CCNG

AUGUST 28, 2024

While almost all industries are going digital, there’s one industry that is leading the charge in the digital revolution, i.e., Contact Centers. Virtual agents engage customers in natural conversations, improving satisfaction and reducing the load on live agents for routine queries.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The new IT Awards honour companies that are driving forward innovation and focusing on client-centricity while remaining true experts in their industry. I’m excited to share that Creative Virtual has been awarded Best Conversational AI Solutions 2022 ! Most recently, the industry has adopted the name of ‘conversational AI’.

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CCNG

JULY 17, 2024

Contact Centers and Industry Thought Leaders Are Not on The Same Page Tell us if this feels familiar to you: all the information about AI and Automation in the contact center paints the picture that everyone is already at a 301 level and is revolutionizing the contact center of the future. Let’s take modern chatbots for example.

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Talkdesk

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

“81% of all customers across industries attempt to take care of matters themselves before reaching out to a live representative.” AI-powered conversational assistants, or “virtual agents”, can quickly deliver the answers and outcomes over voice-enabled channels. Who is answering calls when your contact center is closed?

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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. Plus, there was the added support needed for various government schemes and programmes.

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Interactions

AUGUST 13, 2020

These transactions can be handled by a simple chatbot or IVR system, as not much advanced functionality is needed. A deep knowledge of the customer experience space and conversational design is needed to determine when a live agent, a virtual agent, or both should be used in a given situation.

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CCNG

APRIL 12, 2024

Contact Centers and Industry Thought Leaders Are Not on The Same Page Tell us if this feels familiar to you: all the information about AI and Automation in the contact center paints the picture that everyone is already at a 301 level and is revolutionizing the contact center of the future. Let’s take modern chatbots for example.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Every year this not-for-profit organisation holds the HKCCA Symposium and the HKCCA Award Presentation and Gala Ceremony as part of their mission of advancing the contact centre industry. Another organisation is using our natural language processing (NLP) capabilities to enhance their agent desktop.

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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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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

In this post, we are focusing on the chat channel to show how to use Amazon Lex and the Amazon Lex Web UI to enable live agents to interact with your customers in real time. For example, the following figure shows screenshots of a chatbot transitioning a customer to a live agent chat (courtesy of WaFd Bank).

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Creative Virtual

JULY 8, 2021

This is most certainly true when it comes to creating chatbots for customer self-service, and too often organisations fall into the DIY trap. Some companies delegate their project solely to an inexperienced internal team because they underestimate the amount of expertise needed to build and deploy a working chatbot. Probably not.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

When customers use your chatbot to self-serve, what kind of experience do you deliver? Does your chatbot need questions asked a particular way to return the correct response? Are users repeatedly told by your chatbot to try rephrasing an input that doesn’t have a direct match in the system?

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Conversational chatbots are one of the top market disruptors in call center automation. However, in recent years their use has declined as businesses have learned how difficult it is to properly maintain a chatbot that actually helps customers to accomplish their goals. Why is it So Hard to Implement and Maintain a Chatbot?

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Netomi

MARCH 21, 2023

From product recommendations to one-on-one personal shopping and customer support to order management, the use cases for ecommerce chatbot solutions are endless. The need for eCommerce chatbots has never been higher than it is today. The need for eCommerce chatbots has never been higher than it is today.

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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 13, 2024

Here you’ll learn best practices in building order management automation, while drawing insights from industry leaders like TechStyle and DSW. Personalization and Relevance Creating a personal touch in your order management virtual agent can significantly enhance customer experience and engagement.

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Inbenta

AUGUST 23, 2024

Industry-wide, the average cost per acquisition is $900. Instead of long wait times, virtual agents can guide customers instantly and autonomously, answering questions and providing support without the need for a human on the other end. The answer sounds simple: By offering exceptional customer experiences.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Conversational AI can be used in any industry for various use cases, including billing and payments, collection, authentication, claims, order management, scheduling, and reservations. Our virtual agents can solve 80% to 90% of customer problems. Our virtual agents can solve 80% to 90% of customer problems.

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

From selecting coverage and understanding benefits to confirming payments and filing claims, both policyholders and agents need information that is customized to them. According to industry experts at Insurance Thought Leadership (ITL), “The sky is the limit for conversational AI.”.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 30, 2019

In my role leading a global company, I have the opportunity to travel all over the world speaking at conferences, meeting with enterprise executives and collaborating with other industry experts. Everywhere I go, I hear stories from organisations that have started on chatbot projects which is exciting for the industry.

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TechSee

MARCH 11, 2024

Industry events and news coverage are full of companies offering Generative AI , Conversational AI, chatbots, and AI Agents. Understanding Conversational AI Conversational AI refers to technologies that users interact with through a natural, conversational interface, like chatbots or virtual agents.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

It’s hard to find anyone involved with the chatbot and virtual agent industry who hasn’t heard the cautionary tale of Microsoft’s AI chatbot Tay. Described as a ‘machine learning project designed for human engagement,’ Tay ended up becoming an often-cited example of an AI chatbot gone wrong.

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DMG Consulting

JULY 19, 2017

DMG Consulting Releases 2017 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2017 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. The 2017 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report is the only in-depth analysis of these emerging solutions. When: Today, 19 July 2017.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 13, 2019

Not only are they still a customer today, but they also became the first on a long list of brands our team would work with in the financial services industry. Over the years, we’ve developed an expertise in creating, implementing and maintaining chatbot, virtual agent and live chat solutions for major financial organisations.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

It enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the services provided and improves the working conditions for agents and satisfaction for customers. For every second that chatbots can shave off average call center handling times, call centers can save as much as $1 million in annual customer service costs.

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TechSee

MARCH 11, 2024

Industry events and news coverage are full of companies offering Generative AI , Conversational AI , chatbots, and AI Agents. Understanding Conversational AI Conversational AI refers to technologies that users interact with through a natural, conversational interface, like chatbots or virtual agents.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

It enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the services provided and improves the working conditions for agents and satisfaction for customers. For every second that chatbots can shave off average call center handling times, call centers can save as much as $1 million in annual customer service costs.

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Connect

APRIL 18, 2024

Moreover, businesses want virtual assistants and chatbots to engage with customers in a manner that reflects the business culture, which requires a human touch to design and refine. About ‘ Connect.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 21, 2022

Self-service options like chatbots and virtual agents are increasingly preferred by customers, but they can’t – and shouldn’t! completely replace human contact center agents. When escalating customers from self-service to a live agent , the experience should be as seamless as possible.

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Creative Virtual

MAY 4, 2021

Think about all the inventions you studied in school, like the printing press and cotton gin, that initiated key moments of change for industry and society. Forrester analyst, William McKeon-White writes about this as part of his research on help desk chatbots.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In the second part of this series, we describe how to use the Amazon Lex chatbot UI with Talkdesk CX Cloud to allow customers to transition from a chatbot conversation to a live agent within the same chat window. These virtual agents can automate routine tasks as well as seamlessly elevate complex interactions to a live agent.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 21, 2020

One of our goals this year became sharing our deep knowledge and extensive experience with virtual agent, chatbot and live chat solutions with you so that you could also meet the challenges you faced supporting employees and customers.

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Inbenta

OCTOBER 23, 2017

When it comes to chatbots, businesses want to know one thing. The million dollar question for a market which will be worth billions within a few years is – can my virtual agent answer my customers’ questions? In the context of chatbots, a decision tree essentially helps them find the exact answer to your question.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 14, 2022

If you give visitors to your website the option to self-serve with a chatbot or virtual agent, kudos to you for recognising the importance of easily accessible digital support! Back in the early days, all chatbots were very simple question and answer tools. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

It can be hugely helpful for buyers to have knowledgeable insights from independent industry experts. Their uniquely designed evaluation process benchmarks vendors’ performance against competitors to identify industry leaders. This is why AIxOutlook, a part of Sceptertech Digital, are conducting their Best Practice Research.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 2, 2022

By Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO, Creative Virtual. Back in 2019, I wrote an article on reasons why chatbot projects were failing or being abandoned before they even reached the testing stage. I am struggling to manage multiple chatbots across different business divisions or departments.

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