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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. Thats what you risk if youre still relying on outdated solutions like chatbots or interactive voice response (IVR) tools. On average, the U.S. Eight in 10 major U.S.

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Top 8 Dialpad Alternatives & Competitors in 2023

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Call queues – Route calls to the right agent using IVR, skills-based routing, and caller information to ensure customers reach the right agent and are not kept waiting. Monitor, whisper, or barge – Monitor live agent calls and provide help through whispers or by joining the call in real-time.

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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.