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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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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CCNG

AUGUST 28, 2024

By rapidly embracing digital tools like AI, Analytics, and Automation, contact centers are completely changing how they function and deliver customer experience. Choose the Right Partner: Select a partner offering intuitive and innovative automation tools that seamlessly integrate with your existing systems. from 2022 to 2030.

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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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TechSee

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Customer Service centers have placed high hopes on chatbots, investing large sums in the technology’s automated ability to help customers help themselves. With the right tools, chatbots can be transformed into superheroes that handle huge volumes of customer inquiries, while improving CX and reducing costs.

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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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Solvvy

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Chances are, the last time you called a customer support number, you interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot. If the company had a great AI chatbot, the interaction might have been so natural that it took a while to realize that you weren’t actually talking to a human. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Chatbots.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Utilize robust self-service tools such as FAQs, AI-powered knowledge bases and virtual technicians to help them find answers by themselves quickly. Use AI-based virtual assistants – Millennials are very open to communication with virtual entities – chatbots – including voice-based assistants and visual virtual technician.

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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 7, 2023

Back in 2013, V-Person technology became the first virtual agent offering to implement personalization – a recognition acknowledged both by the Patricia Seybold Group in their 2014 technology review and by the analysts at Gartner when they named Creative Virtual a 2015 Cool Vendor in Smart Machines.

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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

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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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. Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach.

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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

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. And if users aren’t coming back to the tool, there’s no way for the organization to achieve positive longer-term outcomes.

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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

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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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

It did too much, it provided too many complex tools, and it had too many processes to follow. The contact center agent’s life was not easy, and we saw it just getting more and more complicated. And in many, many cases, those people did not have a good life. The contact center was even more complicated.

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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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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. A long time ago, AI implementations were basically hyped-up versions of FAQ sections, but they’re now very powerful tools to improve the customer experience.

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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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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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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The admin activates the Amazon Lex integration on Genesys Cloud, exports a sample flow from the Content Designer UI, and imports this flow into Genesys Cloud using the Genesys Archy tool. We use Archy, the Genesys Cloud Architect YAML processor tool, to publish this call flow. On the Tools menu, choose Genesys Cloud.

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The Northridge Group

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Besides Chatbots and Virtual Assistants, which operate on a more obvious human interaction level, AI in the contact center is gaining momentum in other ways including the routing, prioritization, and handling of calls. Chatbots, Virtual Agents, and dynamic routing are examples of how AI can help during customer interactions.

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TechSee

APRIL 21, 2021

AI-Based Collaboration Tools. With many call centers adopting the remote working model, the common practice of one agent asking a question over his cubicle wall has come to an end. AI enhances existing self-service capabilities, such as smart FAQ and IVR, with the new cognitive capabilities in chatbots or virtual agents.

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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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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

For some time now, Chatbots have become famous in contact centers. It is an artificial intelligence tool that can be described as a virtual agent. As a result, a Chatbot is presented as a real solution for improving customer experience in a call center. How does a Chatbot Revolutionize Customer Experience?

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TechSee

MARCH 13, 2018

In 2017, all eyes were on chatbots and virtual agents – the assumption being that they would take over a significant part of the customer interaction and deliver real value in communicating with customers. The bot learns from the agent’s feedback and improves the automated responses over time. Virtual Agents.

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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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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Drawing from his own experiences and those of Creative Virtual’s global team, Chris will share expert recommendations for how your organization can maximize the benefits of conversational AI technology. Conversational AI solutions, like chatbots and virtual agents, can have a powerful impact on customer loyalty and retention.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 14, 2020

A cloud contact center easily scales up and down to meet volatile demand while maintaining call quality and enabling analytics tools that provide insights in real-time. It is the go-to option to keep agent performance and contact center KPIs on track. The chart below shows this behavior.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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. These virtual agents can automate routine tasks as well as seamlessly elevate complex interactions to a live agent.

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Talkdesk

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning infused in your client facing tools such as chatbots and virtual agents can deliver human-like experiences to quickly solve simple client issues without the need for live-agent intervention. Invest in artificial intelligence. Track results.

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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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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

To that end, this blog will explore contact center automation and discuss its pros, tools, use cases, and challenges. Contact Center Automation Tools and Technologies The adoption of automation tools in contact centers has accelerated in recent years. Here are some advanced contact center automation tools used today: 1.

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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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