455 — Ann-Marie Stagg – Chairman of Call Centre Management Association
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454 — Peter Hall – Regional Director at Institute of Customer Service
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453 — Gary Pugh – Marketing Director of Oracle
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452 — Matthew Banks – Director Marketing Solutions EMEA Siebel
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451 — Robert Wint, marketing director, EMEA, Verint Systems.
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450 — The importance of SIX SIGMA for the quality of todays call centres. The opinion of Robert Wint, marketing director, EMEA, Verint Systems.
In certain process-centric industries, a practice called Six Sigma has evolved. Since its inception in business in Japan some years ago, it has already been adopted by the highly process driven, manufacturing industry in the US and other countries where it has...
449 — France Télécom R&D brings TTS solution to market
France Télécom's research unit (FT) has begun marketing a new speech synthesis technology that converts any text or message to natural-sounding speech. This full-fledged commercial solution is primarily aimed at providers of interactive voice platforms and telecom...
448 — Eyretel announces shipment of Contact Viewer 7.0
Eyretel, a provider of voice and data recording, quality monitoring and analysis systems for the optimisation of contact centres, has announced that it had begun worldwide customer shipments of its web-based replay application Contact Viewer Release 7.0. With Contact...
447 — Eyretel announces shipment of Contact Viewer 7.0
Eyretel, a provider of voice and data recording, quality monitoring and analysis systems for the optimisation of contact centres, has announced that it had begun worldwide customer shipments of its web-based replay application Contact Viewer Release 7.0. With Contact...
446 — Customers and agents the weakest links in CRM an insight on Vocalis report
UK businesses are not taking advantages of the opportunities presented by contact centres to support their brands and build customer loyalty. Rather, they are fire-fighting perennial and predictable problems such as large call volumes, fluctuations, peaks and a range...
445 — The man who set up the language for UK call centre industry
Steve Morrell decided to embrace ContactBabel project in January 2000, when the hyped-up technological frenzy was about to plummet. Nevertheless the project was settled in a burgeoning and maturing milieu: the call and contact centre industry in UK. As the Biblical...
444 — W3C issues VoiceXML 2.0 as a candidate recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has just issued VoiceXML 2.0, a protocol for voice applications on the World Wide Web. VoiceXML 2.0 allows developers to create audio dialogs that feature synthesised speech, digitised audio, recognition of spoken and DTMF...
443 — Volantis implements employee kiosk platform for Telecom Italia Mobile
Volantis Systems, a UK supplier of presentation management software solutions for the multi-channel internet, has announced the successful deployment of its Mariner application at Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM). Volantis Mariner is used as the delivery platform for TIM's...
442 — Best Large UK Contact Centre opens new premises in Middlesborough
Garlands Call Centres, recently acknowledged at the 2002 National Customer Service Awards as the UK's Best Large Contact Centre, has opened a third customer premises in Middlesborough and is already recruiting an additional 200 staff to handle new outsourced services....
441 — IDC foresees market for IP telephony to offset telecom downturn
In a tough year for telecom vendors and carriers with capital expenditures being slashed and network builds scaled back, a new report from IDC sees though a breakthrough at the overall market for IP telephony and positive signs both on the enterprise and service...
440 — Babel to provide TTS solutions to Texas Instruments platform
Mobile devices will soon be able to read text messages aloud following an agreement between the Belgian business Babel Technologies and Texas Instruments (TI). Babel developed PocketBabil - its text to speech technology (TTS) - commercially available for Texas...
439 — Siemens borrows fashion concept to boost handset flagging sales
German phone maker, Siemens Mobile, has just launched Xelibri, the spin-off that will create a new range of mobile phones branding as fashion accessories. Like in fashion, the new devices will be unique. As every fashionable artefact, they will vary according to...
438 — Corona Direct announces ROI in six months on DataDistilleries software
DataDistilleries, a Dutch provider of predictive real-time analytical solutions, announced that Corona Direct, Belgium's second largest direct insurer, has reported a reduction of 25 per cent in the cost of acquiring customers through marketing campaigns using its...
437 — Vodafone Sweden chooses Siebel Communications 7 to reduce churn
Siebel Systems, a CRM software provider, announced that Vodafone Sweden is using Siebel Communications 7 platform to reduce customer churn and manage service orders and its retail partners. Vodafone Sweden is moving from a customer-acquisition to a customer-retention...
436 — Royal Mail UK announces 100 jobs cut in marketing restructuring
Royal Mail UK has announced new bodies for its marketing and sales departments as part of a wider restructuring to simplify processes, reduce costs and bring together a new strong single commercial team. This rearrangement will imply a reduction of around 100 jobs...
435 — Loquendo develops new female voice for China
Loquendo announced that it has reached the Asian continent. Linlin is Loquendo TTS' new female persona for the Mandarin Chinese language. With this addition to the family of Loquendo TTS (text-to-speech), the Italian business consolidates its aim of providing...
434 — Aculab sponsors Interactive Intelligence EMEA partner conference
Aculab, the Milton Keynes (UK) based provider of computer telephony (CT) products, has announced that it is to be a premier sponsor of the annual Interactive Intelligence EMEA partner conference, to be held on 29 Jan. in Brussels and 31 Jan. in London. At the...
433 — Aculab sponsors Interactive Intelligence EMEA partner conference
Aculab, the Milton Keynes (UK) based provider of computer telephony (CT) products, has announced that it is to be a premier sponsor of the annual Interactive Intelligence EMEA partner conference, to be held on 29 Jan. in Brussels and 31 Jan. in London. At the...
432 — HITACHI to showcase its latest Mu-chip and e-Government solutions at CeBIT 2003
Hitachi will be showcasing its awarded Radio Frequency Identification microchip (Mu-chip) at CeBIT 2003, to be hosted in Hannover, Germany, from 12-19 Mar. The Mu-chip meets a variety of end-user business requirements, including tracking the movement of products...
431 — SPECIAL REPORT: Facts and Figures of Call Centres in UK an Overview. Part II: Inbound and outbound activity
On average terms, UK call and contact centre activity ratio is 70 per cent inbound and 30 per cent outbound. UK contact centres receive a bulk of around 43 billion inbound minutes per year, with the majority being dealt with by 250-agents-and-over contact centres....
