NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

When it comes to reducing expenses within contact center operations, one of the best ways to do so is to reduce the amount of time that live agents spend on the phone. With that being said, one of the biggest time-consumers of live agent minutes comes from repetitive and tedious data gathering. This happens on virtually every call, as agents generally perform customer identification duties whether or not the system has already done so (more on that later).

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Data Average Handle Time 122

NICE inContact

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This is the first of four ways that virtual agents are automating the contact center. Reaching the right agent at the first attempt is a prerequisite for an effortless, fast customer experience, but touch-tone systems and single word command menus are somewhat limited in their capabilities and options to precisely determine a customer’s needs. Your business benefits through increased cost-savings from a reduced number of internal transfers and reduced agent minutes.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Average Handle Time Comparison 120

UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

And there’s a very simple way to unlock each of your customer service agent’s full potential—give them a rock-star number two player. Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. The UJET Virtual Agents.

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Virtual Agent Average Handle Time Sports Customer Service 72

UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

And there’s a very simple way to unlock each of your customer service agent’s full potential—give them a rock-star number two player. Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. The UJET Virtual Agents.

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Virtual Agent Average Handle Time Sports Customer Service 72

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

By combining NICE inContact with SmartAction’s AI-powered virtual agent, DSW ultimately found the right human-machine balance without compromising an ounce of CX. Today, live agents are optimized to help customers more quickly on complex needs. Average handle time (AHT) , a key CX metric, has fallen by two minutes! Access this webinar: From Brick & Mortar to Digital Superhero: DSW’s Journey to AI-Powered Virtual Agents.

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Virtual Agent Average Handle Time Customer Experience Contact Center 139

Talkdesk

APRIL 14, 2020

The healthcare sector, government sector and e-commerce business owners are seeing a spike in their inbound calls, but contact centers are traditionally staffed with dozens to thousands of agents working in the office.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Healthcare Average Handle Time 81

Oracle

OCTOBER 1, 2019

That’s a particularly attractive solution when a chatbot — also called a “virtual agent” — is offered as the initial strategy, with a live agent available as needed. Gartner research found that 25% of customer service operations will use virtual customer assistants by 2020. However, implementing a virtual agent requires a solid understanding of your customer base as well as attention to the customer journey.

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Customer Experience Virtual Agent Retail Average Handle Time 74

VDS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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.

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Virtual Agent Customer Experience Contact Center Average Handle Time 52

Talkdesk

MARCH 24, 2020

Not limited to a specific interface, it leverages both traditional websites and conversational self-service tools like virtual agents , chatbots and employee or customer communities to make information as easily accessible as possible. Agents.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. Here’s how AI makes the customer experience better by streamlining the agent experience and automating operations.

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Customer Service Average Handle Time 82

Think Customers

MARCH 2, 2023

” “A lot of brands have a tendency toward what I call the ‘CX sacrifice,’ reducing staff and decreasing your time to serve. For this client, average handle time (AHT) of nine minutes was slashed to three minutes with robotic desktop automation TTEC deployed.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI (artificial intelligence) customer service tools weren’t designed to replace your agents. They were designed to help your agents deliver a better customer experience. Here’s how AI makes the customer experience better by streamlining the agent experience and automating operations.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2018

First Contact Resolution (FCR) – If you were to choose one other metric (other than CSAT) to measure customer experience that would be FCR, the ability to provide a resolution to customers issues the very first time they connect with agents. Integration with CRM and other applications provide a complete customer context in terms of profile, interaction and transaction data that helps agents solve customer issues right, the first time.

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Metrics Virtual Agent Average Handle Time Contact Center 120

TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward. Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This technology is optimal for remote or hybrid contact centers with home-based agents. Visual Interactive Voice Response is a simple yet effective website add-on that enables clients to arrange a callback from a contact center employee at a time of their choice.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This technology is optimal for remote or hybrid contact centers with home-based agents. Visual Interactive Voice Response is a simple yet effective website add-on that enables clients to arrange a callback from a contact center employee at a time of their choice.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2018

Agents performance is closely monitored, and their actions have business and financial implications, such as dropping a sale, dispatching a technician unnecessarily, losing a customer, or worse, setting off a social media backlash over a bad experience. It also improves their ability to bring customer issues to successful resolution, enhancing both customer satisfaction and inline agent satisfaction. In customer service, it helps the IDSS see the problem, as a virtual agent.

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Think Customers

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In most cases it’s an artificially intelligent virtual agent that greets users in the corner of the screen with the option to continue the conversation with the AI or transfer to an agent. Customers want to reach brands on their own terms, whenever, wherever.

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Contact Center omnichannel Virtual Agent Average Handle Time 52

Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

However your customers choose to interact with your organization, contact center leaders must ensure that all agents can meet customers where they are, understand each individual’s unique context and enable them to reach their goal. Let’s dive into four reasons contact center leaders struggle to minimize costs while improving customer satisfaction at the same time. This technology can help agents understand why customers have reached out. By Stephanie Ventura.

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