TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues. Total Cost Per Contact. Boost KPIs with Visual Self-Service.

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Outsource Consultants

JULY 10, 2018

An article by Dan Miller raises an interesting point: Implementing virtual agents into your contact center isn’t staying ahead of the curve, it’s common. Don’t Be Afraid of Using Virtual Agents in Your Contact Center. The common sense approach for handling AI is to opt for a fusion of human and virtual agents.

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SmartAction

APRIL 4, 2023

In a March 15, 2023 article – “ How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Chatbots are, indeed, a different kind of virtual assistant. Through the power of newer Conversational AI, chatbots are rapidly improving. Nowhere are these advances more evident than those seen in virtual assistants.

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SmartAction

APRIL 24, 2019

This combination has led to the growing adoption of AI-powered virtual agents to automate conversations traditionally handed by live agents. Best Practice #2: Virtual agents need “guardrails”. There is a fine line between what should be automated by conversational AI and what should be transferred to live agents.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Underpinned by state-of-the-art technology, you can now have a conversation with virtual agents who will understand customer needs and address them quickly. AI-Powered Chatbots AI-driven chatbots have evolved into sophisticated virtual assistants.

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Inbenta

APRIL 14, 2020

4 chatbot use cases within the customer journey. A conversational agent can prove to be a particularly effective solution to accompany your Internet users over several phases, in a unified way, so let’s have a look at four chatbot use cases within the customer journey. A chatbot as an intelligence tool.

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Conversational AI (aka intelligent chatbots or virtual agents) combines artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to streamline customer interactions across channels. Simplifying the creation and maintenance of virtual agents across the enterprise is critical. Essentially, it is what makes a Virtual Agent smart.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

Mobility, flexibility, automation… the development of chatbots is the inevitable result of a ten-year technological convergence that has swept across all companies and contact centers. The chatbot, as a conversational robot embedded into a messaging app, enables the creation of a new communication experience with users.

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 16, 2024

So, aim to respond to customer inquiries and issues promptly through quick response methods like chatbots, phone support, and ticket systems. Plus, Aventon uses a virtual agent chatbot to resolve general queries on the go. By meeting or even exceeding this expectation, you can enhance customer satisfaction.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Conversational AI technology over the phone goes beyond chatbots to leverage the power of voice and offer a more personal experience. In this article, we’ll explore why you should implement voice-driven AI in your call center, and provide tips for contact center managers when implementing this technology. Collaborate.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As a result, customers connect with the right agents without long waits, improving both speed and satisfaction. Virtual agents—AI-powered chatbots—handle straightforward inquiries, providing instant answers and freeing up human agents to focus on more complex cases. The platform’s AI tools enhance service further.

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Fonolo

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

For more on this, see “ How to Think about Chatbots in a Big Picture Kinda Way.” ” To summarize the issue: People think AI is going to expand coverage – that transactions which currently need agents will become self-servable. Now back to the NY Times article by Thomas Friedman. So, partial credit, I guess.).

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The experience for customers and agents is seamless, and the solution can integrate with your current contact center platform, telephony setup, and data systems. Of course, where and how you start are essential in any technology initiative, so in this article, we’ll provide a roadmap to ensure project success.

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Inbenta

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In this article, we’ll look at some examples of Natural Language Processing use cases and how NLP has been applied in different industries. At Inbenta, we use the power of NLP applied to automated translation in our multilingual chatbots, to ensure that our users get the answers they’re looking for in their preferred language.

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Provide Support

JANUARY 10, 2018

Are chatbots and virtual agents likely to replace humans any time soon? What innovations and technologies will be transforming the world and shaping its future? And if so, what does the future hold for human CSRs and what will be the role of AI in customer service then?

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Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Well, this article will cover everything you need to know; from the benefits of the tech to the drawbacks, as well as several real-life use cases to inspire you. To go further, modern chatbots are now pre-empting the moments when customers require their assistance. Set up chatbots for a 24/7 contact center.

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Liveops

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Click here to go to CCW’s Remote Agent Report. Blog Article] How AI will change the nature of contact center work. An article by Contact Center Pipeline analyzes a survey showing few leaders have strategies for preparing people and workflows. Blog Article] How to turn dead air into an engaging customer experience.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 17, 2019

Not entirely, since to get to the point of using your agents’ skills, customers first need to contact your support. In this article, we’ll discuss the key four reasons why some customers prefer to suffer silently and then leave you for your competitors. Editor’s Note: This article reflects the opinion of our guest author.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 2, 2022

By Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO, Creative Virtual. Back in 2019, I wrote an article on reasons why chatbot projects were failing or being abandoned before they even reached the testing stage. I am struggling to manage multiple chatbots across different business divisions or departments.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Cognigy , an internationally successful pioneer in customer service automation, offers one of the leading Conversational AI platforms (think voice- and chatbots). Chatbots rarely help. As customers, chatbots often make us feel blocked from getting the information we are looking for. Why are chatbots used in the first place?

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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 5, 2021

Industry awards, conferences, and articles frequently showcase and reward vendors for technological innovations. Deploying conversational AI solutions like chatbots and virtual agents can be risky but doesn’t have to be. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The integration of Spitch’s voice technologies and Creative Virtual’s V-Person natural language chatbots and virtual agents brings an industry-leading voicebot offering to the market. The partnership is already creating interest in the marketplace, with the companies currently collaborating on several projects.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 21, 2022

Recently I was invited to contribute an article to the Collaboration Journal, a quarterly publication from the Collaboration Network, as a guest columnist. The Journal always features a variety of thought leadership articles focused on achieving better outcomes for customers and employees. By Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Speed, simplicity, and the ability to express their needs fluently without the hassles of navigating chatbots or sifting through help articles. Conversational AI, with its specific intents and data-driven capabilities, empowers virtual agents with readily available customer information, ensuring personalized interactions.

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DMG Consulting

MAY 2, 2024

Making Self-Service More Intelligent View this article on the publisher’s website Omnichannel self-service solutions are a requirement for companies that want to deliver a cost-effective and consistently outstanding customer experience (CX). Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs)—a.k.a.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Being recognised as the best in conversational AI made our Founder & CEO, Chris Ezekiel, contemplate what makes a virtual agent or chatbot a true conversational AI solution and share his insights in a blog post. Conversational AI and the Employee Experience – Collaboration Network Journal article.

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Talkdesk

MARCH 24, 2020

Not limited to a specific interface, it leverages both traditional websites and conversational self-service tools like virtual agents , chatbots and employee or customer communities to make information as easily accessible as possible. Knowledge base admins realize the same benefits from an AI-powered solution.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 27, 2021

Recently I’ve come across some articles claiming customers, who are increasingly turning to digital channels, hate using chatbots and just want to talk to a human. This highlights a failure in both the development of these chatbot solutions and their implementation as part of a synchronised support strategy.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Rather than waiting for a customer service representative to answer the phone or react to an email, AI-enabled chatbots and virtual agents are constantly accessible and can respond to consumer enquiries in minutes, if not seconds. Much More Proactive Service. All of this constitutes what is referred to as agile customer care.

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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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Netomi

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The Netomi chat widget allows companies to use Netomi’s powerful chatbots for customer service to provide immediate resolutions to over 80% of routine questions in seconds. Highly accurate AI : Netomi’s chat widgets feature Netomi-powered AI virtual agents. Not all chatbots, though, are the same. See chatbot fails here ].

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The integration of Spitch’s voice technologies and Creative Virtual’s V-Person natural language chatbots and virtual agents brings an industry-leading voicebot offering to the market. The partnership is already creating interest in the marketplace, with the companies currently collaborating on several projects.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 12, 2020

In this in-depth article, Reina G. Omni-channels, chatbots, artificial intelligence, and e-commerce represent new cornerstone technologies to achieve that goal. The Kantar Retail Global study reports that by 2020, omnichannels will decouple separate physical and virtual platforms into a combined, seamless shopping experience 11.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The explosion of media hype around artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots over the past few years – and the subsequent confusion in the customer experience (CX) space – is one of topics Creative Virtual discusses in our article for The Parliamentary Review.

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

An interaction might start with a basic chatbot, switch to an AI-powered virtual agent that understands context better and finally escalate to a voice call with a contact centre agent.

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Netomi

AUGUST 31, 2022

You’ll want to track and recognize your agents who have the lowest average handle time, highest first contact resolution, solve a large volume of tickets, deliver high CSAT and more. Ensure your agent desk platform allows you to drill down to specific agent performance, including both human and AI-powered virtual agents.

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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. You can read our full article here.

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