SmartAction

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Leading provider of AI-powered Virtual Agents for omnichannel self-service posts its largest growth in sales bookings for the year. As the global intelligent virtual agent market is expected to reach $11.3b Customer Quotes. SmartAction’s 2019 Momentum Highlights. About SmartAction.

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HGS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Today’s companies are challenged to meet everyday customer service pressures while also building for the future. They must provide optimized customer service across various digital channels while also using new tools to better understand customer demographics and preferences, to deliver more personalized service.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2020

Emergent technologies have forever changed traditional customer service support. Lampton look at the state of customer service in the digital age. Rising customer expectations and increasing brand loyalty competition are driving the need to provide greater value-driven service to both consumers and stakeholders.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 8, 2019

DMG had projected that the market would grow by 22% in 2017, and the actual growth rate was 25.4%. The adoption rate of the cloud-based contact center infrastructure market as of the end of 2017 (July 2018) was 14.1% (includes hosted and software as a service (SaaS)), up from 11.4% at the end of 2016 (July 2017).

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The collaboration will utilise the technologies of both companies to provide customers with self-service solutions capable of enhancing customer experience, sales and support services. The partnership is already creating interest in the marketplace, with the companies currently collaborating on several projects.

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Liveops

JANUARY 16, 2019

This infographic from William Jessup University depicts how some of the biggest players in the gig economy achieved success: These companies “helped create a novel form of business,” as Nathan Heller wrote for the New Yorker in his May 2017 article “Is the Gig Economy Working?”. Read 8 Ways New Agents are Evolving the Traditional Model.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is proven to be a clear success factor when it comes to customer experience (CX) and is an important ingredient in the mix of contact channels. In the summer of 2017, If switched to a cloud contact center in the Nordics with the help of Puzzel. Virtual agents are quickly gaining in importance.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 13, 2021

The same is true for customer service strategies. Those that achieve real success are part of a bigger customer experience (CX) approach that is designed to create an integrated, coordinated strategy. In 2017, a large Telecommunications Company took their first steps to do just this.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The former Convergys Chief Executive Officer becomes the latest addition to SmartAction’s Board of Directors to assist in the growth of its top-rated AI-powered virtual agent solution for contact centers. I don’t want to wait on hold to talk to a person, and neither do customers.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The collaboration will utilise the technologies of both companies to provide customers with self-service solutions capable of enhancing customer experience, sales and support services. The partnership is already creating interest in the marketplace, with the companies currently collaborating on several projects.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I don’t need to tell you that not everything went as planned, but there were still some bright spots for us and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. Creative Virtual started 2020 celebrating the company’s Sweet Sixteen. 2020 was a record-breaking year for use of our virtual agent and chatbot implementations.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 7, 2021

They also discussed the findings of ISG’s research and current successful virtual agent implementations. Here’s a recording of their full discussion: When ISG held their awards ceremony in October, Chris and Liam Ryan, Sales Director, were able to accept Creative Virtual’s trophy in person from Jan Erik.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Being recognised as the best in conversational AI made our Founder & CEO, Chris Ezekiel, contemplate what makes a virtual agent or chatbot a true conversational AI solution and share his insights in a blog post. You can find the whole 2022 collection here.

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SmartAction

MAY 17, 2019

SmartAction provides AI-powered virtual agents for call centers to automate conversations traditionally handled by live agents over voice, chat, and text. SmartAction uses proprietary conversational AI to automate conversations that used to be handled by call center agents over phone, chat, and text.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2017

Digital transformation is a “hot” topic today for enterprises that are striving to deliver an outstanding customer experience cost effectively. One component of the digital transformation will be investments in technology to automate activities that previously required the participation of agents and other employees. By Donna Fluss.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 11, 2019

2019 was another busy and exciting year for Creative Virtual and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. We continued our five-year-long celebration of our Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation 2017 as we also celebrated the 15th anniversary of Creative Virtual. By Rachael Needham.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Beginning in 2017, the use of chat bots in call centers grew in popularity and became widely utilized. However, in recent years their use has declined as businesses have learned how difficult it is to properly maintain a chatbot that actually helps customers to accomplish their goals. Check out this blog post to find out.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2017

The Omni-Channel Agent Experience. In this age of digital transformation, customers and prospects must be able to easily access an enterprise from any channel – phone, self-service (websites, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, intelligent virtual agents (IVAs)), email, chat, co-browse, SMS, social media and video.

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Solvvy

JULY 5, 2018

In a single quarter in 2017, the company added more than 4,000 new customers. Most software companies would be lucky to add that many new customer in an entire year. Despite enormous growth, the company hired fewer than 100 new employees in all of 2017. Automating customer engagement. Automating customer service.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s been another exciting year not only for Creative Virtual as a company, but also for the virtual agent, chatbot and live chat industry, with lots of new developments and innovation. This was the fourth time a group of runners from Creative Virtual did a 10k in support of the RSPCA.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The increased use of AI Robotic process automation (RPA) In 2023, call centers will use AI algorithms to analyze customer emotions and understand ambiguous statements. This strategy allows the call center to deliver superior customer service, reduce service wait times, and streamline the client experience.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The increased use of AI Robotic process automation (RPA) In 2023, call centers will use AI algorithms to analyze customer emotions and understand ambiguous statements. This strategy allows the call center to deliver superior customer service, reduce service wait times, and streamline the client experience.

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Verint

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Check out this list of AI Influencers 2017: Top 30 people in AI you should follow on Twitter from the IBM Watson marketing team. Harnessing the power of customer engagement automation is here to stay. 1 A CEO Action Plan for Workplace Automation , Michael Chui, Katy George, and Mehdi Miremadi, McKinsey & Company, July 2017.

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Verint

MAY 1, 2018

Today Verint announces a line-up of conferences and digital events taking place in May that focus on digital and omnichannel customer service, GDPR compliance, automation and artificial intelligence, as well as the upcoming Engage TM global customer conference. Artificial Intelligence Conference. ET on May 2.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 4, 2022

Customer service expectations continue to increase, and only the best businesses keep up. The statistics show that superior customer experiences generate more return customers, increased loyalty, and higher profits. Statistics that Demonstrate the Value of Good Customer Service. Source: Bain&Co.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 14, 2019

Do you know how to keep your customers satisfied? Customer service is a high-stakes game. Every company is competing for the same customers, and customer satisfaction is one of the main differentiators between success and failure. Latest Customer Experience Trends. What Customers Think of CX.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Now that 2017 is out of the picture, what can we expect customer service to look like in 2018? The question isn’t new – after all, customer service is always changing. There are other implications to this new customer service trend. AI and Human Customer Service Will Be More Integrated Than Ever.

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