Cloud Migration - Build on the Opportunities

While creating the vision for your Contact Center in the cloud, businesses have an opportunity to consider other elements that can be added to improve the customer experience. Evaluating applications and services that can add value to the way customers interact with your company will keep them satisfied and ultimately, impact the company's bottom line.

With Contact Centers, Customer Experience is Everything

A good customer experience is an essential ingredient in an effective and productive contact center. And, it’s been determined that the more a customer can handle on their own, that is, the more opportunities they have to self-serve, the more efficiently the contact center will operate. Improved customer experiences will result in a contact center that generates good customer feedback and as a bonus, better job satisfaction for the agents staffing the center.

Advanced cloud applications for contact centers make it possible for customers to conduct their business with AI and other self-serve options. This allows them to gather the information they need, complete their business task, and walk away satisfied, all with less agent administrative time taken.

Additional Channels and Services Available

Today cloud solutions for contact centers have numerous additional channels, applications and services available, many of which can be used to improve customer experience and efficiency. Here a just a few examples of the variety of contact center solutions available.

• Adding speech to self-service applications. Through advanced, AI-driven speech services, a customer can conduct their business using normal conversational directions and not even have to speak to a customer service representative. In the past, speech services might have been frustrating to use; often they had clumsily programmed menus. By leveraging the power of AI, self-service applications have become far more advanced and responsive.
• Consolidating data to allow collaborative solutions. Many contact centers today employ agents that are based remotely, rather than having workers within a single location. A cloud-based solution that allows data to be consolidated aids remote agents in their effort to work efficiently and encourages collaboration. When data is properly managed, companies are able to outsource to remote employees, allowing the contact center to operate seamlessly as though all are in the same office.
• Acquiring enhanced reporting and analytics. Reporting and analytics make it possible for contact center administrators to examine their processes and procedures so they might become more efficient and productive. When looking business operations, it's impossible to optimize and improve without thorough reporting. Cloud solutions make it possible to deploy advanced, AI-driven algorithms, which can take a deep dive into a company's operations and find core inefficiencies and areas in need of improvement.
• Improving customer relationship management integration. The better integrated a CRM solution is in the contact center operation, the more seamless a transaction appears to the customers. When communicating with customers, customer service representatives are able to review that customer's relevant data and respond accordingly.

Considering improvements and integrations before – or after - moving your contact center to the cloud is logical and practical. The end result can potentially have a dramatic impact on the operational expenses for the company and allow the business to improve its customer experience care without inflating its overhead.

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