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Many businesses today are looking closely at how to create an AT HOME worker program. This is particularly true in the call center and services industry. There are many advantages for the employer, the employee and the local community. In fact, it is the ability of NICE CXone to facilitate the AT HOME worker that...

For many of you in Operations or IT, you have the unique challenge of managing disparate contact centers or business locations that you likely inherited through acquisitions or the locations already existed when you joined the firm. Looking at each location with its different PBX or key system, channel bank or other premise equipment with differing reports...

OC192 is an optical carrier (OC) that can handle 192 DS3s. A DS3 is a 45 Mb/s signal that can carry internet data or it can carry 28 T1s, voice or data, and 28 T1s is equal to 672 phone calls. In other words, an OC192 is a fiber optic system that can carry 192 DS3’s, which is...

This is one of the more interesting questions asked of me, SaaS or on-premise, which is better? This is one of those classic consultant questions with a classic consultant answer..."it depends." Every business is unique and there are several factors to consider when trying to decide "which is better" for you. But there...

Agner Krarup Erlang, was a mathematician. Need I say more? He derived a series of formulas to determine how many telephone operators would be required to process a given volume of calls. And although this was done in the early 1900's his formulas still apply and can be applied to call centers today....

SAP is a skeptic. "SaaS offerings don't measure up in weaving together complex business processes that have to be managed and analyzed in real time, and SaaS vendors will have a tough time living up to customer's expectations. You're now seeing software as a service pure plays being driven into complex conversations that they're lousy at." They...

My name is Mike Perry, I am employed by NICE CXone as their VP or Network Planning and Telecom Products. In a nutshell, I am in charge of Capacity Planning/Management for all production systems, networks and application platforms that make up NICE's core products including the Telecom Network, IP Network, NICE CXone Clusters, Echo, WFM, and eLearning/eHiring....