Balto

MARCH 3, 2025

This creates a more efficient workflow and reduces customer wait times. This allows human agents to focus on more complex and high-value interactions that require empathy and critical thinking. Predictive analytics identify peak call times and staffing needs, enabling managers to optimize schedules and resources.

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Call Center Interactive Voice Response Average Handle Time First call resolution 52

SmartAction

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Electrolux, the 2nd largest home appliance manufacturer in the world who sells under a variety of brand names worldwide like Frigidaire and AEG, made the transformation to AI-powered virtual agents six months ago to automate more in their contact center. Q: How difficult was the implementation and initial pilot? 9% of callers hang up.

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Virtual Agent Average Handle Time Contact Center outsourcing 48

DMG Consulting

JUNE 27, 2022

Making the Case for an Intelligent Virtual Agent. The challenge is that many companies successfully using interactive voice response (IVR) solutions to displace a large percentage of contact center calls don’t yet appreciate the greater potential value of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs). June 27, 2022 By Donna Fluss.

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Virtual Agent Interactive Voice Response Self service Average Handle Time 48

Balto

MARCH 17, 2025

Call centers arent just handling customer inquiriestheyre gold mines of untapped insights. Every conversation holds valuable data about customer needs, frustrations, and loyalty drivers. But simply collecting data isnt enough. The best-performing call centers strike a balance between AI automation and human expertise.

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Call Center Customer Experience Average Handle Time Analytics 52

Connect

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The report states that the number of AI-assisted customer interactions continues to increase, with most applications used to augment live agent engagement, instead of fully offloading to a virtual agent.

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Virtual Agent Chatbots Average Handle Time Consulting 91

SmartAction

JANUARY 25, 2019

This newly acquired accuracy means that call center virtual assistant solutions are now demonstrating their true power in a variety of interesting and beneficial ways. Here’s how two innovative companies are using AI-powered virtual agents to automate more in their contact centers. 5% fewer calls to live agents.

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Virtual Agent Self service Healthcare Contact Center 45

Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Call center QA, or contact center QA, is a strategic, data-driven process that evaluates every facet and channel of customer interactionsfrom voice calls and live chats to emails and social media engagementsagainst established performance benchmarks. But in the end, a data-driven QA process is only as good as the data that drives it.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 14, 2020

Getting help from virtual agents Virtual agents and chatbots usage is increasing across all industries. Providing 24/7 service: Virtual agents reduce customer service pressure by providing service around the clock. The chart below shows this behavior.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Chatbots Healthcare 81

UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A customer calling to ask about store hours, for instance, may be routed to a self-service option or Virtual Agent , while more complex queries will be routed to a human agent. Automation Reduces Repetitive Tasks for Agents. After a call, agents spend extra time copying notes to your CRM tool.

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Customer Service Virtual Agent Interactive Voice Response Gamification 82

Connect

APRIL 18, 2024

The technology can also boost agent productivity with automation, real-time guidance, and performance coaching and enhance operational efficiency by reducing costs, optimising resources, and enabling data-driven decisions.

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Virtual Agent Chatbots Average Handle Time Engineering 92

TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2018

Decision Support Systems (DSS) drive faster, smarter decisions based on objective data, rather than on subjective criteria or personal instinct. It also improves their ability to bring customer issues to successful resolution, enhancing both customer satisfaction and inline agent satisfaction.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Scripts First call resolution 95

Connect

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By orchestrating first-line customer engagement with intelligent routing, the solution can allocate basic engagements and repetitive tasks to automated AI solutions like chat bots or conversational virtual agents. Creating ‘ super agents.

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Technology Average Handle Time Cloud contact First call resolution 95

UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A customer calling to ask about store hours, for instance, may be routed to a self-service option or Virtual Agent , while more complex queries will be routed to a human agent. Automation Reduces Repetitive Tasks for Agents. After a call, agents spend extra time copying notes to your CRM tool.

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Customer Service Virtual Agent Interactive Voice Response Gamification 72

Fonolo

APRIL 6, 2020

Not only does it save you money on hardware costs and expensive storefront commercial spots, but many software programs, or app, work on mobile devices; they can monitor agent results, and, analyze call data for as little as $20 a month. The Best Apps for Virtual Contact Center Teams. Using Virtual Contact Center Apps .

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Call Center Multichannel 108

BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction. ICMI data shows that 66% of agents get frustrated when faced with language barriers.

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Netomi

AUGUST 31, 2022

If your company uses autoresponders, you may need to define a new KPI that measures “first impactful response time.” The average is 12h 10 min. Average Handle Time (AHT). This will require integrating into your CRM platform, and making sure all systems (agent desk, eCommerce, etc.)

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Metrics Customer Service Virtual Agent Average Handle Time 75

Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 27, 2025

Five key KPIs help optimize efficiency: Average Handle Time (AHT) , Service Level , Abandonment Rate , Occupancy Rate , and Average Speed of Answer (ASA). Optimize Average Handle Time (AHT) AHT measures the average time spent on a customer interaction, including talk time, hold time, and after-call work.

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Contact Center Abandon rate Average Handle Time outsourcing 67

OctopusTech

JUNE 18, 2024

It also provides more flexibility to scale agent count up or down as needed. Optimize Call Routing You can also analyze call data to identify peak call volume times. This reduces hold times, call abandonment rates, and staffing needs. Along with that, you may also consider offering real-time coaching.

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Call Center Interactive Voice Response Real estate First call resolution 62

Connect

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They enable your contact centre system can tap into customer data, using engagement histories, known preferences, and real-time intelligence to pre-empt customer queries and direct them to the most appropriate and optimal channel to unlock true opti-channel engagement capabilities. Frictionless, more efficient engagements.

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Average Handle Time CRM Virtual Agent Metrics 73

NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Collecting a diverse range of data and gleaning cohesive insights to meet customer needs better proved to be a significant challenge. Some have turned to AI to power virtual agents, chatbots and other self-service channels. Decreased average handle time by 10 percent. Saving over $300,00 per year.

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Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

Contact center AI is a collection of tools or contact center software designed to enable smarter, data-driven, and more efficient customer interactions, with the ultimate goal of delivering better CX. For example, due to the sheer volume of data they ingest, most contact centers only analyze a small percentage (<2%) of their interactions.

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Contact Center Quality management Interactive Voice Response Coaching 74

SmartAction

MAY 23, 2019

CX Insights Manager – performs ongoing monitoring and analysis of data and recordings/transcripts. It is their job to outline the business goals that need to be achieved, and generate excitement about contact center transformation via AI-powered virtual agents. This helps them fill in the gaps left by the quantitative data.

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Self service Virtual Agent Contact Center Engineering 40

Calltools

JUNE 24, 2020

This information helps the call center agent direct the conversation to reach an agreeable resolution. AI-Powered Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) Solve Minor Issues Easily Most people have interacted with chatbots on websites. You probably already have a lot of data about your customers. There’s still work to do.

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Call Center Interactive Voice Response Virtual Agent Chatbots 52

SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

SmartAction’s cloud-based AI agents use data connections to greet TechStyle customers by their first name, anticipate their reasons for calling, and route the customer properly by using natural language understanding (NLU) to extract intent. So how does this technology fit in with their hiring practices? Beyond the Blog.

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Call Center Virtual Agent Average Handle Time Upselling 40

DMG Consulting

JULY 8, 2022

Another way of saying this is that the average handle time (AHT) of customer service calls in most contact centers can be cut in half, with the right technology. This is independent of the percentage of calls that can be displaced by an intelligent virtual agent (IVA).). The issue is rather simple.

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Contact Center Average Handle Time Virtual Agent Healthcare 54

NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2018

First Contact Resolution (FCR) – If you were to choose one other metric (other than CSAT) to measure customer experience that would be FCR, the ability to provide a resolution to customers issues the very first time they connect with agents. It turns out it is as much a customer experience metric.

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Balto

MARCH 29, 2023

Conversation Augmentation As the company’s representative explains the issue to the human agent on the phone, an AI-enabled virtual agent is simultaneously listening to the call and pulling out key terms with Natural Language Processing (NLP) to quickly identify the possible causes of downtime and even propose solutions.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Coaching Virtual Agent 52

ROI CX Solutions

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Improved customer and agent experience: AI tools provide a variety of self-service options to customers, as well as providing improved efficiency, real-time coaching, and other contextualizing information to agents. AI call center solutions that use NLP can analyze both the content and the tone of speech and writing.

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OctopusTech

JUNE 8, 2022

It saves a lot of precious time for big companies and also improves first call resolution (FCR). With contact center automation, different systems can be easily integrated into a single tool and you can monitor all the customer service data in a single system. This process saves a lot of time and improves customer satisfaction.

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Call Center Interactive Voice Response First call resolution Chatbots 62

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Key Points : Call centers are more and more digitally focused Data will become more valuable for businesses AI is becoming a must for contact center Omnichannel will continue to rise, but telephony is here to stay The hybrid contact center is the new norm 1. Also driving this trend is real-time analytics. billion in 2017 to $10.4

Call Center 52

Call Center Chatbots Contact Center Cloud contact 52

NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Key Points : Call centers are more and more digitally focused Data will become more valuable for businesses AI is becoming a must for contact center Omnichannel will continue to rise, but telephony is here to stay The hybrid contact center is the new norm 1. Also driving this trend is real-time analytics. billion in 2017 to $10.4

Call Center 52

Call Center Chatbots Contact Center Cloud contact 52

Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The best way to do this is by analyzing historical data and identifying key patterns. This will help in efficient allocation and utilization of resources including the agents, preventing understaffing during peak call times and overstaffing during quieter periods. It is equally important to forecast future costs.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Contact center software Self service 52

JustCall

JANUARY 18, 2023

Allowing your salespeople access to CRM data while assisting customers on the call is one way to improve overall performance. Agents should be able to use CRM data whenever they receive a call. Companies can take a few approaches to determine the appropriate number of calls for an inbound agent. Virtual Agents.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s dive into four reasons contact center leaders struggle to minimize costs while improving customer satisfaction at the same time. Omnichannel Interaction Data is Siloed or Nonexistent. The problem doesn’t improve once you get beyond the contact center where data is typically isolated within siloed systems.

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Contact Center Self service Metrics Analytics 40

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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