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According to a recent study, 40% of millennials claim to use chatbots on a daily basis. This astounding number highlights the importance of AI technology in the commercial world; chatbots are no longer a curiously or a fun new example of AI in the tech community—chatbots have become mainstream in...
According to a study by IBM, the global average cost of a single data breach amounts to $3.86 million. That’s an average of $148 for each lost or stolen record containing sensitive and confidential information. This stat highlights the difference between products built for small teams and...
Chatbots are quickly becoming an essential part of delivering customer service. According to a study by IT experts Spiceworks, up to 40% of businesses with 500 or more employees will have active chatbot or AI assistants by the end of 2019. These businesses have discovered the incredible benefits...
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...
Knowledge 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...
Artificial 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...
This 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...
The 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isn’t. This makes administering them a guessing game that is both time consuming and ineffective leading to inaccurate, out-of date...
This 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...
The 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...
Our 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...
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...