TechSee

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI that can interact naturally with users has the potential to augment and automate every service interaction across every channel. Meet Sophie AI Sophie’s MultiSensory AI fuses data, text (LLMs), audio, speech and visual AI. This is the vision behind Sophie AI, the world’s first multisensory AI platform for the enterprise.

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CCNG

AUGUST 28, 2024

Optimizes Operations: Contact center automation optimizes operations by streamlining processes and ensuring tasks meet SLAs. Increases Engagement: Automation enables faster response times, personalized interactions, and 24/7 availability through self-service options such as chatbots and interactive voice response (IVR) systems.

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Connect

MARCH 5, 2025

CX innovation In response, contact centre operators are leveraging AI to craft conversational experiences with basic chatbots and more advanced virtual agents , driving the rise of immersive digital customer experiences (CX). By analysing sentiment and intent, AI-powered virtual agents can field more complex tasks and requests.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Gartner’s Four Best Practices for Implementing Extreme Customer Self-Service. According to Gartner’s 2018 Best Practices for Implementing Extreme Customer Self-Service Report , by 2022, 85% of customer service interactions will start with self-service, up from 48% today.

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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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Dialer 360

JANUARY 19, 2022

With this, organizations have started to implement self-service possibilities that are empowered by Artificial intelligence. Virtual agents. As well as help the organization to meet its goal. Relationship between virtual agents and Artificial intelligence. Working procedure of virtual agents.

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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. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 25, 2021

During the past year, more customers have turned to digital channels and automated self-service for support. Usage of virtual agents and chatbots exploded with record-breaking levels of traffic. The truth is this technology has been used in areas such as website self-service for over two decades.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2021

Having innovation at the heart of our company culture at Creative Virtual has served the company well, but only because we innovate with the objective of delivering products and services that genuinely help our customers meet their goals in increasingly better ways.

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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. Organisations with an existing self-service solution have a definite advantage.

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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. It shortens the time they need to search for information so they can provide a better in-person service experience for customers.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

From selecting coverage and understanding benefits to confirming payments and filing claims, both policyholders and agents need information that is customized to them. The technology has the capability to both provide the best self-service options to customers and improve insurers’ interactions with agents.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 2, 2020

Advancements over the past several years in conversational AI technologies, including chatbots and virtual agents, have made them a go-to solution for providing cost-effective and easy-to-use support on digital channels. They also give organisations the opportunity to get self-service projects both deployed and performing well quickly.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 9, 2020

So far in this series we have discussed using chatbots, virtual agents and conversational AI to offer easy-to-use customer self-service (Part 1) and as an Agent Assist tool to support contact centre agents (Part 2). By Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO.

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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. June 27, 2022 By Donna Fluss. View this article on the publisher’s website. IVAs are not next-generation IVRs. Building a Business Case for an IVA.

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TechSee

APRIL 21, 2021

Intelligent collaboration tools are trending in the call center to meet this need of connecting agents with their colleagues and supervisors in order to better serve their customers. Computer Vision AI-Based Self-Service. AI is reshaping the enterprise approach to 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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DMG Consulting

JULY 19, 2017

DMG Consulting Releases 2017 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2017 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2025

Customer-facing self-service conversational AI (CAI) systems, which are generative AI (GenAI)-enabled intelligent virtual agents, have reached a maturity level at which they can and should increase self-service (voice and digital channel) automation rates while improving the CX.

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NICE inContact

OCTOBER 12, 2018

With all of the new improvements and changes in modern day customer service technology, it’s no surprise that customer expectations have evolved to follow suit as well. This is the first of four ways that virtual agents are automating the contact center. Now more than ever, customers want fast and efficient service.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Frost & Sullivan’s white paper, “The AI-Powered Virtual Agent: Actionable Strategies for Contact Center Leaders.”. Read the full paper to find out how leading companies are using cloud-based virtual agents to automate more in their contact centers. Meeting High Customer Expectations.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

This open platform architecture enables our customers to easily add and integrate with advanced cloud applications such as AI-based virtual agents, advanced data analytics, workforce optimization, and other Webex applications, including Webex Experience Management, Webex Calling, and Webex Control Hub.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 7, 2020

In Part 1 of this series , I talked about the immense pressure organisations are under to deliver quality service and support over digital channels during this period of coronavirus-related quarantines, lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. Agents have access to a virtual agent that understands questions asked in natural language.

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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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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Conversational AI helps them out of what seems to be an endless cycle of button pressing and voice prompts to connect them immediately with a virtual agent. This means a lighter load and less stress for your agents, resulting in less worker attrition, as well as requiring fewer workers in your call center.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 4, 2021

Another key question to ask when thinking of customer experience is: are we really meeting the needs of our customers or are we just trying to make a score look better?”. Your chatbot or virtual agent should be designed to create a better experience by providing quick, easy support.

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Comm100

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Over the years, customer service has undergone a dramatic transformation, driven by rapid advancements in technology. 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.

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Taylor Reach Group

MAY 14, 2017

These bots are known as Virtual Agents and are certainly ideal for use in high volume, low complexity tasks. Service can be delivered by phone, email, web chat, self-service, mobile apps and social media as well as virtual agents. Contact Center Services Will be Augmented – Not Replaced.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 3, 2020

For healthcare providers, this sheds a stark light on what has been apparent for some time – that measures must be taken to ease the burden on healthcare workers, while also ensuring the general public has access to routine and essential health services. What Virtual Health Agents Can Do for Healthcare. Want to learn more?

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SmartAction

JUNE 30, 2023

This is the mindset that we adopt here at SmartAction, where we aim to provide the best voice self-service experience available. We also recognize that consumer needs and behaviors are constantly changing , so it is essential to be able to adapt to these changes at a pace that meets consumers’ expectations.

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SmartAction

MAY 9, 2019

This is the fourth of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. Gartner predicts that customers soon will prefer using speech-driven interfaces to other forms of self-service when given a choice. Read Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 first! Building in Silos.

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HGS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Today’s companies are challenged to meet everyday customer service pressures while also building for the future. They must provide optimized customer service across various digital channels while also using new tools to better understand customer demographics and preferences, to deliver more personalized service.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Contact centers need to address operational requirements, satisfy employee needs and meet customer expectations, all while managing costs. Self-Service Comes on Strong. WFM solutions are providing agents with enhanced self-service capabilities that give them the autonomy to create and manage their own schedules and time off.

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SmartAction

MAY 23, 2019

This is the fifth of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. Use this guide to automate your contact center and Customer Experience (CX) with AI self-service in voice, chat, and text. Best Practice #5: Human-Centric Design from a team of CX Experts.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2021

Answer: Digital transformation, spurred on by the pandemic, has resulted in enterprises finally giving customers what they’ve wanted for the past five years – the ability to interact in their channels of choice, whether voice or digital, assisted by intelligent virtual agents (for self-service), as well as live agents, when needed.

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