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15 Apr, 2016
Are key aspects being omitted by financial institutions?

Midway through our survey titled Surviving the FCA: Call Recording Survey, we are noticing that key aspects are potentially being omitted by financial institutions when it comes to their legacy strategies and plans. Is this the real picture? This is what you tell us so far: Although 54% of the respondents say they have a legacy infrastructure strategy in place, the majority have not incorporated key regulatory/compliance deadlines in their legacy roadmap. Data retrieval and data integrity seem to be the biggest...

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13 Apr, 2016
Business Systems partner Teleopti, named leading Workforce Management vendor

Business Systems’ partner, Teleopti, has been named a top Workforce Management (WFM) provider by DMG Consulting LLC in the 2016 WFM Product and Market Report. As detailed in the report, Teleopti WFM received a perfect overall customer satisfaction score and also achieved a perfect rating in key categories including training, implementation, vendor communication and product innovation. Overall, Teleopti WFM ranked ahead of other major WFM vendors like NICE, Aspect and Verint. Working with a partner that has been rated top...

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12 Apr, 2016
How can Real Time Guidance & Automation boost your contact centre performance?

Real Time Guidance and Automation technology has been developed primarily for contact centres to help agents more effectively handle inbound customer calls. Phone interactions with customers can involve a number of complex enquiries, and agents might not always have the correct information (at that very moment) to handle the call in the best possible way. This is where Real Time Guidance & Automation comes into play, ensuring your agents choose the most effective resolution path in real time, improving first...

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31 Mar, 2016
The Insider's Guide to Live & Legacy Call Recording Part 2

It’s Part 2 of The Insider’s Guide to Live & Legacy Call Recording and we would like you to meet ‘IT Ian’. In this series, Ian has to address 3 commonly faced issues: Supporting multiple systems from different manufacturers and/or service providers Finding a solution provider who offers end-of-life support Ensuring the testing & monitoring of the entire voice domain Meet Ian Ian is the IT Manager of a large multi-national company. He is responsible for ensuring business continuity and...

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21 Mar, 2016
Surviving the FCA: Call Recording Survey

How prepared are Financial Institutions in the UK to face the demands set by regulators? We've teamed up with Fintech Finance in an attempt to find out how prepared Financial Institutions really are, pin point some of the challenges the relevant teams face, and whether the demands set by the regulators is a much more challenging task than led to believe. Some of the questions we are trying to find answers to include: How prepared organisations are within the Financial...

Blog
18 Mar, 2016
What does the future have in store for Workforce Management forecasting?

A Definition of Workforce Management Workforce management (WFM) is built to maintain efficient workforce planning and efficient workforce management forecasting. WFM technology includes functionality which contact centres need including scheduling, workforce planning, shift trading and schedule optimisation. It allows workforce planners to quickly and easily allocate the right employees, with the right skill sets at the right time in order to meet service level agreements in the most efficient and cost effective way possible. It allows planners to forecast required...

Blog
16 Mar, 2016
A Multinational bank selects Business Systems

Business Systems implements the Vocal Wordwatch portal to help the bank meet its regulatory obligations. [Press Release] – Business Systems (UK) Ltd, the UK’s leading independent call recording and workforce optimisation specialist, today announced the successful deployment of the Vocal Wordwatch portal by a major multinational financial institution.  Vocal Wordwatch is a cutting edge virtualised playback portal that enables organisations who store their recordings for compliance purposes, to search, replay and export all legacy audio files with their metadata from different...

Blog
11 Mar, 2016
The Evolution of Mobile Call Recording

With the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID II) cracking down on rogue trading and introducing greater regulations into the market place, the need to consider what it means to have a robust mobile call recording solution in place is now more important than ever. With the introduction of several recording solutions throughout the years and the implications these have had for organisations, we step back in time to consider the evolution of mobile call recording and the journey...

Blog
08 Mar, 2016
Business Systems releases survey results on Workforce Management adoption in UK contact centres

Despite the clear benefits, adoption of workforce management has still to pick up with only 29% of respondents having a solution in place Large contact centres driven by the insurance sector seem to be ahead of the curve in workforce management adoption 90% of those who have a workforce management solution in place do not derive the expected value [Press Release] – Business Systems (UK) Ltd, a leading independent call recording and workforce optimisation specialist, today released results of its new...

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01 Feb, 2016
The Insider's Guide To Live & Legacy Call Recording Part 1

Part 1 - Compliance - Meet Dave In certain circles the word ‘Legacy Call Recording’ can mean dread for many, not to mention the dire implications it can potentially have on our business. With customer call recording and storage now a standard practice across multiple industries for Governance & Quality Control as well as a vital requirement within the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulations, understanding exactly what it means to own a ‘legacy’ system is now more important than ever....

Blog
19 Jan, 2016
Business Systems enhances its call recording portfolio with the O2 Mobile Recording solution

The solution will further strengthen the position of Business Systems in the UK Financial Services call recording market Business Systems UK (Ltd), a leading independent call recording and workforce optimisation specialist, announced today its ongoing partnership with O2, staying true to its commitment to offer its customers the most advanced solutions that best match their needs. With the addition of O2’s state-of-the-art Mobile Recording technology to its portfolio, the company is able to provide a truly comprehensive proposition to its...

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14 Jan, 2016
2016 – A year for change? Top leaders in the industry share their thoughts.

A quick re-cap of 2015 showed us that it was an important year for the Financial Services Market in understanding the significance of data retention for future regulation, with organisations considering a number of different solutions to ensure compliance needs are still being met. In the Customer Service world, we witnessed a continuing move towards customer centricity and experience, as well as a heightened desire to empower and engage employees for improved delivery and performance. We’ve now moved on to...

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