Outsource Consultants

MARCH 14, 2025

AI in Healthcare CX: Smarter, Faster, and More Compliant Healthcare organizations have embraced AI tools like virtual assistants, chatbots, and real-time agent support to dramatically reduce wait times, improve accuracy, and deliver personalized patient interactionsall without sacrificing compliance.

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CCNG

JULY 17, 2024

We have found that there are far more contact centers needing help with where to start and creating a strategy than there are businesses that are humming along with AI. Call routing, interactive voice response and voice-based chatbots are a few examples of that technology. Let’s take modern chatbots for example.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This penchant for technology has shaped their consumer behavior and preferences, and brands must tailor their customer service strategies to suit Millennials’ attributes. According to a Retale poll, 86% of Millennials said that brands should use chatbots to promote products and services. AI-powered virtual agents.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 23, 2018

These strategies are increasingly being explored with Gartner stating that by 2018, over 50% of companies will have redirected investments towards customer experience innovations. Over the last few years, the industry has turned toward conversational AI platforms – known as chatbots – to automate and scale one-on-one conversations.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A sector that once relied on phone calls and long email threads has shifted to a world of instant messaging, AI chatbots, and automated systems designed to meet customer needs faster than ever before. For example, chatbots are a common tool in customer service automation. or How do I reset my password?

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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

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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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

With Amazon Lex, you can implement an omnichannel strategy where customers engage via phone, websites, and messaging platforms. The bots can answer FAQs, provide self-service experiences, or triage customer requests before transferring to a human agent. Choose Launch Stack for the Region in which you will use your chatbot: US East (N.

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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

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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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

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

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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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

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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NobelBiz

MARCH 11, 2025

The Future is AI + Human Collaboration: The best customer service strategies combine AIs speed with human empathy, creating a hybrid model that maximizes efficiency and satisfaction. Chatbots These AI-powered virtual agents handle simple interactions, answering FAQs or performing tasks like scheduling appointments.

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Balto

MARCH 3, 2025

The most effective automation tools include: Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems AI-powered chatbots Automated email responses Virtual agents for basic troubleshooting Call center automation refers to the strategic use of technology to handle repetitive and time-consuming tasks within a call center.

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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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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. A thematic analysis can easily identify the common phrases customers use most often when contacting the contact centre.

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Connect

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

By Tim North, Global Strategy Director at Connect. Furthermore, the extracted insights ultimately provide the knowledge sources needed to fully embrace AI-based automation in the business, which supports solutions like chatbots and virtual agents, eventually leading to AI agents.

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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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AWS Machine Learning

APRIL 8, 2025

iFood has stood out for its strategy of incorporating cutting-edge technology into its operations. Automated customer Service To handle the thousands of daily customer inquiries, iFood has developed an AI-powered chatbot that can quickly resolve common issues and questions.

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Xaqt

JUNE 1, 2020

All the while, Virtual Agents and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) threaten to eliminate much of the human capabilities that outsources have built their business on. Amazon, Google, Microsoft) and well-funded start-ups are selling the value proposition of bots, virtual agents and AI to their enterprise customers.

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Calabrio

MARCH 11, 2025

To meet expectations and really drive customer experience excellence at scale in 2025, contact centers need a clear-cut strategy to enhance their quality assurance processes. In today’s customer service landscape, chatbots and virtual assistants are increasingly integral, handling a significant volume of inquiries.

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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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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This week of celebrating customer service professionals and successful customer service experiences should just be the beginning of a renewed focus on your own customer service and CX strategies. Conversational AI solutions, like chatbots and virtual agents, can have a powerful impact on customer loyalty and retention.

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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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Talkdesk

APRIL 14, 2020

Getting help from virtual agents Virtual agents and chatbots usage is increasing across all industries. Based on a survey research, 70% percent of millennials reported positive chatbot experiences and Forbes reported that 66% of surveyed people had interacted with a chatbot within the last month.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 27, 2020

With physical offices and locations closed, many are struggling with the influx of customer questions to their contact centres – an issue that may be compounded by the sudden need to support agents working from home. The post A Successful Self-Service Strategy Requires Looking at the Bigger Picture appeared first on Creative Virtual.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

It enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the services provided and improves the working conditions for agents and satisfaction for customers. For every second that chatbots can shave off average call center handling times, call centers can save as much as $1 million in annual customer service costs.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

It enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the services provided and improves the working conditions for agents and satisfaction for customers. For every second that chatbots can shave off average call center handling times, call centers can save as much as $1 million in annual customer service costs.

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ConvergeOne

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The most recognizable form of automation is the front-end intelligent virtual agent. Better known as chatbots, these interceptors and dealers of information rely on a database of resources to help customers find answers and make decisions. Your team will discover new ideas, new strategies, and greater job satisfaction.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 17, 2023

Chatbots and conversational AI have been gaining acceptance as essential pieces of successful customer service and employee support strategies. If your organisation doesn’t have at least one of these solutions already, it’s likely you are planning to deploy one soon or are exploring the possibility of adding one to your 2023 strategy.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 14, 2020

Digital strategies are evolving as organisations address the immediate needs of their employees and also look to the possibility of a more permanent switch to remote work. When it comes to creating a successful employee self-service strategy, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach.

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NobelBiz

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Call centers and customer support teams committed to competitiveness must adopt forward-thinking strategies aimed at providing hyper-personalized, seamless, and proactive customer experiences. What Is a Customer Engagement Strategy? Customer Engagement Strategy Tips for Call Centers 1. Satisfaction will improve overall.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The customer connects with an AI-powered virtual agent that uses a trained and constantly optimized deep neural net, utilizing Natural Language Processing to understand the customer’s problems and intents. Our virtual agents can solve 80% to 90% of customer problems.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Having a strong order management strategy can be a key differentiator for businesses. Businesses who thrive at building robust, complete customer journeys harness the power of automation to build self-service solutions in their order management strategy. This allows virtual agents to provide personalized updates.

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