The importance of the human touch in contact centres

In an environment fuelled by technology, it is imperative to customer experience for contact centres to maintain human interaction, writes Frederic Durand, the chief executive and founder of Diabolocom.

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Are network blind-spots derailing your digital transformation train?

When dealing with digital transformation initiatives, having visibility into IT infrastructure shouldn’t be a choice, it should be a requirement, writes Nadeem Zahid, the senior director of strategy and cloud

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Vampire BAT FANGs set to dominate digital economy

Recent research from Virtusa has uncovered that businesses, including communications service providers (CSPs), are facing an existential risk from the enormous growth of technology giants such as Baidu, Alibaba and

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Google and Facebook – you can do better!

How many times have you seen ads on the web for that item you just purchased? What’s the point in showing people ads for stuff they already bought? Those ads

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Can networks carry big video’s ultra-high definition burden?

The past decade has seen the multi-fold growth of online content consumption on mobile devices. We’ve never spent as much time (and data) on our smartphones, getting work done, browsing

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How mailbox ISPs can solve the WhatsApp problem

Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, takes a look at where email is today, arguing that to counter the inexorable rise of real-time messaging, mailbox ISPs should start thinking positively about

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Lurie lures CSPs to Synchronoss with promise of platforms for cloud era competition

Glenn Lurie, the chief executive of Synchronoss, tells George Malim that the coming together of cloud, IoT and 5G capabilities gives communications service providers (CSPs) an opportunity to choose their

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What to look for in a UCaaS provider

As the workplace continues to evolve we see new technologies and services entering the business environment, writes Dave Ricketts, the head of marketing at Six Degrees. The office of the

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SON shines sometimes as CSPs get ready to automate operations

  Self organising networks (SON) have, in recent years, gained limited attention as communications service providers (CSPs) focus on virtualisation via software defined networks (SDN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV).

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One missed call: How CSPs have been left behind in the innovation wars

In the traditional supply-demand sense, communications service providers (CSPs) should be rubbing their hands together with glee. After all, they sell access to what’s now considered by most a basic

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