Solvvy
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Zoom Virtual Agent , an intelligent conversational AI chatbot solution, uses natural language processing and machine learning to accurately understand and painlessly resolve issues for customers. But Zoom Virtual Agent goes beyond understanding to resolution.
Cyara
MARCH 13, 2020
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Forrester Digital Transformation
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
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Forrester's Customer Insights
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
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Speaker: Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction
Most contact centers have an over-reliance on live agents for even the most rudimentary and repetitive call types. Hear examples from AAA, MGM Resorts, Hyundai, and Office Depot on how they are leveraging the power of conversational AI through cloud-based virtual agents to automate the call and chat types handled by live agents.
Forrester's Customer Insights
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Buyer demand for greater value from insights and technology such as RPA, data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics are forcing both classical BPO and omnichannel BPO vendors to retool themselves into insights-driven BPO's.
Forrester's Customer Insights
JULY 30, 2020
Leading banks are pivoting and rebooting their strategy — capitalizing on the pace of change and innovation and setting their course for the next decade. By 2030, banking will be invisible, connected, insights-driven, and purposeful.
Forrester's Customer Insights
AUGUST 21, 2019
age of the customer artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots customer experience infrastructure & operations machine learning virtual agentsBy Will White and Ian Jacobs Chatbots — And Why They Can’t Read Your Mind Chatbots are cropping up everywhere, from customer service to internal help desks, but what makes them tick? When we interact with chatbots, we’re often coming in from the end-user side and confronting a chatbot window. When we ask a question, […].
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. Technologies such as contact center artificial intelligence (AI) , chatbots and intelligent virtual agents are all crucial components of creating a superior customer experience (CX) and improving customer satisfaction.
Forrester's Customer Insights
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
Forrester clients may not be familiar with Samsung’s intelligent agent Bixby, but it’s primed to put other better-known agents such as […]. age of the customer mobile technology virtual agents voice technology(With Julie Ask) Last week, Samsung hosted its annual Developer Conference in San Jose, California. Developers sampled the company’s latest offerings for mobile app and web development, the internet of things, and artificial intelligence.
Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Aarde Cosseboom, Director of GMS Technology and Product, TechStyle Fashion Group
Join us for this in-depth conversation with TechStyle Fashion Group, as they openly discuss their decision to go virtual, and the challenges they faced along the way as they dabbled with both building the omnichannel self-service platform themselves, and outsourcing the design to a partner.
Comm100
AUGUST 17, 2022
I want to go back to years and years ago when Delta Air Lines was the very first airline to introduce the idea of online booking, where you didn’t have to call the agent, you could actually do it online. Customer Experience Omnichannel customer experience customer service
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. Find out where DSW is going next, as Tim and Tom discuss insights for deciding which transactions best lend themselves to automation (next up: returns) and look ahead to integrating chat into the customer’s omnichannel experience.
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. It’s a great way to move them to chat with a live agent. Instead of looking at this as a failure to contain, lets look at this as an opportunity to get rid of the repetitive questions chat agents spend time answering.
NICE inContact
MAY 21, 2019
Self-service not only has benefits for consumers and businesses, but for advisors and agents as well. ICMI Research indicates that, with the right self-service strategy, agent satisfaction actually can increase. Self-service can be anything from a virtual agent that is capable of responding to a specific question to fully AI-enabled smart chatbots that can anticipate and automate work for the advisor.
Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Patty Kleinfeldt, Director of Q&E, AAA
One of the most trusted brands in the world, AAA, took the most critical aspect of their Customer Experience and handed it over to an AI-powered virtual agent for omnichannel self-service. In this webinar, we will hear from Brian Morin of SmartAction and AAA's Dispatch Operations Manager, Steve Bennett. They will dive into how AAA handled this transition and the effect its had on CX.
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.
Forrester's Customer Insights
MARCH 10, 2021
This is steadily changing distribution patterns within the industry towards embedded finance – a world of connectivity, financial services meeting the needs of customers in the moment, in cars, in virtual agents, in shopping apps, in online marketplaces.
UJET
MARCH 22, 2021
We gravitate to the shinier objects and tend to focus more on the agent experience, omnichannel, and artificial intelligence. When it comes to your customer experience, it’s not just about how well trained or equipped your agents are or the products and services you provide.
Upstream Works
JUNE 9, 2022
The contact center agent’s life was not easy, and we saw it just getting more and more complicated. It was 2006 and it was way ahead of its time – providing omnichannel agent desktop capabilities long before the concept of “omnichannel” was formed.
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CSM Magazine
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Spitch AG, the leading developer of enterprise speech solutions have announced a partnership with Creative Virtual, a world leader in customer and employee engagement solutions. .
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. It also lacked connection flexibility for remote agents and did not allow them to use a cell phone or browser. Omega World Travel selected NICE inContact CXone because it is the only true cloud-native solution with omnichannel functionality and flexible scalability. With $1.5
Calabrio
JANUARY 6, 2016
A virtual agent initiates a service call by accessing your Outlook or iCal calendar to set up an appointment. A service environment with this level of automation, one that blurs the line between agents and distributed “experts,” doesn’t just establish itself, and it certainly doesn’t happen overnight. Prediction #2: Virtualization will break down the “walls” of the contact center. If self-service and automation are the norm in 2020, what does that mean for agents?
CSM Magazine
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Spitch AG, the leading developer of enterprise speech solutions, with headquarters in Switzerland and offices in London, Madrid and Milan, today announced a partnership with Creative Virtual, a world leader in customer and employee engagement solutions. .
Upstream Works
JANUARY 18, 2022
Rob leads the strategic vision and operations of the company with a continued focus on omnichannel innovation and a passion for exceeding partner and customer expectations. The caveat is to ensure that the augmentation you provide is actually working in the agent’s favor.
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. A study published in 2017 investigated the presence and effects of relational language on intelligent virtual agents (IVAs). Omnichannel Service: How do YOU Rate?
Avaya
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Halloween is coming, and to get into the spirit, we’re here to help you overcome some common contact center terrors: WFH Agents. This can be an incredibly scary subject for many contact centers—agents who aren’t physically with you in the contact center. Whether you call them “virtual agents” or “remote agents” or simply “work from home agents,” the bottom line is many contact center managers run screaming from the thought of contact center agents working in different locations.
Bold360
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Live chat is a customer engagement channel that enables human agents and customers to interact in real-time conversations through a live chat window on a website or mobile app. This leaves more time for human agents to focus on complex, higher-value tasks.
UJET
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
The most effective customer service organizations are extremely data-driven, analyzing every aspect of its interactions and outcomes holistically, right down to the individual agent and customer level. Contact Centers Need to Move Beyond Omnichannel as the Basis for Customer Journeys. Another myth perpetuated by the previous generation of contact center vendors is the importance of omnichannel to mapping and improving the customer journey.
UJET
JUNE 25, 2021
According to ourfall 2019 survey, 61% of customers were using a mobile device for support, and 48% were using in-app messaging with agents for on-demand delivery services. Contact Center software that supports agents in connecting with their customers is essential.
Interactions
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Healthcare organizations can achieve this by utilizing Conversational AI and leveraging an omnichannel strategy. Or you had to repeat your reason for calling to multiple different agents? Improve Agent Productivity & Engagement.
CSM Magazine
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
virtual assistants such as Siri or Alexa) and respond appropriately. Despite a minority (28%) of customer experience leaders deploying virtual agents, they recognize the benefits of this human-centric approach to the contact center experience.
Playvox
JANUARY 13, 2022
Many newer at-home workers, including contact center agents, find they like working from home, and an eye-popping 58% of remote employees would rather find a new job than return to the office. Related Article: Ensuring Your Agents Are Fully Operational Working from Home.
UJET
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
The most effective customer service organizations are extremely data-driven, analyzing every aspect of its interactions and outcomes holistically, right down to the individual agent and customer level. Contact Centers Need to Move Beyond Omnichannel as the Basis for Customer Journeys. Another myth perpetuated by the previous generation of contact center vendors is the importance of omnichannel to mapping and improving the customer journey.
CSM Magazine
DECEMBER 17, 2019
An interaction might start with a basic chatbot, switch to an AI-powered virtual agent that understands context better and finally escalate to a voice call with a contact centre agent. The trick will be to ensure these are frictionless, with no virtual traffic jams.
Forrester's Customer Insights
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Emerging technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA), virtual agents, and machine learning — these are those invisible robots described in the recently published Forrester book, Invisible Robots in the Quiet of the Night: How AI and Automation Will Restructure the Workforce.
GetFeedback
APRIL 17, 2019
To relieve customers’ hard feelings about problems with some products or services, companies usually choose to improve the customer service skills of their agents. Not entirely, since to get to the point of using your agents’ skills, customers first need to contact your support. If you cover multiple communication channels (Aka omnichannel customer service ) , people will reach out: being able to choose the way to contact support simply makes it more convenient.
BlueOcean
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
This means that call centers of the future need to leverage self-service and omnichannel support; which includes engineering web- and mobile-based FAQs to deliver true knowledge management, supporting real-time, engaging social support, and operating effective virtual agents, IVR, and communities. 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.
TechSee
MARCH 19, 2019
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. New, more relevant self service KPI metrics that measure the success of self-service tools along with agent performance are now required.
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