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By Verint Connect Member
Social media strategy was the lead discussion topic at this year’s NMA live event, with representatives from the likes of O2, BBC and Facebook all providing their thoughts on implementing an effective business social media strategy. O2’s head of social…
By Verint Connect Member
Verint Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNT) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire, upon closing, Global Management Technologies Corporation (GMT ), an Atlanta-based leading provider of workforce management (WFM) solutions. GMT’s software…
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More than 15% of contact centre workload is directly caused by issues in the back office – issues like incomplete, incorrect, duplicate or late communication is driving customers to call or email. This may not be a surprise, but what are you doing about…
By Verint Connect Member
Many people have championed social media as the antidote for customer service issues. Whether it is the option of ‘real time’ customer interaction or simply the ability to communicate on a more direct level, social media offers the potential to cure many…
By Verint Connect Member
Claire Richardson, Verint Systems EMEA’s Director of Workforce Optimisation, concludes her Top 12 list of WFM ‘Sins’ with the mistakes that Planning Teams make when they are deploying WFM solutions. Planning Team Mistakes: They let the planners drive…
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Take a look at this article by our very own Bill Durr, Principal Global Solutions Consultant at Verint. Bill’s always believed that contact centres—like living organisms—grow and evolve over time. Through the years, he’s identified a four-step evolution…
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Social media has fast become the new medium of complaint as consumers vent their frustrations via means inherently designed to give the world a voice. Customers are taking their frustrations to sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, in the knowledge…
By Verint Connect Member
Verint Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNT) today announced the availability of its fully web-enabled Enterprise Workforce Management (WFM) solution and expanded vision for what an enterprise-wide approach to WFM can bring to organizations of all sizes. This announcement…
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The big data issue is one that is still challenging many CIOs today. The bulk of the discussion has focused on the ability to process massive amounts of structured data can help businesses make better decisions. This is undoubtedly true, but I think the…
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Study finds that organisations strive to better understand their customers, but nearly half of UK consumers believe they don’t care or act on feedback shared LONDON, 08 November 2011 — Most British consumers (89 percent) are likely to tell the organisations…
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Over the next few weeks we’re launching a major piece of research we’ve carried out in the UK, France, Germany and Spain, in which we try to find out just how wide the gulf between organisations and their customers really is. We’ve carried out surveys…
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Yet more evidence that brands aren’t getting their social media strategy right emerged recently, with a survey by TNS highlighting the reluctance of customers to be marketed to by brands, through social media. According to the survey of 72,000 internet…
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As this year begins to reach its conclusion, many businesses are starting to asses what’s gone right and what’s gone wrong in 2011. However, you only have to look back to earlier this week to find how bad service can do real harm to companies. Just like…
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The Christmas season is well underway for retailers, which means customer service departments will be facing a battle to maintain standards. As well as an increase in online shopping traffic, high street retailers must ensure that they provide a positive…
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89% of British consumers are likely to tell the organisations they do business with if they receive poor service, yet almost half (44%) do not believe they take notice of, or really care about, the feedback shared. New research from Verint and the Customer…
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As the Christmas shopping madness descends upon the nation, it’s not just consumers that will be feeling the stress. It is hard to underestimate the importance of this time of year for all consumer-oriented businesses, who see a significant proportion…
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Enterprise workforce management is a software solution and management program that helps organizations deploy resources across functional boundaries to service customers and balance workloads based on customer demand. The solution can help an organization…
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Stop me if you've heard this one: "Our systems do not talk to each other, so we have to constantly switch back and forth, copying information here and pasting information there. It annoys our employees, it causes errors, and we keep asking customers for…
By Jerome Brown
Learn how to put the “voice of the customer” to work across your organization at a series of upcoming online events featuring Verint subject matter experts. Key themes will focus on the benefits of implementing a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program, along…
By Jerome Brown
American Eagle Federal Credit Union (AEFCU), a full-service, not-for-profit financial institution, is using Verint’s GMT workforce management (WFM) software to create flexible schedules and minimize overtime. Within the first year of implementation, the…
By Jerome Brown
Verint Systems Inc. ( NASDAQ: VRNT) recently announced the winners of its annual “Innovator of the Year” awards program. These awards recognize a select group of individuals for their outstanding performance in driving innovation across contact center…
By Jerome Brown
Don’t miss your opportunity to learn about Verint’s latest video managment tools in the upcoming webinar Robust Video Mangement Suite: Nextiva Version 6.2 on Friday, March 16th from 12:00-1:00 PM (EST) . With its powerful, fully integrated video management…
By Jerome Brown
Unstructured feedback from customers can offer a goldmine of customer intelligence—but how can you extract meaningful insight from the huge volumes of data contained in phone calls, emails, text messages, and more? In this new video, Steph Platel on Verint…
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First, I would like to express my thanks to the industry experts who weighed in on my posting: Big Data, the Contact Center and the Intelligent Enterprise . It seems many of us are in agreement as to the value of big data that currently resides in the…
With all the “To Do’s” in our busy daily lives, it’d be nice to be able to narrow your focus down into doing just four things successfully, right? For retail financial institutions, and specifically their branches, consider these four primary business…