About this tag
The contact centers tag covers Microsoft-focused customer-service technology and enterprise licensing changes. Recent discussions examine AnywhereNow’s Tendfor product and its certification for Microsoft Teams Unify and Extend integration models, including the implications for customers using Teams Phone infrastructure. Other coverage follows Microsoft’s shift toward usage-based agent pricing across Copilot, Dynamics 365, and related platforms. These changes may affect how organizations budget for customer-service software, as activities such as summaries, record updates, workflow actions, knowledge retrieval, and autonomous follow-ups can become measurable units of work. Together, the tagged content highlights contact centers at the intersection of Teams integration, Microsoft certification, customer-service workloads, and consumption-based AI management.
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    Microsoft Contact Center Intelligence Preview: AI Agents for Five9, Cisco and Avaya

    Microsoft has put Microsoft Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) into public preview. It's an AI layer for contact centers that Microsoft doesn't run. The pitch is that you keep your current contact center platform and add Microsoft's agents, quality scoring and analytics on top of it. The...
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    Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Preferred and Previous Expert Routing Setup, Rules and October 2026 GA

    There is a special circle of IT purgatory reserved for callers and chat users who spend twenty minutes explaining an intricate enterprise software failure to a support representative, get disconnected or asked to follow up the next day, and then have to start the entire story over from scratch...
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    Dynamics 365 Contact Center: Troubleshoot Average Wait Time Diagnostics in Application Insights

    There is an old truism in enterprise customer service: a four-minute wait feels like an eternity when you are staring at a silent chat widget or listening to a synth-jazz loop, yet a ten-minute wait feels surprisingly manageable if the system tells you upfront to go grab a cup of coffee...
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    Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Use Planning Groups for Pooled Capacity Planning

    Anyone who has ever built a contact center staffing model in a spreadsheet knows the quiet absurdity of queue-by-queue capacity math. If a single pool of service representatives answers billing questions on voice, order inquiries on chat, and escalation tickets over email, calculating full-time...
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    Tendfor Teams Unify Certification Leaves Upgrade Path Unclear

    AnywhereNow’s Tendfor contact-center product is now listed by Microsoft as certified for the Teams Unify integration model, giving customers a verified path to run its customer-service workload on Teams Phone infrastructure rather than treating Teams as a bolt-on collaboration client...
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    Microsoft Copilot and Dynamics 365 Push Usage-Based Agent Pricing

    Microsoft’s FY2026 fourth-quarter results point to a material change in how enterprise AI will be sold and managed: customer-service organizations are moving from fixed software seats toward metered agent activity. As reported by CX Today, Microsoft is positioning Copilot, Dynamics 365, and its...