With online retail rapidly overtaking in-store purchasing, vendors must treat web customers as equals. By helping to replicate an in-store experience, live chat software is changing the face of online customer service, and companies can no longer consider it a luxury commodity. Howard Williams, marketing director for chat specialist Parker Software, investigates the emergence of live chat as the lifeblood of online retail. Continue reading Live chat is no longer a business luxury →

PRESS RELEASE: Bright Pattern, leading provider of multichannel cloud contact center software announces their integration with Google to provide powerful speech recognition by applying Google’s deep learning neural network modules. The integration with Google Cloud Speech will support global Bright Pattern customers and partners by recognizing over 80 languages and variants. Continue reading Bright Pattern Integrates Google Cloud Speech to Omnichannel Contact Center Software →

PRESS RELEASE: UK public sector organisations can now procure MyLife Digital’s trusted GDPR permissions management services through the G-Cloud framework on the Digital Marketplace. In enabling public sector and non-profit organisations to achieve GDPR compliance, the Consentric Permissions service puts citizens in control of their personal data and what can be done with it. Continue reading Consentric Permissions joins UK Government G-Cloud Framework →