Creative Virtual

MAY 13, 2021

Within many companies, the digital customer service experience has evolved slowly and separately from other pieces of the support puzzle, such as the contact centre. For many years, when having a static set of FAQs on a website was enough for online self-service, organisations could get away with that siloed approach.

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RichCall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report, Dimension Data 2017. The The 2017 Global Benchmarking Report (pdf) suggests that the top trends are: CX as the differentiator (82.%). self-service. employ customer support specialists, who will become trusted and recognized, rather than be nameless agents. Self-service.

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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. He ultimately served on the Board of Directors first as COO, then as CEO, for five years.

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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. Call centers must adapt to changing client demands for self-service by giving their chatbots new features and capabilities. Conversational chatbots are one of the top market disruptors in call center automation.

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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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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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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 17, 2017

August 2017. Companies are striving to understand customer needs, engage Millennial customers and employees, increase the use of self-service tools, improve service quality while reducing costs, simplify operating environments, and reduce fraud, and they’re looking to vendors for help. Self-service.

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TechSee

MARCH 13, 2018

Artificial Intelligence was the talk of 2017. The hype was generated by successive breakthroughs in multiple industries, such as self-driving cars, smart assistants, etc., Virtual Agents. A major driver for the chatbot disappointment in 2017 was the inflated expectations.

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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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HGS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Melissa: Today’s customer service trends are being driven by customer expectations for really simple and straightforward communication. In many cases, this means self-service tools, although customers also sometimes need to pick up the phone and speak with a person. What’s one of the biggest wild cards, with the biggest impact?

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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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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

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In any case, these three applications can make major contributions to enterprises, customers, and agents, and should be considered by all contact centers as they begin to plan their 2018 budgets. Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs). I would like to receive the monthly DMG Newsletter. By Donna Fluss.

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SmartAction

MARCH 15, 2019

SmartAction’s cloud-based virtual agents automate conversations that live agents traditionally handled over voice, chat, and text. About SmartAction SmartAction was founded as an Artificial Intelligence (AI) research company in 2002 and is now the leading provider of AI-powered virtual agents for customer service.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Use Technology for Self Service. For instance, IVRs and artificial intelligence enabled Chatbots can make the customer service easier and efficient. Chatbots which work like virtual agents can solve basic query and transfer a call to ‘live agents’ in case of escalation.

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Solvvy

JULY 5, 2018

In a single quarter in 2017, the company added more than 4,000 new customers. Despite enormous growth, the company hired fewer than 100 new employees in all of 2017. This piece of the puzzle neatly bridges the self-serve buying process with the self-service support model. Virtual agents or chatbots.

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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. You can read the full article here.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2020

While retailers utilize a wide range of support options such as human and virtual agents, social media, or mobile apps, existing single and multi-channel support systems necessitate access to each channel separately. While efficient and less expensive, many companies are reluctant to discontinue human agent support.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 7, 2020

I’ve built Creative Virtual based on long term relationships, and we see all of our customers and resellers as partners in our journey to deliver the best possible customer experience tools. Receiving the five-year Queens Awards for Enterprise: Innovation in 2017 (and getting to meet Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace!)

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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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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2017

10/24/2017. The driver behind the AI revolution is the need for productivity and quality improvements, which are important for all enterprise applications and essential for people-intensive front- and back-office service organizations. I would like to receive the monthly DMG Newsletter. AI: On the Right Path but Not Yet Real.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This strategy allows the call center to deliver superior customer service, reduce service wait times, and streamline the client experience. It is built on virtual agents, capable of doing human-like tasks independently and up to 10 times quicker than humans. billion in 2017 to $10.4 billion in 2023.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This strategy allows the call center to deliver superior customer service, reduce service wait times, and streamline the client experience. It is built on virtual agents, capable of doing human-like tasks independently and up to 10 times quicker than humans. billion in 2017 to $10.4 billion in 2023.

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Verint

MAY 1, 2018

A study published in 2017 investigated the presence and effects of relational language on intelligent virtual agents (IVAs). Data from large-scale, real-world enterprise IVA implementations revealed that people are increasingly relating to chatbots as they would human agents. ET on May 2. May 10; Online Webinar.

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Aspect

MAY 15, 2018

According to the European Union , the AI market is expected to grow from about $664 million in 2017 to $3.88 Looking specifically at the contact center industry, we have seen a recent flurry of activity around chatbots, intelligent IVRs and virtual agents. billion in 2025.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 14, 2019

Great Customer Service Statistics. Customer Service Stats for Social Media. Rise of the Automation Industry & Self-Service. Build a Delightful Customer Experience With These Customer Service Statistics. Worldwide, 67% of people believe that customer service as a whole is improving. Millennials Today.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 4, 2022

The State of Customer Service in Statistics. 52% of all customer service engagements around the world in 2017 began online. 67% of people worldwide believe that customer service is improving as a whole. In 2017, 64% of Americans contacted some form of customer service. Harris Interactive. Source: Microsoft.

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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. Improving the agent experience isn’t the only way that companies are looking to remove friction from the customer experience. Introduction. Download Now.

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