3CLogic's Contact Center Blog

In today’s digital economy where millions of transactions are occurring at any given moment, it is absolutely critical that businesses and vendors maintain the most stringent security measures to protect their customers’ payment card information. Which is why the major credit card institutions (American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa, JCB International) created the PCI Security Standards Council in 2006, outlining a number of rules and regulations businesses and vendors should follow in order to prevent potential breaches. But for businesses and call centers collecting sensitive payment information over the phone, what measures should be taken to protect their customers and maintain PCI compliance?

The emergence of Predictive Dialing has revolutionized the way contact centers perform outbound campaigns. What was once a tiring, manual, and inefficient task, can now be fully automated and maximized. In fact, contact centers have enjoyed a 50% increase in sales, 100% growth in profits, and 400% improvement in agent productivity since the introduction of predictive dialer platforms. But despite being the ideal solution for outbound campaigns, predictive dialers have faced substantial scrutiny and restrictions in recent years, requiring users to proceed with extreme caution.  So are the days of the predictive dialer numbered?