SmartAction

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, customer self-service has become a pivotal aspect of delivering exceptional customer experiences. As we look towards 2024, the world of customer self-service is at a crossroads, with new challenges and opportunities on the horizon. Key Trends in Customer Self-Service 1.

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TechSee

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Interactive voice response (IVR) allows a company’s computer system to engage with customers through voice and touch-tone telephone keypads. Today, it is evolving into the Conversational IVR model that offers much more than a simple customer routing system. Conversational IVR transition challenges.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 1, 2020

Voice Self-Service Has Become More Popular—and It’s About to Get Much Better. F or decades, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, including those that were speech-enabled, were greatly disliked by users, even as adoption continued to grow. By Donna Fluss. Like what you’re reading? Email Address *.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

When it comes to customer service, businesses have a variety of tools at their disposal to make the process as smooth and efficient as possible. Two popular options are Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Let’s break down the difference between IVR and IVA.

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Talkdesk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Self-service in customer support is not just a trend anymore, it’s here to stay. More customers opt to solve issues on their own through knowledge bases, web, chat, voice, or a combination of channels. What is a virtual agent? The post What is a virtual agent and how does it work?

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport). What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents? Intelligence Is a Matter of Features.

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UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport). What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents? Intelligence Is a Matter of Features.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Use Technology for Self Service. For instance, IVRs and artificial intelligence enabled Chatbots can make the customer service easier and efficient. Chatbots which work like virtual agents can solve basic query and transfer a call to ‘live agents’ in case of escalation.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2019

IVA Is the Future of Voice Self-Service. For customers and, increasingly, employees, IVAs can automate routine tasks and can process and personalize the handling of interactions in most self-service channels. Revolutionizing IVRs. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Personalization : A staggering 72% of consumers expect customer service to recognize their identity and purchasing history. Conversational AI, with its specific intents and data-driven capabilities, empowers virtual agents with readily available customer information, ensuring personalized interactions.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The ability of conversational AI technology to detect and understand speech are two of the biggest challenges faced by the Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). One way that IVA “levels up” from the typical IVR is that an IVA will utilize natural language understanding, or NLU. How Virtual Agents Help the Live Agent Workforce.

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UJET

MARCH 22, 2021

The IVR isn’t a topic that gets enough coverage. We gravitate to the shinier objects and tend to focus more on the agent experience, omnichannel, and artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, your IVR can be one of the biggest drivers of good vs bad CX. And the IVR is at the heart of that journey. Modernizing Your IVR.

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Interactions

JANUARY 21, 2025

Thats what you risk if youre still relying on outdated solutions like chatbots or interactive voice response (IVR) tools. Heres how an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) that blends technology with the human touch can deliver the personalized, caring support your customers crave when the next crisis hits.

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AWS Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The rise of artificial intelligence technologies enables organizations to adopt and improve self-service capabilities in contact center operations to create a more proactive, timely, and effective customer experience. In this post, we demonstrate how to elevate traditional customer service FAQs with an interactive voice bot.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We’re not talking about the time-consuming interactive voice response (IVR) of the past that provided a less-than-optimal customer experience. The AI-powered voice assistants of today offer a seamless experience, reaching a virtual assistant, in seconds, that can answer customer intentions with just a few words.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 21, 2022

Here are a few questions to ask about your customer service to help make it more pleasant than cleaning a toilet: Do you make it easy for customers to reach your contact center? Self-service options like chatbots and virtual agents are increasingly preferred by customers, but they can’t – and shouldn’t!

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

IVAs Can Remake the Self-Service Landscape. A remarkable thing is happening in the realm of customer service: After years of rejecting self-service, customers are changing their tune. They haven’t changed their minds about the hundreds of poorly designed interactive voice response (IVR) systems—far from it.

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Interactions

AUGUST 13, 2020

Imagine yourself on a busy day trying to cancel an appointment and you keep getting put on hold waiting for a live agent. You know your task can be completed through self-service–it’s just a simple cancellation. You want to speak to a live agent to explain your situation and bypass business rules.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2022

IVAs: Self-Service Solutions that Work. Customers prefer the expediency of self-service, but they will not sacrifice a good experience for convenience. It’s Time to Transition from IVR to IVA. Interactive voice response systems were effective for what they were intended to do in the past.

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Balto

MARCH 3, 2025

Smart routing systems direct complex issues to skilled agents while resolving simple queries automatically. Virtual Agents and Interactive Voice Response Virtual agents handle routine inquiries like account balances, password resets, and basic troubleshooting.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2018

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technology coupled with consumer preference for digital channels, is driving interest in and adoption of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) and a related technology, robotic process automation (RPA). The acquired knowledge is assimilated and leveraged in future interactions.

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SmartAction

AUGUST 14, 2019

The first hold onto their existing IVR and merely transfer routine conversations to AI-powered virtual agents while transferring the rest to live agents. But as customers are becoming leery of touchtone and difficult or lengthy menus, more organizations are implementing virtual agents as: 1.

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SmartAction

APRIL 15, 2019

Gartner predicts that customers soon will prefer using speech-driven interfaces to other forms of self-service when given a choice. This combination has led to the growing adoption of AI-powered virtual agents to automate conversations traditionally handled by live agents. Automate More with Virtual Agents.

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DMG Consulting

JUNE 27, 2022

Making the Case for an Intelligent Virtual Agent. Self-service has become the preferred form of customer support for many consumers, so long as it works. IVAs are not next-generation IVRs. It’s Time to Replace Your IVR with an IVA. IVR solutions have had an amazing run, but it’s time to retire them.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Self-Service Is the Channel of Choice—When It Works. For companies that have been trying to offload customer inquiries and interactions to self-service solutions for decades, there’s great news: Self-service is becoming the customer channel of choice. AI and Self-Service.

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 31, 2022

Give Customers What They Want: Great Self-Service. Delivering an outstanding customer experience (CX) is a top goal for companies, as it is an essential and measurable differentiator between otherwise commoditized products and services. Donna Fluss. View this article on the publisher’s website. & Solving the Problem.

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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. Overview of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Voice Self-Service.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 9, 2018

DMG Consulting Releases 2018 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. State of the art self-service and compelling benefits that transcend verticals. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Frost & Sullivan awards Purchasing Power ® for their AI-Powered Virtual Agent created in partnership with SmartAction ® to enable conversational self-service for their customers. The post Purchasing Power’s AI-Powered Virtual Agent Wins Top Honor for Excellence in Self-Service appeared first on SmartAction.

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Calabrio

MARCH 31, 2025

This frees agents to concentrate on complex, high-value interactions, accelerating resolution times and driving down operational costs. Smarter customer experiences, more personalized self-service: Intuitive self-service options can at last become a consistent reality, allowing customers to find solutions quickly and independently.

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TechSee

APRIL 21, 2021

Computer Vision AI-Based Self-Service. 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.

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Outsource Consultants

JANUARY 11, 2018

In a recent article , Shelby Faris takes in in-depth look at Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology. She acknowledges that though IVR is a vital component of many companies’ customer service, it’s not without its faults. 4 Ways Companies Benefit from Using IVR Services.

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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 ). Why Avaya Validated the SmartAction AI Self-Service Solution.

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Fonolo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. You wouldn’t be the first customer service professional to ask themselves if a chatbot is really any different than an IVR.

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UJET

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Actually, they aren’t just asking, they are hoping that artificial intelligence (AI) will allow them to replace live agents, just as they have been since interactive voice response systems (IVRs) were first introduced into the market more than five decades ago. But now the world is very different.

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Dialer 360

JANUARY 19, 2022

With this, organizations have started to implement self-service possibilities that are empowered by Artificial intelligence. Virtual agents. However, those days are gone when static and slow IVR are used in the call center for customer service. Ai empowered assistants are called virtual assistants.

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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. How to build a smarter IVR with a multimodal user expereience. View Webinar.

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