Companies are recognizing the need of contact center analytics to gain more consumer awareness but problems like cost of hiring new staff and procurement of new equipment are holding back contact centers from investing in analytics. Other factors like funding and prioritization are to be blamed as contact centers are now seen as cost centers but terms like customer experience and customer journey are gaining exposure. Read more at:

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Genesys (a provider of customer experience and contact center solutions), announced that the company has recently entered into a partnership agreement with NTT Communications Corporation, a provider of telecommunication services for personal and corporate users.  Genesys Platform and NTT Communications have together formed Arcstar Contact Center. This contact center is based on NTT Communications' Enterprise Cloud.

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