Video is one of the all-time “killer apps” – allowing users to use their acute sense of vision to see hidden emotion on people’s faces, detect danger, and provide comfort when needed.   Video is quickly becoming the norm for the millennial generation, a feature in many of the social and communications applications.

Back in June, I wrote a blog about using Gateways for SIP trunking if there are PSTN lines inside the enterprise.  And this makes sense for sure given 40% of enterprises are still PSTN on their internal networks.

It’s a business challenge but not as we know it

Attracting and keeping customers is a perennial challenge for every commercial enterprise. Today's customers, empowered by technology and instant access to information, have greater freedom of choice and the ability to exercise it. Their expectations have also been shaped by digital pioneers, and they now expect a similar experience from any company with which they engage.

For many years, native mobile apps have been the best way for a company, perhaps like yours, to get into your customer’s hands… literally. With the touch of an icon, smartphone users can load an app and access the services your company, big or small, provides. Today, the iTunes App Store and Google’s Play Store are the place to be, but this may be disrupted in the near future with the emergence of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). In the last year or so, PWAs have become an increasingly popular way to build next generation apps, and we here at Dialogic, are using them to build Visual IVR interfaces that look and feel great on mobile devices.

Confession - last week while entering my dark hotel room, I found myself uttering ‘Alexa, lights on’ – to my disappointment the room remained dark....

The evolution from on-premise PBX to a Unified Communications cloud application is taking some interesting turns - and the latest one is changing how we define productivity in the enterprise world. If we think about it, most of our daily tasks involve a mix of real time communications, either using text, voice or video, and our software tools that enable us to complete our tasks. Quite often, both of them combine and we find ourselves using both simultaneously to achieve what we need, but that does not mean they interop seamlessly and save us precious time in this hyperactive and hyper-connected world.

Mobile payment has been around for some time.  In some cases, there are mobile apps you can download from your bank, allowing you to do with your smartphone whatever you can do online.  There are also services like PayPal for person-to-person or person-to-business payments and mobile wallets such as Vodafone’s m-Pesa, which is branchless banking.

In my August 15^th blog, I introduced a whitepaper we have about IoT and Real-Time Communications.  I’ve gotten a few comments about that blog and whitepaper along the lines of “I hadn’t really thought of that” to “it’s inevitable.” The reason Dialogic wanted this whitepaper and is making it available are for those very reasons – to get people to think about what might be possible.  Our industry knows real-time communications very well and there is opportunity for us to grow there.

As I have written about many times before, contact centers have always been at the forefront of technological innovation.  That is because they are driven to both reduce costs while increasing customer service. That is why IVRs, speech recognition, remote agents, and VoIP, to name a few, have become entrenched in the contact center.