Creative Virtual

APRIL 30, 2020

These organisations can ‘rescue’ the customer experience by guiding customers to the information they need online while at the same time relieving some of the pressure from their contact centre so agents can better serve customers with questions that need human support. It’s also interesting to break down the virtual agent traffic by region.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That’s where the use of an AI-powered virtual agent comes in — for a fraction of the cost of a human agent, an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) is available to assist customers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. When it comes to customer satisfaction, how do virtual agents compare with live agents?

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SmartAction

APRIL 14, 2021

It takes the “smart” virtual agent a whole minute to ask him what’s wrong. How do you build intelligent virtual agents that won’t experience the dreaded bypass of “0 for operator”? Natural inflections and tones begin the process of humanizing a virtual agent.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 7, 2022

Virtual agents. Some of you may remember the days when companies wanting to implement customer support on their website believed they had to make a decision: either a virtual agent or live chat; either automated self-service or human-assisted web chat. Adding a virtual agent to an existing live chat deployment.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is something that organisations implementing a self-service virtual agent or chatbot should keep in mind, regardless of whether they are integrating it with live chat. Make it obvious that it is a digital, automated tool with wording such as ‘Please ask our Virtual Agent’. appeared first on Creative Virtual.

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SmartAction

JUNE 3, 2021

Yet when examining the facts versus fiction that sentient bots are here to end the live agent workforce, the opposite is true. In over 100 deployments from small companies to large enterprises, SmartAction has yet to see a layoff en masse after deploying virtual agents. Virtual agents are here to help, not stop, live agents.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 10, 2020

Back in April I took a look at the impressive spike in virtual agent traffic starting in late February and early March that surpassed anything Creative Virtual had seen in over 16 years of being in the industry. I’m curious to continue to watch how virtual agent traffic fluctuates as coronavirus-related restrictions change.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 10, 2020

Chatbots, smart help, virtual assistants, virtual agents, conversational AI – there are lots of names for this automated, self-service technology being used today. You want to ask: How can I ensure my chatbot or virtual agent is: Providing accurate and personalised information? Select a reliable technology.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

We take great pleasure in introducing this newly created whitepaper from Creative Virtual as it has a lot of straight talk about one of our favourite subjects: user experience in the realm of self-help tools. This is the sort of invaluable consultation experience you will receive when you work with the right virtual agent vendor.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 28, 2020

Do you have a chatbot or virtual agent on your roadmap? Are you curious about successful use cases for AI-enhanced virtual agents? If so, you’ll want to reserve your spot now to join Creative Virtual and Engage Customer for their upcoming webinar, Tips for Deploying AI Chatbots & Virtual Agents.

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SmartAction

MARCH 18, 2019

These omnichannel solutions are known as AI-powered virtual agents. What is an AI-powered virtual agent? At the most basic level, an AI-powered virtual agent can do many things that a live agent can do. By doing so, companies upskill their live agents to do only what a human should do.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

We had more enquiries this year than ever before about using virtual agent and chatbot technology internally to support contact centre agents, relationship managers and other employees. Another organisation is using our natural language processing (NLP) capabilities to enhance their agent desktop.

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CCNG

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In this blog, we will explore how GenAI can revolution service and support for your organization. Generative AI plays a pivotal role in increasing self-service containment rates — the rate at which a successful resolution was found for a customer query without involving a human agent.

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Outsource Consultants

JULY 10, 2018

An article by Dan Miller raises an interesting point: Implementing virtual agents into your contact center isn’t staying ahead of the curve, it’s common. Don’t Be Afraid of Using Virtual Agents in Your Contact Center. If you’re not using AI in the form of bots, virtual agents, or other methods, you’re behind the curve.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Fabletics leverages a Virtual Agent to interact with their customers every time you call them. It’s an iterative process of ongoing improvement as you pour through data and recordings, identify common points of friction or live agent transfer, then find ways to tune the application to improve containment. Keep it Conversational.

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NICE inContact

DECEMBER 10, 2018

As a contact center leader, you work extremely hard to mitigate these challenges, but because you are pulled in many different directions, it is tough to keep your best agents. Not to mention, technology constraints can sometimes make it difficult to improve the agent experience.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Frost & Sullivan’s white paper, “The AI-Powered Virtual Agent: Actionable Strategies for Contact Center Leaders.”. Read the full paper to find out how leading companies are using cloud-based virtual agents to automate more in their contact centers.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Chatbots and virtual agents have proven themselves to be quality self-service solutions, being increasingly implemented by smart organisations to provide support and being increasingly preferred by customers and employees for quick, easy access to information. By Mandy Reed, Marketing Manager (Global).

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SmartAction

JANUARY 11, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) via call center automation. Greet every customer with a natural language “front door” – “How can I help you?” – and capture intent before routing calls and chats to live agents, AI-powered virtual agents, or other automation.

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Uniphore

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The State of Virtual Agents. There’s no denying that virtual agents – or “chat bots” (or simply, bots) – are experiencing a tremendous resurgence in interest, and along with that, a rapid advance in innovation and technology.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 25, 2019

This newly acquired accuracy means that call center virtual assistant solutions are now demonstrating their true power in a variety of interesting and beneficial ways. Here’s how two innovative companies are using AI-powered virtual agents to automate more in their contact centers. Results: Saved $1.1

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Uniphore

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

There’s no denying that virtual agents – or “chat bots” (or simply, bots) – are experiencing a tremendous resurgence in interest, and along with that, a rapid advance in innovation and technology.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 8, 2019

The post Fifteen Years & Counting: Navigating the chatbot, virtual agent and AI revolution appeared first on Creative Virtual. And being a five-year award, we celebrate our fifteen year anniversary in its continuing glow. Here’s to the next fifteen years and the new challenges that lie ahead!

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I like customer service expert Shep Hyken’s take on this in his blog post, Don’t Just Personalize the Customer’s Experience – Individualize It. For nearly a decade now, we’ve talked about our virtual agents and chatbots delivering a personalized self-service experience – with no marketing spin required!

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Personalization and Relevance Creating a personal touch in your order management virtual agent can significantly enhance customer experience and engagement. These agents should be equipped to handle a variety of customer queries regarding order management with the ability to understand and process natural language.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Beginning of a Transformation Alex’s journey began with a simple yet powerful idea: automating routine tasks with conversational AI virtual agents. The once overburdened agents found themselves focusing on more complex, engaging tasks. It was a game-changer.

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SmartAction

JUNE 27, 2023

Let’s address the common objections and show you how to overcome them with conversational AI and virtual agents. By deploying virtual agents, you can reduce the need for a large workforce to handle routine inquiries. Today’s virtual agents are far from the robotic voices of the past. No worries!

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Conversational AI helps them out of what seems to be an endless cycle of button pressing and voice prompts to connect them immediately with a virtual agent. This means a lighter load and less stress for your agents, resulting in less worker attrition, as well as requiring fewer workers in your call center. Collaborate.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Two popular options are Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Each option has a role in customer service depending on what parts of the customer experience businesses want to automate and which parts they want live agents to handle. What is an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA)?

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kommunicate

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Last Updated on November 3, 2023 We all know how chatbots are powerful virtual agents that can help you in a myriad of tasks, including automating customer support, answering FAQs, etc. The post Convert your Salesforce FAQ into a Chatbot appeared first on Kommunicate Blog.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The customer connects with an AI-powered virtual agent that uses a trained and constantly optimized deep neural net, utilizing Natural Language Processing to understand the customer’s problems and intents. Our virtual agents can solve 80% to 90% of customer problems. This emphasizes ethical training and deployment.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As we approach the end of 2020, the whole Creative Virtual team around the world want to say thank you to all our blog readers, customers and partners for joining us on this roller coaster of a year! Then check out our 2020 in Review blog post for more highlights and educational resources.

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kommunicate

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Google Dialogflow recently introduced Dialogflow CX (Customer Experience) – a powerful tool for creating advanced virtual agents. Dialogflow CX provides a new way of designing virtual agents, taking a state machine approach to agent design.

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ShepHyken

DECEMBER 8, 2017

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? Adopt a contact center technology which empowers the customers. A good CRM tool can also be put in place. It’s Called A Complaint.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This week we are showing love for the efforts of everyone involved with delivering customer service – employees helping customers face-to-face in brick-and-mortar locations; contact centre agents delivering support over the phone, live chat, and social media; team members working behind the scenes to build and maintain customer service tools.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Underpinned by state-of-the-art technology, you can now have a conversation with virtual agents who will understand customer needs and address them quickly. AI-Powered Chatbots AI-driven chatbots have evolved into sophisticated virtual assistants. Or is it something else?”

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SmartAction

JUNE 30, 2023

Stop tying up your queues and live agents with repetitive, monotonous tasks. Virtual Agents with SmartAction can let your customers self-service on their time, and free up your live agents to handle more difficult conversations. Let us help take your contact center to the next level through AI voice, text, and chat.

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