Transforming customer experiences

If you’re one of the thousands of companies that has embraced Microsoft Teams for your internal communications and collaboration, have you ever thought about extending it into your contact center? If not, you should. And here are the top three reasons why.

Customer loyalty and retention are at the top of the list when it comes to contact center goals. But driving loyalty and retention takes more than just measuring the customer satisfaction score (CSAT) or the net promotor score (NPS) and calling it a day. There are a lot of other indicators that impact customer loyalty and overlooking them can lead to missing the mark on customer experience. So how do you improve customer loyalty and retention rates? And what contact center metrics should you be measuring to get there?

There’s a lot to consider when making the software choice for your contact center. And this is why NICE inContact is especially grateful to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the recipient of the 2020 European Contact Center as a Service Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership Award.

A data lake is a repository for storing massive amounts of raw data in its native form, in a single location. It has evolved over the years, from local storage, to data warehouses, and now the data lake concept – with each step, creating better capabilities for companies to store, manage and analyze the growing amount of data generated each day.

See what "easy" customer service looks like and learn the emotional aspects of the customer experience. Delivering the "three E's" of customer service - effectiveness, ease of use, and emotional connections - is a proven recipe for increasing customer loyalty and retention.

The annual Consumer Wave of the NICE inContact Customer Experience (CX) Transformation Benchmark Study dove deep into how the pandemic has shaped the way customers are interacting with contact centers. The study polled more than 2,500 individuals in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada during September 2020 – specifically consumers who had communicated with a company through a customer service experience in the last three months. Here are the three major subjects we explored in the consumer research and what they mean for the future of customer expectations.

One tool that helps businesses know their customers better, anticipate their needs, and proactively address emerging issues is interaction analytics. A recent Aberdeen report stated that 59% of companies rate Augmented Analytics as critical or very important in the COVID-19 environment. Additionally, the study found that investments in analytics correlate to strong business outcomes. For example, 23% of businesses that widely use analytics experienced an increase in revenue despite the pandemic.