Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

How to investigate a spike in your data

So, you’ve just noticed a spike in your data. Maybe your trendline looks something like this? Or if you’ve caught it early, it might even look something like this: Now, obviously, I have no way of knowing if your y-axis represents something really good (like new customers) or something really bad (like system errors). And depending on which it is, you may be feeling a strong urge to pop the champagne or hit the panic button.

What Is A Cloud Contact Center? (Features, Benefits, Tools)

Most contact centers leverage a cloud solution to provide better customer support, boost agent productivity, and optimize workflows. A cloud contact center empowers agents with cutting-edge software solutions and automation. They have a virtual setup where a third party manages the data centers. In this article, we’ll explore what a cloud contact center is and why they’re better than traditional contact centers.

10 Marketing Metrics Your Business Needs to Report on in 2022

No matter how impressive your marketing plan may be or how incredible your deliverables are, a marketing campaign that isn’t keeping track of the right marketing metrics or KPIs will never be able to back up all of the good work it’s doing. Although it isn’t possible to monitor every metric, there are a few bankable ones that can be applied to all types of marketing campaigns.

Google Business Messages: 3 best practices for customer service teams

Messaging has surged in popularity and become a go-to channel for many consumers since the COVID-19 pandemic. It looks like the trend is here to stay—74 percent of customers who messaged with companies in 2020 plan to continue doing so. Research also shows that 76 percent of consumers like to buy products using chat or messaging, and 72 percent are more likely to make a purchase online if they can ask questions in real-time. Google’s Business Messages enables buyers to do both.

Why Student Engineers Should Buy Into the Hype Around Serverless

We recently had the opportunity to speak to a student audience at Serverless Days and came up with some insights that we felt were worth sharing with a wider audience. Please take a look and let us know your thoughts @trycourier. Serverless architecture is relatively new, yet many startup developers prefer building their foundation on a Serverless framework. But what's with the hype?

Why Top Companies Track Customer Experience Analytics

It’s no secret that customer experience (CX) can significantly influence your brand image, customer loyalty, and bottom line. And with customer experience analytics, you can better understand how to improve the customer experience. You’ll gain insights into the customer’s point of view, experience, and what pain points they face with your offerings. In this article, we’ll discuss the top 3 benefits of customer journey analytics and how to analyze customer experience.

More visibility and better insights with Miro App for Splunk

As Miro is used for more and more use cases across a growing number of teams and organizations, IT and security leads need better visibility into what is happening within Miro. With these users in mind, we are constantly improving the ways we empower teams to monitor user activity, identify suspicious behavior, and make data-driven decisions in real-time. That’s why we’ve chosen to partner with Splunk, the Data-to-Everything platform that helps businesses manage and protect their data.

How to Set Up Multi-Channel Notifications in Your AWS Stack

How to Set Up Multi-Channel Notifications in Your AWS Stack In this article, we’ll walk through an example architecture for building your own notification service with AWS, and show you how to implement it in Node.js. We’ll also discuss a few considerations related to using AWS services for notifications. Let’s dive in!

Manage Dynamic Schemas at Scale with Rudderstack & dbt

I recently had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with the team over at Rudderstack. It focused on Data Engineering and managing dynamic schemas at scale. More specifically, Rudderstack-generated, dynamic schemas at scale. This blog will discuss the tools, software, and methods to do just that.

Best Cloud-Based Time Clock Software (In-Depth Look)

As we’ve previously written, old-fashioned employee time tracking methods such as paper timecards or Excel come with several downsides. First, the payroll process is time consuming and error prone, as you have to manually tally hours and overtime. Second, you don’t know if your employees are in fact on the job when they’re punching in, rather than a coworker (and those extra minutes or hours that employees report working can lead to a significant waste of money).