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3 ways virtual agents can boost call center efficiency

Talkdesk

From knowledge bases to virtual agents, the potential disruption that a solid set of self-service applications can bring to contact center efficiency and customer experience is unquestionable and justifies all the buzz. Additionally, virtual agents can provide sustainable 24/7 support for many contact centers.

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4 ways that enterprise virtual agents will evolve

Interactions

Virtual agents have come a long way. Secondly, we can expect the future of enterprise virtual assistants to expand capabilities for greater benefits to the business and the customer (and the agents). According to Opus Research, “We’ve reached a point where bots and live agents are interdependent. But what’s next?

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What You Need to Know About Contact Center AI

InMoment XI

Virtual Agents and Chatbots: Virtual agents or chatbots, powered by AI, interact with customers in real-time. These agents can engage in text-based or voice-based conversations that provide assistance, answer queries, and guide users through processes.

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Virtual Agents in the Contact Center: Automate One Routine Call Type at a Time

NICE inContact

Imagine if you had a pool of AI-powered virtual agents in addition to your live agents. Cloud-based “AI agents” supplement and empower your live agents by handling the menial tasks so that live agents don’t have to: order status, bill payments, account updates, appointment confirmations, credit checks, and many more.

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The Conversational AI Journey: What to Expect from Start to Finish

Speaker: Gary Davis, SmartAction CEO

Understanding the work involved before and after you deploy a virtual agent makes all the difference between a poor customer experience and one that’s on par with your best live agent. What happens after go-live, and how to monitor, fine-tune, and train your virtual agent.

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Reduce call hold time and improve customer experience with self-service virtual agents using Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex

AWS Machine Learning

One solution is to have enough trained agents available to take all the calls right away, even during times of unusually high call volumes. The key to making this approach practical is to augment human agents with scalable, AI-powered virtual agents that can address callers’ needs for at least some of the incoming calls.

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How to Manage a Virtual Agent – Fate of the Bots | The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Part 7

SaleMove

In our previous blog in The Times They Are a-Changing: Talent in the Contact Center Series , we discussed how virtual agents, or bots, are transforming the contact center workplace, pushing live human agents to become strategic troubleshooting experts and managers to become agent coaches. But what about the bots?

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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.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.