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09 Oct, 2020
Call Recording Management - How the Head of IT can manage large Call Recording Platforms

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...

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10 Aug, 2020
Top 4 Benefits Of A Cloud Contact Centre

The chaos of the worldwide pandemic has pushed us to the verge of another cloud migration . We’ve seen it with data storage, and we will now witness the same evolution in the contact centre industry, moving from the on-premise call centre solution to a cloud contact centre. Why implement Cloud Contact Centre technology? It’s a reality that COVID-19 caused contact centres worldwide to struggle as they attempted to implement efficient remote-working solutions for their contact centre agents. Implementation needed...

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20 Jul, 2020
How To Manage A Gradual Return To The Office With Workforce Planning

These past few weeks have been promising. The pandemic lockdown restrictions have slowly started to lift. Shops (and soon even pubs) are gradually starting to re-open. Businesses are now also complying with a host of new workplace guidelines, designed to create safe workspaces for employees. According to GOV.UK, the main objective to these guidelines is to: ‘maintain social distancing wherever possible, on arrival and departure’. As more of us might start to make a gradual return to the office, contact centre...

Blog
10 Jun, 2020
Navigating & Adapting Your Contact Centre For the Future

As the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions slowly start to ease, businesses are now turning their attention to reopening and looking forward. Organisations, particularly contact centres are now operating in a world that already looks different to the one we left a few months ago.It’s an everchanging landscape, where contact centres now need to be thinking strategically rather than tactfully, so we thought it timely to team up with our partners NICE inContact, to deliver an insightful webinar on how you can...

Blog
28 Apr, 2020
Top Tips for Combating Challenges In The Contact Centre During COVID-19

Our latest webinar, ‘Top Tips for Combating Challenges in The Contact Centre’ was packed with an array of knowledge, best practice techniques and even a very good list of suggestions on what to watch next on Netflix, thanks to our audience contributions! (Tiger King it is then!). To catch this webinar on-demand, check out this link:Top Tips for Combatting Challenges In The Contact Centre During COVID-19 Here are the top takeaways from the day: Demand V Customer Service COVID-19 has...

Blog
08 Apr, 2020
Top 10 Tips For The Modern Contact Centre

Exclusively written for bslgroup.com by Alice TrentAlice Trent is a workplace trends blogger who uses her own experiences to provide advice to her readers. She believes that all workplaces should strive to encourage and protect their employees. In her free time, she loves to hike.Today’s modern contact centre faces more demand than ever. With consumers having grown used to faster and more personalised services, and agents expecting better working environments, there are a lot of relevant concerns. Fortunately though, there...

Blog
30 Mar, 2020
Mobile Call Recording - How To Keep Traders Trading

With markets fluctuating wildly due to the economic effects of the coronavirus outbreak, and companies closing offices and asking employees to work from home, organisations have had to adapt rather quickly in uncertain times. Financial Services Firms in particular, have had the burden of setting up traders to work remotely, recreating the carefully monitored environment of the trading floor at not just one site, but potentially thousands. According to The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) all firms are expected to have...

Blog
25 Mar, 2020
Real-Time Adherence - A Key Ingredient To Help You Manage Your Workforce Remotely

With Contact Centres all over the globe still facing the reality of home working, real-time adherence functionality remains to be vital in order to protect service levels.   Managing today’s multi-channel contact centres from home could be easier than you think with a little forward planning and the right WFM technology. We all need to be flexible and agile with ‘on the go’ workforce planning. Real-time adherence will play an integral part of effective intraday management.  Challenges Many organisations are now set up for home working. Staff are set...

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25 Mar, 2020
How To Manage Remote Contact Centre Agents During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Challenges Contact Centres face during COVID-19 As the nation reacts to contain the virus, organisations need to be ready to adapt and do what is right for their staff, colleagues and customers, which includes ensuring remote contact centre agents are working efficiently. However, as organisations swiftly move to enable their staff to operate remotely, they are inevitably faced with a number of challenges: Providing customers with the right support: Ensuring customers can continue to reach the right agent on their...

Blog
24 Mar, 2020
Legacy Call Recording FAQs

Can I integrate an existing legacy call recording system with a modern, up-to-date solution?  Yes this is possible. With a multi-vendor centralised voice recording replay portal this solution will sit on top of any existing legacy (and also live) call recording systems. A solution such as this is able to access calls from multiple call recording systems, regardless of age, manufacturer or geographic location. This unique portal sits above live and legacy systems (cloud or on-premise), providing a single point...

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13 Mar, 2020
Top 3 Resource Planning Techniques Within The Contact Centre

In order to meet customer demands, workforce planners need to make sure they have the right number of agents with the right skill sets available at the right time. And this starts with having the right resource planning and workforce planning techniques in place. With customer contact channels increasing (email, web chat, SMS etc.), workforce scheduling and workforce planning has become a complex and labour-intensive job. Let’s not forget to throw into the mix variables such as absenteeism, holidays and...

Blog
31 Jan, 2020
Business Systems (UK) Ltd Shortlisted for Major Sector Awards

To find out more and to cast your vote, go to: Leader in regulatory voice recording management for Financial Services and enterprise workforce optimisation solutions is in line for FinTech Vendor of the Year award at the Citywealth Magic Circle Awards 2020 Isleworth, January 27, 2020 – Business Systems (UK) Ltd,  a market leader in regulatory voice recording centralised management and enterprise workforce optimisation solutions, is delighted to announce it has reached the finals of the Citywealth Magic Circle Awards,...

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