Research shows customers embrace webchat, SMS and social media to contact brands – but phone contact is still central to best customer experience

Webchat, SMS and social media messaging are popular ways for customers to contact brands – but new research by Ultracomms reveals how consumers feel about contact centres and confirms they still want to pick up the phone when they have a problem. Continue reading Research shows customers embrace webchat, SMS and social media to contact brands – but phone contact is still central to best customer experience

NICE inContact CXone Spring 2019 Release Adds End-to-End AI Capabilities

NICE inContact, a NICE business announced the Spring 2019 release of NICE inContact CXone, which adds multiple AI-powered updates across the contact centre for smarter customer and agent engagement, plus enhanced depth and breadth of CRM integrations. CXone new AI capabilities span the entire customer and agent experience from: new AI self-service bot options, to new AI-infused forecasting and scheduling options to AI-powered interaction analytics that detect root cause issues of customer frustration. Continue reading NICE inContact CXone Spring 2019 Release Adds End-to-End AI Capabilities