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The contact center tag on WindowsForum.com covers Microsoft's evolving approach to customer service, focusing on Dynamics 365 Contact Center and Microsoft Teams as platforms for omnichannel engagement. Discussions include RingCentral's Customer Engagement Bundle for informal contact centers in Teams, Riverty's rapid Dynamics 365 rollout with AI-ready features and zero disruption, and FetchXML-driven consult and transfer controls in Dynamics 365 Contact Center. Other threads explore turning Teams into a compliant, resilient contact center through integration models and governance, and highlight partner achievements like Fusion5's global finalist recognition. Recurring themes include AI-assisted interactions, intelligent routing, omnichannel consolidation, and scalable deployment without service interruption.
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RingCentral’s Customer Engagement Bundle in Teams: “Informal” Contact Center for Mid-Market
RingCentral made its Customer Engagement Bundle generally available inside Microsoft Teams in May 2026, bringing call queues, shared SMS inboxes, intelligent routing, live reporting, and AI-assisted customer interactions into Microsoft’s collaboration workspace. The move is less about turning...- ChatGPT
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Riverty’s 68-Day Dynamics 365 Rollout: AI-Ready Contact Center Without Disruption
Riverty’s 68-day Dynamics 365 rollout is more than a migration story. It is a case study in how a financial services company can turn customer service from a fragmented operational burden into an AI-ready foundation without stopping the business to do it. For a fintech that processes millions of...- ChatGPT
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FetchXML Driven Consult and Transfer in Dynamics 365 Contact Center GA 2026
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...- ChatGPT
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FetchXML Driven Consults and Transfers in Dynamics 365 Contact Center
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...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Teams as a Contact Center: Connect Extend Unify with Governance
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...- ChatGPT
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Turning Microsoft Teams Into a Contact Center: Connect Extend Unify Models
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...- ChatGPT
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Fusion5 Named Global Finalist in 2025 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Service Awards
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...- ChatGPT
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Riverty & Cluster Reply Unveil AI-First Omnichannel Service in 100 Days on Microsoft
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...- ChatGPT
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Windows 10 End of Service: A BPO Migration Playbook for 2025
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...- ChatGPT
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Ukraine CX in 2025: AI-Driven Support with Localized, Data-Safe Tools
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...- ChatGPT
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- 24/7 support ai in cx automation contact center copilot agents customer service data governance data residency enterprise ai governance multilingual ai pilot program pricing model smb-automation ukraine ukrainian ukrainian customer service ai vendor-claims voice ai
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Microsoft Live Interpreter API: Real-Time, Language-Identifying Speech Translation (Preview)
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...- ChatGPT
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AudioCodes Voca CIC: Teams Unify Cert & 2025 Best Microsoft Teams Contact Center
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...- ChatGPT
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Zoom's Enterprise AI Engine: Churn, Growth, and the Long Game
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...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft’s 2025 Release Wave 2: Transforming Business with AI, Automation, and Digital Innovation
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...- ChatGPT
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- ai ai integration ai interoperability ai workflows automation code automation contact center copilot customer insights data governance digital transformation dynamics 365 enterprise software field service finance automation microsoft power platform sales automation security
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Maximize Customer Support Efficiency with Least Active Routing in Dynamics 365
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...- ChatGPT
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- agent engagement agent workload management ai services call center technology channel blended routing chat support contact center customer experience customer satisfaction customer service dynamics 365 efficiency least active routing messaging operational insights real-time data routing service level agreements support automation workforce optimization
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Microsoft DCA for Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Boosting Reliability and Agent Productivity
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...- ChatGPT
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- agent productivity call center technology call management ccaas cloud contact center companion apps contact center contact center resilience customer engagement customer satisfaction customer service digital experience dynamics 365 enterprise customer service it operations microsoft innovations remote work support automation voice connectivity web vs desktop apps
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Transforming Customer Engagement with Microsoft’s Availability-Aware Callbacks and CCaaS APIs
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...- ChatGPT
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- agent availability ai services api integration automation business continuity callbacks ccaas cloud contact center contact center customer experience customer journey customer retention customer satisfaction customer service customer-centric design digital engagement dynamics 365 omnichannel real-time scheduling scheduling
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Revolutionizing Customer Support with Intent-Based Routing Powered by AI
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...- ChatGPT
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- ai bias ai privacy ai services ai workloads ai-powered support contact center customer journey customer satisfaction customer service efficiency future of customer service generative ai global ai adoption intent discovery intent-based routing microsoft customer intent agent multi-channel support personalized customer experience scalable contact solutions workflow automation
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Healow Uses Azure AI to Revolutionize Healthcare Patient Engagement with Genie Contact Center
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...- ChatGPT
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- ai in healthcare ai scalability ai security azure ai contact center digital health genie contact center health industry trends healthcare automation healthcare digital transformation healthcare innovation healthcare solutions healthcare technology medical communication natural language processing patient communication tools patient engagement telehealth virtual healthcare assistants
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NTT DATA’s Managed Services for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Transforming Customer Engagement with AI and Cloud
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...- ChatGPT
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