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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

Xaqt

All the while, Virtual Agents and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) threaten to eliminate much of the human capabilities that outsources have built their business on. Amazon, Google, Microsoft) and well-funded start-ups are selling the value proposition of bots, virtual agents and AI to their enterprise customers.

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Contact Centers Can Thrive in the Worker Shortage

SmartAction

The early 2000s recession affected the US from March 2001 to November 2001 and led to a decline in participation in the workforce. With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated. A live agent deals with anything handled outside of self-service. In January of 2000, 67.3%

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Five9 Analyst Summit - My Quick Take

Jon Arnold

Plenty of updates around innovation - I’m not that technical, but their Inference acquisition is a good example with IVA - intelligent virtual agent - to help automate customer service - as is Whendu, which helps contact centers with complex legacy integrations migrate to the cloud.

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Introducing BB: The Bold360 Chatbot

bold360 Blog

On one end of the spectrum is in impersonal and soulless “Hal” from 2001: A Space Odyssey. On the other end of the spectrum is a fully personified virtual agent that takes the form and personality of a human – with a face and a name. Sorry, I didn’t understand that?” ).