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Better Together: IoT and CRM for the Manufacturing Industry

SugarCRM

IoT and CRM: Better Together IoT is the connection of devices via the internet, while CRM is the collection of customer data through data mining with the purpose of providing useful insight into customer behavior for marketing and sales purposes. Since we know that CRM requires data, combining it with IoT is a perfect match.

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Outbound Call Center Tips & Best Practices

Callminer

Just because the technology makes it possible doesn’t mean you should do it.” Use lead-centric data mining tools to boost outbound results by providing much-needed context for calls. Gleaning data from corporate websites, news, and social media activities is a good place to start.

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Workforce Optimization Ushers in the Real-Time Contact Center

DMG Consulting

It’s hard to overstate how much the contact center technology sector has progressed in the past 15 years. We have progressed from interactive voice response (IVR) systems to intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs), from process optimization to process automation, and from technology as an enabler to technology as a partner.

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Call Center Software: How to Choose the Best Software (Tips & Best Practices)

Callminer

New analytics tools also help businesses data-mine social media for signs of potential customer issues before phones start ringing. Now, a new technology known as Web callback or virtual queueing allows callers to ‘virtually’ hold their place in the queue after they hang up in order to receive a callback later.

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Four Top Trends for Contact Centers

Taylor Reach Group

It was the first time that technology could automate a task that had previously been completed by an agent in a Call Center. . Business rules tied to applications, and informed by big data and data mining, can drive proactive interactions with or without an agent involved. .