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CCaaS Trends: The Evolution of Cloud Contact Centres

Lumoa

The denouement of Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for AI shows how AI-powered contact center technologies such as natural language processing (NLP), chatbots, and machine learning (ML) have recently begun to lose their magnetism, ending up in the Trough of Disillusionment.

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A History of Customer Support Technology

TeamSupport

Fun fact: TeamSupport was founded in 2008! Chatbots and virtual assistants powered by AI became increasingly popular for handling routine inquiries, providing 24/7 support, and improving response times. In the early 2000s, simple chatbots were used on websites to assist with frequently asked questions and basic customer support.

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Six Large UK Businesses Engage ECS for Contact Centre Transformation Projects in 2020

CSM Magazine

With many contact centres unable to operate effectively with a remote workforce and handle increasing contact volumes, the strategy of moving legacy technology to scalable, flexible cloud platforms and adopting voice and text chatbots has raced up the CEO agenda.

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Coop Sweden Previews Cooper – an Artificial Intelligence Retail Virtual Assistant by EBI.AI

CSM Magazine

Amer Mohammed, Chief Digital Officer at Coop Sweden concluded: “Cooper is so much more than a simple Chatbot. Coop has had an online shop since 2008 which today reaches over 60 percent of Swedish households with home deliveries and also offers meal plans that can be picked up in all Coop stores. About Coop. million members.

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A review of purpose-built accelerators for financial services

AWS Machine Learning

The financial services industry (FSI) is no exception to this, and is a well-established producer and consumer of data and analytics. This mostly non-technical post is written for FSI business leader personas such as the chief data officer, chief analytics officer, chief investment officer, head quant, head of research, and head of risk.

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Customer Service Trends to Look for in 2017

Comm100

“Although the use of brands’ mobile apps has exploded since 2008, ‘brand app fatigue’ is starting to settle in. 2016 saw Microsoft chatbot, Taytweets, spiral out of control. In live chat, advanced integrations can include screen sharing, analytics, help desk, CRM applications, and more. AI Will Take a Back Seat.

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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

Xaqt

The Great Recession in 2008-2009 accelerated the offshoring trend as companies grappled with the economic downturn. Which meant that someone from Kansas could call a U.S company and speak with a call center agent in Bangalore. Offshoring thus emerged as a way for contact centers to reduce labor expense.