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A History of Customer Support Technology

Team Support

1960s-1970s: Emergence of Call Centers The concept of providing on-demand customer support began with call centers in the 1960s. These early call centers were often powered by manual processes, with operators using basic databases to retrieve customer information.

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2018: New Ways Cloud Will Enhance Customer Care

NICE inContact

Similarly, the Salesforce Einstein AI platform was initially announced in 2016. It will be in 2018, however, that we will see more and more companies begin to trial and deploy AI-based solutions, like chatbots, predictive routing and other types of machine learning and natural language understanding.

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Will bots process my electricity bill? AI transforming the CX for utility customers

TechSee

Gartner reports that the vast majority of utilities’ investment in AI is earmarked for customer service. 86% of utilities already use AI in customer engagement applications, call center service and support, or digital marketing platforms, far exceeding AI use in other areas of operation.

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GOL Airlines Launches New Features for its Virtual Assistant with Inbenta

Inbenta

WhatsApp chatbot and check-in. GOL, a brasilian airlines who has been a customer of Inbenta since 2016 , has launched new features to enhance the capabilities of GAL, the airline’s virtual assistant, on WhatsApp. Still unprecedented in the segment, the platform was launched at the end of last year.

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Artificial Intelligence in Customer Service: The Past, Present, and Future

Solvvy

Chatbots are the next big thing… or not. As such, many businesses turned towards developing machine learning-driven messaging platforms known as “chatbots.” ” Facebook began offering Facebook Messenger “bots” to brands on their platform in 2016, and many other companies quickly followed suit. .”

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The future of Co-browsing: 5 Trends to Watch

TechSee

trillion hours in 2016 — a year-over-year app engagement increase of over 50 percent. For example, while CSPs are eager to increase the usage of their self service apps, adoption has been relatively low (estimated as below 30%). For example, a customer chats in with a question regarding her recent bill.

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How Telemarketing Philippines Makes Call Reduction An Advantage To SMEs

Magellan Solutions

Why are Telemarketing Philippines experiencing a large number of calls? Following Google’s announcement that its ads would generate over 30 billion calls last 2016, many declared that “call commerce” is still very much alive. That reference is to the inbound calls and high-value leads for a business. .