SmartAction

MARCH 18, 2019

These omnichannel solutions are known as AI-powered virtual agents. What is an AI-powered virtual agent? At the most basic level, an AI-powered virtual agent can do many things that a live agent can do. By doing so, companies upskill their live agents to do only what a human should do.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 28, 2021

Ask any seller of a highly complex and customizable chatbot or virtual agent system about cost and you’re likely to get an evasive answer. Increasingly, in this ever-saturating market, it’s easy to find elements of chatbot pricing (i.e., The truth is, building a successful chatbot is not purely a question of technology.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As we approach the end of 2020, the whole Creative Virtual team around the world want to say thank you to all our blog readers, customers and partners for joining us on this roller coaster of a year! Then check out our 2020 in Review blog post for more highlights and educational resources.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I like customer service expert Shep Hyken’s take on this in his blog post, Don’t Just Personalize the Customer’s Experience – Individualize It. For nearly a decade now, we’ve talked about our virtual agents and chatbots delivering a personalized self-service experience – with no marketing spin required!

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is something that organisations implementing a self-service virtual agent or chatbot should keep in mind, regardless of whether they are integrating it with live chat. Make it obvious that it is a digital, automated tool with wording such as ‘Please ask our Virtual Agent’.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 10, 2020

Back in April I took a look at the impressive spike in virtual agent traffic starting in late February and early March that surpassed anything Creative Virtual had seen in over 16 years of being in the industry. I’m curious to continue to watch how virtual agent traffic fluctuates as coronavirus-related restrictions change.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 7, 2022

Virtual agents. Some of you may remember the days when companies wanting to implement customer support on their website believed they had to make a decision: either a virtual agent or live chat; either automated self-service or human-assisted web chat. Adding a virtual agent to an existing live chat deployment.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Chatbots and virtual agents have proven themselves to be quality self-service solutions, being increasingly implemented by smart organisations to provide support and being increasingly preferred by customers and employees for quick, easy access to information. By Mandy Reed, Marketing Manager (Global).

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

We had more enquiries this year than ever before about using virtual agent and chatbot technology internally to support contact centre agents, relationship managers and other employees. Another organisation is using our natural language processing (NLP) capabilities to enhance their agent desktop.

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kommunicate

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Last Updated on November 3, 2023 We all know how chatbots are powerful virtual agents that can help you in a myriad of tasks, including automating customer support, answering FAQs, etc. We have also seen how CRM systems can help you grow your business swiftly, and how a powerful synergy of CRMs and Chatbots can [.]

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Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

Whatever aspect of QA your contact center is struggling with, this blog is for you. Put these expert-assembled call center quality assurance best practices at the heart of your approach to empower your agents, enrich interactions, and drive better service in the year ahead. Struggling to understand your customers most common concerns?

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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. If you’re not using AI in the form of bots, virtual agents, or other methods, you’re behind the curve.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 8, 2019

Our customer, Transport for New South Wales, won an impressive three awards for their RITA chatbot during 2018! I couldn’t be more proud of what our team has achieved, and it was beyond what I had dreamt for Creative Virtual. In 2017 we were honoured with The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation.

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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 following the strategies we’ve shared in this blog, you’re already one step ahead of the rest.

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SmartAction

APRIL 24, 2019

This is the second of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. 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”.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 11, 2025

AIs Evolution in Customer Support Not long ago, AI-driven customer service meant robotic phone menus and frustrating chatbot loops that left customers shouting Speak to a representative! Chatbots These AI-powered virtual agents handle simple interactions, answering FAQs or performing tasks like scheduling appointments.

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bold360 Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In a chat session, customers can get fast answers to their typed questions, help with their purchases, recommendations on products and services, and other assistance from customer service agents. Live Chat and Chatbots: They Work Best Together. This leaves more time for human agents to focus on complex, higher-value tasks.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This blog post is co-written with Bruno Mateus, Jonathan Diedrich and Crispim Tribuna at Talkdesk. In the second part of this series, we describe how to use the Amazon Lex chatbot UI with Talkdesk CX Cloud to allow customers to transition from a chatbot conversation to a live agent within the same chat window.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2019

Chatbots are the most common application of AI for customer self-service and are not as successful (yet), as the hype would indicate. A recent study found that only eight percent of consumers used an AI-enabled service like chatbots, and just 27 percent were highly satisfied. The post Most AI Chatbots will Fail, and That’s Okay!

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Conversational AI solutions, like chatbots and virtual agents, can have a powerful impact on customer loyalty and retention. all of the posts from the Creative Virtual team that make up this year’s Customer Service Week Blog Celebration. Once you’ve registered, I recommend checking out (or re-reading!)

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In their whitepaper The Virtual Insurance Agent , ITL takes a detailed look at how conversational AI is allowing insurance companies to greatly improve their customer experiences while also reducing costs. Read more on these insights from ITL by downloading the full ‘The Virtual Insurance Agent’ whitepaper.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 8, 2021

This is most certainly true when it comes to creating chatbots for customer self-service, and too often organisations fall into the DIY trap. Some companies delegate their project solely to an inexperienced internal team because they underestimate the amount of expertise needed to build and deploy a working chatbot. Probably not.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2018

They are missing a chatbot. Chatbots and virtual agents have become essential tools for providing 24/7 self-service to digital customers. Contact centers require a great deal of investment – from recruiting and training staff to putting the necessary tools in place for agents.

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SmartAction

APRIL 4, 2023

By examining the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI), the Times correspondents show how virtual voice assistants such as Siri and Alexa squandered their early advantage and left room for the rise of chatbots that use Conversational AI technology. Chatbots are, indeed, a different kind of virtual assistant.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 21, 2022

Self-service options like chatbots and virtual agents are increasingly preferred by customers, but they can’t – and shouldn’t! completely replace human contact center agents. When escalating customers from self-service to a live agent , the experience should be as seamless as possible.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 4, 2021

Forrester analyst, William McKeon-White writes about this as part of his research on help desk chatbots. If users don’t have a good experience with the chatbot, they won’t keep using it. Your chatbot or virtual agent should be designed to create a better experience by providing quick, easy support.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

When customers use your chatbot to self-serve, what kind of experience do you deliver? Does your chatbot need questions asked a particular way to return the correct response? Are users repeatedly told by your chatbot to try rephrasing an input that doesn’t have a direct match in the system?

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Having worked in the virtual agent and chatbot field since 2000, I’ve experienced first-hand how these solutions and technologies have changed. The virtual agents of today are certainly not the same as those I was working on 20 years ago. Most recently, the industry has adopted the name of ‘conversational AI’.

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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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SmartAction

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Conversational chatbots are one of the top market disruptors in call center automation. However, in recent years their use has declined as businesses have learned how difficult it is to properly maintain a chatbot that actually helps customers to accomplish their goals. Why is it So Hard to Implement and Maintain a Chatbot?

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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

They can simplify the agent’s life even more and allow them to provide real value add to the customer experience that only a human can provide. AI applications come in many flavors – conversational AI for chatbots, robotic process automation (RPA), intelligent virtual agent assistants, and email auto responders.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 28, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) in the contact center. From IVR to chatbot and other self-service automation, none exhibit the cognitive capabilities of today’s purpose-driven, practical AI solutions for the contact center.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

2023 was all about chatbots. FREE WEBINAR: Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR? With their narrow conversation flows and questions that often don’t lead to an answer – or an agent – chatbots don’t always seem all that revolutionary. If your chatbot seems like an IVR, are you doing something wrong? Join us Oct.

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Provide Support

JANUARY 10, 2018

Are chatbots and virtual agents likely to replace humans any time soon? Published in Provide Support Blog , 2018. 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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SmartAction

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When it comes to conversing with artificial intelligence, we tend to mold our replies in a way that allows a voice bot or chatbot the ability to interpret what we mean while sacrificing the way we would typically speak. Say goodbye to the days of speaking to an AI virtual agent that doesn’t comprehend in natural language!

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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. Conversational AI helps them out of what seems to be an endless cycle of button pressing and voice prompts to connect them immediately with a virtual agent. All of which increase profitability.

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SmartAction

JUNE 9, 2023

Some notable examples include: Chatbots : Chatbots are AI-powered virtual agents, built in-house or by third-party vendors , that engage in text-based conversations with users. Chatbots often answer FAQs, and guide users through various processes. They are widely used in customer support, providing 24/7 assistance.

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