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Multimodal User Experience Design Best Practices

Uniphore

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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10 Ways the Best Call Centers Thrive in the New Normal

Uniphore

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. When the whole world went remote, people started calling in in record numbers, forcing businesses to reassess their customer service game. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

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Is Your Organization Ready for the Top Contact Center Trends of 2022?

Playvox

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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Artificial Intelligence: Ready for Primetime in the Contact Center

Avaya

80% increase in transactions handled by self-service apps. 25% reduction in agent turnover. Virtual agents/chatbots – Computer-aided, virtual robots that address basic questions and functions to free human agents to handle more complex ones. AI is finding a comfortable home in the contact center.

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Start Every Conversation with AI: The Front Door for Intelligent Customer Service

Speaker: Brian Morin & Helena Chen from SmartAction

Self-service is on the rise. Enter a conversational AI solution for your contact center. AI virtual agents can help resolve a lot of routine and repetitive interactions, but not all are created equal. What calls are best handled by a collaboration between AI and live agents.

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Don’t succumb to the ‘CX sacrifice’

Think Customers

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. Myron said other areas where contact centers will increase technology investment in 2023 include self-service automation and conversational AI/chatbots.

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Self-Service Strategies for Elevating CX at Your Contact Centre

NICE inContact

In a way, self-service in the contact centre is kind of like a buffet: You need a strategy, or you might overeat or miss all the best dishes. It seems like self-service options are everywhere these days. And I know I am not the only fan of faster self-service. What’s your strategy? Many Options.

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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. If it fits into one of these 5 categories, a live human agent should never handle it. Real-world examples from 6 leading companies.

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How to Build ROI for Conversational AI

Speaker: Sofia Burton & Tiffany O'Malley from SmartAction

Contact center leaders have faced an onslaught of burdens exacerbated by the pandemic. Agent attrition has always been a huge problem, but now the difficulties of the worker shortage make securing live agents for call centers highly competitive. Determining which calls are best for automation.

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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?