Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline. Multimodal Virtual Agents allow customers to tap, text and talk to get more done , with little effort. Multimodal Virtual Agent Implementation and Best Practices. View Webinar.

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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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TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Why agents are embracing the change.

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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. . Prioritize your clients’ concerns.

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TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Smarter Agents. Virtual agents learn as they process more information, but someone must train them.

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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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REVE Chat Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The top contact center trends to watch out in 2020. Omni channel communication provides better contextual support to customers with a seamless consistent experience across all channels such as desktop, mobile, phone, or in person. virtual agents. Going ahead, it’s time to assess what will be the future of call centers.

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DMG Consulting

MAY 21, 2020

VISION 2020. In 2020 we’re going to see new and continued investments that will finally allow companies to decrease the number of live agent resources needed in contact centers, which is the number-one goal for these people-intensive organizations. More business (and personal) activities will occur through mobility.

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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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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 20, 2020

We have all been facing new personal, professional and community challenges this year as we continue to deal with the harsh impacts of a global pandemic. 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.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 6, 2020

” Indeed this is true, and all of us in our businesses and in our personal lives can feel the effects of how services of all kinds have altered in ways ranging from barely discernible to completely different (filling out forms, having temperatures taken, tape and measurements of distance being assessed amidst a lot of Perspex dividers).

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ConvergeOne

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Since COVID-19 and the great resignation that came about in 2020 and 2021, contact centers have had a hard time finding and retaining agents. This frequent agent turnover in a contact center leads to very expensive training costs, but worse, it means that call holding wait time is getting longer, and more painful, for customers.

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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. As a company we are proud to receive this recognition for innovation.

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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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Outsource Consultants

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“AI will replace human contact center interactions,” according to some CX experts in 2020. Where AI Triumphs Chatbots: These tireless assistants handle routine inquiries, personalize interactions, and offer 24/7 support. Whether or not you fully embraced that view at the time, you certainly contemplated it.

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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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DMG Consulting

MARCH 8, 2019

in 2018, 23% in 2019 and 2020, and 21% in 2021 and 2022. Customers show a preference for self-service, and AI-enabled intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) are playing a vital role in addressing the self-service challenge. Robotic process automation (RPA) and IVAs are going to be used to enhance the customer and agent experience.

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Liveops

JANUARY 16, 2019

By 2020, an estimated more than 40 percent of the American workforce, or 60 million people, will be independent workers—freelancers, contractors, and temporary employees. Read 8 Ways New Agents are Evolving the Traditional Model. The number of people who are self-employed in flexible roles is growing steadily. Learn more.

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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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Stafford Communications

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

It’s likely that within a few years we will see AI enhance many of the current tasks being performed by live agents, helping to streamline processes and reduce costs. Here are some examples of how AI is helping in call centers: Virtual Agents. Quality Assurance.

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Netomi

MARCH 23, 2022

As consumer behavior rapidly changed during the pandemic, accelerating the shift from in-person to online shopping and the expectation for speedy shipping, the Third-Party Logistics (3PL) industry has boomed. The 3PL market was valued at around USD 1trillion in 2020, and is expected to reach more than USD 1.75 In 2020, C.

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Netomi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

While basic chatbot technology moves the conversation forward via bot-prompted keywords or UX features like Facebook Messenger’s suggested responses, AI-powered chatbots use natural language processing and leverage semantics to understand the context of what a person is saying. for meaningful and personalized resolutions. on an email.

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Interactions

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Voice search is up–50% of all searches will be voice searches by 2020, per comScore. AI and Agents: Better Together. Customers expected the same level of maturity, personalization, and depth from chatbots as interacting with a live agent. Lisa Michaud, Senior Product Manager.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This event is always one of the highlights of the year for me, and I missed being in Hong Kong in person to take part in the great discussions and awards gala fun. It can also be set up to ‘listen’ to calls or ‘watch’ live chat sessions to make suggestions to the agents with the relevant information.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 2, 2020

The trends and preferences in our personal communications and the technology we use to stay connected have changed drastically over the lifetime of The Rotary. Yet even with these changes, customers still sometimes want or need to reach out to a human agent in the contact centre.

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Squelch

JANUARY 29, 2020

In part two below, she discusses the connection between employee experience and customer experience, Microsoft’s approach to blending human and machine-driven customer support, and her predictions for CX in 2020 and beyond. What is the frame of mind of the person helping the customer? We’re so lucky.”.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

DMG predicts that the contact center speech analytics market will grow by 11% in 2018, 10% in 2019, 10% in 2020, 10% in 2021, and 9% in 2022. We also expect to see more speech analytics ’seats’ being sold as embedded capabilities in other applications, such as intelligent virtual agent (IVA) solutions.”.

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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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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’. Dealing with Greater Complexity.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2020

It was about putting your customer in the center of the project, keeping the human expert involved because they know most, AND – not accidentally last in this list – give the responses a personal touch, allow small talk, feedback, etc. To our customers: I miss you and I look forward to seeing you in person again!

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Netomi

MARCH 27, 2022

For example, if you spring for a first-class ticket on a flight, you are going to expect more personal and proactive service from flight attendants. And even more, scale personal interactions across customer support email , chat, social and voice channels. CSAT Score Benchmarks for 2020 . 47%: Expect convenience.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 22, 2020

(Trust us, we learned the hard way a few years ago when we first got into broadscale remote training for WAH agents!). Virtual Training: Moving from Just “Getting It Done” to “Doing It Well”. For most of us, the success measure for the big 2020 pivot was simply staying operational. Making Virtual Agent Training Work for You.

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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. If self-service and automation are the norm in 2020, what does that mean for agents?

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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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Inbenta

OCTOBER 11, 2021

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 Be careful not to sacrifice clarity for personality, however. billion by 2030. .

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Creative Virtual

MAY 23, 2019

I wrote recently about the prediction that 2020 will be the year that customer experience overtakes product and price as the number one way companies will differentiate themselves in the marketplace. Not that long ago, businesses were only dealing with providing support in person, over the phone or via email.

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