BUSINESS TELECOM		ENTERPRISE NETWORKING
	CALL CENTER		VOICE/DATA CONVERGENCE

Contact Center Technology: What Works, What’s New, What Drives Results

June 6-7, 2006, Dallas

Improving the Effectiveness of Speech and IVR

June 27-28, 2006, Chicago

Speech Applications: Planning, Voice User Interface Design, and Tuning

August 21-25, Seattle

IP Phone Review: SoundPoint IP600 SIP Phones

Overall, the Polycom devices performed extremely well in our review. Even under severely degraded network conditions, conversations were still easy to carry on.

Unified Communications Labtest: Callware's Callegra.UC

Very solid-looking system looks to "the next big thing" and Microsoft's .NET architecture.

The Service1st Programme at Bank of Ireland

Although improving the customer experience is a never-ending task, Bank of Ireland's Brian Lande finds that this journey is best broken into manageable proportions -- with key milestones along the way.

Canada's Purolator Courier Delivers Exceptional Quality

Canada-based Purolator Courier's quality program has lead to an exceptionally high first-call resolution rate, writes Greg Levin -- and has customer satisfaction soaring.

Call Center Spotlight: MASCO Services Customer Care

MASCO gains agent buy-in to the center's ambitious quality monitoring efforts by presenting monitoring as part of the job during orientation.

Call Center Spotlight: Virgin Mobile Canada

This center's "people-first" philosophy has led to consistently high performance and customer satisfaction.

How Monster.com Scares Up a Sales Boost

Monster.com, the career search engine, used MVT to improve the telephone-acquisition sales force. They identified changes that will boost sales performance 25% in the next year.