Your contact center is one of the most critical parts of your organization. It’s key to the customer experience and ensures that donors, customers, or clients can easily get in touch, get their questions answered, process payments, or troubleshoot issues. But traditional contact centers are expensive to run, require extensive infrastructure, and are often set up in a way that silos important information, resulting in missed opportunities and even customer churn.
Transitioning to a Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) can enhance your overall customer service experience by bringing together the flexibility of a remote workforce with all-in-one, cloud-based technology. There’s a reason 60% of companies are shifting towards the CCaaS model. Here’s what to know.
How Does CCaaS Work?
A Contact Center as a Service solution takes all the contact center functionality you’re used to and shifts it to the cloud. Rather than purchasing expensive equipment, hardware, and on-site storage – not to mention the IT personnel required to support these – your organization pays a simple subscription fee to have access to the same benefits and features but hosted off-site.
With CCaaS, everything exists under one single umbrella, meaning your team can simply log on to the service via their device and be ready to go. CCaaS allows you to bring processes like the following into one simple workflow:
- All contact operations – phone, chat, text, email, social
- Call forwarding and distribution
- Interactive voice response
- Custom scripting
- Analytics and reporting
- Data storage and IT requirements
With CCaaS, you can pick and choose the solutions and modules ideal for your specific organizational needs – whether that’s the entire system, certain key integrations, or even on-demand remote contact center staff. Whether you need an entirely cloud-based solution or a hybrid arrangement that leverages existing infrastructure, CCaaS can deliver.
How CCaaS Enhances the Customer Experience
CCaaS delivers an improved experience for customers – and your staff. Benefits include:
- IT maintenance and support handled for you
- Updates deployed by CCaaS company
- Effortless flexibility and scalability
- More streamlined experience for users
- Easier to upgrade/expand solutions
- More contact channels supported
- Reduced downtime
- Ability to support remote customer service agents
- Enhanced security and regulation compliance
- Future-proofing – no infrastructure obsolescence
- Powerful cost savings – transparency and simple billing,
With CCaaS, customers can easily interact with you through their preferred channel and with faster response times thanks to AI-backed call distribution and forward technology. Additionally, your contact center staff can come to the conversation informed and with any relevant background information and the customer’s history, thanks to cross-channel integrations. The result – a smoother, more satisfying customer service experience that enhances customer loyalty.
Talk to ACD Direct About Our CCaaS Solutions
At ACD Direct, we know that your contact center solutions depend on the type, scale, and scope of your business – and on your existing staffing and infrastructure situation. If you’re interested in leveraging the power of CCaaS through a cloud-based or hybrid contact center solution, talk to the team at ACD Direct. We can work with you to create an all-in-one solution or a custom integration to optimize your contact center performance – while also delivering an exceptional customer experience. For more information, get in touch today.