UJET

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Actually, they aren’t just asking, they are hoping that artificial intelligence (AI) will allow them to replace live agents, just as they have been since interactive voice response systems (IVRs) were first introduced into the market more than five decades ago. The post Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Contact Center Agents?

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Conversational AI (aka intelligent chatbots or virtual agents) combines artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to streamline customer interactions across channels. Simplifying the creation and maintenance of virtual agents across the enterprise is critical. Essentially, it is what makes a Virtual Agent smart.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

Amazon Lex provides advanced conversational artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to enable self-service support for your organization’s contact center. With Amazon Lex, you can implement an omnichannel strategy where customers engage via phone, websites, and messaging platforms. This is the second post of a two-part series.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots. Dustin Hubbard, Chief Technology Officer at WaFd Bank.

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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

In the past, contact centers could stay ahead of the curve as long as they ensured to utilize the right solutions and tools to service customers. According to a survey, CCaaS will grow to be the favored adoption model by 50% of contact centers by 2022.

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Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

If your contact center is planning for the future, be sure to make employee experience and getting the right technology in place top priorities. We recently participated in a discussion with two industry experts that focused on megatrends that will impact contact centers in 2022. Technology always needs focus.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

Mobility, flexibility, automation… the development of chatbots is the inevitable result of a ten-year technological convergence that has swept across all companies and contact centers. What are its advantages for contact centers? Why do call centers need a chatbot? How does a chatbot function?

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Avaya

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s the spookiest time of the year, and not just because contact centers like yours are about to head full bore into the holiday rush. Halloween is coming, and to get into the spirit, we’re here to help you overcome some common contact center terrors: WFH Agents. Omnichannel Communications.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Call centers have developed dramatically over the past few years and will continue to do so in 2023. While most classic contact center technologies will continue to be utilized, most will be replaced by chatbots, cloud technologies, AI, and remote work, enabling businesses to enhance the customer experience and save expenses.

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Call centers have developed dramatically over the past few years and will continue to do so in 2023. While most classic contact center technologies will continue to be utilized, most will be replaced by chatbots, cloud technologies, AI, and remote work, enabling businesses to enhance the customer experience and save expenses.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Nordic region’s largest insurance company, If, has adopted innovative artificial intelligence in combination with its existing solution from the contact center supplier Puzzel. The new agreement covers If’s contact centers in four countries. Virtual agents are quickly gaining in importance.

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NobelBiz

MAY 24, 2021

The difference between on-premise vs. cloud contact center is a topic that has become increasingly prominent in the industry. The main difference between on-premise vs. cloud contact center is that the cloud contact center will not go out of commission if the facility where it’s hosted goes offline.

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CSM Magazine

MARCH 15, 2024

The platform brings together omnichannel interactions, AI-infused experiences, sophisticated workforce optimisation tools, and actionable analytics in a single pane of glass. And it all integrates seamlessly with other best-of-breed technologies. For existing Avaya customers, the path is even clearer.

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Upstream Works

JANUARY 18, 2022

Remote working has been significantly accelerated, as have the technologies used to support it. No area of business has been impacted by the great resignation more than the contact center. Many organizations were focused on improving customer experience and digitizing the contact center just two years ago.

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UJET

MARCH 22, 2021

We gravitate to the shinier objects and tend to focus more on the agent experience, omnichannel, and artificial intelligence. Simply bolting new technologies onto a legacy system or a more modern cloud-based system is never the solution. The IVR isn’t a topic that gets enough coverage.

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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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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction. Contact centers are now considered more than just service centers. Omnichannel Interaction Data is Siloed or Nonexistent.

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Waterfield Tech, a leading global customer engagement solutions provider, today announced research findings detailing a significant lag in the adoption of conversational AI in the contact center. Additional findings from Waterfield Tech’s research include: The Value of Investing in the Contact Center. 80% are using voice.

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Calabrio

JANUARY 6, 2016

CEO of Calabrio shares his predictions for the Contact Center, for 2016 and Beyond. The “smart” technology that revolutionized our cell phones is finding its way into just about everything: medical devices, baby monitors, smoke detectors, thermostats, running shoes, even cows. The researchers at Gartner estimate that nearly 12.5

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

For some time now, Chatbots have become famous in contact centers. It is an artificial intelligence tool that can be described as a virtual agent. As a result, a Chatbot is presented as a real solution for improving customer experience in a call center. And what are the rules for implementing such technology?

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NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2018

In part one of the blog series, we looked at a framework for building a strong business case to invest in customer experience technologies. 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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Think Customers

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Chatbots and messaging each serve a vital role in the overall customer journey, and contact centers need to know when is the right moment to deploy an automated or human response. Chatbots perform an important role in the omnichannel ecosystem, but chatbot platforms often keep the customer glued to one channel.

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NICE inContact

MARCH 28, 2019

It often eliminates the “on hold” frustration of voice calls and lets contact centers increase productivity by having agents work with 3 or 4 customers at the same time. Many organizations feel pressured “top down” to apply AI technology to automate chat interactions entirely. Consumers have already accepted chat!

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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. With technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence, we’re predicting that big call center data will become more highly optimized than ever before.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. With many of these channels and tools enabling self-service, old-school KPIs are no longer sufficient. Total Cost Per Contact. Once upon a time, measuring customer service success was straightforward.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This week we feature an article by Mansi Bhatia who looks at ways organizations can transform contact centers into a customer engagement center. I like the idea of a customer engagement center. – Shep Hyken. Earlier, businesses used to see contact centers as cost centers. Retain the Human Element.

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Magellan Solutions

JULY 29, 2021

Once a technological possibility for some industries, the reality is disrupting sectors across markets globally and affecting all aspects of our lives. . The coronavirus pandemic has been tough on the contact center services Philippines and on a global level. . Increase Contact Rates and Conversion Rates.

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Call Experts

MAY 8, 2019

As technology advances and improves, experienced business experts are discovering that AI is the best tool for transforming the Digital Customer Experience. Chatbots or virtual agents can address a wide range of features and questions to provide relevant analysis and efficient protocol. 39% rise in digital sales.

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NICE inContact

JULY 29, 2019

Approximately 200 onsite and virtual agents handle corporate, government and leisure travel, making or modifying reservations, generating quotes and exchanging tickets. contact center was going nowhere. contact center was going nowhere. And then there’s the matter of remote agents.

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Kustomer

JUNE 27, 2022

Types of Customer Support Software What Are the Key Technology Components of Customer Service? Recent technological advancements in customer care have not only created a much-needed pathway for brands and customers to connect, but have also served to elevate the virtual service experience as a whole.

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Kustomer

JUNE 10, 2021

A holistic approach to CX doesn’t stop simply at omnichannel communication. The modern customer lives in a world of mobile phones, uploading to the cloud and for companies to keep up with the ever changing customer-scape, they have to adapt to new technologies to stay relevant. As Gabe Larsen puts it, “It’s change or be changed.”.

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Verint

MAY 1, 2018

Today Verint announces a line-up of conferences and digital events taking place in May that focus on digital and omnichannel customer service, GDPR compliance, automation and artificial intelligence, as well as the upcoming Engage TM global customer conference. Omnichannel Service: How do YOU Rate? Artificial Intelligence Conference.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

That is why reducing customer effort was voted the number one priority for contact centers in 2018. This statistic comes from CCW Digital’s latest Winter Executive Report – a report that analyzes the customer service priorities of several organizations to discover the most popular goals and strategies for call centers in 2018.

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