Call Center
Industry News
Archive: February-2001   (02-2001) <-Current
21-Feb-2001 Verizon Wireless Launches Three Year, $100 Million Call Center Service Improvement Plan National Customer Service Employment to Increase by 6 Percent in 2001; Twelve Call Centers to be Opened or Expanded, Nine to Move or Close
19-Feb-2001 State of Georgia, Swainsboro/Emanuel County & BellSouth Alliance Proves Successful High-Speed Network Spurs Economic Development & Brings Services to Area
   
16-Feb-2001 Click2Coach From Envision Telephony Awarded Call Center Best of Show by Customer Support Management Magazine SEATTLE — February 16, 2001 — Envision Telephony, creator of Click2Coach™ software, announced today that it is an award winner in Customer Support Management's First Annual Call Center "Best of Show Awards." This is the fourth award received by Envision Telephony in 2001.
15-Feb-2001 Cross Country Automotive Services To Open Additional Customer Contact Center In Sebring, Florida Sebring Contact Center to Support Emergency Response Services for Automotive Manufacturers, Insurance Companies, and other Industry-Leading Organizations
14-Feb-2001 AVAYA INC. COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF VPNET TECHNOLOGIES VPNet develops virtual private networks. (Avaya: Formerly Lucent Technologies)
14-Feb-2001 White Pajama Awarded Call Center "Best of Show", by Customer Support Management Magazine White Pajama's contact center solution recognized as top-notch by industry professionals
12-Feb-2001 Cincom Receives Call Center Magazine's Product of the Year Award For prospect and customer handling software.
   
08-Feb-2001 New Group Enters Telecom Debate Voices for Choices Launches Campaign to Enforce 96 Telecom Act
06-Feb-2001 1st CTI Announces Development of Linux Voice Processing Application 1st Computer Telephony Innovators (1st CTI) is in development porting its successful Windows 98 and NT/2000 Voice Processing solutions to the Linux operating system.
06-Feb-2001 Alcatel Enhances OmniTouch Contact Center Package with Advanced Functionality from Genesys Alcatel OmniTouch Now Features Genesys' Outbound Contact Capabilities with Plans to Deliver Genesys' Web and E-Mail Capabilities
06-Feb-2001 Knowlagent Captures Call Center Magazine's Best Call Center Products of 2000 Distinction Company's KnowDev @nswer 5.0 Software Training Suite Showcased as Exceptional Call Center Technology
05-Feb-2001 Telera Wins Product of the Year Award at Internet Telephony Telera Connect Cited as One of the Key Industry Products Changing the Way Businesses Create and Deliver Voice Applications
05-Feb-2001 Workforce Management Software Gaining Market Momentum According to Recent Saddletree Research Study ...U.S. market for contact center workforce management software is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 74 percent through the year 2004,
05-Feb-2001 Siemens Announces National Service Agreement With Kaiser Permanente ...What good are Siemens' mammogram or x-ray systems if patients can't get through on the healthcare providers' telephone systems to make appointments for these medical marvels?
05-Feb-2001 Pleasant Company, a Division of Mattel, Selects Xchange for Customer Relationship Management Creators of American Girl(R) books and dolls to use personalized marketing to increase profitability of customer relationships
05-Feb-2001 Blue Pumpkin Software Caps Impressive Growth Year with Banner Fourth Quarter Who's Who List of New Customers Includes KPMG, Verizon, Kaiser Permanente, Kmart, Avis Group UK and Merrill Lynch [note: Blue Pumpkin's wording]
   
02-Feb-2001 India's VSNL soars on sell-off news; can it last? The Indian government decision to sell a big chunk of its holding in telecoms blue-chip Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) sent the firm's shares soaring...
02-Feb-2001 CLICKSOFTWARE, NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS SIGN ALLIANCE CONTRACT ...Nextel and ClickSoftware will jointly promote ClickSoftware's ClickSchedule and ClickMobile applications. These applications optimize field worker productivity and customer satisfaction through real-time scheduling of field workers based on field worker status and skill level...
01-Feb-2001 Pioneer Electronics standardizes on Aspect Portal for multichannel contact center initiative ...today announced that Pioneer Electronics Service Inc., the service and support bureau of Pioneer Electronics Corporation (NYSE: PIO) for all Pioneer products sold in the United States, has standardized on the Aspect Customer Relationship Portal to deliver blended voice and e-mail to its service agents...
01-Feb-2001 Forrester Research Ranks Quintus As #2 CRM Provider in its Current Customer Service Application TechRankings Quintus' eContact Suite is recognized by Forrester for its multi-channel queuing and routing strengths. (Learn more about the report at
   




 














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