2021 National Conference Speakers and Panellists

Partner Article: Sensée Creates 500 New Work-from-Home Contact Centre Roles

Sensée, the work-from-home specialist, is creating 500 new permanent and temporary positions to meet the growing demand for homeworking staff.

The vacancies are for Customer Contact Advisors, Team Managers and back office staff to work for new and existing clients. Start dates are immediate.

Why simplicity in contact centres matters in an era of complexity

The trend towards flexible workforces has exaggerated the complexity of running a modern contact centre. Make simplicity a top priority.  That’s the verdict of Ross Daniels at Calabrio who shares a 5-point strategy to kickstart your journey towards simplification

Partner Article: Boost Productivity and Motivate Agenda

Find out how Alvaria is helping enterprise contact centres reimagine the employee experience, 16 –17 November at Call & Contact Centre Expo, Europe’s leading call and contact centre event, at booth # CC-AJ44. 

Partner Article: Using game mechanics motivates and engages call centre employees seamlessly at Alvaria

Using game mechanics motivates and engages call centre employees seamlessly while aligning employee behaviours to company goals – results in improved employee retention, performance, customer satisfaction and profitability.

Partner Article: Gamification Releases Chemical Transmitters That Improve Employee Engagement & Performance at Alvaria

There is no doubt employee engagement has never been a higher business priority—especially for contact centers. The necessity to quickly move from a primarily on-premises to remote workforce due to COVID-19 caught many companies off-guard.

Partner Article: BUSINESS SYSTEMS, INTEGRATED CARE 24 AND CLEO SYSTEMS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 HSJ PARTNERSHIP AWARDS

Business Systems, Integrated Care 24 and CLEO Systems are delighted to announce that its NICE Nexidia Speech and Text Analytics project has been shortlisted for Best Healthcare Analytics Project for the NHS at the HSJ Partnership Awards 2022, recognising their outstanding contribution to healthcare – in what has been an exceptional and challenging period across the sector.

Partner Article: Enhance Employee Engagement to Improve CX at Alvaria

Using game mechanics motivates and engages call centre employees seamlessly while aligning employee behaviours to company goals — which results in improved employee retention, performance, customer satisfaction and profitability. 

Partner Event: Join Alvaria for the Credit Connect Technology Think Tank New Generations in Lending.

Learn more about the current lending technology landscape – how wider society impacts lending patterns and the role of digitalisation in lending and repayments. Plus, find out more about impact of new lending models such as Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL).  

Partner Article: Workforce Wellbeing Recovery Kit at Calabrio

We all want a positive customer experience in our contact centres. Often, this can only be achieved when your staff are motivated, engaged, and experience the work-life balance they require. Companies are seeing the importance of the overall wellbeing of their staff at all levels – and there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Calabrio’s Workforce Wellbeing Recovery Toolkit provides insights and resources to help identify common challenges and provide ideas for improvements that will positively impact employees, as well as customers.

Partner Article: Workforce wellbeing - what does it really mean and why does it matter more than ever?

Stress is a major barrier to success and it is affecting everyone.  In a new three-part series Ross Daniels introduces Calabrio’s campaign to support improvements for people, processes and technology to enable greater wellbeing across contact centre organisations.  This first article outlines the key triggers for agents, supervisors and senior managers and shows why it pays to take a comprehensive approach to organisational wellbeing.
 

Partner Article: Optimise Your Contact Centre Workforce with Real Time Intelligent AI Capability at Alvaria

Alvaria, the world leader in enterprise-scale customer experience and workforce engagement management, recently introduced Alvaria Real Time Optimizer, a new cloud application of the Alvaria Workforce Engagement Management Suite that enhances the contact centre agent experience. 

Partner Article: Revolutionising CX with Next Generation Cloud Technology

Following the pandemic, the definition of customer experience has been redefined. They expect outstanding service using the channels they prefer (voice, video, text, chat, etc.), with agents who are knowledgeable and empowered to problem-solve quickly. At the same time, work-from-anywhere trends have created new opportunities and challenges in delivering exceptional customer experience.  

Alvaria Accelerate ‘22 Virtual Experience

Accelerate ‘22 is the fastest way to access Alvaria resources including updates on the product roadmap, executive perspective thought leadership sessions, tips and tricks, success stories, use cases, company announcements and more.  

Partner Article: The Forum - Optimising Healthcare Contact Centre Operations - 4 Ways

In today's day and age, a negative customer experience can make or break an organisation's reputation. Delivering a good customer experience is now pivotal to how customers perceive a brand, and this is only intensified when operating within the healthcare space. 

Partner Article: Electric car subscription service Onto partners with Business Systems to transform the customer experience

The partnership will improve agent engagement and provide an effortless service for outstanding customer experience.

The Inner Circle Guide to Cloud-Based Contact Centre Solutions

Detailed Answers to Common Cloud Questions from Leading Solution Providers

Partner Article: OVO Energy Aims To Boost Team Engagement and Career Development with Centrical

Centrical is pleased to announce that OVO Energy, the UK’s third largest energy supplier, has chosen Centrical to support team engagement, and to deliver personalised learning and development pathways across their customer care operations. 

Partner Article: eGain named a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Customer Service Knowledge Management Systems

Sunnyvale, CA (October 3, 2022): eGain Corporation (NASDAQ: EGAN), the leading knowledge management platform provider for customer engagement automation, today announced that it has been named in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for Customer Service Knowledge Management Systems. 

Partner Article: What contact centre agents are looking for in employers David Marshall, Regional EMEA Lead at Intradiem

Filling contact centre roles used to be easy. Full time? No problem. Temporary staff? Easy. All within 10 miles of the contact centre? Sure. But fast forward to today, and this is no longer the case. 

Partner News: eGain Named as a Supplier on the Crown Commercial Services G-Cloud Framework

Partner Article: Sensée’s LiveDesk hybrid working collaboration application now available through the G-Cloud 13 Government Framework

Hammersmith, London. Sensée is delighted to announce that its LiveDesk™ application to create Digital Workplaces for hybrid working front and back-office environments is now available through Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) G-Cloud 13 Government Framework to public sector organisations.

Partner Article: Call center attrition: why do staff leave - or stay?

Staff turnover is higher in the contact center than in almost any other industry. A common assumption is that call center attrition is simply a fact of life - it can't be controlled or 'fixed'. I'd like to challenge that assumption. One of the responsibilities of call center managers and team leaders is to constantly assess the reasons why people leave the center. Perhaps more importantly, it’s also critical to talk to happy staff and find out what keeps them there and constantly strive to reduce unwanted turnover.

Partner Article: How to set the right service level goal in your call center

What is your contact center service level goal? Odds are, some or all of the groups are at either 80/20, 70/30 or some combination of those. They are extremely common. Do you use average speed of answer (ASA)? If so, is it 20 seconds or 30 seconds? Those are by far the most utilized ASAs. But what do these actually mean and how do you know if you have the right measure?

Partner Article: Occupancy, utilization, productivity: what’s the difference?

These familiar metrics are critical to managing every contact center. And it’s vital to take them into account properly within the workforce management process. The problem is, they all sound very similar and are sometimes confused with one another. Let’s examine them one by one.

Partner Article: Data, AI and automation will never replace humans. Fact

Matt Rumins, European Head of Customer Success at Intradiem, argues that while these technologies can empower humans, they neither can nor should ever replace them. 

Partner Webinar: Is Automation and AI Taking Over the Call Centre?

Join Alvaria on 18^th April at 4:00 PM BST for the webinar, Is Automation and AI Taking Over the Call Centre? Does the “Less Human” Approach Work with Your Customers?  

eGain Special Edition: Knowledge Management for Dummies

eGain Special Edition: Knowledge Management for Dummies - The first and only publication of its kind, this booklet defines and demystifies KM. It also discusses how to select solution partners and succeed in KM initiatives.The booklet is also chock full of real-world success stories and best-practice tips for success. 

Partner Article: How ChatGPT will transform customer service

The advent of ChatGPT seems to represent a quantum leap in the capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) to reshape the world we live in. Things are moving quickly, and organisations must begin now to think about how they can harness the power of AI to improve their performance beyond what basic process automation has long made possible. 
 

Partner Article: Attrition in the Contact Center: Trends in Combatting Employee Turnover

A new hire leaves after 25 days on the job – or never shows up for their first day. Or perhaps an employee with five years at the company submits their resignation, taking their experience and knowledge with them. Whatever the scenario, attrition comes with high costs to teams and the enterprise. Download Centrical's Ebook to read their top tips on attrition.

Partner Article: Business Systems brings ForeSight Voice Mining to the UK market to unlock real time, actionable insights from voice communications

Business Systems signs a channel partner agreement with NTT TechnoCross Corporation, offering organisations the ability to unlock real time, actionable insights from their voice communications.  

Partner Article: The Forum Webinar Operational Excellence Write Up

At a recent Strategy & Leadership discussion by The Forum, we focused on the theme “Strength in Numbers”, highlighting the crucial role of community and relationships in successfully navigating uncertainty - of which there has been an abundance of in recent times.

Partner Article: The Contact Company Selects Calabrio WFM to Power BPO Operations

Calabrio, the workforce performance company, has announced that business process outsourcer (BPO) The Contact Company (TCC) has selected Calabrio ONE software to support the company’s ambitious growth plans. TCC plans to implement a broad range of Calabrio’s automated, data-driven solutions to support the contact centre complexity of its growing client base and hybrid-working in a multi-channel customer service environment. 

The behavioural science of turning insights to action

How do we translate data into action? The Sabio team explore ways to generate actionable insight and embed new behaviours in our operations.

Partner Article: EvaluAgent Raises $20 Million to Fuel Continued Growth and Global Expansion in Contact Center Quality Assurance & Workforce Engagement

Series A Round from PeakSpan Capital Will Fund Investments in Quality Assurance & Agent Improvement Platform Capabilities to Serve Contact Centers of All Sizes

Partner Article: Rethinking hybrid work: Why we need an individualised approach for the long run

The best of both worlds. A terrific blend of the benefits of being in the office and working from home. The future of work.  

That’s what hybrid work was supposed to be. What it has actually turned out to be is a juggling act of multiple workplaces and no particular place to hang your hat. Working hybrid means constantly dealing with poor in-person office work conditions, frustrating commutes and a tax on workers’ mental health, among other concerns.  

Partner Article: From AI theory to practice: Insights from customer service

Partner Article: Calabrio Acquires AI and Bot Analytics Company Wysdom to Revolutionise the Customer Experience

Minneapolis, MN — January 9— Calabrio, today announced their acquisition of Wysdom, the leading experts in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and virtual agent performance solutions. This acquisition will accelerate Calabrio’s strategy to help customers leverage AI and ML (Machine Learning) to maximise agent engagement, productivity, and ROI (Return on Investment). Wysdom, based out of Toronto, Canada, was founded in 2012 and has been a pioneer in developing software and services to help customers optimise the performance of their virtual agents. 

Sensée launches Surge emergency response service

Work-from-home CX specialist Sensée has launched an emergency response service for organisations needing extra trained personnel at short notice to manage spikes in customer contact.

Calabrio Launches FedRAMP Authorised Offering, Calabrio GovSuite

The cloud contact centre solution is Modern Workforce Performance Suite for Optimised Government Customer Service

Partner Article: Calabrio integrates its software with Avaya Experience Platform Public Cloud

Calabrio has announced that it has integrated another solution with Avaya as part of its longstanding relationship with the leader in customer experience and communications solutions. This one sees the award-winning Calabrio Workforce Management (WFM) solution integrate with Avaya Experience Platform™ (AXP) Public Cloud in a milestone collaboration that will revolutionise the landscape for contact centres looking to innovate and modernise in the cloud. 

Partner Article: Calabrio Enhances its Innovative AI-driven Business Intelligence Tools

Corresponding 2024 Summer Release free webinar offers in-depth Insights and Interaction Summary product demonstrations 

Partner News: Sabio's latest news and resources

Partner News: Sabio Group Charts Course to Net-Zero & Sustainable Future

Sabio Group, the digital customer experience (CX) transformation services specialist, has today announced its ambitious commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The pledge, made by CEO Andy Roberts, has been formally accepted by both the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) and the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), marking a significant milestone in Sabio's sustainability journey.

Partner News: Calabrio Unveils Latest Innovations at C3 2024: Transforming Customer Contact Centres for the Future

Calabrio, the workforce performance company, this week announced a series of groundbreaking innovations at its C3 user conference. The annual event, including the ONE Awards, is known for bringing together industry leaders, customers and industry analysts, to feature the launch of new products, share insightful industry discussions, and recognise outstanding customers. 

Partner Article: How Do I Know If I Am Driving the Benefits of My Workforce Management Solution? 7 Key Indicators You’re On the Right Track

Implementing a workforce management (WFM) solution can transform your organisation's efficiency, productivity, and cost management.

However, to truly benefit from the system, it’s essential to assess whether the solution is delivering on its promises.

Here are some key indicators to determine if you're driving the benefits of your workforce management solution.

Why Is Your Cloud Contact Centre Transformation Failing to Deliver?

Customer experience can literally make or break a business, so it’s alarming that a number of UK companies remain tethered to legacy contact centre systems.

But what’s even more concerning is that those who've made the leap to cloud solutions aren't necessarily reaping the promised rewards. 

Calabrio Continues to Accelerate AI Innovation with Acquisition of Echo AI

Calabrio has announced the acquisition of Echo AI, a generative AI-native conversation intelligence platform. It is the next strategic step in Calabrio’s commitment to providing contact centres with the latest innovative solutions through near-time conversation insights that enhance customer experiences and operational efficiency.
 
Echo AI’s technology analyses every customer conversation across multiple channels, including calls, tickets, surveys and reviews, and delivers insights that drive customer retention, operational efficiency and growth.
 
“With this acquisition, we’re accelerating our effort to provide a seamless integration of human and AI-driven intelligence, empowering agents to improve efficiency and dramatically improve customer interactions,” says Dave Rhodes, CEO at Calabrio.  

Partner Article: From Discovery to Delivery: Here’s a Proven Methodology to CX Success at Sabio

Looking to transform your customer experience (CX) but feeling overwhelmed by the options? Well, you’re not alone.

In an era where a single negative interaction can go viral, organisations are scrambling to upgrade their CX capabilities. But here's the thing: successful CX transformation isn't about jumping on the latest tech bandwagon — it's about following a proven roadmap to results. 

For many of our 650+ customers globally, this is where our three-phase methodology has helped global brands turn CX challenges into triumphant successes.

Partner Article: New Calabrio Research: 98% of Contact Centres Are Using AI, and 61% Are Experiencing More Difficult Conversations

The 2025 State of the Contact Centre report shows that balancing efficiency and empathy remains a challenge in the fast-changing customer experience space, with contact centres facing dynamic changes in how they work with AI