Our Customer Engagement Solutions group at Perficient is focused on helping our customers improve communication and interactions with their customers. Through our partnerships with industry-leading communications frameworks, we enhance and implement various ways companies interact across multiple channels. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted every part of our lives and the contact center space is no different. […]
On Monday, our Customer Engagement Solutions team kicked off an internal Hackathon focused on creating COVID-19 response solutions using the Amazon Connect and Twilio Flex cloud contact center platforms. Yesterday, we checked in on each team’s progress. The five teams are close to wrapping up their work so they can demo their solutions tomorrow and […]
Yesterday, our Customer Engagement Solutions team started an internal Hackathon focused on creating COVID-19 response solutions. The challenge aims to address the current pandemic by building solutions on Amazon Connect and Twilio Flex—both cloud contact center platforms. Solutions range from handling businesses’ increasingly high call volumes during the crisis to integrating customer care with telehealth […]
This week, Perficient’s Customer Engagement Solutions team launched an internal Hackathon focused on creating COVID-19 response solutions. After seeing the immense pressure the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on healthcare systems, essential retail infrastructure, and on many organizations’ customer service operations, our team wanted to work on something that would meaningfully contribute to the crisis. Hackathon […]
Organizations are encountering unplanned challenges as the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as Coronavirus, continues to spread across the world. The current situation has presented a range of challenges across several industries, especially in terms of customer interactions. Here are some common challenges we have seen during crisis situations. Significant increase in sustained call volume and […]
How to Find Success Navigating Through an Acquisition “If you don’t try new things or change the status quo, you aren’t ever going to grow.” Growth is something Kim Wilkinson knows a lot about. From growing Perficient’s Twilio practice to growing her own career, she is not short on tenacity or the passion to fuel […]
Twilio is bringing the future of communications to over 20 cities this year with the Twilio Engage Roadshow – and we are proud to sponsor Engage Toronto November 7th! What to Expect from Twilio Engage + Superclass Engage is perfect for developers, product managers, technologists and digital innovators alike to enhance their knowledge and gain […]
In the previous blog posts from this series, I have focused on the support needs, necessary roles, and managed service provider benefits for cloud-based contact center support. I mentioned there are three main support models all organizations will fall into: self-sufficient, hybrid, and outsourced. There are benefits to each model, depending on several factors unique […]
Previously, I outlined roles and responsibilities necessary for optimal support of a cloud-based contact center. This blog explores the added benefits many organizations gain when choosing a managed service provider to assist in fulfilling these roles. Upgrading from an on premise solution to a cloud-based contact center comes with a wide range of optimizations. Cloud-based […]
Any contact center solution, cloud-based or on premise, requires adequate support to mitigate risk. For continued efficiencies and optimal performance, specific responsibilities need to be fulfilled. Differences in capabilities and care requirements between cloud-based and on premise contact centers cause variation in skill sets needed to fully support each solution. A mistake often made is […]
The world is transforming communication at a rapid pace. Cloud-based contact center platforms, such as Twilio Flex, are changing the game by giving businesses of any size complete power over their customer interactions. Moving to the cloud allows companies to break free from the limitations of traditional on-premise contact centers including minimal customization options, hardware/infrastructure […]
I just arrived in San Francisco for the 2019 Twilio Signal conference, where Perficient is a Visionary Sponsor this year. It’s not quite been a year since the last Signal conference. But it’s really been an eventful ride for my team as we’ve been building out our partner practice. Just over a year ago in […]
