The evolution of customer communications from telephony to multichannel interactions, including IM and chat, SMS, email, and social media, have created a new era in the relationship between businesses and customers, once which is based upon each customer’s preferred communications modality. This evolution of the call center into a multichannel Customer Engagement Center necessitates a shift in not only engagement strategy to meet customers on the engagement medium of choice, but also an assessment of their communications technologies and CRM software, which must both be able to manage this new customer service model. This Gartner report analyzes the current CEC vendor landscape and the degree to which the market has responded to the social-mobile customer.

Workforce management applications are critical for contact centers. These solutions are the only way to ensure that a contact center has the right level of resources with appropriate skills to handle all inbound and outbound transactions within a pre-defined service level. Workforce management is historically the most disliked application in contact centers because most of these solutions are complicated and very difficult to use with features that are so complex that they can only be used by quantitatively-oriented and technically trained WFM analysts.

However, vendors are finally listening to their customers and starting to deliver enhanced WFM solutions. These new-generation WFM solutions do many of the same things as older versions, but in less than half the time and with a great deal less training and effort. And, like all Web 2.0 applications, the system logic is embedded in the user interface, making these solutions much easier to use and maintain. Download this white paper and learn how workforce management is changing.

Atlantic Tele-Network’s subsidiaries range from a CLEC in New England through to Guyanese PTT, GT&T, each with their own networks, operations and P&L. The company’s policy is to maintain autonomy within its subsidiaries while centralizing where appropriate at a group level. So Atlantic decided to consolidate its national and international voice traffic routing and management to realize synergies across its subsidiaries. The reasons Atlantic chose DIGITALK’s SBC VoIP Peering to meet its needs and the benefits it has achieved from the solution are presented in this case study.

"As an innovative and progressive Tier 1 communications enabler based in the Channel Islands, JT Global was not afraid to consider new and innovative options to expand its wholesale service. While the option for a Cloud solution raised many questions for an operator with 130 years’ experience providing world-class products and solutions, it quickly became apparent that the ability to exploit new market opportunities rapidly, reliably and without disruption to the business was crucial. In this case study, the advantages of the DIGITALK Carrier Cloud to JT's business are outlined demonstrating the value that a Cloud solution can bring to leading wholesale termination providers."

Learn how to better manage an effective and efficient call center with a predictive dialer/call center solution from MDLsolutions.

Many mid-sized companies find themselves sacrificing either affordability or ease-of-use when selecting call center solutions. MDLsolutions has developed a software-based solution that is affordable, scalable and easy to install and maintain. The solution/predictive dialer is also feature-rich and comes with U.S.-based support.

Download this supplement to learn how MDLsolutions can get you on your way to a more productive call center.

A constellation of business requirements places new demands on IT professionals. The rapid speed with which the corporate operating environment moves has been well documented. Messaging middleware has transformed the way applications communicate and exchange information. Application integration has brought about significant advantages; however it has also brought about a need to track intangible, transient digital assets – business transactions. As the IT complexity grows, compliance and integration needs have also evolved.

Since IBM released two versions of WebSphere MQ in close proximity to each other, it is important to understand how to best utilize the benefits of both versions and how to get them to work together with previous versions. This white paper will give you a better understanding of how to get them to all get along.

In the Overview white paper, we discussed the key highlights of multiple version support for WebSphere MQ 7.1 and 7.5. In this paper, we are going to go into more detail. Let’s review the meaning of coexistence multiple installatioon. The key component is that you can install multiple versions of WebSphere MQ on the same server at the same time. This is something that you could not do in the past.

WebSphere MQ was developed in the early 1990’s to fill a need in many applications for Asynchronous Application to Application Communication. This concept is still a primary requirement of many applications, including Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud computing. Much like email provides asynchronous communication between individuals, WebSphere MQ provided the ability for applications on disparate platforms to communicate easier than ever before, even across companies. Many applications were designed to leverage the wealth of data stored on legacy systems without needing to rewrite the interfaces to that data or to disperse it to multiple systems.

Over 95% of the Fortune 1000 companies use WebSphere MQ for their messaging system. In fact, it is the most popular system for messaging across multiple platforms (85% market share). This paper reviews and summarizes the highlights of the recent releases of IBM’s WebSphere MQ 7.1 and 7.5. It is the first in a series of papers around the current changes in WebSphere MQ.

DevOps is a hot topic right now, and for good reason. Today’s application environments have become far too complex to deploy and manage with silo teams and stand-alone tools. Instead, they require coordination and collaboration across virtually all silos, and this is typically accomplished with teams of senior specialists with skill sets spanning Development and Operations. Tools play a key role in DevOps, as the right tools can be a bridge supplying a “common language” across teams with diverse skillsets and “technology languages.”