1401 — Voice Technology – The way forward for cost-effective customer servicing?
An Edify Customer Service Insight Paper that looks at the past, present and future of speech technologies in the call centre. In the early days of call centres, many operators extended their agent offering by developing self-service solutions based on...
1407 — Bahrain-based InfoCall Implements Altitude uCI
InfoCall, the provider of outsourced customer support services in Bahrain, is implementing the Altitude uCI solution. Through this measure, the Company wants to power its new contact centre outsourcing operations. Adel Al Safar, Chairman of InfoCall, explained...
1405 — Garlands appoints new head of MIS
Ron Coleman has been appointed to the post of Head of Management Information Systems, at Garlands Call Centres. He was the former responsible for overseeing the Absence Management process for over 4,500 personnel as well as for generating key performance and absence...
1404 — Concerto Software acquires assets of Positive Software Systems
The provider of contact center solutions, Concerto Software, has announced that it has acquired substantially all assets and certain liabilities of Dallas-based Positive Software Systems. Formerly a Concerto Software Technology Alliance Partner, PSS provides...
1383 — IT Security Summit, London, 20-21 September 2004
Each year the threats diversify, and each year companies refine their responses. Bearing this scenario, Gartner Group Summit proposes to examine, in depth the strategies that are key to acquiring, measuring, implementing and managing effective IT security today....
1195 — Irish Contact Centre Awards Conference & Exhibition 11th November 2004, Burlington Hotel, Dublin Ireland
Now in its 9th year, the Irish Contact Centre Awards, Conference & Exhibition is the must attend one-day event for the thriving contact centre industry in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The only event of its kind in Ireland, it is designed to provide you with all...
1403 — Michael Vedda, Vice President of Operations and Chief Information Officer at Edify
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1402 — THUS chosen to Install And Manage Primary Communications Link Between Iceland And Europe
THUS Plc has been selected by FARICE (the international submarine cable system connecting Iceland and the Faroe Islands to Scotland) to design, install and maintain an optical backhaul network between FARICE's landing station in Castletown Northern Scotland and the...
1400 — Scottish Gas opens call centre in Glasgow
Scottish Gas is opening a new contact centre at City Park in Glasgow. This move will create about one hundred new jobs. The Company said this decision follows its success in selling energy services and home care products from Glasgow throughout Britain. Steve...
1399 — Avaya Korea opens Avaya Solution Center
The Korean subsidiary of the global provider of business communications software, systems and services Avaya has opened a Solution Center in Seoul. The Avaya Solution Center, opened jointly with its BusinessPartner, LLG CNS, is located at LLG CNS...
1398 — Edify launches new platform for building, deploying and managing business speech applications
Edify Corporation, a global supplier of voice and speech solutions, has introduced a new comprehensive voice system that enables enterprises to build, execute and manage speech applications across the entire enterprise. Edify Voice Interaction Platform (EVIP) 9.0 is...
1397 — J.P. Morgan sued over call center overtime
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co . call center employees have sued the bank for overtime work done without pay and in violation of federal labour rules, according to a release on Wednesday. Filed in federal court in Houston this week, the complaint says that for at...
1396 — Best practices in Call Center Communications Optimizing the Interaction Lifecycle. By Apropos Technology
Most call centers have phones on the desktop, probably the ability for people to leave voice mail, maybe an e-mail address. Many even have an ACD to manage simple call routing and an IVR to ask the caller which department is needed. Assuming there's a business...
1395 — Brooktrout integrates TR1000 Product Line with Envox 6
The supplier of media processing, network interface, call control and signal processing products - Brooktrout Technology - has integrated its family of TR1000 speech processing boards with the Envox 6 Communications Development Platform. Through this combined...
1394 — Envision Leverages eLearning Leadership to Bolster QM, Logging Solutions. By Donna Fluss
In the first five parts of this series, we examined why its important to invest in, or upgrade, quality management (QM) and logging applications in your contact center, and focused on four leading vendors: NICE Systems, Witness Systems, Verint Systems, and etalk. In...
1393 — Interactive Intelligence appoints new Executive Vice President of worldwide sales
The global developer of business communications software, Interactive Intelligence, has named Gary R. Blough as its new executive vice president of worldwide sales. In this new role, Blough replaces Jeremiah J.Fleming, who was designated president of Interactive...
1392 — Big Decisions for the Small Call Centers
Small call centers encounter tremendous difficulties in today's competitive markets. If you have 35 call center agents or fewer, you face the difficult task of providing a world-class center that executes its mission statement in a cost-effective manner. Although...
1206 — International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE), 25-28 August, Setubal, Portugal
The purpose of the 1st International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the understanding and applications of E-Business and Telecommunication Networks. Four simultaneous...
1391 — MyNetonomy Self-Service solution at Bouygues Telecom
Bouygues Telecom's self-service portal lesp@ce client has counted more than 1 million customer logins per month. The portal, powered by Netonomys customer self-service solution, MyNetonomy NetService Center, was built to allow customers to subscribe to new...
1390 — Arja Suominen, Vice President, Communications, Nokia
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1389 — Nokia`s TETRA system selected for the Paris metro
The Parisian public transport agency (RATP) will upgrade its private mobile radio network with digital TETRA technology from Nokia. RATP has awarded the contract for its network modernization to Alcatel, which will deploy Nokia TETRA equipment to cover Paris'...
1388 — Tele Atlas and Oracle engage in a strategic alliance
Tele Atlas has signed a strategic alliance with Oracle to base all its internal processes on Oracle technology software products, from field data collection to final product delivery. Through this end-to-end use of the wide range of Oracle's software products...
1387 — IBM says Orange unveils simplified, secure access for 50 million mobile customers
Orange has selected IBM software and services to give its 50 million mobile phone customers the ability to sign on to accounts only once and securely access different mobile services or Websites, such as instant messaging, location-based services, games, online...
1386 — Statoil mines seismic data with computing cluster from Dell, Intel and Scali
The Norwegian oil company, Statoil, has chosen Dell and Scali to deliver a standards-based, high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) based on Intel architecture to process seismic data in the company's search for new petroleum resources. Statoil expects to have it...
1385 — Portal names Frank Lee as Vice President, Customer Solutions, EMEA
Portal Software has appointed Frank Lee to the post of Vice President of Customer Solutions for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. In this newly created role, Lee will head the Portal Consulting division, responsible for bringing leading services to market and assisting...
