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Pivotal Data lays foundation for a cloud-enabled future at King Price

Like most start-ups, King Price initially invested in a technology solution that made financial sense and met a specific need at the time. However, as customer volumes rose, and the business evolved, the insurance provider’s communications solution could not scale to meet the growing demands.

Pivotal Data replaced the legacy communication technology and has helped lay the foundation for future evolutions in King Price’s call centre capabilities.

KURA is the largest independent outsourcer in the UK, providing outsourced contact centre services and software solutions for a number of the world's most successful brands.

KURA have been successfully reappointed by EDF (UK) to provide customer services support.

The new contract will be delivered by exceptional Kura advisers across our Sunderland and Durban (SA) offices.

CEO, Brian Bannatyne received some wonderful words from Steve Hayfield, Customer Services Director at EDF, who said that

Passive Voice Biometrics for Collections?  Really?

Running a collections contact centre is possibly one of the hardest environments to manage. After all, their customers don’t really want to speak to them. So, if their customers don’t want to speak to them, how would passive voice biometrics assist when you need to hear the customers voice and they need to, well actually speak!

Cyber Security Guide during Lockdown

Although South Africa’s national lockdown has entered a less-restrictive Level 3 phase, with many more businesses having been permitted to start operating more fully again since the 1st of June, employees that can work from home are being advised to continue doing so until further notice. Recent research has indicated that the Covid-19 pandemic infection rate is still likely to peak, which means that individuals will continue to be very susceptible to

Covid-19 lockdown expedites Harambee’s cloud migration plans

Harambee has realised that cloud is the future. It offers flexibility and scalability, with better uptime and security to enhance business continuity. Cloud also creates opportunities to access additional functionality, or gain instant access to new tools and features without massive capital expenditure or long implementations, which can future-proof your business.

COVID-19 expedites cloud transformation plans

Cloud migration was already firmly on the technology investment agenda of most businesses before the global novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic thrust cloud computing to the business forefront. While South Africa lagged the global adoption curve, local business leaders were formulating cloud transformation strategies or had begun piecemeal implementations, with many organisations moving beyond cloud backups.

Jasco partners with only the “best of breed” technology solution providers. After a vigorous evaluation process, Jasco has selected Five9 as their new cloud-native contact center technology partner for the African market.

Backed with the expertise of their consulting and integration teams and the Five9 Intelligent Cloud Contact Center, Jasco now can enable businesses to move to a cloud contact center solution within days - not weeks or months.