Call Recording Technology

Legacy voice data can be challenging for organisations – often difficult to keep track of, manage, and adhere to regulatory demands. Nevertheless, there are a few key steps that can be taken to simplify legacy voice data management.  1. Consolidate your View of your Legacy Voice Data For organisations with considerable legacy voice data estates, one of the biggest challenges is keeping tabs on many different storage solutions that may be in use simultaneously. Because the nature of voice recording...

As international hubs where individuals from different backgrounds and cultures come together, the diversity of trading floor and banking environments can introduce complexities in voice transcription due to variations in accents, dialects, and industry-specific jargon. Compliance teams must ensure that transcriptions accurately capture the intended meaning of conversations, even when language barriers or technical terminology exist. The majority of errors or inaccuracies in transcriptions often come from transcription engines which are unable to cope with trader speed and jargon. This...

When organisations think about improving their business operations, a lot of the time they tend to overlook smaller things that could potentially have a big impact on the business. For example, integrating a call recording system is often one of those overlooked methods of improving a business.  Sometimes big business changes can be improved by what we like to call 'smart changes'; you will be surprised at the impact one change, such as installing a call recording solution, can have on your business.  Contact centres in particular, look for call...

Most organisations are dealing with rapidly evolving and growing technology landscapes and voice architecture plays a big part in this. Call Recording solutions have been around for years, it’s an established technology and many organisations are now on their second, third, fourth or even fifth generation voice recording solution – and therein lies the problem.    Call Recording Management: Challenges of a large Call Recording Infrastructure  When it comes to managing a large call recording estate, the waters have become muddied. Heads of IT are having to deal with call recording systems...

Many financial companies have created voice/call recording mayhem for themselves by surrounding themselves with multiple voice recording solutions, but there is a way out of the software jungle explains Richard Mill from Business Systems. Voice recording is a critical core compliance for financial services companies and should be straightforward – yet many companies have muddied the waters by acquiring different voice recording systems over time in different regions. These are often outmoded and incompatible, which is creating a real dilemma...

With over 30 years’ worth of voice recording expertise, we have supplied a variety of call recording systems from leading manufacturers including NICE, Red Box and Verint.   There isn’t much we haven’t seen when it comes to the voice recording world! With one of the largest in-house engineering resource bases, who are fully qualified and accredited to install and support call recording systems from leading manufacturers, we pride ourselves on being a truly independent technology provider.  So, we’ve put together a quick guide on what organisations need to consider when it comes to the basics...

As the New Year slowly creeps in, we thought it timely to update our article ‘Top 6 technologies that will drive recording compliance in 2017’, and look at it from a 2018 perspective. We’re excited about 2018. The FIFA football world cup is happening and, according to experts, Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth since 2003. Some exciting events to look forward to. And, let’s not forget MiFID II in January. As regulatory frameworks within the financial...

Following the recent strain of the WannaCry ransomware attack, experts have cautioned that the best protection for systems running the Microsoft Windows operating system, is to have downloaded a patch issued by Microsoft in March. 1. What if my server is no longer supported by Windows?  If your system is no longer supported by Microsoft (this includes Windows XP, and 2003) then this means your system is extremely vulnerable to hackers. In the voice recording world, a similar cyberattack could...

Working in a law firm means you probably take a lot of important calls on any given day, but if you really needed to, could you recount every call you have received and every detail discussed during these calls? Whether you need to record for note-taking, dispute resolution, regulatory compliance or training, call recording can benefit your firm. Here are 3 ways how: 1. Avoid loss of information When talking to clients, it is vital to actively listen and note...

Business Systems’ partner NICE has recently released NICE Quality Central, a new quality management solution that incorporates all types of customer interaction data, drawn from any source, into a holistic and comprehensive evaluation process. This enables organizations to increase employee engagement, improve process efficiency, and deliver a superior customer experience. NICE Quality Central is the only recording-agnostic, enterprise-scale solution of its kind in the market. Based on NICE’s deep expertise in quality management, the new solution has been proven to: Reduce...

The property sector in the UK is a continuously evolving sector, largely influenced by the changing socioeconomic and technological landscape of the country at each given time.  A few years back, we were talking about the change brought about by the introduction of online property portals such as Rightmove and Zoopla. Today, affordable housing initiatives by the government as well as the rise of property sharing in big cities are once again changing the market dynamics. In such a diverse...

Business Systems has won the award for Compliance Project of the Year at the FStech Awards 2017, with its Vocal Wordwach solution.Business Systems (UK) Ltd, leading compliance and performance optimisation solutions provider, announced that it has won the ‘Compliance Project of the Year’ award at the FStech Awards 2017. Now into their 17th year, the FStech Awards recognise excellence and innovation in the field of information technology within the UK and EMEA financial services sector. The Compliance Project of the...