contact center

Microsoft’s latest tweak to Dynamics 365 Contact Center is small in code but large in operational impact: administrators can now use FetchXML-driven queries to control which queues and representatives appear as consult or transfer targets, a capability that reached general availability on...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a focused but powerful enhancement to Dynamics 365 Contact Center: administrators can now customize consults and transfers so that the set of queues and customer service representatives available during a consult or transfer is dynamically controlled by FetchXML...

Microsoft Teams is already the place where work happens for hundreds of millions — and the industry is asking a blunt question: can it also be the place where customer service happens? The short answer is yes, but only with design and discipline. Teams can handle simple voice queues out of the...

Microsoft Teams can absolutely host customer-facing operations — but turning it into a full-featured contact center is neither automatic nor risk‑free; it requires choosing the right integration model, validating vendors against Microsoft’s new extensibility standards, and running disciplined...

Fusion5’s announcement that it has been named a global finalist for the 2025 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Service Partner of the Year Award positions the Australasian systems integrator among the top four partners in a globally competitive category — a recognition that underscores the company’s...

Cluster Reply and Riverty this week unveiled a fast-tracked, Microsoft-backed omnichannel customer service platform that Riverty says was delivered in just 100 days and built to be AI-first while keeping human empathy at its core. The rollout consolidates voice, chat and email into a single...

Microsoft’s decision to stop servicing Windows 10 in mid‑October has turned a calendar item into an operational crisis for many business process outsourcing (BPO) firms — a sector that runs large, tightly controlled desktop estates and handles regulated, high‑value customer data. The technical...

Ukraine’s customer‑service teams face a simple fact in 2025: the volume, velocity, and multilingual nature of support requests make AI tools less of a luxury and more of an operational necessity — but picking the right tools, piloting them against real KPIs, and protecting data and jobs must...

Microsoft has opened the Live Interpreter API in public preview, a new Azure Speech Translation capability that promises continuous, real‑time speech‑to‑speech translation without requiring developers or users to preselect an input language. Background Microsoft’s Azure Speech Translation has...

AudioCodes' Voca Conversational Interaction Center (CIC) has been certified under Microsoft’s Teams Unify model and immediately leveraged that validation to claim another industry accolade — winning UC Today’s 2025 Best Microsoft Teams Contact Center award — a development that tightens the...

Headline: Zoom’s Enterprise Engine: AI, Churn, and the Long Game There’s a difference between a rebound and a turnaround. Rebounds are optical: the chart zigs up after it zagged down. Turnarounds are operational: the culture, product velocity, sales motions, and economics shift in ways that...

Microsoft’s latest announcement of the 2025 Release Wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform marks yet another strategic leap into artificial intelligence, automation, and seamless digital transformation for business applications. As the company details its roadmap, several dominant...

Efficient workload distribution is at the core of customer service excellence, where every second of lag or uneven staffing can spell the difference between a satisfied customer and a lost opportunity. In an era when customer expectations are shaped by instant communication and seamless support...

In the dynamic world of customer service, speed and reliability are the cornerstones of successful contact centers. For years, organizations have strived to deliver seamless engagements in the face of mounting customer expectations, unpredictable technical hiccups, and the ever-present push...

Callbacks have become a pivotal strategy in modern contact centers, serving as a bridge between efficiency and customer satisfaction. In the landscape of Customer Contact as a Service (CCaaS), Microsoft’s latest evolution—availability-aware scheduling through CCaaS APIs—ushers in a...

Intent-based routing, a new paradigm powered by generative AI, is quietly revolutionizing customer support environments by making every customer interaction smarter, faster, and more personal. As contact centers across industries grapple with rising expectations and complexity, this...

For more than a decade, the health technology sector has been in a race to balance innovation, efficiency, and empathy. At the heart of this evolution stands healow—a digital health company relentlessly focused on bridging the gap between patients and providers, especially as healthcare’s...

NTT DATA’s expansion into managed services for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center signals a defining moment for enterprises aiming to modernize customer experiences (CX) with the latest advancements in agentic AI and cloud-native platforms. With both technological innovation and practical...

Twilio and Microsoft have announced a new technology alliance that’s poised to bring generative AI capabilities into the center stage of customer engagement. This partnership, confirmed by both firms in their respective company press channels and subsequently covered by Investing.com Nigeria and...

In a move that signals the brisk acceleration of conversational AI adoption across enterprise landscapes, Twilio has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Microsoft, unveiled prominently at the recent Twilio SIGNAL event in San Francisco. This alliance aims to blend Twilio’s robust...