How Voice Biometrics Keep Your Contact Center Secure
In this day and age, passwords are no longer enough. If you’ve ever watched a spy movie, you’ve seen things like vaults and secret rooms protected by multi-factor authentication such as facial verification, fingerprint recognition, and retinal scanning. It's usually the madman trying to bring down the world that uses these tools. He’s uber-rich, so of course, he could afford it. This type of...
Xcelerate Labs | Time-Based Routing To Adjust Routing By Day And Time
Xcelerate’s Time-Based Routing (TBR) empowers system administrators to quickly build, edit and schedule call routing configurations through an easy-to-use, guided interface. It’s a powerful addition to the Xcelerate feature set that will come in handy in any number of situations. For example, you may want to route interactions to a different agent group during a special sale, or play a...
Xcelerate 'Flextension' Featured at Twilio SIGNAL Conference
During the keynote of Twilio's annual SIGNAL conference held on Tuesday, October 20th, 2021, Satuja Parulekar, Head of Contact Center at Twilio, introduced "Flextensions" - turnkey solutions built on Twilio's Flex platform. One of the two new solutions highlighted was Xcelerate by Waterfield Technologies, an out-of-the-box solution to deploying a feature rich, omnichannel contact center, in...
Choosing the Right Workforce Optimization Platform for Your Business
Workforce Optimization solutions, when well implemented, support agent efficiency, productivity, and your bottom line. Choosing the right platform for your business can be complex. And understanding the questions to ask along the way an even more involved process. We'll dive in below to some of the key benefits of WFO as well as areas to consider when seeking a platform.
Contact Center Dilemma - Self-Service or Agent?
Millions of dollars have been invested in contact centers to support customers calling to ask questions, get support, purchase or return items - or just grumble. The personal agent-to-customer contact seemed important - until it wasn’t. The frustration of waiting for an agent, the aggravation of being transferred from one department to another, and the annoyance of having to re-tell your...
Protect Customer Information and Reduce Risk
The nightmare of Target’s data breach during the holiday season a few years ago still haunts businesses today. The aftermath of severe fines, loss of customer trust and a seriously bruised reputation - not to mention the reported $61 million payout – leaves corporate executives shaking in their boots when thinking about their own company’s payment security plans. (...