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Featured Articles
Improving Customer Service Through Right Channeling: A Multi-Channel Approach To Customer Contact
Companies value their customers and, for most, customer service is a top priority. The desire to retain customers and to expand both mindshare and market share has spawned entire industries. Submitted by Patrick O'Neal, Sento Corporation

Voice Sites: A New Value Proposition For Speech
Because of its ability to utilize existing technology infrastructure, Voice Sites represents a radical new approach to the creation, deployment, and management of speech applications that will make these applications as powerful in automating business processes as the Web. Submitted by Angel.com

Integrate KPIs And Move Your Call Center Into The Fast Lane
Changes in the performance level of any contact center component — from call volume to agent availability to supporting technology — can dramatically affect operational costs and influence how customers perceive your company. It is vital to capture and update key performance indicators (KPIs) in real time to provide managers with a single "at a glance" view of what's happening across the enterprise. Submitted by Ted A. Jurkuta, Informiam

PointClear Increases Briot USA's Qualified Sales Lead Pipeline By As Much As 500% Per Month
Briot turned to PointClear to develop and implement an aggressive lead qualification program that solves the unique challenges of reaching highly "mobile" healthcare practitioners and enables Briot's regional sales reps to focus on closing sales. Submitted by PointClear

Borland Improves Call Center Efficiency
While there are multitudes of hardware and software solutions available to help customer service executives manage call center operations, very few offer the three elements that matter most to both the decision makers and users of the technology — reliability, affordability, and flexibility. Submitted by Angel.com

Top News Stories
HigherGround And SER Announce Partnership
SageCRM.com Wins Network Computing's Well-Connected Award For On-Demand CRM
Avaya On Demand Delivers Intelligent Communications As A Service
Infinity Info Systems Receives Sage 2005 Business Partner Of The Year Award For Sage CRM Solutions
RightNow Continues To Lead Adoption Of Software-As-A-Service By Enterprises And Large Government Agencies
Gizmo Project Selects Vapps For Advanced VoIP Conference Calling Feature
Avaya Introduces MultiVantage Express 'All-In-One' Communications Solution For Mid-Size Businesses
Featured Products
Interactive Intelligence Customer Interaction Center
Interactive Intelligence's Customer Interaction Center (CIC) software gives contact centers the most feature-rich suite of contact management applications available, highlighted by automatic call distribution (ACD) and priority routing, all out of the box. The Customer Interaction Center IP application suite includes every feature a contact center needs to establish new trends in managing multimedia customer contacts and IP communications — efficiently and consistently across each media channel.

Witness Systems Compliance Recording Solution
In today's business climate, government and industry regulations, liability issues, and accepted risk management practices have prompted many organizations to proactively record and archive the interactions between their customers/callers and their service agents. But capturing contacts is only one part of the compliance challenge. Dramatically improve your operations and the service you deliver.

Vantage Point
Vantage Point, Pipkins' award-winning enterprise workforce management software for the large to midsize call center, saves hours of administrative time by automating all processes associated with forecasting, scheduling, and reporting as well as e-mailing, exporting, and printing the generated information. Request additional information from Pipkins and its award-winning software.

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Industry Events
Call Center Week 2006
June 12-16
The Venetian Resort and Casino
Las Vegas

Attend Call Center Week 2006 in Las Vegas! This 7th annual event will give you an unprecedented opportunity to join the industry's leading contact centers and learn how you can implement best practices to achieve customer service excellence. For more information, click here; call (800) 882-8684; or e-mail info@iqpc.com.
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New Rules of IP Business Communication: Are you unifying communication in your contact center?
June 20
Minnetonka, MN

Technology has changed...and so have the rules. Customers are calling, sending e-mails, and using instant messaging to chat. IP telephony is the wave of the future, but you have no idea how to implement it. And all the different systems you use to manage everything aren't cooperating. How do you turn your call center into a more effective, customer-focused IP contact center? Register for this seminar and learn more.
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