacts with your brand – through marketing, sales, the product or service itself, and customer support. Measure what matters There is an old saying: “What gets measures gets attended to, and what gets attended to gets done.”

Self Service 156

Self Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 156

BlueOcean

AUGUST 19, 2024

When “Good Enough” Is Not Really Good Enough The customer experience is what happens any time a customer interacts with your brand – through marketing, sales, the product or service itself, and customer support. Measure what matters There is an old saying: “What gets measures gets attended to, and what gets attended to gets done.”

Self Service 156

Self Service Contact Center Average Handle Time Customer Satisfaction 156

BlueOcean

JULY 9, 2024

Online sales are expected to exceed $1.7 trillion by 2027, representing an all-time high of over 20% of all retail sales. At the helm of this increase is the boom of online food and beverage orders, in which growth is nearly double that of all average eCommerce sales. These are stunning statistics.

Loyalty 177

Loyalty Brands Ecommerce Average Handle Time 177

Playvox

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Is gamification the right choice for your contact center? Employee engagement is one of the most challenging aspects to master in the contact center. Whether in sales, customer service, or collections, ensuring that your employees are motivated and engaged should be a key focus.

Gamification 79

Gamification Contact Center Average Handle Time Employee Engagement 79

TechSee

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Contact centers are perfectly placed to predict imminent customer queries. For that reason, many companies now take proactive steps to prepare the customer for what to expect, either at the point of sale or before the bill arrives. Customers can even be prompted to access them at the most appropriate times.

Contact Center 84

Contact Center Self Service Effort Score Average Handle Time 84

AWS Machine Learning

JULY 29, 2022

Providing your customers with a highly efficient post-sales and service experience. Establishing highly efficient contact centers requires significant automation, the ability to scale, and a mechanism of active learning through customer feedback. This includes contact centers such as Avaya, Cisco, Genesys, and others.

Contact Center 109

Contact Center Self Service Resources Average Handle Time 109

NICE inContact

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In part 1 of the blog, we looked at the foundations of building a robust Customer Experience (CX), starting with contact centers. A successful CX organization tries to build a centralized view of CX; aligning different groups – Marketing, Sales, Service and beyond. It is never a silo-ed operation, it is a team sport.

Net Promoter Score 137

Net Promoter Score Contact Center Average Handle Time Effort Score 137

RapportBoost

OCTOBER 20, 2018

23 to discuss how established enterprises can turn their contact centers into profit centers by optimizing conversations, training agents and utilizing augmented intelligence. is the leading conversational sales analysis platform for brands that use chat, SMS and messenger tools to engage customers. RapportBoost.AI

Contact Center 70

Contact Center Sales Average Handle Time Analysis 70

Kustomer

JULY 8, 2021

Darryl recognizes that as a leader in the contact center world, it can be difficult to fully buy into the idea of AI services when some existing processes are alright as is. Many leaders question why they should even buy into AI when innovation is already happening within their contact centers. TRANSCRIPT. Read More Hide.

Contact Center 98

Contact Center Self Service Consumers Examples 98

BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When we are talking to organizations in the sales cycle, we will often hear from SaaS companies that the customer success role is too complex, too critical, too deeply embedded in their internal operations to ever be outsourced. Looking for the right contact center partner to outsource your customer success? Let’s chat.

Customer Success 177

Customer Success Contact Center Average Handle Time Touchpoint 177

NICE inContact

JULY 12, 2019

Consider this: Digital customer service can save money, increase sales, and delight customers — leading to long-term loyalty and more spending. NICE inContact customers have reported: 61% sale conversion rate 70% reduced resolution time 90% higher CSAT 300% scaled operations with no additional headcount.

Customer Service 136

Customer Service Net Promoter Score Call Center How To 136