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Capterra by Gartner Awarded Shelf for the “Best Ease of Use” and the “Best Value”New York, NY, April 15th 2019 –Today, Shelf announced that it was awarded “Best Ease of Use” from Capterra, which lists an array of Knowledge Management tools reviewed by real customers. Capterra which is owned and operated by Gartner is, one of the best-known software review...
5-Point RAG Strategy Guide to Prevent Hallucinations & Bad Answers This guide designed to help teams working on GenAI Initiatives gives you five actionable strategies for RAG pipelines that will improve answer quality and prevent hallucinations.
The Next Generation of Knowledge Management Systems is a Game Changer for Your Contact CenterKnowledge Management Systems (KMS) may be the single most impactful technology to help centers improve performance because agents are at the crossroads of contact center excellence.An agent’s ability to answer pressing customer questions simultaneously impacts many key contact center...
How AI is Reducing Handle Time and Improving Customer Experience in 2019Artificial intelligence is disrupting the traditional role of knowledge sharing in contact centers and reducing the burden on humans to make Knowledge Management Systems effective. It’s a well-known fact that customers hate to wait. In a recent survey on consumer attitudes, researchers...
You Can Lower Call Handle Time by 25% With The Right Knowledge Management SystemThis post originally appeared on our partner, Genesys’ website. Despite advances in technology and management practices, customer service statistics haven’t improved over the last four decades. A recent study from Arizona State University found that, back in 1976, only 44% of respondents...
Next Gen Knowledge Management Systems: Opening The Black BoxThe contact center of the past is filled with unnecessary friction around their knowledge management system because it’s been hard to know what’s working and what isn’t. This makes administering them a guessing game that is both time consuming and ineffective leading to inaccurate, out-of date...
Shelf Product Update – All-new Insights PlatformThis product update covers a significant new product feature that takes the Shelf Analytics functionality to a whole new level. But before diving into the new Shelf Insights Platform, there are a couple of additional recent enhancements that are worth taking a quick look at. Search Auto-suggest...
Biggest Contact Center Challenges and Priorities for 2019The new year is a great time to set goals for the upcoming year. But what is the most important thing to work on, especially when it comes to managing a contact center? While some issues are constant, each year brings with it a new set of priorities to consider, and the biggest contact center...
Shelf Product Update – Revamped Tag LibraryOur first product update for 2019 includes improvements to finding content, easier access to meta information for individual pieces of content on the Gem Page as well as a brand-new tag library. Sorting Results by View Count Shelf’s powerful search algorithm makes it...
The Impact of Next Generation KM on the Contact Center New Technology Solves an Old ProblemBy Lori Bocklund, President, Strategic Contact, Inc. Knowledge Management (KM) may be the single most impactful technology to help centers address key goals: Reduce workload through greater self-service and shorter handle times Improve First Contact...
Qualities of an Incredible File Search EngineWe know that your company’s search can’t work just like Google. To counterbalance its inability to crawl the web and learn from the 100s of criteria generated by 3.5 billion people, you need a platform that supplements and complements Findability with other Browse & Discover best practices....
Why Knowledge Management Must Include a Tagging SystemWhat’s the best search tool for your company? Can a tagging system help you find what you need? Is it the best way to organize your content? You’re not the only one asking these questions, and there’s a ton of money at stake in the answers. About $31.5 billion to be exact. That’s right:...