Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This is the seventh time I’ve done this annual year in review blog post, but never have I had to review a year that was like 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.

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Talkdesk

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Almost 17,500 US bank branches closed from the beginning of 2014 to the middle of June 2020. According to the Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) , which works with 50 of the world’s largest banks, there was a “200% jump in new mobile banking registrations” in early April 2020. . Invest in artificial intelligence.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 16, 2020

Ok chatbots, you’ve had your fun. It’s predicted that 50% of searches will be conducted through voice in 2020 (and 100% will be monitored by the Russian government). For example, scheduling appointments used to be a huge hang-up for Virtual Agents. Talk is the new Type. Conversational UX.

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REVE Chat Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The top contact center trends to watch out in 2020. You can respond to your customers faster with AI enabled chatbots. You can use chatbots as the first point of contact for 24×7 customer engagement and filtering the complex conversations. The chat is handed over to the human agent to deliver comprehensive support.

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InGenius

JANUARY 31, 2020

As January comes to a close, we wanted to have a look at what 2020 has in store for the contact center. Being a progressive industry driven by innovation and new technology, we can expect to see several trends emerging this year that propel the industry forward and have a significant impact on customer experience and agent productivity.

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Xaqt

JUNE 1, 2020

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.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 22, 2020

The closing of physical store and office locations, restrictions on in-person activities, new guidelines to keep contact centre agents safe, rapidly changing information – these challenges and disruptions to business-as-usual have forced organisations to adapt quickly and re-evaluate the needs of their customers.

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SmartAction

APRIL 1, 2020

SmartAction is responding to the current crisis with a Rapid Response Virtual Agent that intercepts callers with a seamless channel switching experience to answer commonly asked questions and even screen callers to create an escalation path (e.g. How a Rapid Response Virtual Agent Works. For a live demo, visit [link].

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 5, 2020

2020 has brought new customer service challenges for companies and altered the way customers engage with businesses, perhaps forever. This three-part blog series explores the business value of using a chatbot or virtual agent to provide easy-to-use self-service, starting with supporting customers.

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Call Design

AUGUST 9, 2021

The advent of web interfaces, such as queries through chatbots or social media, means the focus is now on the entire business’ omnichannel experience. This has shown that humans and virtual agents can operate as co-workers helping to make the agents’ job more interesting.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 12, 2021

Having innovation at the heart of our company culture at Creative Virtual has served the company well, but only because we innovate with the objective of delivering products and services that genuinely help our customers meet their goals in increasingly better ways. Most companies use chatbots as a way to manage customer support.

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Altivon

MARCH 20, 2018

Chatbots, Omnichannel and Cloud are three top trends for contact centers. Chatbots: Prosperous Future or Disaster? According to Gartner, by 2020 customers will manage 85% of their interactions without any human involvement. Chatbots seem synonymous with artificial intelligence and are certainly sparking the imagination.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 6, 2020

I can testify that I’ve never had to wait 25-30 minutes to speak to a representative for whatever service I needed before Spring 2020 but experienced that exact scenario at least four times in the past few months. Cue the virtual agents, chatbots and virtual assistants.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Long wait times have been fuelled by a sharp rise in calls combined with the unpredictability of available agents due to office closures and quarantines. She advocates for letting self-help tools, such as virtual agents and chatbots, share the burden being felt by contact centres. Her conclusion?

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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 5, 2020

Creative Virtual’s V-Person virtual agents and chatbots certainly experienced this trend, setting a record-breaking spike in usage during the first half of 2020. An additional 33% saw “some trend’ of this happening.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 9, 2020

Shep Hyken (@Hyken) January 5, 2020. Just as each company is unique, so should be their chatbot, virtual agent and live chat strategy – there’s no one-size-fits-all approach that guarantees success. The guide includes: Three steps for creating a successful chatbot, virtual agent and live chat strategy.

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Outsource Consultants

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“AI will replace human contact center interactions,” according to some CX experts in 2020. Some shoppers seek efficiency and self-service through chatbots, while others crave the understanding and empathy only humans can offer. Whether or not you fully embraced that view at the time, you certainly contemplated it.

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Interactions

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Voice search is up–50% of all searches will be voice searches by 2020, per comScore. Chatbots passed through the Great Filter. If 2018 was the year of chatbots, then 2019 was the year when chatbots had to prove their worth and usability. The novelty around chatbots was over by the middle of 2019.

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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 20, 2020

The new ebook, Conversational AI Trends 2020 , takes a look at the rapid advances in conversational AI technologies and the new applications and use cases emerging across industries. The organisation discovered that their virtual agent was the best way to keep up with rapid changes and deliver accurate information to customers.

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Inbenta

OCTOBER 11, 2021

– Define Your Chatbot Goals. – Take Care of Your Chatbot Branding . According to Business Insider, nearly 40% of internet users worldwide prefer chatbots over less conversational virtual agents. . billion in 2020 and is set to gain another $95.41 Define Your Chatbot Goals.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2020

According to customer service expert Shep Hyken, a majority of businesses believe that improving the total customer experience is a top priority and will overtake price and product quality as a key differentiator by 2020. Ace Hardware believes this provides far better assistance for consumers with questions than a virtual agent or website 9.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 21, 2022

I started out by talking about conversational AI tools being thrust into the customer service spotlight in 2020 as businesses dealt with COVID-19 lockdowns, restrictions, and rapidly changing information. Virtual agents and chatbots have come a long way over the past two decades, and there are even more exciting developments on the horizon.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 27, 2021

We saw record traffic to our virtual agents and chatbots in 2020 as customers turned to online self-service for quick answers to their questions. In fact, one of our customers found that updating their virtual agent was quicker and easier than updating content on their website.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

There have been lots of predictions over the past several years about the impact artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbot technologies will have on customer service. However, AI-powered chatbots and virtual agents are changing the role of contact centres and human customer service agents.

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VocalCom

JULY 2, 2020

We are social creatures and the value interacting with another human being over a machine when dealing with a complex and emotional problem cannot be underestimated: humans offer a level of empathy that no chatbot or automated agent can currently provide. The rise of the ‘Super-Agent’.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Here’s our annual blog post roundup of trends, tips and stats to help you consistently deliver a five-star customer service experience: Top Tips for Implementing a Chatbot or Virtual Agent in 2019 – These eight tips address the most important items organisations should consider when evaluating and deploying chatbot or virtual agent technology.

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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.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 25, 2019

According to Frost & Sullivan , customer experience will overtake product and price as the number one means of differentiation for organisations by 2020. Creative Virtual Founder & CEO, Chris Ezekiel will be presenting a seminar on Thursday at 14:00 in Theatre 16 , ‘Top Tips for Implementing Chatbots and Virtual Agents in 2019’.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In 2020 there is an increased focus on automated technologies, such as chatbots and virtual agents, as companies face new customer service and experience challenges and customers alter the ways they engage with businesses.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 14, 2020

In particular, AI-enhanced virtual agents and chatbots empower employees to self-serve when and where they need help, reducing support costs while at the same time improving the employee experience. Successful use cases for employee-facing virtual agents and chatbots.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 28, 2020

Just as virtual agents and chatbots are ideal tools for customer self-service, they also lend themselves well to supporting employees in areas such as IT Service Management (ITSM), human resources (HR) and staff training. They give employees a way to easily access the information they need.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It has certainly helped that we always considered our people our main asset and that everything we do focuses on people, be it our customers or the end-customer interacting with a virtual agent or chatbot. Our latest whitepaper focuses on the importance of the human touch when implementing a chatbot or virtual agent.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 18, 2019

Plagued by long wait times, agents dealing with inadequate or incomplete access to information and a disconnect from digital channels, contact centres are struggling to meet customer service expectations. Chatbots are more than customer self-service tools. Not all chatbots are designed for the contact centre.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 2, 2020

Yet even with these changes, customers still sometimes want or need to reach out to a human agent in the contact centre. One way in which companies can support their live agents is with AI-enhanced virtual agents and chatbots. The combination of humans and AI makes for an improved customer support experience.

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Xaqt

JANUARY 15, 2021

Xaqt Deploys AI-Based COVID Vaccination Solution Summary On December 22, 2020, Xaqt, of Chicago, IL, launched a contact center solution specifically designed to meet the unique requirements of the COVID-19 vaccine distribution program. Xaqt’s Intelligent Virtual Agents are also able to respond to SMS-based interactions.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 8, 2018

On top of that, by 2020, it’s estimated that 85 percent of customer service experiences will be managed without a human. The do-it-yourself model, which many chatbots use, allows you to purchase a platform that uses natural language processing to help automate more. With this in mind, where do you start? Implementing Conversational AI.

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3CLogic

APRIL 6, 2021

The True Power of NLP: Way More Than a Virtual Assistant. When we think of Natural Language Processing being used in call centers, we typically think of chatbots or even a virtual assistant — an automated voice replacing a human one to handle our customer service needs. In 2020, there were 120 of these events.”

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