2017 Blog Chatbots Interactive Voice Response 
ShepHyken
JUNE 15, 2018
If you’ve not been living in a cave, you’ve probably heard by now numerous projections about how chatbots are destined to take over customer support. Another study by UK-based Juniper Research estimates that chatbots will help businesses save more than $8 billion per year by 2022. These numbers are staggering.
SmartAction
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Conversational chatbots are one of the top market disruptors in call center automation. Beginning in 2017, the use of chat bots in call centers grew in popularity and became widely utilized. Why is it So Hard to Implement and Maintain a Chatbot? The first day of deployment is the best day of the chatbot’s “life.”
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Aspect
MARCH 12, 2018
Given the growing customer preference for solving problems on their own, you’d expect consumers to like interactive voice response, or IVR — the first generation of self-service technology. Because IVRs suck, well at least the way they’re implemented sucks. They don’t.
ShepHyken
DECEMBER 8, 2017
For instance, IVRs and artificial intelligence enabled Chatbots can make the customer service easier and efficient. Chatbots which work like virtual agents can solve basic query and transfer a call to ‘live agents’ in case of escalation. The post Guest Blog: Want to Excel at Customer Service?
Customer Service Life
JUNE 26, 2017
This article was originally published on the FCR blog on June 9, 2017. I had a fantastic time at the 2017 Contact Center Expo and Conference in Orlando, Florida. Bad Bots- I shared the stage with Jeff Toister , Leslie O’Flahavan , and Peter McGarahan to debate the pros and cons of chatbots. Were you at the conference?
Aspect
DECEMBER 27, 2017
2016 saw an explosion of interest and investments in chatbots, as I wrote in my last annual recap. What happened in 2017, and what will 2018 bring? And this is where chatbots can help. RFPs for chatbots have arisen in verticals as diverse as banking, government, healthcare, and retail. Let’s have a look.
Fonolo
JANUARY 31, 2018
Will the AI / chatbot hype start to live up to its promise? We’re going to tackle all of those topics in the months ahead on this blog, but first we’re reading everything we can so we can bring you the most accurate analysis. We’re delighted that so many of you subscribe to this blog or visit us every week.
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