In just one and a half minutes, this video will teach you how to create a new user in Interactive Intelligence Customer Interaction Center 3.0.

Have you ever noticed that a phone system can often be identified by its default hold music? Well, Interaction Center is no exception... and that could be good or bad depending on whether or not you like the packaged music. Either way, you may want to change the system hold music for holidays, special occasions, or simply for variety. Here's how to do it:

I had the pleasure of listening to technology visionary Don Brown, M.D. (Founder and CEO of Interactive Intelligence) speak on the future of customer service at the Indiana Chapter of SOCAP International on September 22, 2011. Below are my takeaways from his presentation.

It’s back to school season! All around students and parents are buying schools supplies and backpacks, teachers are setting up classrooms, textbooks are being distributed and school buses are making their early morning run in your neighborhood. In honor of the “season,” we wanted to share some good back-to-school tips with all of you.

The Interaction Center platform gives users a great degree of flexibility in configuring their personal options. Your power users may configure options for prompts played to callers, remote forward and follow-me features, call timeouts, notification preferences, and more. While this is very powerful, care must be taken when configuring these options to avoid “unintended consequences” – that’s a politically correct way of saying that it is possible to break things… badly.

There are few things more frustrating for the person managing call flows for an organization than to find out that callers are hearing the wrong menus and being presented with the wrong options. In the Interaction Center platform, there are a number of reasons this might happen, but one of the most common is a schedule misconfiguration.

Here’s an important announcement we received this week from Interactive Intelligence:
"Interactive Intelligence Customer Interaction Center® (CIC) 2.4 and Enterprise Interaction Center® (EIC) 2.4 products were scheduled to reach end of life (EOL) on June 26, 2011. Interactive Intelligence has extended the EOL date to December 31, 2011. ‘End of life’ status occurs three years after the last ship date of a product version."

Interactive Intelligence released SU12 for its CIC 3.0 platform on Friday. We wanted to get a quick blog post out to let you know what you will find in SU12. Here are some highlights:

While every effort can be made to secure a phone system against intrusion or abuse, there will always be methods that can be used to exploit a system. The Interaction Center platform is no different. Like all other phone systems, it has security precautions and necessary vulnerabilities. In other words, a lot of thought goes into how to secure an Interaction Center system against attack, but certain features of the system result in unavoidable insecurities or weak spots.

The good, the bad, and the forgotten…
Our team was briefed by ININ product management the other day on some of the major components coming in CIC 4.0 which is slated to be released sometime around the end of June… We won’t be able to cover everything we learned; however, here are some of our key takeaways: