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Both customers and businesses alike are counting on today’s contact centers to deliver exceptional experiences and value. To respond to evolving demands and serve as brand guardians, contact center leaders need tools that are innovative as well as easy-to-use—and they need solutions they can trust. That’s why, at Calabrio, we know that our success is [...]

Massive advances in technology have created citizens and students who are much more empowered than before. And accurate, ongoing interaction insights that help you understand their preferences and behavior are the only way to meet the rising and evolving expectations for the service & support you provide. Unfortunately, most contact centers at public-sector organizations and [...]

Quick: what’s the best way to get feedback on how well your conversational bot is meeting customer expectations? I bet the first thing that came to mind was: “A survey!” User surveys may be one of the most common techniques for measuring UX and customer satisfaction. But do surveys actually give you the insights you [...]

Now that your virtual agent is live, expectations are that the bot is prepared to handle everything. Customers will ask their question, get the right answer every time; conversations will be fully automated and impeccable, and everyone’s happy. But, let’s be honest, that’s not actually how it goes, right? To imagine every scenario and design [...]

Maybe your bot launched last year, maybe you inherited one that was already in production, but chances are you’ve got a hunch that it’s just not performing as well as it could. Between rabbit holes of automation, customer frustration, and escalations that could have been managed by the bot…the struggle is real. It’s time to [...]

It seems like virtually every company on the block has a shiny new chatbot. This should come as no surprise considering their proven ability to improve customer support and service environments, and help consumers find what they are looking for more easily. In fact, they’re so effective that Gartner researchers expect chatbots will become the primary customer [...]

IChatbots are transforming customer service. Their promise of streamlined, always-on support entices organizations seeking to cut costs and boost satisfaction. But amid the excitement, vital questions remain for chatbot teams: Just how profitable are chatbots? What is chatbot ROI? The key to unlocking chatbot ROI lies in a metric often overlooked within the industry: the [...]

Contact centers produce incredible amounts of data. Yet for too many organizations, the scale and complexity of their customer interaction data isn’t an asset. Instead, it’s a burden, a source of confusion, or a critical challenge to navigate—and usually across multiple applications. When most organizations analyze only 12 percent of their data, it must be [...]