UK customers now contact brands nearly half a billion times every month

Research has highlighted the growing volume of consumer queries that UK brands now need to handle, and the increasing cost this imposes on companies – estimated at £1.227 billion. The average UK consumer now contacts organisations nine times per month, according to research undertaken as part of the 2018 Eptica Customer Experience Automation Study. Across the […]
GUEST BLOG: From reactive to predictive – The AI-driven service revolution

By Salesforce Imagine you run a busy Manchester hotel. Your elevators carry hundreds of guests up and down every day. Unexpectedly, a maintenance engineer turns up. The manufacturer’s AI sensed an abnormality in your equipment and triggered a case in their field service management software. They fix it before anything actually goes wrong. This is […]
GUEST BLOG: Ensuring the ROI of adding Artificial Intelligence

By IFS | mplsystems Adding artificial intelligence to the contact centre is an important decision that involves a significant investment of time, money, and resources. Because of this, when an organisation is ready to implement AI, it’s absolutely critical to identify how and when the new technology will deliver a return on investment. There are […]
GUEST BLOG: Most customers hate AI & chatbots for this reason…

By IFS | mplsystems There’s no doubt that artificial intelligence is going to be more and more common in customer service and support interactions. Its versatility in expanding self-service options across channels, ability to capture robust customer insights, and efficiency in handling contacts make it a very attractive investment for contact centre leaders. Customers realise […]
GUEST BLOG: Top tips for deploying AI in your contact centre

Jonathan Sharp, Director, Britannic Technologies Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for years but has recently started to gain traction in the contact centre industry. Gartner forecasts that by 2022, 30% of customer service experiences will be handled by conversational agents. AI is a disruptive technology causing a stir in the market, and with high […]
GUEST BLOG: Connecting customers with conversational Artificial Intelligence

Jonathan Sharp, Director, Britannic Technologies Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a new technology and has been around for a long time but Gartner is estimating that by 2022, 30% of customer service experiences will be handled by conversational agents. Companies need to develop strategies to harness the power of AI to digitally transform and automate […]
RECOMMENDED: Cirrus – The CCaaS solution that makes managing contact effortless

At Cirrus we take the technology headache out of day-to-day contact centre operations, helping you take advantage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the latest omni-channel features, and manage your GDPR responsibilities. Cirrus is the CCaaS solution that makes managing contact effortless; saving you both money and time. In fact, it works so well, you can forget about […]
Do you provide AI solutions into Call Centres? We want to hear from you!

Each month on Call Centres Briefing we’re shining the spotlight on a different part of the customer care market – and in July we’re focussing on Artificial Intelligence. It’s all part of our new ‘Recommended’ editorial feature, designed to help customer care industry buyers find the best products and services available today. So, if you’re a supplier of AI […]
Artificial Intelligence tops 2018 contact centre buying trends

Artificial intelligence, multichannel communications and web self-service/web chat top the list of solutions the UK’s leading call centre professionals are sourcing in 2018. The findings have been revealed by the Call Centre & Customer Services Summit after delegates attending the event were asked which areas they needed to invest in during 2018 and beyond. 39% were looking to […]