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Turning Crisis Into Connection: How IVAs Can Support Utility Customers During Outages

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power outages since 2000 have been due to extreme weather; heat season outages alone have increased by 60% since 2009, according to Climate Central. Frantically pushing numbers, getting irrelevant links from a chatbot, or being asked to repeat information by a robot-like voice assistant leaves them frustrated and angry.

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

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All the while, Virtual Agents and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) threaten to eliminate much of the human capabilities that outsources have built their business on. Amazon, Google, Microsoft) and well-funded start-ups are selling the value proposition of bots, virtual agents and AI to their enterprise customers.