NICE inContact

DECEMBER 10, 2018

As a contact center leader, you work extremely hard to mitigate these challenges, but because you are pulled in many different directions, it is tough to keep your best agents. Not to mention, technology constraints can sometimes make it difficult to improve the agent experience.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

The same holds true in the contact center. Multimodal Virtual Agents allow customers to tap, text and talk to get more done , with little effort. Offering variety can help create more successful outcomes for customers with a lower AHT for agents — a win on both sides of the phone line. View Webinar.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

It is an artificial intelligence tool that can be described as a virtual agent. Indeed, it can interact with customers via instant messaging, and exchanges are based on predetermined scripts and scenarios. As a result, a Chatbot is presented as a real solution for improving customer experience in a call center.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When one in five of your customers speak something other than English as their first language, providing bilingual customer support is critical. But what mix of live agents versus AI is best for your business? The impact of bilingual support on the customer experience cannot be understated. But what’s the best approach?

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 16, 2019

For many companies, making outbound calls and texts to customers makes up a large volume of everyday work that their live agents handle today. Outbound calls and texts are used in a variety of ways, such as to preempt situations or to keep customers up-to-date. However, robocalls don’t work either.

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Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

After five years of providing what amounted to call center plumbing, we had really zeroed in on what call centers did and realized that the heart of a call center was and always will be the people that operate the phones. The contact center was even more complicated.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This penchant for technology has shaped their consumer behavior and preferences, and brands must tailor their customer service strategies to suit Millennials’ attributes. According to a survey by Desk.com , 25% of millennials expect to get a response within 10 minutes after reaching out for customer service via social media.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There are many areas where emerging applications are poised to make a big impact during 2023, both for improving the agent experience (AX) and for making the customer experience (CX) smarter. Automated speech recognition (ASR) is an important contact center use case for AI. Virtual Agent. Noise Suppression.

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TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

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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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

With the COVID-19 crisis causing a significant increase in customer inquiries, more businesses are turning to Conversational AI to sustain and improve customer and employee communications. Simplifying the creation and maintenance of virtual agents across the enterprise is critical. A Platform to Handle Complexity.

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Interactions

APRIL 14, 2021

From consumer lending to debt collection, machine learning is increasing the profitability of managing receivables, through streamlined services and data-driven insights that maximize returns on investment, while simultaneously improving customer experience. And that’s why I want to share my insights with you today.

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VDS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As companies scrambled to drive efficiencies and cut costs, they adopted new ways to improve the experience for both the employee and the customer. There are many innovative ways to improve the experience for both your employees and customers. Agents need accurate, accessible information from reliable and efficient systems.

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BlueOcean

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

One of our most popular blog posts focuses on which contact center predictions from the past few years have come true in the world of outsourced customer service. As any workforce management professional will tell you, excellence in forecasting/prediction is what differentiates the leaders from the also-rans in call center operations.

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Kustomer

OCTOBER 6, 2021

There are innumerable studies that highlight the future of CX, and how chatbots are one of the most common ways to improve your customer experience. But one type of chatbot that has proven to help reduce costs and improve your CSAT scores are virtual agents. Granted, chatbots are not for every industry.

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TechSee

MARCH 13, 2018

The customer service industry, in particular, pinned high hopes on AI, expecting that upon its introduction to the market, smart machines would truly transform the customer experience. However, while AI has not yet become the answer to all our customer service challenges, the technology is moving forward at a rapid pace.

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Kustomer

MAY 5, 2022

There are innumerable studies that highlight the future of CX, and how chatbots are one of the most common ways to improve your customer experience. But one type of chatbot that has proven to help reduce costs and improve your CSAT scores are virtual agents. Kustomer surveyed over 525 U.S.-based

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UJET

JUNE 25, 2021

As the world begins to reopen post-COVID-19, customer experience is more important than it’s ever been, with 80% of companies saying their core business model needs to go and/or stay digital to remain economically viable. We’re long past the days where customer experience is an afterthought and the contact center is viewed as a cost center.

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Interactions

APRIL 14, 2021

From consumer lending to debt collection, machine learning is increasing the profitability of managing receivables, through streamlined services and data-driven insights that maximize returns on investment, while simultaneously improving customer experience. And that’s why I want to share my insights with you today.

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Advantage Communications

AUGUST 14, 2019

In this blog we often talk about the innovative omnichannel technology that a modern outsourced call center will bring to your organization, and how those technologies will help your company realize significant benefits to your customer service strategy.

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Call Experts

MAY 8, 2019

Customer success analytics tools are essential for growing businesses. As technology advances and improves, experienced business experts are discovering that AI is the best tool for transforming the Digital Customer Experience. 45% enhancements in customer ratings. 95% growth in the numbers of new customers.

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Think Customers

MARCH 2, 2023

Workforce reductions are tempting in the face of economic headwinds but technology and customer experience experts urge contact center leaders to take the long view, and resist. ” “A lot of brands have a tendency toward what I call the ‘CX sacrifice,’ reducing staff and decreasing your time to serve.

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Magellan Solutions

JULY 29, 2021

million people employed by call center outsourcing Philippines. . The Asian Development Bank predicts that by 2030 AI and similar technologies could displace 286,000 workers or almost a quarter of the people in the telemarketing call center Philippines. But little of it made customers happy. .

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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. Customer care center metrics in the era of self-service clearly require a different approach. Call Deflection Rate.

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Interactions

JULY 2, 2020

Collections agents will feel the effects of this increase in volume. Without the right technology to support their contact centers, it’s likely that they won’t have the tools or capability to successfully support customers through their repayment efforts. Being a contact center agent in the collections space is no easy task.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Chatbots and virtual assistants are at the epicenter of the customer service revolution. And it’s clear that customers are open to these emerging technologies to help make that happen. And it’s clear that customers are open to these emerging technologies to help make that happen. Expectations have shifted.

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Interactions

JULY 29, 2020

Power Utilities expert Andrew Heath believes senior utility execs are fast realizing focusing on customer engagement is no longer a “nice-to-have” but is instead a must-have, especially across digital channels. Virtual agents can support an omnichannel approach to customer service.

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Interactions

JULY 2, 2020

Collections agents will feel the effects of this increase in volume. Without the right technology to support their contact centers, it’s likely that they won’t have the tools or capability to successfully support customers through their repayment efforts. Being a contact center agent in the collections space is no easy task.

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SaleMove

JANUARY 6, 2020

Virtual Agents (aka bots) and other forms of self-service will take over many routine tasks that bring monotony and boredom to today’s agents. While much is predicted about the negative impact of AI on the workers of tomorrow, the truth is that AI will help to transform the lives of agents for the better.

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Talkdesk

APRIL 23, 2020

The cloud ensures a remarkable pace of innovation, which is what ultimately makes the difference in the customer’s journey. Our expectations as customers have been growing and are now higher than ever. Customers change their opinion about a brand based on a bad customer experience, which shows that all interactions count.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Personalization as a driver in customer service. Delivering personalized customer service is more than just addressing a customer by name in an automated email, or segmenting by interest; it is a way to capture the customer’s attention and create a level of engagement that is authentic and relevant at every stage of the customer journey.

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Win the Customer

DECEMBER 15, 2015

According to research by Gartner, 89 percent of executives are betting on customer experience as their primary mode of competition before the end of 2016. We want our personalized customer service to encompass a wide variety of platforms from social media to mobile while still being easy to use with lightning-fast responses.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2018

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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Kustomer

MAY 26, 2022

In this episode of the Customer Service Secrets Podcast, Gabe Larsen has a heart to heart with fellow business leaders, urging them to take advantage of chatbots so their organizations will acquire and retain customers. Chatbots are also fantastic tools for lightening agent load, allowing them to tackle more complex customer inquiries.

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NICE inContact

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

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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Interactions

JUNE 18, 2020

Improving agent experience not only benefits agents, but also your customers and your business. Therefore, it should be a big focus in the contact center. But with an increasing focus on technology, it can seem like live agents are getting left behind. . It’s not easy being a contact center agent.

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