The current global pandemic has changed the way the world does business, almost overnight. For a lot of companies, there was a mad rush to try and get set up for the ‘new normal’ – trying to get VPNs installed, ensuring workers had remote desktop access or company laptops and for contact centers, ensuring that […]

  Advances in voice recognition technology have changed the way we can now search the internet, as well as how we interact with smart devices in our homes. Consumers are increasingly familiar with such technology, no longer just as a novelty (such as asking Alexa to tell a joke) but as a core part of […]

  If you’re holding payment card data within your organization’s contact center environment (for instance in call recordings, or in your network as transactions are made) you’re always at risk from a data breach, even if you’re PCI  and GDPR compliant. Many organizations have shifted calls and transactions to remote workers and outsourcers due to […]

  CardEasy is our award-winning, PCI DSS compliance solution used by contact centers to reduce risk, compliance burden and cost related to the handling of card payments either ‘over the phone’ or using any digital channel. What are the benefits it can provide your business? The world is an ever-changing place and recently we have […]

There’s been a big rise in consumers using online chat to interact with organizations recently. Superoffice suggests that as many as 41% of consumers now expect live chat to be offered on an organization’s website. Indeed, there’s evidence that consumers prefer live chat to other digital contact center channels, with 46% of customers stating a […]

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council’s 2018 guidelines entitled ‘Protecting Telephone-based Payment Card Data’ shifted the emphasis from their 2011 advice to securing spoken card data (as opposed to securing recorded payment card data). But now contact centers are embracing a multitude of newer digital channels in addition to voice, what are the best […]

Many merchants have responded to the Covid-19 epidemic by either asking their contact center agents to stay safe and work from home, or by routing calls to outsourcers handling calls on their behalf. Both of these present a number of unique security challenges and associated risk. During these difficult times, it is clearly important for […]

If you’re a contact center operations manager or responsible for IT or telephony, you’ll be used to being bombarded with buzzwords and ‘envisioning’ the contact center of the future. By now, you’re probably on your way to providing a ‘customer engagement center’, with multiple channels seamlessly integrated for tech-savvy consumers to switch between at will.  […]