Creative Virtual

APRIL 30, 2020

These organisations can ‘rescue’ the customer experience by guiding customers to the information they need online while at the same time relieving some of the pressure from their contact centre so agents can better serve customers with questions that need human support. It’s also interesting to break down the virtual agent traffic by region.

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SmartAction

APRIL 14, 2021

It takes the “smart” virtual agent a whole minute to ask him what’s wrong. How do you build intelligent virtual agents that won’t experience the dreaded bypass of “0 for operator”? Natural inflections and tones begin the process of humanizing a virtual agent.

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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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SmartAction

JUNE 3, 2021

Yet when examining the facts versus fiction that sentient bots are here to end the live agent workforce, the opposite is true. In over 100 deployments from small companies to large enterprises, SmartAction has yet to see a layoff en masse after deploying virtual agents. Virtual agents are here to help, not stop, live agents.

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SmartAction

APRIL 11, 2024

In the audio below, you’ll hear a supposed “smart” virtual agent take an entire minute just to ask him what the problem is as a robotic voice interrogates Alex. He’s trying to answer questions while rapidly fumbling through his wallet for a membership ID because this virtual agent has no personalization. Personalization.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 23, 2020

When someone calls in, the AI-powered virtual agents will capture some information from like city, state, zip code of where they want to stay, # of occupants, how many nights, check-in and check-out dates, and more. The call is then transferred to our agent along with all the information gathered so they can do the actual booking.

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CCNG

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this blog, we will explore how GenAI can revolution service and support for your organization. Generative AI plays a pivotal role in increasing self-service containment rates — the rate at which a successful resolution was found for a customer query without involving a human agent.

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Call Design

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Tools like Intradiem (Real Time Management automation) and calld.ai (virtual agents) can help ensure the service you offer doesnt suffer during peaks in demand. These AI-powered virtual agents scale up instantly, ensuring you meet demand without overloading your human staff. So, what can you do? Intradiem and calld.ai

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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 10, 2020

Chatbots, smart help, virtual assistants, virtual agents, conversational AI – there are lots of names for this automated, self-service technology being used today. You want to ask: How can I ensure my chatbot or virtual agent is: Providing accurate and personalised information? Select a reliable technology.

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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’. appeared first on Creative Virtual.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 28, 2020

Do you have a chatbot or virtual agent on your roadmap? Are you curious about successful use cases for AI-enhanced virtual agents? If so, you’ll want to reserve your spot now to join Creative Virtual and Engage Customer for their upcoming webinar, Tips for Deploying AI Chatbots & Virtual Agents.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

We take great pleasure in introducing this newly created whitepaper from Creative Virtual as it has a lot of straight talk about one of our favourite subjects: user experience in the realm of self-help tools. This is the sort of invaluable consultation experience you will receive when you work with the right virtual agent vendor.

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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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SmartAction

MARCH 6, 2019

In November 2018, SmartAction’s AI-powered virtual agent solution was successfully tested by Avaya in its DevConnect program, a developer community and marketplace for third-party products that interoperate with Avaya technology ( read news release ). SmartAction is the leader in AI-powered virtual agent automation for voice and chat.

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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

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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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. 14% of callers request a live agent transfer. 9% of callers hang up.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

But there are dozens of other processes in which agents collect information from a customer over the phone, and these calls aren’t just long, they’re expensive. Many companies have been able to significantly reduce live agent minutes and the average handle time for calls by using virtual agents to take over the drudgery of data gathering.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Fabletics leverages a Virtual Agent to interact with their customers every time you call them. It’s an iterative process of ongoing improvement as you pour through data and recordings, identify common points of friction or live agent transfer, then find ways to tune the application to improve containment. Keep it Conversational.

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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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kommunicate

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Google Dialogflow recently introduced Dialogflow CX (Customer Experience) – a powerful tool for creating advanced virtual agents. Dialogflow CX provides a new way of designing virtual agents, taking a state machine approach to agent design.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This is the first of four ways that virtual agents are automating the contact center. While cold transfers are more of an agent training issue, it often begins when customers are either unsure which menu option they should choose or try and circumnavigate the menu altogether. fewer calls being transferred to live agents.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 10, 2018

As a contact center leader, you work extremely hard to mitigate these challenges, but because you are pulled in many different directions, it is tough to keep your best agents. Not to mention, technology constraints can sometimes make it difficult to improve the agent experience.

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SmartAction

APRIL 11, 2024

In the audio below, you’ll hear a supposed “smart” virtual agent take an entire minute just to ask him what the problem is as a robotic voice interrogates Alex. He’s trying to answer questions while rapidly fumbling through his wallet for a membership ID because this virtual agent has no personalization. Personalization.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 11, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) via call center automation. Greet every customer with a natural language “front door” – “How can I help you?” – and capture intent before routing calls and chats to live agents, AI-powered virtual agents, or other automation.

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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. Results: Saved $1.1

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kommunicate

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Google Dialogflow recently introduced Dialogflow CX (Customer Experience) – a powerful tool for creating advanced virtual agents. The post Dialogflow CX vs ES: A Complete Overview appeared first on Kommunicate Blog. The older version of Dialogflow has been renamed to Dialogflow ES (Essentials).

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SmartAction

JUNE 29, 2021

Virtual agents have proven to reduce hold times by 50% or more. They’ve also been proven to handle 1000+ additional appointment reservations per month than just a call center with live agents. Front Door & Authentication: Greeting customers is a natural experience through virtual agents.

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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. Automate More with AI-Powered Virtual Agents. Frost & Sullivan recommends following the blueprint of smart companies that are using AI-powered virtual agents.

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SmartAction

JULY 29, 2021

Virtual agents are made to take over the calls that require quick resolution with minimum human effort. Depending on the organization’s business rules, capabilities can be stretched to fit more in the bucket of a virtual agent. Myth #3: Intelligent virtual agents are built and then done.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

Multimodal Virtual Agents allow customers to tap, text and talk to get more done , with little effort. Offering variety can help create more successful outcomes for customers with a lower AHT for agents — a win on both sides of the phone line. Multimodal Virtual Agent Implementation and Best Practices.

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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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SmartAction

JUNE 27, 2023

Let’s address the common objections and show you how to overcome them with conversational AI and virtual agents. By deploying virtual agents, you can reduce the need for a large workforce to handle routine inquiries. Today’s virtual agents are far from the robotic voices of the past. No worries!

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Nicereply

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Plus, Aventon uses a virtual agent chatbot to resolve general queries on the go. One way to do this is to offer educational content, such as blogs, videos, webinars, or free resources. For example, a local auto dealer could create blog articles that offer advice on how to maintain a car. But don’t stop there.

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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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