The Carousel Newsletter is a monthly resource for industry news, trends and the latest offerings from Carousel Industries and our Technology Partners.
This month’s focus is on Perfecting the Customer Experience.

The Service Economy is now… the Experience Economy

We are moving from a service economy to an experience economy. Today’s customers are not just looking to get the right service at the right time at the right channel. They are looking for an experience that is immersive, engaging and proactive. We are already seeing companies leverage customer experience (CX) as the key tool to win the experience economy, far beyond price and product.

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Contributor: InContact

Protect your Office 365 investments; deliver fast, efficient data protection and recovery; and help meet legal and compliance requirements

Microsoft Office 365 enables your enterprise to work anywhere, anytime, without the need to host your own email, files and content management infrastructure. Even though Microsoft hosts the infrastructure, this doesn’t replace your responsibility of maintaining a backup of your business-critical Office 365 data.

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Contributor: Veeam

Only Using the Rear View is a Dangerous Way to Drive

Reporting is the most fundamental workload in UC performance management today. It provides a high-level view of the environment, but does not actively monitor environmental health, nor provide the correlated diagnostics to help identify and remediate active issues. If you want to be able to correlate various data points and diagnose want change want to what went wrong with particular poor UC calls or broader outages, you should definitely expand your search to diagnostics vendors.

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Contributor: Nectar

What are collaboration displays?

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine just how people collaborated, communicated, or even did their jobs thirty, twenty, or even just ten years ago without some of the technology we have today! Comparing workplaces and educational institutions today to the way they were back then, it’s clear that things have changed quite a bit. Letters sent by mail have been replaced by emails, whiteboards have been replaced by collaboration displays, and the list goes on…

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Contributor: ViewSonic

Porch Optimizes Customer Engagement with RingCentral

Success in today’s sharing economy requires modern-day communications and collaboration solutions that optimize customer engagement, and Porch is one such provider that’s on the leading edge of this trend. Check out this blog to see how they’ve succeeded using RingCentral to fully engage their customers.

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Contributor: RingCentral

Evaluation of Polycom Pano: Hands-on testing of a feature-rich wireless presentation solution

In June 2017, Polycom announced a new solution called Pano – a wireless and wired presentation solution intended to make it quick and easy for meeting participants to present and share various types of content. In May 2017, Polycom commissioned the Wainhouse Research (WR) test team to perform a third-party assessment of Pano. To facilitate this effort, Polycom provided a pre-release version of the Pano device, and a Sharp PN-L703B 1080p touch-capable 70” display. Read White Paper

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Contributor: Polycom

Set Your Organization Apart

Customer service has become a major differentiator for enterprises. Today’s workforce is rarely in one place. Your team of knowledge workers can always use more information before jumping onto the next call.

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Contributor: AVST

Why 100GbE May Be Closer than You Think

When Ethernet was first developed in 1973 in Xerox labs, Engineers Robert Metcalf and David Boggs wanted to develop a technology that provided easy-to-use, ubiquitous connectivity, mostly for use between computers and peripherals such as printers. They achieved their main goal, which was to eliminate any set-up or provisioning. It was an early example of what we now call plug-and-play, and offered what was then the staggering speed of 2.94Mbps.

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Contributor: Ciena

Customer Service Matters

Purchasing an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), however big or small, is an investment—in your business or organization, peace of mind, reliability and bottom line. Here’s everything you need to know about the service and support we offer.

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Contributor: Eaton

Conduct Cybersecurity at Business Speed

Technology transformation, more often than not, positively impacts customer experience, yet organizations grapple with ongoing security concerns caused by these advancements. In highly regulated industries like financial services, firms must implement the right solutions and best practices. Learn seven ways to stay secure and compliant without interfering with your customers’ experience.

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Contributor: ForeScout

PSAP Link: E911 Service for Call Centers

If your organization employs a call center, you know firsthand how important it is to perfect the customer experience. If an emergency occurs while your agent is on the line with a customer, are you prepared?

PSAP Link is an easy-to-use E911 service that allows telematics and relay call center agents to automatically transfer member emergency calls and real-time 911 location information to the appropriate Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) in a crisis situation.

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Contributor: West

Monitor, measure and manage to ensure customer experience

Collaboration technologies are constantly evolving and changing the way people communicate. Enterprises are embracing the digital revolution and adopting more elaborate and efficient team collaboration systems. Now, more than ever, it is imperative to have a system in place to ensure the health of communication ecosystems, exceed customer expectations and empower productivity.

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Contributor: RSI

Foster an optimal customer experience in the call center

Customer expectations continue to rise as digital solutions change the way that they interact with businesses. Success comes from optimizing contact center interactions and cultivating high-quality customer engagement across all touchpoints. The objectives are clear- enhance the customer experience and maximize the value of remote agents. The goal – increase sales effectiveness. In order to meet these objectives, you’ll need a powerful infrastructure that ensures a smooth workflow, optimizes productivity and delivers a premium customer experience. Check out the following contact center solution options for deploying a full end-to end remote agent solution.

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Contributor: AudioCodes

Boost Customer Engagement with SMS for Business

Consumers today want the ability to communicate with companies through SMS along with phone calls. With 81% of Americans texting regularly, your customers need another way to engage. The best part? Texts have a 99% open rate with an average response time of 90 seconds. Read this infographic for more information.

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Contributor: IntelePeer

How Real-Time Communications Innovations are Disrupting Higher Ed

As more teaching is being done online and more research is being conducted within and between universities, new collaboration platforms are becoming more valuable than ever.

Communications service providers are now bundling networking services and collaboration applications (voice, video, and messaging) to make real-time communicating easier, more powerful, and less expensive. These systems replace legacy “telephone” services with mobile and desktop collaboration platforms and bring students, teachers, academics, and administrators together for the ultimate end result: learning and innovation.

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Contributor: Ribbon