Cloud

Moving to Cloud-Based CCaaS – 5 Must-Haves

There are lots of challenges and upsides in moving to cloud-based CCaaS; for both service providers and end users. Here is a checklist of just five must-haves when making the move: some obvious, others less so...

The Nature of ACDs

It used to be that the ACD did one job; distributing calls in queues to agents. As the contact center industry evolved, so did the job of the ACD. All these things have had an impact...

Designing for the Cloud – Challenge #6 – Mitigating Failure

The universal law of communications is that things go wrong. Every formal signalling protocol has this fact built into its design. But all too often, this doesn’t extend to the rest of the infrastructure that runs the contact center. So... what happens when things break?

A Working Contact Center in 48 Hours

“Can you get a 200 seat contact center up and working over the weekend?” The call came in late Friday night. “Sure” we said.