A contact center or customer interaction center is a central point in an enterprise that is equipped to handle large amounts of customer telephone requests for an organization. It is basically a computer-based system that provides contact and call routing with specialist answering “agent” stations and a sophisticated real-time contact management system, for high-volume telephony transactions. It provides automatic contact distribution and inbound contact handling capabilities, combined with a high degree of sophistication in terms of dynamic contact traffic management.
The most common contact center activities are as follows:
There are various types of Contact Centers which can be described as:
Call center analytics can be more than just a tool to improve contact center performance. Using the right approach to call center metrics in the process, acts as an important strategic asset in improving contact center performance. Implementation of call center analytics software solutions helps to analyze the customer behavior in driving continuous process improvement throughout the entire organization.
Contact center vs. call center
The prime difference between a contact center and a call center is that while a call center is focused on outgoing and incoming voice calls, a contact center can manage customers with both voice calls and data applications like instant messaging, e-mail, and in some cases will include the capability to share web pages sent to and from the customer.
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