806 — Contact centre outsourcing to keep steady growth over next decade, Aberdeen finds
Already firmly established as a major business, technology, and customer imperative, contact centre outsourcing will see continued growth over the next decade, according to a new report by Aberdeen Group. The largest increase in the use of outsourced contact centre...
805 — Inmarsat implements PeopleSoft CRM 8.8
PeopleSoft announced that Inmarsat, a satellite communications network provider, has selected PeopleSoft CRM 8.8 as its enterprise wide customer relationship management (CRM) solution for its new Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN). The PeopleSoft solution will...
804 — Tolly Group tests validate Alcatels OmniSwitch carrier-class features
Alcatel announced that The Tolly Group, a consulting and independent testing organisation, certified Alcatels OmniSwitch family delivers carrier-class reliability, achieves wire speed performance in demanding network conditions, and offers easy and effective Quality...
803 — Rhetorical hosts world`s first Text-To-Speech conference
Rhetorical, a Scottish developer of text to speech technology is to host the world's first Text-to-Speech Conference, TTS World, in Edinburgh from September 3-5. The event brings together designers, programmers and users from some of the world's major companies under...
801 — Babel announces availability of Brightspeech Studio
Babel Technologies announced the availability of BrightSpeech Studio, Babels first prompt generation tool. The TTS solution is currently Windows-based and offers facilities for software development companies wishing to create audio prompts with synthetic speech for...
800 — GlobalWare AG in GEDYS-DISKUS takeover
GlobalWare AG, a language technology provider, has taken over the control of GEDYS-DISKUS and Gedys Internet Products NV located in Den Haag. The companies involved agreed to maintain silence regarding purchase prices. GEDYS-DISKUS was a wholly owned subsidiary of...
799 — Ian Moyes, new head of Siemens mobile phone segment
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798 — Rudi Lamprecht relays head of Siemens mobile phone segment to Ian Moyes
The mobile phone segment of Siemens mobile is getting a new head. Rudi Lamprecht, chairman of Siemens mobile and member of the managing board of Siemens passed on global responsibility for the mobile phone business to Ian Moyes who starts chairing the...
797 — The challenges for public sector contact centres. The opinion of Robert Wint, marketing director, EMEA, Verint Systems
Certainly in the UK, some of the issues facing todays public sector contact centres were highlighted in a recent National Audit Office (NAO) report. As anticipated, the Report was pretty scathing, citing lack of service quality and high costs as major issues. And...
796 — PEIKER selects ScanSoft speech recognition engine for Bluetooth hands-free car kit
ScanSoft announced that its VoCon SF embedded speech recognition engine had been selected by PEIKER as the foundation of its Bluetooth voice-activated system for Chrysler Group's UConnect telematics module. The in-car, hands-free system does not require the driver to...
795 — Finalists announced for the 8th European Call Centre of the Year awards
After weeks of debate and deliberation, the judges have announced the finalists of the 8th annual European Call Centre of the Year Awards, organised by CCF magazine. The European Call Centre of the Year Awards will take place at a Gala Awards Dinner on 16th September...
794 — Mainroad nomeia Jorge Duarte como business unit manager
Jorge Duarte acaba de ser nomeado Business Unit Manager da Mainroad, assumindo responsabilidades directas pela unidade de negócios Solutions, na qual são abordadas áreas de especialidade técnica como enterprise management, segurança, performance aplicacional,...
793 — Kirusa and Elan Speech partner to deliver multimodal solutions
Kirusa, a provider of multimodal platforms enabling wireless applications delivery, and Elan Speech, a supplier of text to speech software, announced a partnership that will bring to market Kirusas multimodal solutions with Elan Saysos golden tones in UK English,...
792 — Genesys launches Express 3.0
Genesys Telecommunications, a subsidiary of Alcatel announced today the launch of Genesys Express 3.0, an enhanced version of its pre-packaged customer service software offering for mid-sized contact centers. Building on its core functionality, Genesys Express 3.0 is...
791 — Touring Club Switzerland launches voice-enabled traffic information system
Touring Club Switzerland has recently launched a service for motorists travelling on Switzerland's national and regional roads: by dialling the number 163, they now have access to the latest traffic information in German, French and Italian, Switzerland's three...
790 — Verint launches ULTRA EXPRESS to small to mid-size contact centres
Verint Systems, a provider of analytic software-based solutions and enterprise business intelligence, launched today ULTRA Express, a new software solution specifically designed to meet the intelligent recording needs of small to mid-size contact centres. Based on...
789 — Amcat to launch new Contact Centre Suite at Call Centre Expo 2003
CTI applications provider Amcat will be launching its new multi-media, CTI-based, inbound/outbound and blended contact centre management product - Contact Centre Suite, shortlisted in the European Call Centre Awards - Best Product of Call Centre Expo 2003 category....
788 — Tecnomen to axe 80 posts as part of internal restructuring
Some 80 workers will be offered a proposal to leave Tecnomen, the Finnish unified messaging solutions manufacturer, according to a statement issued by Ilpo Uotila, Tecnomens President and CEO. Over the past two years Tecnomen has streamlined its operations in...
787 — Huge disparities on severance payments over EU countries, Mercer finds
According to a new report issued by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, the minimum legal amount of severance payment shows a five-fold variation amongst some EU countries. France, Netherlands and the UK have the lowest figures, while workers in countries like...
786 — North of England and Scotland stand to be hit hardest by call centre job exports to India, the findings of Steve Morrell, Managing Director, Contact Babel
A recent survey by ContactBabel, the call centre industry analysts, finds that the North of England and Scotland would be hit hardest by call centre job exports to India. The report, 'UK Contact Centres in 2003' finds that the UK call centre industry as a whole...
785 — Cable & Wireless launches IP LAN and WAN uniting service
Cable & Wireless launched a new managed service that combines two of its industry IP-convergence solutions, IP Virtual Private Network with Quality of Service (IP-VPN QoS) for the WAN and IP Local Area Network (IP-LAN), to provide a service covered by a single...
784 — Fluency Voice Technology to acquire Vocalis in a 765,000 deal
Fluency Voice Technology, a provider of speech recognition applications for use in contact centres, announced that it is to acquire Vocalis, thereby creating the dominant player in UK speech recognition solutions. The combined group will have a prevalent position in...
783 — Croft answers the call for Garlands Middlesbrough call centre
Croft, a Newcastle-based ICT company, has installed an IT infrastructure at Garlands Call Centres' new Middlesbrough site. The infrastructure, which includes new computing servers, switches, routers and PCs, currently serves 600 Garlands employees and is forecast to...
782 — Karl-Heinz Streibich appointed new CEO of Software AG
Software AG has appointed a new CEO, Karl-Heinz Streibich, replacing Karl Heinz Achinger, acting CEO since 1 December 2002. Previously a member of the board of management of T-Systems International, Streibich, 50, has more than two decades' experience in the...
781 — LumenVox releases SRE v3.5 Beta for Linux
LumenVox announced their release of the Speech Recognition Engine (SRE) v3.5 Beta for Linux, continuing their multi-platform support of advanced speech recognition technology. The latest Linux version continues to place the power of speech recognition squarely into...
