Avaya, a global leader in customer experience solutions, today announced its participation at the 2023 edition of GITEX Global, where the company will illustrate how organisations can choose their own journey to delivering AI-powered customer experiences.
Journey.ai, a trailblazing cybersecurity software company, has teamed up with Avaya, a leading contact center provider, to bolster security measures while enhancing the agent experience. The integration of Journey’s biometric authentication technology with Avaya Hybrid Cloud Services (HCS) offers a compelling solution for contact centers, replacing conventional password-based authentication with biometric verification.
Avaya, a global leader in customer experience solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a cooperative purchasing contract in the Unified Communications and Contact Centre categories at Sourcewell ─ the leading Government Cooperative Purchasing Organisation in North America with more than 500 competitively solicited contracts to government, education, and nonprofit entities
Primas Group has been chosen by Avaya, a leader in unified communications and contact center solutions, as a Technology Partner in the Avaya DevConnect program. Primas Group, an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) with 29 years of expertise, offers organizations enhanced customer experience workflows and pre-packaged, self-service automation in addition to personalizing their Avaya solutions. The company anticipates that by joining the Avaya DevConnect program, the company will be able to expand the reach of contact center agents. This advancement will also bring new technologies and cutting-edge AI together to create more intelligent digital interactions and automation in healthcare and other markets. The Primas Group innovation team is featuring previously unimaginable patient experience processes and revamping traditional consumer interactions. The company’s participation in the DevConnect program enables it to retain world-class compatibility with Avaya systems both in the cloud and on-premises, while also allowing for straightforward implementation. Primas…
Vodafone Germany to cut 1,300 jobs in realignment efforts Vodafone Germany has revealed intentions to cut 1,300 positions in management, double functions, and areas with no direct customer interaction as part of a realignment and return to growth effort. In addition, the operator intends to establish 400 new customer-facing positions, resulting in a total loss of 900 positions. The decision comes on the heels of a 1.8% year-on-year decline in fiscal Q3 service income due to client losses in Germany, which is likely to be a special focus of cost-cutting efforts. Telecom companies such as BT and Orange Business have also recently announced layoffs. Read the full article. Five9 launches AI Summary tool for contact centers Five9, a cloud contact center service provider, has released Five9 Agent Assist 2.0 with AI Summary, driven by OpenAI’s language model technology. The solution produces summary highlights of client call recordings in seconds, decreasing…
French telecoms to reduce their energy use Orange has proposed numerous energy-saving measures in order to address the current energy crisis that is expected to strike Europe this winter. Orange has announced that it will reduce its immediate power use by 5 to 10% for one hour every day. Altice will also assess its mobile network settings and implement power consumption cutbacks based on system traffic. The telecom provider will also phase out less energy-efficient equipment and limit its use of air conditioning when feasible in its data centers. Its offices and businesses will also have tighter controls over air conditioning and lighting usage. Read more at: https://tinyurl.com/2p83c9km Elon Musk decides to buy Twitter after all In the upcoming days, Elon Musk and Twitter may come to a settlement to terminate their legal dispute, paving the way for the richest man in the world to finalize his $44 billion purchase…
Intel and Exfo release tool for 5G issue detection Operators will be able to monitor a 5G network in real time thanks to a new solution developed by Exfo, a Canadian telecommunications testing company, and Intel, a US chip manufacturer. The new service, dubbed “Exfo’s full-stack assurance solution,” is marketed as a way for 5G network operators to detect and correlate service degradation concerns.The software is said to combine system, monitoring, and telemetry data flows, monitor them in real time, and respond quickly if a fault is detected. Read more at: https://tinyurl.com/9x66wd2z Qualcomm’s €1 billion antitrust punishment lifted Qualcomm was fined €997 million by the EU in 2018, in what was considered as a major victory for regulators over ‘big tech.’ The General Court, Europe’s second-highest court, has now overruled this order. The complaint concerns Qualcomm’s payments to Apple running into the billions of dollars between 2011 and 2016 to…
DIDWW, a global telecoms operator that offers premium quality VoIP communications, today announced that its two-way SIP Trunking solution is compliant with key Avaya OneCloud™ solutions, helping customers securely and reliably expand their local and international business communications. Avaya has selected DIDWW for membership as a Technology Partner in the Avaya DevConnect program, which promotes the development, compliance-testing and co-marketing of innovative third-party solutions that are compatible with standards-based Avaya solutions. Avaya is a global leader in solutions that enhance and simplify communications and collaboration. The powerful DIDWW SIP Trunking solution offers virtually unlimited call capacity and flexible VoIP trunk configuration options to assist businesses of any size in expanding their local or international communications. The two-way SIP Trunking service enables enterprise users to access the PSTN in more than 80 countries, providing customers with an extended global reach, premium call quality, a high standard of reliability and availability,…
BT to make EE its flagship brand BT Group has announced intentions to make EE its main consumer-facing brand. This move is intended to streamline the mobile operator’s service while also propelling the company into new areas of convergence. The BT brand will be more focused on consumers who utilize standalone broadband and telephone services, while BT Sport will remain unchanged. BT will also continue to be the name for its Enterprise and Global divisions. Read more at: https://tinyurl.com/bdk4ef3k NTT and Sky Perfect JSAT forma joint venture NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT have agreed to form a joint venture company to increase humanity’s use of space. The formation of the joint venture is a significant step toward the construction of the space-integrated computer network specified in the two companies’ partnership agreement of 2021. The collaboration will help to advance the global space industry and promote the achievement of a sustainable…
Avaya, a worldwide technology firm that specializes in cloud communications and workstream collaboration solutions, has teamed up with Merchants, a customer management partner focusing on the business process outsourcing market. Together, the two companies will launch Total Experience, a cloud-based, multi-channel customer experience platform that will better empower local businesses to fulfill the ever-changing demands of their consumers. The Merchants’ and Avaya’s partnership will help companies to provide the Total Experience platform to their consumers through a subscription-based, all-inclusive, easy-to-manage solution. This will allow the two companies to launch new services more quickly and with a lower total cost of ownership and a higher return on investment. Merchants will host a variety of Avaya OneCloud portfolio products and make them available to companies via a cloud-based subscription model, allowing enterprises to acquire the capacity and services they demand on an as-needed basis without incurring large upfront expenses. …
