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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

The same is true for first call resolution and average handle times. Data from ICMI also reveals that 76% of call center professionals believe bilingual support improves the customer experience, brand loyalty, and customer satisfaction.

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THREE TECH SOLUTIONS TO HELP WITH THE NEW CUSTOMER SERVICE LANDSCAPE

VDS

Emerging technologies help companies reduce average handle time (AHT), increase customer satisfaction (CSAT), and increase profitability. The idea is to let technology handle mundane tasks, nuisance calls, and authentication, so your agents can focus on everything else. Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA).

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Don’t succumb to the ‘CX sacrifice’

Think Customers

We see the highest concentration in strategic and minor investments planned around things like intelligent virtual agents, video chat, and augmented reality,” D’Antonio added. Understand the why—and the what Call centers need to examine reasons why customers engage in the first place.

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New KPI Metrics in the Era of Self Service

TechSee

When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured? Enterprises must consider staffing costs, call center management systems expenses and the cost of self-service tools.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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The Future of Intelligent Decision Support Systems in Contact Centers

TechSee

This article underlines the value of DSS in customer service and focuses on the potential computer vision brings to call/chat centers, where providing a positive customer experience (CX) at scale is critical to success in the current competitive business climate. Current state of DSS in contact centers.

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Virtual Agents in the Contact Center: Data Gathering Made Easy

NICE inContact

But there are dozens of other processes in which agents collect information from a customer over the phone, and these calls aren’t just long, they’re expensive. These repetitive calls often come in high volumes, but are low-value, tedious conversations that simply bog down live agents.