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Solving compliance on Microsoft Teams

Businesses need to record their Microsoft Teams calls for various compliance reasons: including limiting liability, resolving disputes, and providing evidence of advice given, transactions, and trades.

Using Teams, shouldn’t mean compromising the compliance standards you set out to achieve or investing in more capital expenditure. The need for a unified and cost-effective approach to communication capture has never been more urgent.

What you’ll find inside

This guide will show how to create a secure, compliant and scalable system of record for every conversation – across Microsoft Teams and other communication channels in your business.

Learn

• Why compliance call recording is essential for Microsoft Team
• Why on-premise and hosted recording solutions aren’t viable post-COVID
• The 15 most important factors in choosing the right call recording solution for your needs

Are you ready for what comes next?

Download the whitepaper by leading telecommunications industry analyst firm Cavell Group, to discover the key trends impacting service providers and what every service provider needs to do next.

See What’s Inside

2022 will see the next major shifts in the global communications landscape. From a reassessment of the solutions deployed in the first wave of the pandemic through to the continued and rapid evolution business models to grow revenue, improve operating performance, and drive retention and differentiation.

This paper seeks to highlight key trends and potential paths forward for service providers.

Learn about:

• The key telecommunications industry trends including new and emerging competitors
• New ways to create value using a multipronged approach
• Emerging user trends driving new strategy such as fragmentation of communication

“Successful service providers will be driven by addressing short-term opportunities to seize untapped growth with a holistic approach to transformation.”

Dubber and AT&Ts “The Future of Work” study highlighted that while many firms had responded to a shift in working models as needed, this had largely resulted in “band-aid” solutions to enabling hybrid work, with the majority lacking a detailed strategy to support it.

The resulting length of time working remotely is now driving a cultural and technology reset in business – to which AI and ML will be critical in delivering advanced functionality to drive innovation and collaboration.

1. Hybrid work the default by 2024: Half of work performed offsite: 81% believe hybrid work will be the foremost working model by 2024, with 56% of work done offsite.
2. Oversight of employees challenged: C-level executives ranked employee oversight, losing institutional/tribal knowledge and sustaining culture as the primary challenges.
3. Clear gap between C-suite and operational executives: Operational executives ranked onboarding, the lack of a comprehensive strategy, and technological debt as more significant than C-level executives.
4. Tension between what employees want and what organizations prefer: 86% believe their employees prefer a hybrid work model but 64% believe their organization prefers an on-premise work model.
5. Hybrid working strategy and policies are critical to talent attraction: 100% believe a hybrid work model will help attract young talent. 97% believe a hybrid work model will help attract new talent.
6. Hybrid work to advance diversity: 91% believe a hybrid work model will improve workforce diversity.
7. Cultural shift required: 58% believe they don’t have the culture to sustain a hybrid work model.
8. Hybrid working is impacting innovation and collaboration: Hybrid working seen as effective in driving productivity – 79% but not supporting innovation – 45% and impacting collaboration – 54%.
9. Conversational AI will make a difference: 71% believe that AI and ML in conversational help will have an important business impact.
10. AI & ML in conversational insights is transforming work: With the tech having a high impact on Employee Productivity, Customer Intelligence, Attracting New Talent, Revenue Leakage, Call Center Intelligence, and Retaining Talent.

A wealth of data is locked in the conversations your business is having with customers. Conversational intelligence is the key to unlocking that wealth so you can differentiate your business in the market, boost revenue and retain customers.

Chances are, you already listen to your customers.

You do if you use call recording for compliance or training purposes.

That means you are capturing valuable insights into business performance.

Listening to what customers say is the best way to understand what they want. Pay close attention and you will know what they think and how they might respond to offers. You will understand them better.

It’s important to hear both the words and the music in a conversation. That is, the tone, the hesitations and other non-word clues.

Do that and you’ll pick up crucial insights you won’t find in other forms of communication.

Until now this has been hard to do.

Face-to-face listening is hard to scale. Team members dealing with incoming calls tend to focus on specifics. That’s how they are trained and it is how they are rewarded.

Any intelligence gathering done the manual way is, at best, secondary.

Now, thanks to Dubber cloud-based call recording, you can listen and understand what your customers are saying. Cloud based recording means you can capture every spoken word. You can collect both the words and the music of business conversations at scale.

There’s something certain about an audio recording of a conversation. Other records, either a written note or a reported conversation are only hearsay. They can’t be substantiated. In a strict legal sense they are little more than rumour. There’s always a degree of uncertainty. With an audio recording, or a written transcript of an audio recording you are dealing with verifiable information.

What’s more, when you capture a conversation by making notes, you are not listening closely enough to what is being said. Your brain is in a translating, transcribing mode. It’s controlling your pen or your figures on a keyboard.

When everything is recorded in the background you can focus on listening.

Better still, the technology means you can automate the listening.

AI, sentiment analysis and other techniques can pay close attention to every moment of every conversation.

Say there’s a barely audible wince when your team member mentions price to the customer. Or a gasp when new product features are described. They are powerful signals that team members might overlook — the software doesn’t miss a beat.

It means for the first time you can know what customers actually think.

You can better understand customers and their needs.

This gives you the power to differentiate your business.

You’ll get better customer satisfaction.

AI tools can warn that a customer is thinking of going elsewhere. You’ll have time to move in early to avoid losing their business.

None of this requires dramatic change to your business process. It uses tools you have at your disposal.

Now is the time to act.

Gartner says by 2025 companies will record three quarters of business conversations.

Voice is the most common communications channel between a business and its customers. Around four out of five customer interactions are voice conversations.

Once you are recording all your calls, it’s a short step to mining them for customer intelligence.

The best way to do this is with cloud call recording. In the past companies installed on premise call recording systems. They linked them to centralised call centres.

That’s useful, but centralised call centres only capture half of all customer conversations. Many businesses have found accessing and mining calls from legacy systems difficult and slow.

These days the interactions that matter take place elsewhere. Remote work teams and mobile employees mean people can take calls anywhere.

That’s why capturing voice data at the network level is vital. A cloud call recording system with instant easy access to conversations like Dubber does this for you.

We’re cloud-native – proudly always have been. Back in 2011, at a time when cloud services were more conceptual than reality over here in Australia, Dubber realised the massive potential of making our product a cloud-native offering.

Partnering with AWS in their first Australian regional offering almost 10 years ago was a no brainer for us – and continues to be a valued and foundational partnership, as AWS goes from strength to strength as the world’s largest cloud services provider.

James Slaney, our Co-Founder and COO, sat down with Aley Hammer from AWS to talk about Dubber’s success on AWS to date.

Watch as James unwraps the power of Voice AI for businesses worldwide, how service providers are leveraging Dubber to create more value for customers on their networks, and how our centralised data services platform on AWS is available at the click of a button.

Thanks to AWS and the power of cloud, we can offer unlimited scale and always-on availability that modern enterprises have come to rely on.

For those with a different enterprise architecture mandate, we’re also ready for your data storage and processing requirements on Azure, GCP, data centres, internal enterprise or hybrid environments – so ask us if you had something a little different in mind.

Capture more than an mp3, video, or flat transcript – unlock the power of Conversational Intelligence with Dubber AI.

Conversational Intelligence: beyond basic recording and transcription to an enriched data-set of words, speakers, emotions, languages, and themes. With these meaning-enriched data sets, users can create and trigger real-time automated actions and workflows.

Download our Dubber AI whitepaper to find out:

• How to unlock comms channel data silos with Unified Conversational Recording
• How we embed Dubber AI into every conversation; to hit compliance mandates, plus fuel revenue, people, and customer intelligence
• What’s under the hood in Dubber AI & the Voice Intelligence Cloud
• Use cases & best practices for Dubber AI-enhanced conversational analysis & actions – improve customer experience, boost employee performance, heighten fraud detection, and more

Capture conversations, enrich with AI for the full picture, surface dataset insights in real-time, and create trigger-based actions on conversations as they happen.

Here’s how Dubber AI does it.

September 29 is World Heart Day, a day dedicated to raising international awareness around the cause and prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD), a cause close to Dubber.

CVDs are the leading cause of death globally, resulting in an estimated 18.6 million deaths a year, and about 520 million people living with a CVD today. CVD affects the heart and blood vessels, resulting in coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, rheumatic heart disease or other conditions.

As CVDs come in many forms, so do its causes – smoking, high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol are key risk factors for heart disease. Other medical conditions and lifestyle choices can also increase the risk of heart disease including; diabetes, overweight and obesity, unhealthy diet, excessive alcohol use, or air pollution.

Save a Child’s Heart & Dubber

For two years, Dubber has been a proud sponsor of Israeli humanitarian organisation, Save a Child’s Heart.

Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) is an international organisation that provides life-saving surgery to children suffering from heart disease from countries where access to pediatric care is limited or nonexistent. So, every day is World Heart Day with SACH.

For 25 years they’ve saved the lives of nearly 6000 children from 63 countries around the world. From these countries, 50% of the children come from the Palestinian Authority and Gaza, Iraq, and Morocco. More than 40% of the children are from Africa, and the remainder are from Asia, North and South America, and Eastern Europe.

SACH medical professionals

The ultimate goal for Save a Child’s Heart is to enable equal opportunity for life-saving surgery for children with CVD. One of SACH’s programs is taking on medical professionals from developing countries and providing them post-graduate training in all facets of pediatric cardiac care in order to provide sufficient treatment in their own communities.

SACH trained professional and Ethiopia’s first pediatric cardiac surgeon, Dr Yayu Mekonnen addressed Dubber in celebration of the organisation’s 25th anniversary.

Inspired by an experience that shaped his career, Dr Yayu shared an anecdote of why he became a pediatric cardiac surgeon and why he loves what he does.

“When you provide this procedure at the right time, you change the course of this child’s life forever. They will be normal kids and are able to do whatever they want in life now.” – Dr Yayu Mekonnen

Use heart to connect ❤️

As the world struggles to fight COVID-19, it’s put pressure on us to be cautious of our own health, as well as the safety of those around us. With this new wave of vigilance, World Heart Day’s theme is around Using a heart to connect. 

At Dubber we can vouch for a more mobile and modernising way of connecting with people, especially through digital platforms and telehealth. Use heart to connect is about harnessing our knowledge and influence in order to spread accurate information about heart health to our communities and loved ones.

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