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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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. Multi-Lingual Capabilities. Accurate NLP.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 19, 2017

DMG Consulting Releases 2017 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2017 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. The 2017 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report is the only in-depth analysis of these emerging solutions. When: Today, 19 July 2017.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Voice bots, or conversational interactive voice response systems (IVR), use natural language processing (NLP) to understand customers’ questions and provide relevant answers. Businesses can automate responses to frequently asked transactional questions by deploying bots that are available 24/7.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 16, 2019

Answer: Customer journey mapping provides enterprises with a visual representation of the touchpoints that prospects or customers traverse when interacting with their organization, from the first touch through the last. Question: What’s the difference between customer journey mapping and customer journey analytics?

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DMG Consulting

JUNE 11, 2019

DMG Consulting Releases 2019-2020 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2019-2020 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. Foundational component of next-gen, digitally transformed service organizations. Botanic Technologies and Capito.ai are covered at a high level.

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3CLogic

AUGUST 18, 2020

However, migrating to the cloud is not as simple as flipping a switch, especially if an enterprise has already invested in an on-premise telephony infrastructure. However, enterprises continue to remain dependent on their existing call center platform (IVR, queue management, reporting, etc.)

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TechSee

APRIL 21, 2021

AI is reshaping the enterprise approach to self-service. AI enhances existing self-service capabilities, such as smart FAQ and IVR, with the new cognitive capabilities in chatbots or virtual agents. Next-step suggestion: Determine the workflows that are most common, and train the machine accordingly.

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JustCall

MARCH 23, 2023

Interactive Voice Response, or IVR, is necessary for every contact center. It serves as a round-the-clock virtual receptionist. The IVR is configured to lead the user to a self-help guide that answers their query, a human agent who can solve their problem, or a pre-recorded voice message.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2020

Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) and attended robot process automation (RPA, also known as robots) are being used to enhance productivity and service quality. IVAs are replacing IVRs and other enterprise self-service solutions and are increasing the volume of fully automated interactions.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2022

What’s more, consumers believe they have the right to interact with an organization in multiple channels and, when appropriate, to pivot between channels, such as when an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) needs to send information to a consumer’s cell phone via SMS during a phone conversation. IVAs Are Good for Agents and CX.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 11, 2022

On an annual basis, in the November/December time frame, DMG Consulting (DMG) conducts a worldwide survey of contact center and enterprise executives and managers to identify their top operational and technology investment priorities for the coming year. Speech and text analytics (also known as interaction analytics) came in fifth (24.6%).

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Consumers of all ages are showing a preference for self-service solutions over talking to agents or using chat boxes, provided they do their jobs well. They haven’t changed their minds about the hundreds of poorly designed interactive voice response (IVR) systems—far from it. million per year.

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3CLogic

APRIL 20, 2021

It’s no surprise then that leading companies are adopting voice self-service solutions in addition to their IVR solutions to not only manage call volume but provide a higher quality of customer service and improve call agent performance. The question is no longer should I adopt voice self-service for my contact center?

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 21, 2017

The digital transformation taking place throughout enterprises is creating a greater need and broader opportunities for robotic process automation (RPA) and desktop analytics. This Report explores all aspects of these related but distinct IT sectors. For more information, visit www.dmgconsult.com. # # #.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The problem is that most of what people are buying is hype, and this is going to result in disappointment as enterprises realize that AI is still in the early stages of commercialization. She provides strategic and practical counsel for enterprises, solution providers, and the investment community.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

INTERACTION ANALYTICS (IA) has proven its worth and benefits in the best and worst of times. This analytics application helped enterprise and contact center executives navigate uncharted territory by giving them information and insights to keep them apprised of the state of their customers and employees.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 29, 2021

This is exactly what DMG asked enterprise, IT and contact centers leaders from around the world in our annual contact center goals and priority survey, conducted in November and December 2020. We expected insightful responses, and the results did not disappoint. of respondents. Figure 1: Top 5 Contact Center Priorities for 2021.

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3CLogic

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The Gap Between Systems of Record and Enterprise Phone Systems. While it’s clear that voice as a communication channel is not going anywhere, the need to modernize legacy phone systems is growing. By itself, modernizing enterprise phone systems to meet these wants and needs is not an issue. 26% want to use SMS for customer care.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 31, 2022

Many of these voice-based self-service solutions were built more than 10 or 15 years ago, when the technology was limited. Organizations are still using touch-tone and rudimentary speech-enabled interactive voice response (IVR) solutions and prompters. & Solving the Problem. & Solving the Problem.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 31, 2019

Call tracking is also a step in the customer journey; it gathers important details about customers and their buying preferences, and shares this data with the contact center, where it can be used to optimize sales by routing calls to the most appropriate agent. For more information, visit www.dmgconsult.com. # # #.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2017

In this age of digital transformation, customers and prospects must be able to easily access an enterprise from any channel – phone, self-service (websites, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, intelligent virtual agents (IVAs)), email, chat, co-browse, SMS, social media and video.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

Enterprises are looking to the future and are trying to ensure their viability in a rapidly changing world of technology and automation. Companies are making long-overdue improvements to their technology and pushing forward with innovative uses for automation throughout the enterprise.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2020

The Report focuses on contact center and service-related uses of interaction (speech and text) analytics. It also explores the broader uses of interaction analytics throughout enterprises. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinvigorated the interaction analytics (IA) market.

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SharpenCX

OCTOBER 15, 2023

AI-powered technologies—once only practical and feasible for large enterprises with big budgets and sophisticated expertise—are now accessible to everyone and used for both business and personal use cases. Common customer-facing AI-powered technologies include Virtual agents to answer basic customer questions or guide them to information.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Intelligent Virtual Agents and Virtual Assistants. While there are many names for AI-enabled self-service solutions, intelligent virtual agent (IVA) is the most commonly used term for the customer-facing concierge type. IVAs are still relatively new to the market, but the pace of innovation has been outstanding.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

An essential element in achieving this goal is to make it easy for customers to conduct business by allowing them to interact in their preferred channels, which are increasingly digital. A unique feature of conversations in the new digital era is that they can start, stop, start and continue when the customer chooses.

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DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Post-pandemic, many enterprises will likely keep some or all of their employees working remotely, said Donna Fluss, President of DMG Consulting. Voice and screen recording capabilities allow managers to track their remote employees’ performance throughout the day. For more information, visit www.dmgconsult.com. # # #.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

The last few years have seen enhancements to WFM solutions to meet the needs of omni-channel service environments, multi-national enterprises and the Millennial and Gen Z workforce. . For more information, visit www.dmgconsult.com. # # #.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Enterprises are seeking tools to help them understand and address customer needs more quickly. Today’s SA solutions give enterprises much-needed first-hand access to the voice of the customer (VoC) from all voice and digital channels, including social media, to “hear” what customers are saying.

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DMG Consulting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The problem is that most of what people are buying is hype, and this is going to result in disappointment as enterprises realize that AI is really in the earliest stages of commercialization. The potential is great, but the current generation of technology and the applications are far from fully AI-enabled.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 16, 2020

Much like Winona Ryder, while traditional IVRs faded into obscurity in the early 2000s, voice control is having its Stranger Things come back. In the next five years, industry experts predict that nearly every application will integrate voice technology in some way. Talk is the new Type. Ok chatbots, you’ve had your fun.

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3CLogic

MAY 26, 2022

However, keep in mind that the pandemic has led to a 6.75% increase in enterprise spending on technology investments. Integrative customer experience technologies such as SMS, Voice, and conversational AI will allow you to keep up with new consumer expectations. Ignoring Customer Needs Isn’t An Option.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Contact Centers are Points of Vulnerability for Enterprises A contact centers is fraught with risk, since its purpose is to invite the outside world in to interact with a company. It’s a natural point of vulnerability – its physical site(s), employees and customer data must be protected.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The cloud has become the dominant sales model for contact center infrastructure solutions, ACDs, dialers, IVRs and more,” said Donna Fluss, President of DMG Consulting LLC. The next step for the CBCCI vendors is the introduction of artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language understanding and analytics into their solutions.

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In any case, these three applications can make major contributions to enterprises, customers, and agents, and should be considered by all contact centers as they begin to plan their 2018 budgets. Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs). The acquired knowledge is assimilated and leveraged in future interactions.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

The digital transformation is underway, enterprise requirements have changed, and cloud computing is the technology of the future. WFO suite vendors who have not kept their solutions and architecture up-to-date are feeling the impact as enterprises look to different providers for workforce optimization capabilities.

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