InTheChat

JANUARY 10, 2019

In our last post, we talked about the difficulty of balancing the excitement that the limitless potential of digital technology inspires against the practical realities of implementation on a large scale, which led us to ask: Wasn’t 2018. The post Wasn’t 2018 supposed to be the year of the chatbot? What happened?

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 24, 2018

Cloud contact center deployments that began in customer care may have been extended to other business areas. How will companies that have embraced the cloud for the contact center and sales applications across their businesses continue to benefit in 2018 and beyond? Inbenta – Hybrid chat and chatbots with NLP-powered search.

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Avaya

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Sheila McGee-Smith is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant with a proven track record in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for customer care solutions and services. The post Why Artificial Intelligence Now—and Why in Customer Care?

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CCNG

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Here are over 100 customer experience stats and trends for you to discover. 99% of Customer Experience and Success leaders believe CEM has a positive impact on their business. Lumoa , 2018) In 2019, customer experience will continue as a major factor in how companies do business.

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Fonolo

JULY 5, 2018

A Million People are Using Bank of America’s Chatbot” says the headline in American Banker. From mail-order catalogs to touch-tone IVR to chatbots. They are all answers to the question, “How do we let the customer do more, so that employees do less?” Chatbots are the new star on the horizon. You need the chatbot to: 1.

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ShepHyken

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This week we feature an article by Ian Moyse who writes about how important it is to examine the customer journey you are providing. We here all the time of wondrous new technology such as AI, VR, Chatbots and the like, that take us further from customers, pushing customers to self-serve and engaging with us as a personal brand.

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LiveChat

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In recent times, there has been a noticeable shift from the conventional mobile app development to AI chatbots. Bot creation is considered to take a center stage by the year 2021 and these changes will start picking up in 2018 henceforth. AI chatbots. Artificial intelligence is not meant for just a few big companies.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 11, 2018

But what does this mean for the future of customer service? Well, it’s been said that social customer care is actually the new business marketing. We are in an age where customer service has the potential to go viral, which means there is a lot more at stake for brands. Activate predicts that by 2018 at least 3.6

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 11, 2019

More recently, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in customer care has been one that contact center managers have wanted to learn more about. Data from the recently published NICE inContact 2018 CX Transformation Benchmark Study offers up-to-the-minute insights. Change Brought by Artificial Intelligence.

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Aspect

JANUARY 31, 2018

Aspect ist mit dabei und unterstützt das LiveCallCenter als Infrastruktur- und Lösungspartner für die Telefonie (ACD) und Self-Service Themen (IVR / Chatbot) live vor Ort. Das LiveCallCenter Design by HCD 2018 befindet sich in Halle 4. Ein Besuch lohnt sich, kommen Sie vorbei! Sie brauchen noch ein Ticket für die CCW?

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Interactions

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

While the chatbot may be having its 15 minutes of fame, they’re definitely not as efficient as they’re hyped up to be. Sure, the idea of talking to a bot online seems like it would be a quick and efficient way to solve your customer care inquiry, but is that really the case? When it comes to your customers, time is money.

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Eckoh

APRIL 21, 2020

Chatbots are now being taken seriously because they can support your contact center agents, boost customer loyalty and save a fortune if used in the right way. Compared to other innovations, Chatbots have been a slow burner. For years, the bad Chatbots have been ruining it for the better ones. Chatbots vs Spouses.

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Eckoh

APRIL 21, 2020

Chatbots are now being taken seriously because they support your agents, take secure payments and reduce queues. Compared to other innovations, Chatbots have been a slow burner. Since then, businesses have tried to take advantage of Chatbots as a way of providing base-level customer service but with patchy success.

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Aspect

OCTOBER 3, 2018

However, it is mediocre experiences that many companies have set as their standard which result in an indifferent customer base whose business is up for grabs by their competitors. . Proactive outreach and proactive customer care via voice, email or SMS is fundamental to keeping customers engaged and informed.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

This session will address the important discussions organizations must have around human involvement in automated solutions and the best ways to implement machine learning and chatbots. The post C3 San Francisco 2018: Enabling conversational commerce for customer service appeared first on Creative Virtual.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 31, 2019

DMG Consulting Releases 2018 – 2019 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2018 – 2019 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market. What: Releases 2018 – 2019 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market. When: Today, 4 December 2018.

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Interactions

JANUARY 16, 2019

With a new year upon us, we’re looking forward to all of the exciting things Intelligent Virtual Assistants can bring to the customer care table. We wrapped up 2018 with a look back at the year’s biggest customer care trends , and we’re excited to see what 2019 has in store for the technology industry.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 31, 2018

Will this be the year that messaging platforms from Facebook, Apple and others reach critical mass as a channel for customer service? Will the AI / chatbot hype start to live up to its promise? The Promise” for the topics of machine learning, chatbots, natural language processing, IoT and virtual reality.

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Answer Dash

MAY 7, 2018

Artificial intelligence will be a mainstream customer experience investment in the next couple of years. 47% of organisations will use chatbots for customer care and 40% will deploy virtual assistants,” ( Gartner ). This constitutes about 40 percent of the overall $9.5 trillion to $15.4 Learn more at www.answerdash.com.

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Fonolo

JANUARY 10, 2018

Fonolo is excited to return as a sponsor for this year’s Customer Contact Week (CCW), January 22-25th, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, Louisiana. Started in 1999 as Call Center Week, CCW is the world’s largest customer contact event series. In 2018 they introduced a new brand, Customer Contact Week.

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Aspect

DECEMBER 24, 2018

As we close out another successful year, we wanted to reflect on some of our achievements and our customers’ achievements throughout 2018 – a year that saw exciting new updates and implementations. It also saw Lidl UK win the esteemed prize of Best Consumer Chatbot at the CogX 2018 Awards.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 1, 2017

2018 is just around the corner, which means that companies around the world are planning (or have already planned) their business goals for next year. For many organizations, a huge part of this new year task is setting contact center priorities — priorities that can have a colossal impact on the customer experience.

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Revation Systems

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Automate Self-service through Chatbot Technology. Chatbot technology using artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the initial — or in some cases, entire — interaction can greatly enhance an organization’s customer engagement. Real-time Tone Analysis to Guide Conversations.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 11, 2019

He sought heed on the loss of thousands of crores of rupees due to bad customer experience the previous year (2018) in addition to the year before that. In his presentation, he emphasized the importance of providing a delightful customer experience.

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ijgolding

JULY 18, 2018

Already listed as the top pan-European customer service conference to attend in 2018, the summit will take place on 18th and 19th September at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel. So, after 8 years of successful meetings in the US, why are they bringing the event to London and does Europe really need a customer service event?

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

The icing on the cake for your customers is good customer service, which is why according to the 2018 State of Global Customer Service Report, 95% of respondents indicated that customer service is important to their choice of brand. Quite often, front line support staff hold the key to customer success.

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Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

Using customer journey analytics, you can integrate your structured data (website, CRM system) with your unstructured data (transcripts from web chat, audio call recordings, chatbot transcripts). Banking Customer Experience Index 2018 Report Keeping track of CSAT scores is, therefore, vital.

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

At their annual Signal conference, they announced a chatbot platform. How to Think about Chatbots in a Big Picture Kinda Way. . Further reading: 5 Intriguing Call Center Acquisitions from the First Half of 2018. LIVE DISCUSSION] Messaging vs Chat vs Texting: Battle for the Future of Customer Service. Tobias Goebel.

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VHT

OCTOBER 18, 2018

These five proven technologies will help meet that challenge, especially when deployed in innovative, customer-savvy applications. People love using chatbots for simple tasks. The business lowered costs while maintaining superior customer experience (CX). Social Media Customer Care.

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RapportBoost

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Tony: Customer preferences, cost, technology, and agent training are driving a lot of recent chat innovation. In a 2018 Customer Care report, McKinsey highlighted these four drivers and came to the conclusion that human agents will be more important than ever to contact centers. This is a great situation for a chatbot.

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Interactions

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

However, the majority of people’s questions often fall outside of this narrow scope of options and lead to a poor customer experience, leaving your customers frustrated and unhappy. While Statista reports the global chatbot market is expected to reach $1.25 Issues like this can have some serious consequences.

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Quiq

JULY 15, 2020

Leadership first learned about Quiq and its capabilities in January of 2018. Metro Transit went live with Quiq’s messaging platform in July 2018. The agency also handed out tens of thousands of printed flyers to inform customers that text messaging was now available.

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Infinity

APRIL 5, 2018

Here are some of the key points from the Call & Contact Centre Expo 2018 that will help you satisfy customers that contact you with queries and complaints. Once upon a time, this insincere, robotic response would have been a totally acceptable auto-reply to a customer complaint. See the whole customer journey.

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Pointillist

MARCH 1, 2019

Using customer journey analytics, you can integrate your structured data (website, CRM system) with your unstructured data (transcripts from web chat, audio call recordings, chatbot transcripts). Banking Customer Experience Index 2018 Report Keeping track of CSAT scores is, therefore, vital.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Creating valuable content will help customers be interested in what you do and sell. Six Trends Shaking Up Customer Care in 2019 by Julien Rio. CustomerThink) As 2018 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect upon this year’s Customer Care industry highlights, and to think about what’s expected to happen next year.

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Comm100

AUGUST 23, 2018

It’s 2018, and customer expectations are changing faster than ever. While some businesses have struggled to withstand the shifting tides, others have reacted in a timely enough fashion to keep up (at least minimally) with changing customer expectations. Organic Mobile Experiences Blur Channel Lines. Who is doing this right?

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Fonolo

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Whether it’s handling and routing necessary inquiries through self-service tools and chatbots or using AI to improve reporting and predictive modeling, AI will be essential in delivering excellent customer experiences in the future. Contact Center Trends 2018. Consistency Across Multi-Channel is a Top Challenge.

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