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Reduce call hold time and improve customer experience with self-service virtual agents using Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex

AWS Machine Learning

The key to making this approach practical is to augment human agents with scalable, AI-powered virtual agents that can address callers’ needs for at least some of the incoming calls. Gartner’s Customer Service and Support Leader poll estimates that live channels such as phone and live chat cost an average of $8.01

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Millennial Generation Customer Service – The Ultimate Guide

TechSee

trillion in spending — in the United States by 2020. This penchant for technology has shaped their consumer behavior and preferences, and brands must tailor their customer service strategies to suit Millennials’ attributes. I’ll help myself, thanks: Called the Do-It-Yourself Generation, Millennials love self-service.

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Multimodal User Experience Design Best Practices

Uniphore

Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline. Multimodal Virtual Agents allow customers to tap, text and talk to get more done , with little effort. By 2023, customers will prefer to begin 70% of self-service requests with conversational voice interactions.

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Collaborative AI

TechSee

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Smarter Agents. Virtual agents learn as they process more information, but someone must train them.

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The 5 Categories That Rule Virtual Agents

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, Mark Landry, VP Product, Marilyn Cassedy, Director of Customer Success, SmartAction

It just so happens that whenever we design and deploy a new AI-powered virtual agent over voice, the self-service application invariably falls into one of 5 distinct categories. Thursday September 17th, 2020 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EST, 6PM GMT. Understand top use cases driving conversational AI adoption.

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Call Center Automation Depends on Collaborative AI

TechSee

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Why agents are embracing the change. Computer-Vision powered self-service.

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10 Ways the Best Call Centers Thrive in the New Normal

Uniphore

25% Lack of self-service options. 0% Security issues with Agents at Home. Use Self-Service to Handle High Call Volume. Fortunately, you can take the pressure off of your agents. For more than three decades, Jacada has led the field in automated self-service solutions and agent-assisted automation solutions.

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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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How a Top 25 Most Trusted Brand Handed Their CX to AI

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Patty Kleinfeldt, Director of Q&E, AAA

One of the most trusted brands in the world, AAA, took the most critical aspect of their Customer Experience and handed it over to an AI-powered virtual agent for omnichannel self-service. The secret of data + business logic to keep virtual agents in their "swim lane".

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The Post-Covid CX Powered by AI

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

Adapting to a post-COVID world means recession-proofing your contact center with AI that reduces reliance on live agents with virtual agents that are always on, perfectly trained, and at a fraction of the cost. Discuss DIY platforms versus managed services – which is right for me?