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Created: 10 September 2020

Broadcast messaging that uses a cloud-based service is a natural choice. Using a cloud as-a-service approach gives a variety of message delivery options, and cuts down costs by automatically scaling to meet demand. Find out what makes Aculab Cloud such a natural choice for voice and SMS broadcast messaging, and how other customers are already reaping the benefits from using Aculab's CPaaS platform.

Created: 10 August 2020

Now more than ever, telecoms infrastructures play a vital role in supporting the health of our communities. Behind the scenes, networking technologies are working to keep the lines of communications open between emergency services and those in need.

A recent example from the Lombardy region of Italy highlights a typical scenario:

Created: 02 June 2020

For many years, online and telephone-based authentication has relied on knowledge-based systems using passwords, PINs, and question-and-answer dialogues to confirm a customer’s identity. With the explosion in the number of contact centres, this approach is close to breaking point. Nobody in the modern world can be expected to remember all of the passwords they need to securely access all their services.

Created: 11 May 2020

The concept of biometric speaker identification or verification may, at one stage, have seemed like a technical nightmare. The reality is somewhat different. All the sophisticated algorithms and voice processing have already been developed; deploying the application is actually the simple part.

Created: 20 April 2020

We’re listening – what would you like to do today?

A generation of people have grown up trying to avoid ringing a contact centre – not because they didn’t like talking to the cheery people who work in such places, but because they first had to get past the IVR system put in place to direct the call. Press 1 for support, 2 for sales, 3 if you know the extension of the person you wish to speak to.…and so on, and so on. We quickly realised that many of these systems would let you bypass the IVR menu and get to a real person if we pressed ‘0’.

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