SmartAction

JANUARY 16, 2020

Much like Winona Ryder, while traditional IVRs faded into obscurity in the early 2000s, voice control is having its Stranger Things come back. In the next five years, industry experts predict that nearly every application will integrate voice technology in some way. Talk is the new Type. Ok chatbots, you’ve had your fun.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

John Ing, Principal Operations Lead for CX at ECS shares his CX Predictions for the banking industry in 2020. Voice will become more important, not less. The death of voice as a contact channel for banking customers has been over-hyped. The trick will be to ensure these are frictionless, with no virtual traffic jams.

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Call Design

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Genesis of Automation and IVR. Attempts to automate phone-based customer interactions have been around for decades. First-generation IVR (interactive voice response) systems were one of the first systems to automatically interact with a customer through voice recognition and/or keypad inputs.

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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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Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

Today’s most popular assistants offer a multimodal experience — the ability to interact on multiple channels — and are a major leap from the voice-only assistants that dominated the market just a few years ago. Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 1, 2020

Voice Self-Service Has Become More Popular—and It’s About to Get Much Better. F or decades, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, including those that were speech-enabled, were greatly disliked by users, even as adoption continued to grow. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website.

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3CLogic

APRIL 20, 2021

It’s no surprise then that leading companies are adopting voice self-service solutions in addition to their IVR solutions to not only manage call volume but provide a higher quality of customer service and improve call agent performance. The question is no longer should I adopt voice self-service for my contact center?

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 9, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 – 2020 Workforce Optimization Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2019 – 2020 Workforce Optimization Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2019 – 2020 Workforce Optimization Product and Market Report. When: Today, 18 February 2020.

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REVE Chat Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The top contact center trends to watch out in 2020. respondents listed the “ inability to connect with a live person for support ” and “ automated IVR ” as one of the most frustrating aspects of the customer service experience. virtual agents. AI enabled IVR and voice bots. 34% of U.S. FAQ pages .

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2019

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 – 2020 Contact Center Analytics Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2019 – 2020 Contact Center Analytics Product and Market Report. DMG expects the number of IA seats to increase by 12% in 2019, 11% in 2020, 10% in both 2021 and 2022, and 9% in 2023.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 – 2020 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2019 – 2020 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. DMG expects the number of CBCCI seats to increase by 23% in 2019 and 2020, by 21% in 2021 and 2022, and by 20% in 2023.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 31, 2019

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 – 2020 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2019 – 2020 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. 2019 – 2020 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. Strong momentum driving market growth and investments.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In February 2020, 7 million jobs were open in the US, while the unemployment rate was 3.5%. Other factors include automation of routine jobs, the drug addiction crisis as overdose deaths jumped to 30% in 2020, and a lack of childcare infrastructure. With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 29, 2021

This is exactly what DMG asked enterprise, IT and contact centers leaders from around the world in our annual contact center goals and priority survey, conducted in November and December 2020. We expected insightful responses, and the results did not disappoint. Figure 1: Top 5 Contact Center Priorities for 2021. of respondents.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

When: Today, 3 March 2020. DMG Consulting Releases Future Contact Center Outlook, 2025 – 2040. 5 to 20 year vision and projected actions to achieve the future state. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services.

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3CLogic

MAY 26, 2022

During 2020 and 2021, customers rapidly moved to digital-first interactions, creating a permanent change in the ways companies approach customer experience. Integrative customer experience technologies such as SMS, Voice, and conversational AI will allow you to keep up with new consumer expectations.

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Stafford Communications

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Rather than displacing agents, call center artificial intelligence is providing an opportunity to improve the experience for call center managers, agents, and end-customers. Interactive voice response (IVR) systems have been in place in call centers for decades. Here’s how.

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Background: DMG Consulting LLC , a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services, today released its 2019-2020 Robotic Process Automation Product and Market Report. Where: Available at the DMG Consulting online store. OnviSource is covered at a high level.

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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 and virtual agents can only give accurate responses if they are backed by a knowledgebase with accurate content.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The result is increased demand for real-time speech analytics, which can deliver accurate and timely insight and guidance to agents during interactions with customers, mitigating liability risks and guiding interactions to results that are mutually beneficial for the enterprise and the customer.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

in 2018, 23% in both 2019 and 2020, and 21% in 2021. The cloud has become the dominant sales model for contact center infrastructure solutions, ACDs, dialers, IVRs and more,” said Donna Fluss, President of DMG Consulting LLC. This represents only 11.4% DMG predicts that the number of seats will grow by 22% in 2017, 22.5%

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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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DMG Consulting

MARCH 16, 2018

The number of WFM seats is expected to increase by 9% in 2018 and 2019, and by 10% in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Besides the opportunity to transform and revolutionize WFM in contact centers, there is an even bigger opportunity to sell these solutions to back offices and branches. For more information, visit www.dmgconsult.com. # # #.

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Cisco - Contact Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

“Gartner projects that by 2020, 10% of business-to-consumer first level engagement requests will be taken by VCAs… today that is less than 1%… ” Google Duplex Natural Technology.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 31, 2019

in 2018, 23% in 2019 and 2020, and 21% in 2021 and 2022. DMG remains bullish on this IT market, particularly now that some larger contact centers are either moving to the cloud, albeit not all of their seats at once, or considering a move. DMG expects the CBCCI market to grow at a minimum rate of of 22.5%

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Altivon

MARCH 20, 2018

According to Gartner, by 2020 customers will manage 85% of their interactions without any human involvement. Through better web-based content, enhanced IVR, the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual agents and, yes, chatbots. Chatbots: Prosperous Future or Disaster? How is that possible?

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Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

Direct your Callers to Effortless Digital Customer Service With Visual IVR. We polled attendees of our Knowledge Management Vs. Knowledge Automation webinar on how they viewed agent onboarding. Most stated that it took anywhere from one to several months for an agent to become proficient. Post-2020 Company Mindset.

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Calabrio

JANUARY 6, 2016

By 2020, the number of connected “things” is expected to rise to 30 billion. By the year 2020, your washing machine breaks down. A virtual agent initiates a service call by accessing your Outlook or iCal calendar to set up an appointment. The pace at which technology marches forward is just incredible.

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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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