956 — Natural language SMS service launched
Dejima has launched a SMS 'keyword free' directory service for Orange France customers. The new service, called 2 12 12, is powered by the Dejima Direct Mobile Messaging platform, and enables Orange France customers to use their own words and language to access more...
955 — Finnet selects Ericsson for IP backbone network expansion
Finnet is expanding its IP backbone network with Ericsson's Packet Backbone Network (PBN) solution, equipped with Juniper Networks routing products. The network expansion will enable Finnet's network operator, Finnish 2G Ltd., to handle increased data traffic while...
954 — Mary McDowell – senior vice president and general manager, enterprise solutions, Nokia
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953 — Nokia names Mary T. McDowell to head enterprise solutions
Jorma Ollila, chairman and CEO of Nokia, today announced the appointment of Mary McDowell as senior vice president and general manager, enterprise solutions, and member of the Nokia Group Executive Board, as of January 1st, 2004.McDowell will oversee the Enterprise...
952 — ASC SmartContact Centre scoops award
ASC SmartContact Centre received the prestigious Best New Product prize at the Irish Contact Centre Awards, attended by around 500 Irish contact centre professionals. SmartCC is a live agent support system that enables team leaders to monitor, coach and support...
951 — VoiceGenie and Elan Speech partner to provide multilingual speech-enabled solutions
VoiceGenie Technologies, a Canadian provider of VoiceXML platforms, development environments and tools for advanced speech solutions, and Elan Speech, a French Text-to-Speech provider, announced their partnership and marketing alliance to deliver high-end...
950 — Will Performance Management liberate contact centre managers? By Donna Fluss, principal, DMG Consulting
Corporate respect for the role, purpose and contribution of contact centres is increasing as senior executives recognise the positive impact they have on the bottom line and the tremendous value of customer data flowing through the contact centre. The race is now on...
949 — NCR and ScanSoft enter into global agreement to speech-enable ATMs worldwide
NCR Corporation announced a global agreement with ScanSoft, to embed ScanSoft's RealSpeak Solo text-to-speech (TTS) engine within NCR's APTRA Edge and APTRA Advance NDC self-service software. The agreement provides the tools for financial institutions to improve...
948 — BT launches complete IP solution with Succession Enterprise 3.0
BT today launched Succession Enterprise 3.0, the new software family for the Meridian 1 and Succession 1000 communications platforms from Nortel Networks. Succession Enterprise 3.0 combines Meridian 1 and Succession 1000 (formerly CSE 1000) on one single software...
947 — POST CTI and IDL announce marketing partnership
POST cti and IDL announced today a partnership agreement and a series of jointly-funded marketing initiatives to promote the uptake of standards-based telephony amongst the developer, reseller and system integrator communities. POST cti and IDL are currently...
946 — Speech Recognition attracts four more majors to Lloyds TSB Share registration platform
Four more UK plcs have signed up to Lloyds TSB Registrars' telephone speech recognition share service, developed by SRC, to streamline administration and improve customer service to more than 220,000 employees. National Grid Transco is the latest company to sign up to...
945 — Irish Contact Centre award winners announced
· Best Training Programme: Hertz Europe Services Centre · Best Customer Services Delivery: The Merchants Group (Ireland) · Best Small or Growing Contact Centre: Hibernian · International Outsource Partner of the Year: Mitial International Benchmarking Standards -...
944 — Indian staff offer “better” service, says rail enquiries chief
Indian staff are not only cheaper but offer a better quality of service than UK call centre workers the head of the national rail enquiries service has told MPs. The train operating companies have come under fire this week from the union Amicus for plans that could...
943 — Man vs. machine: Kasparov trounces computer foe
Chess great Garry Kasparov on Sunday virtually shut down computer program X3D Fritz to score a vital win in the third game of his latest man vs. machine match. World No. 1 Kasparov, 40, had a winning position with the white pieces after only 16 moves and coasted until...
942 — Streamdoor launched to conquer major share of the hosted IP CC market in UK
Streamdoor started operations today with a mission to lead the emerging hosted IP contact centre (HIPCC) market. Streamdoors services focus on contact centres applications which handle voice calls, email and web customer interactions. Streamdoors target markets are...
941 — Contact centres eschew single number strategy, latest Merchants report shows
The results of the latest Merchants Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report covering 200 contact centres worldwide show that a clear majority of centres employ a multiple line strategy with only 22 per cent adopting a single number policy. The number of contact...
940 — LangTech 2003, 24-25 November 2003, Paris, France
Language and speech technologies, after decades of research and development, have reached near-market maturity where specialist companies are now offering value added services and solutions to a broad spectrum of potential users. LangTech 2003, the second edition of...
939 — Call centres are not an industry. The opinion of Paul Hudson, Group Director, Research
The last few weeks have again seen a wide coverage in the press of the Indian issue. Headline after headline tells us another well-known brand is to close its UK-based operation with the loss of many UK jobs. HSBC, National Rail Enquiries and Prudential, have all...
937 — Onyx Software proposes to acquire Pivotal with Talisma`s offer pending
Onyx Software announced an unsolicited proposal to acquire Pivotal Corporation by way of a business combination in a stock for stock transaction valued at approximately $2.25 per Pivotal common share. Under the terms of the proposal which was submitted by letter to...
936 — HP and SAP deepen collaboration for large enterprises
HP and SAP announced a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at deepening their collaboration to the large enterprises markets. By combining the necessary toolsets and methodologies from the HP Adaptive Enterprise strategy and SAPs adaptive business service...
935 — Klaus Kleinfeld, new member of Siemens managing board
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934 — FINEOS launches front to back office solution for wrap products
FINEOS Corporation, a manufacturer of banking and insurance software, has announced that it has the ability to fully support wrap products using its front to back office life, pension and investment solution, FINEOS Wraps. The product is a fully integrated, web-based...
938 — Altitude listed as visionary in EMEA Contact Centre infrastructure Magic Quadrant
Gartner has placed Altitude Software, a Portuguese independent contact centre vendor, in the visionary quadrant for the EMEA contact centre market. According to Gartners recent report titled, Contact Centre Infrastructure Magic Quadrant 2003 EMEA Region, Altitude...
933 — Nucleus Research declares old CRM dead
Nucleus Research, a technology research and services provider, found that hosted CRM solutions have the potential to deliver significant returns and that it has been both difficult and uncommon to achieve positive ROI using CRM software packages. In its report...
932 — POST CTI announces UK availability of the Intel NetStructure Host Media Processing
POST CTI, a UK distributor of standards-based communications products, announces the UK availability of the Intel NetStructure Host Media Processing software version 1.1 for Microsoft Windows 2000. The software enables developers, system integrators and end users...
