Author:  Gary Barnett
During the past few months, we’ve spoken at great length about the business problems that can be solved when the contact center is extended to the enterprise via unified communications (UC). I’m sure that the idea of being able to do this is exciting to you and your contact center colleagues, but when [...]

Author:  Roger Sumner
Regardless of whether they focus on customer service, sales and marketing, or collections, virtually every Aspect Software customer that I have spoken with during the last year has told me that they have, or are thinking about trialing an at-home agent program. I can say without hesitation that a lot of this interest [...]

Author:  Jim Mitchell
I have noticed two topics that have been getting a lot of press lately – Global Warming and at-home agents. I started wondering to myself whether these two topics might somehow be related.  Then, it occurred to me that they are – at-home agents can help contact centers reduce carbon emissions.  Now, hear [...]

Author:  Gary Barnett
I’m sure you’re familiar with a contact center’s core interaction technologies – the automatic call distributor (ACD), the self-service application, the predictive dialer, as well as email and chat capabilities.  These technologies are the primary vehicles through which many customer-company interactions take place before reaching an agent.
These core interaction technologies are themselves supported [...]

Author:  Roger Sumner
Nearly every day when I read the newspaper, listen to the radio, or turn on the television, I see something about the “Bird Flu.”  I haven’t yet started building and stocking my own personal bunker, but I am strongly recommending that our customers think about and plan for the possibility of a pandemic [...]

Author:  Roger Sumner
Hurricane season is here and once again, the high likelihood of above-normal activity is predicted.  I’ve seen it time and time again where customers think they have an adequate disaster recovery plan in place, but it hasn’t been tested for years or hasn’t been updated in some time.  Whenever I’m out at customer [...]