Verizon Teams with inContact to Deliver New Cloud-Based

Customer Care Solutions To Serve Business Customers

More Effectively

Advanced ‘Virtual Contact Center’ Services Aim to Increase

Customer Satisfaction by Providing Communications Options

and Faster Responses to Inquiries.

November 17, 2011, NEW YORK – To help multinational businesses and government agencies communicate more effectively with their customers and  provide better service,  Verizon has teamed with inContact, the leading provider of cloud contact center solutions, to offer an advanced suite of cloud-based Virtual Contact Center services.

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Hosted Power: How Four Call Centers Work Smarter in the Cloud (Part 2 of 2)

June 2, 2011, By: Mariann McDonagh

When hosted call center technology debuted in the early 2000s, the primary selling point was the same one that has turned salesforce.com into the poster child for hosted enterprise software: a money-saving, pay-as-you-go pricing model with no in-house hardware investment or related IT infrastructure, maintenance and upgrade expenses.

That savings has proven to be significant. One Yankee Group study estimated that cloud-based call centers can lower the total cost of ownership as much as 45%. The cost advantage has helped fuel rapid growth in the space, with DMG Consulting estimating a 26% increase in seat numbers and a 50% increase in overall deployments between 2008 and 2009 alone.

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Goodbye to the Box: The Rise of Hosted Call Center Infrastructure (Part 1 of 2)

March 23, 2011, By: Mariann McDonagh

In late 2010, a DMG Consulting report on the hosted contact center infrastructure market(1) proclaimed a “significant paradigm shift” away from installing ACDs and related equipment on company premises. Instead, the report noted, companies are increasingly electing to have call
routing and related functions delivered over a broadband connection.

While stopping short of writing an obituary for the on-premise giants of the industry, DMG said the momentum is clearly on the side of moving call center infrastructure into the cloud. The analyst estimated a 26% increase in hosted seats and a 50% surge in hosted deployments between 2008 and 2009, with growth rates of up to 35% forecast over the next few years.

In this regard, contact center technology is following in the footsteps of Salesforce CRM and other Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings that are transforming the way that businesses acquire the various tools they need to operate.

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PCI Council Issues Advice for Securing Card Data in Call Centers
Rule #1: If you don’t need it, don’t store it.
March 18, 2011 By Penny Crosman, Bank Systems & Technology

The PCI Security Standards Council has come out with recommendations for how to protect credit card information given over the phone in a call center.
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inContact Announces Two New Fortune Global 500 Customers
Cloud-Based Platform Continues to gain Momentum with Enterprise-Level Customers

SALT LAKE CITY (March 3, 2011) – inContact (NASDAQ: SAAS), the leading provider of on-demand call center software and call center agent optimization tools, announced today that two Fortune Global 500 companies have selected the company’s cloud-based call routing solutions to power their call centers. 
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Home Work
By Carol Patton, Human Resource Executive Online

As the new breed of telecommuters, home-based agents may become the norm for companies operating call centers. To boost productivity, call centers need to offer quick and easy electronic access to information about policies and procedures, keyword searches and answers to most frequently asked questions.
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There’s No Workforce Like Home
By Mary A. Naylor, Bloomberg Businessweek Viewpoint

Want to help keep jobs in this country, serve customers better, and lower your costs? Telework lets companies tap an accomplished but underutilized talent pool.
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Keeping Balance in the Center
By Coreen Bailor, Destination CRM.com
Organizations no longer have to choose between efficiency and effectiveness as contact center technology evolves. Here, five approaches to service and efficiency equilibrium.
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There’s no place like (an office at) home

Work@Home™ opportunities for disabled workers
Featured on the Today Show
By Jean Chatzky, “Today Show” Financial Editor

Although this piece is several years old, it is as pertinent today as it was then.
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