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13 Aug, 2018
Workforce Management FAQs

Are you considering implementing a Workforce Management solution? Do you have a number of questions that need to be answered first? With a wealth of WFM experience under our belt, we address the most frequently asked questions when it comes to Workforce Management technology. Do I need Workforce Management? Depending on the size of the contact centre, setting up schedules can be far too complex to be handled in a simple spreadsheet, and this is where Workforce Management, with advanced...

Blog
26 Jul, 2018
4 Steps to Creating an IVR Programme that Customers Don’t Hate

Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) technology was hailed as a major breakthrough for contact centre operators. With call centre software that can interpret and act on cues from speech in natural usage, it brought about the opportunity to automate large chunks of call processing. With IVR making a range of self-service options available over the telephone, there is no longer a need to have an agent answer every call. Average costs per call have therefore fallen, while agents freed from handling...

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20 Jul, 2018
Business Systems awarded on to the G-Cloud 10 Framework Helping Boost UK Public Sector Move to the Cloud

London, July 2018 – Business Systems (UK) Ltd, a leading provider of Call Recording and Workforce Optimisation solutions with a 30 year history in quality monitoring, analytics, workforce management and cloud contact centre technology, has once again been awarded a place on the G-Cloud 10 framework for the supply of cloud-based software to the Public Sector. As well as other services, the G-Cloud framework is a UK Government initiative designed to support the growth in procurement of Cloud to the...

Blog
11 Jul, 2018
An Insiders Guide to Robotic Process Automation - What is Robotic Process Automation?

Series 1 – What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)? Welcome to Part 1 of the Business Systems blog series - ‘An Insider’s Guide to Robotic Process Automation’. In this series: The era of Robots Industries ready for Automation Realising the value in RPA Keeping on top of the robots The era of Robots Throughout the years, customer service operations, with the abundance of advanced functionality and multi-channel communications, have become more powerful resulting in your customer service team spending more...

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29 Jun, 2018
Business Systems - Champions Cloud Interactions as NICE LTD’S – ‘Partner of the Year’ 2018

London, June 2018 – Sharing a joint vision of ‘smart interactions in the cloud’ which is underpinned by analytics and process excellence, Business Systems (UK) Ltd (BSL) once again received NICE Ltd’s top accolade at the prestigious Interactions Business Summit 2018. BSL has operated a ‘Service Centre of Excellence’ for NICE products since the early 90’s and has consistently been at the forefront of the unique combination of technology and services that make up Workforce Optimisation (WFO) in all its...

Blog
29 Mar, 2018
NICE inContact Empowers Companies in Europe to Provide Exceptional Customer Experience with CXone

Business Systems (UK) Ltd are pleased to announce their partnership with NICE inContact, presenting CXone - a unified cloud customer experience platform allowing organisations to act smarter and respond faster to ever-changing consumer expectations. To find out more about the Business Systems offering for CXone, please talk to our team on 0800 458 2988 or visit our page. Salt Lake City, March 22, 2018 – NICE inContact, a NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) business, today announced the availability of NICE inContact CXone...

Blog
27 Mar, 2018
Speech Analytics and Compliance

It has become apparent that customers interact with organisations in more ways than ever before - email, social media, instant messaging and mobile are just a few in an increasingly growing list. On average, almost six different channels are used during the lifecycle of each customer relationship. With evolving technologies, these channels are bound to increase even more. The financial services industry is no different. Communications between traders and their clients inevitably span across multiple channels, with voice (fixed or...

Blog
06 Feb, 2018
How to reduce cost in the Contact Centre

Contact Centre Managers face a real challenge when trying to reduce cost in the contact centre.  Maximising each and every customer interaction as well as keeping the day to day operation of the contact centre running, requires an almost genius balance of workforce planning, productivity, quality and efficiency in every day processes. So here are our top 4 ways technologies help contact centres reduce cost without compromising on quality: 1) Workforce Management Workforce Management (WFM) enables workforce planners to automate the...

Blog
01 Feb, 2018
5 things you should know about Business Systems' Workforce Management offering

The company you choose to implement your Workforce Management solution can impact how quickly you see a return on investment as well as the quality of service you deliver to your customers. At Business Systems (UK) Ltd we work with all major Workforce Management (WFM) manufacturers (Teleopti, NICE and Verint) and boast an outstanding Workforce Optimisation team of experts. With over 50 years of Workforce Optimisation experience combined, our team have seen it all. If you are considering implementing a...

Blog
18 Dec, 2017
What is entry level speech analytics and why it's a must for MiFID II compliance

In an effort to comply with ever-tightening regulations such as MiFID II, Financial Institutions have re-focused their efforts on expanding their compliance teams as well as investigating already established technologies, such as Speech and Text Analytics. This technology has proven to be extremely useful in: Preventing issues from escalating by providing the necessary means to search proactively through recordings for ‘high risk’ keywords and phrases Supporting compliance by quickly finding and retrieving calls requested by regulatory bodies In light of...

Blog
15 Nov, 2017
Black Friday - is your contact centre ready?

Winter is here, and with it comes a group eager to devour all that may lie in their path. Luckily, it’s not the white walkers from the hit show Game of Thrones, but a whole other type of army – shoppers waiting to grab the latest bargains in the lead up to the festive season. Black Friday takes place this year on November 24th and if it’s anything like 2016 which saw an estimated spend of 2.9 billion* (with savvy...

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25 Oct, 2017
6 technologies driving recording compliance in 2018

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...

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