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Preparing Your Contact Center for the Age of Virtual Agents

Taylor Reach Group

Redundancy strategies today focus mainly on applications and equipment – not personnel – so when the pandemic hit, contact centers were left unshielded from what was to come, especially outsource providers. So how can companies prepare for what might be the new normal of virtual contact support?

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The Biggest CX Changes in Healthcare Customer Support in 2025

Outsource Consultants

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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What Is an AI-powered Virtual Agent and What Can It Do?

SmartAction

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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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

Xaqt

The offshore business process outsourcing industry is likely to be the hardest hit. Even before the global pandemic, Contact Center and Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs) were facing new headwinds and competitive pressures. The answer to that question represents the threat to their core business presented by Virtual Agents and RPA.

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Implementing Virtual Agents: Where to Start, and How to Finish

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Aarde Cosseboom, Director of GMS Technology and Product, TechStyle Fashion Group

If this is a situation can you relate to, then join us for this in-depth conversation with TechStyle Fashion Group, as they openly discuss their decision to go virtual, and the challenges they faced along the way as they dabbled with both building the omnichannel self-service platform themselves, and outsourcing the design to a partner.

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Don’t Be Afraid of Using Virtual Agents in Your Contact Center

Outsource Consultants

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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Electrolux Assesses Their First 6 Months with Virtual Agents

SmartAction

Electrolux, the 2nd largest home appliance manufacturer in the world who sells under a variety of brand names worldwide like Frigidaire and AEG, made the transformation to AI-powered virtual agents six months ago to automate more in their contact center. 14% of callers request a live agent transfer. 9% of callers hang up.