Published: September 23, 2010
Cloud Computing Transforming Call Center Industry
SALT LAKE CITY - (BUSINESS WIRE) - The fifth annual inContact User Conference (ICUC) concluded today after
four days of learning, networking and training designed to improve the
overall call center experience. The event, which had a 23% increase in
attendance over last year, explored the ongoing innovations in cloud
computing and the way that inContact (NASDAQ: SAAS)
is leading the cloud-based call center market.
"It was exciting to see how cloud computing is really moving the market
today and to meet with our amazing customers to see how the movement is
impacting their call centers," said Paul Jarman, inContact CEO. "We want
to help our customers become superheroes in their call centers. The
thought leading keynotes, breakout sessions and activities at ICUC
helped provide them with the skills, strategies and solutions to enact
strategic change in their business."
Customer-Centric Keynotes Provide Actionable Business Strategies
inContact featured keynote speeches from industry leaders in call center
technology and customer experience. The speakers entertained and
informed the crowd with actionable insights and included:
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Paul Jarman briefed the attendees on the current state of the
call center industry and the expected changes the industry can expect
over the coming years. As Jarman pointed out, the market will face
more change in the next five years than it saw over the previous 15
years. He also briefed the attendees on inContact's roadmap for the
future and its upcoming innovations.
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The audience laughed and learned with Chip Bell, founder of the
Chip Bell Group, who specializes in helping organizations develop a
cult-like following that creates dramatic business growth even in
challenging economic times. He had amazing insights into delighting
customers by understanding, including, teaching, protecting and
surprising them. In short, he outlined strategies to "take their
breath away."
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"Customer experience transformist" Bruce Temkin, founder of the
Temkin Group and former Vice President and Principal Analyst at
Forrester Research, presented solutions for improving business results
by providing long-term strategies and solutions for becoming more
customer-centric. He wowed the crowd with profitable tips on how to
"accelerate the path to delighting customers."
Thought-Leading Breakout Sessions
ICUC 2010 was full of forward-thinking business and technical sessions
designed to improve the call center experience. The sessions featured
thought leaders from all segments of the industry, including Verint
Systems, Vanguard Communications Corporation, Knowlagent and ICMI, as
well as innovative inContact customers. The sessions also featured
inContact customers, including Sitel, Activision, Graco,
Williams-Sonoma, Extra Space Storage and many others. The sessions
explored topics hot on the minds of call center managers and operators,
including workforce and agent optimization, social media, Voice of the
Customer (VoC), at-home deployment and self-service strategies.
Solutions Lab
The inContact Professional Services and Solutions Management teams came
together in the Solutions Lab to help provide free advice to customer
challenges and questions in a laid back, relaxing environment. The
Lounge showcased the recently announced predictive dialer, quality
monitoring and screen recording solutions, as well as demos of upcoming
releases and innovations on the platform, giving attendees an
opportunity to do hands-on tests of new features.
inContact Coder Royale
The best and the brightest developers came together for the challenge of
the year - the inContact Coder Royale competition. The challengers
engaged in a series of competitions to create custom scripts on the
inContact platform. The winner, Kevin Carroll, showed his prowess at
creating unique scripts, winning him the Coder Royale title, crown,
trophy and $500.
Jarman concluded, "ICUC is the event I look forward to all year long,
because it's a chance to meet with many of our customers and hear about
the challenges and opportunities in their call centers. We learn a lot
from our customers, and with the flexibility of our cloud-based
solution, we can come back to them over the course of the next year with
new innovations that continue to meet their needs."
ICUC 2010 was sponsored by Siemens, Verint Systems, Listen Up Espanol,
Astadia, Simplify, Language Services Associates and Gryphon Networks.
About inContact
inContact (NASDAQ: SAAS)
helps call centers around the globe create profitable customer
experiences through its powerful portfolio of cloud-based call
center software solutions. The company's services and solutions
enable call centers to operate more efficiently, optimize the cost and
quality of every customer interaction, create new pathways to profit and
ensure ongoing customer-centric business improvement and growth. To
learn more, visit www.inContact.com.
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