NICE inContact, a NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) business, today announced new enhancements to CXone Agent for Salesforce that enables omnichannel for customer experience – defined as not starting over when switching channels. The CXone cloud platform integrates with Salesforce, adding a global carrier-grade voice channel, intelligent omnichannel routing for Salesforce digital channels and integrated workforce optimization (WFO) capabilities – enabling contact centers to deliver personalized customer experiences and improved agent productivity with a unified interface.
“Today’s customers expect only the best from each and every brand they interact with, every time. NICE inContact is excited to announce further enhancements to our integration with Salesforce, to deliver great customer experiences,” said Paul Jarman, NICE inContact CEO. “CXone Agent for Salesforce new native interface for Salesforce helps power easier and more convenient experiences for both agents and customers alike, helping contribute to increased satisfaction and loyalty.”
New CXone Agent for Salesforce Enables Channel Elevation and Reduces Agent Effort
The new Lightning-native interface for CXone Agent for Salesforce delivers enhanced functionality and a streamlined design that strengthens CXone integration with the market-leading CRM solution.
- Agents can elevate Salesforce digital channels to CXone voice in a single click, reducing friction, empowering faster and more convenient customer experiences, and simplifying customer journey analysis with a unified interaction record.
- Agents also have the ability to handle up to 25 interactions concurrently, driving agent productivity up and customer wait times down.
- The sleek, intuitive interface enables Salesforce Lightning customers to streamline agent work and training. The simplified design reduces agent effort by presenting agent functionality based on their skill set and the context of the interaction.
- CXone Agent for Salesforce adds a global carrier-grade voice channel and intelligent routing engine to customer interaction channels. Adding CXone intelligent routing of digital channels can improve the customer experience through skills-based routing that combines agent proficiency with customer attributes from Salesforce to find the best customer service resource for each interaction – allowing faster resolution of customer requests, fewer transfers, and options to provide higher levels of service to premium customers. In addition, CXone Agent for Salesforce offers embedded workforce optimization (WFO) capabilities for agent scheduling, coaching and quality management.
NICE inContact is a Platinum ISV Partner and has high ratings from customers on Salesforce AppExchange.
NICE inContact also recently introduced new CXone Packages integrated with Salesforce which add global carrier-grade voice, intelligent routing for Salesforce digital channels, embedded workforce optimization, and speech/text analytics. CXone Packages for Salesforce enables customers to expand as their customer expectations and contact center business needs evolve.
- Contact Center Core: adds global carrier-grade voice, self-service IVR, integrated softphone, smart routing for Salesforce digital channels, and advanced call and screen recording.
- Contact Center Advanced: adds workforce management, analytics-powered quality management, gamification, advanced performance reporting, and executive dashboards.
- Contact Center Complete: adds speech and text analytics for customer interactions, and customer feedback survey and analytics capabilities to continuously improve the customer experience.
NICE inContact empowers organizations to maximize the value of their customer relationship management (CRM) and contact center technologies through its combination of contact center functionality and expertise, coupled with its breadth and depth of integrations with market-leading CRMs. These latest enhancements are the first of many exciting CRM integration innovations NICE inContact is developing.
NICE inContact was named for the fifth consecutive year a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, North America1 report. In The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Contact Centers, Q3 20182, NICE inContact CXone was named a Leader, positioning CXone among the most significant cloud contact center solutions in the market.
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