Fonolo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

2023 was all about chatbots. FREE WEBINAR: Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR? With their narrow conversation flows and questions that often don’t lead to an answer – or an agent – chatbots don’t always seem all that revolutionary. If your chatbot seems like an IVR, are you doing something wrong? Join us Oct.

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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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Solvvy

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Chances are, the last time you called a customer support number, you interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot. If the company had a great AI chatbot, the interaction might have been so natural that it took a while to realize that you weren’t actually talking to a human. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Chatbots.

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Netomi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Chatbots are used by 1.4 Companies are launching their best AI chatbots to carry on 1:1 conversations with customers and employees. AI powered chatbots are also capable of automating various tasks, including sales and marketing, customer service, and administrative and operational tasks. What is an AI chatbot?

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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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Creative Virtual

JUNE 22, 2020

Today I’m proud to be sharing Creative Virtual’s introduction of the Neutrino release of V-Person , our innovative virtual agent and chatbot technology. When I first founded Creative Virtual in late 2003, chatbot and virtual agent technology was still very new in the customer service space.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I’m unique, treat me that way: Millennials demand personalization and are willing to pay the price. Utilize robust self-service tools such as FAQs, AI-powered knowledge bases and virtual technicians to help them find answers by themselves quickly. AI-powered virtual agents. Personalization.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 28, 2021

Ask any seller of a highly complex and customizable chatbot or virtual agent system about cost and you’re likely to get an evasive answer. Increasingly, in this ever-saturating market, it’s easy to find elements of chatbot pricing (i.e., The truth is, building a successful chatbot is not purely a question of technology.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

From improving response times to personalizing interactions, artificial intelligence is now setting new standards in customer service efficiency and effectiveness. It enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the services provided and improves the working conditions for agents and satisfaction for customers.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

From improving response times to personalizing interactions, artificial intelligence is now setting new standards in customer service efficiency and effectiveness. It enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the services provided and improves the working conditions for agents and satisfaction for customers.

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Expivia

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With a suite of tools ranging from Enlighten Actions to Autopilot and beyond, NICE CXone is setting a new standard for what businesses can expect from their customer service technology. This is the next generation in the Generative AI Chatbot. If you have a heavy headcount with minutes of ACW or wrap, this is the tool for you.

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

For some time now, Chatbots have become famous in contact centers. It is an artificial intelligence tool that can be described as a virtual agent. As a result, a Chatbot is presented as a real solution for improving customer experience in a call center. How does a Chatbot Revolutionize Customer Experience?

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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

Mobility, flexibility, automation… the development of chatbots is the inevitable result of a ten-year technological convergence that has swept across all companies and contact centers. The chatbot, as a conversational robot embedded into a messaging app, enables the creation of a new communication experience with users.

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Xaqt

JUNE 1, 2020

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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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Insurance companies have always had the challenge of delivering personalized support for their customers. From selecting coverage and understanding benefits to confirming payments and filing claims, both policyholders and agents need information that is customized to them. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Conversational AI technology over the phone goes beyond chatbots to leverage the power of voice and offer a more personal experience. 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. ML is a powerful tool.

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Inbenta

APRIL 14, 2020

4 chatbot use cases within the customer journey. A conversational agent can prove to be a particularly effective solution to accompany your Internet users over several phases, in a unified way, so let’s have a look at four chatbot use cases within the customer journey. A chatbot as an intelligence tool.

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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

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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SmartAction

JANUARY 28, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) in the contact center. From IVR to chatbot and other self-service automation, none exhibit the cognitive capabilities of today’s purpose-driven, practical AI solutions for the contact center. Extensive Personalization.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

AI applications will access the relevant pieces from a customer’s history – chat threads, previous orders, unresolved issues – and pull them up on the virtual agent desktop so everything is in one place. Virtual Agent. This is another form of automation.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 25, 2021

This has involved a lot of trial-and-error as we learned new skills and created new routines in both our personal and professional lives. Perhaps in the early days of limited in-person interactions and surges in calls to contact centres, customers were more understanding about long wait times or out-of-date self-help content.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 4, 2022

The most common personal resolutions are focused on being healthier – exercising more, eating better, improving fitness, losing weight, stopping smoking. I am struggling to manage multiple chatbots across different business divisions or departments. I don’t own the user interface or training data with my current chatbot provider.

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CSM Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

More and more companies are using AI tools to improve customer service and simplify their processes. These digital solutions herald a new epoch of personalized interactions, seamless support, and unparalleled efficiency. Let’s take a look at six pioneering tools that help businesses build close connection with their clients.

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Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Now, technologies such as AI and machine learning are driving highly personalized customer experiences. To go further, modern chatbots are now pre-empting the moments when customers require their assistance. A simple message will do the trick, such as “ Hey, I’m [chatbot name], may I help you with your shopping today? ”.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots. These virtual agents can automate routine tasks as well as seamlessly elevate complex interactions to a live agent.

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Playvox

MARCH 19, 2024

From eliminating manual, repetitive tasks for agents to leveraging natural language processing (NLP) and AI with chatbots and phone support, contact center AI provides numerous opportunities to transform CX — and the bottom line. AI-powered solutions and tools are shaping the way organizations engage with and manage their workforce.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They support their employees and contact centre agents with the right tools. It’s become tradition at Creative Virtual to start Customer Service Week with our annual blog post roundup. The Generic ‘Chat Now’: Virtual Agent or Live Chat? They are available to their customers on the channels they prefer.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Drawing from his own experiences and those of Creative Virtual’s global team, Chris will share expert recommendations for how your organization can maximize the benefits of conversational AI technology. Conversational AI solutions, like chatbots and virtual agents, can have a powerful impact on customer loyalty and retention.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 25, 2023

However, amid this myriad of options, the voice channel remains a powerful yet often overlooked tool in the customer service arsenal. The Power of Voice Communication Customers seek a personal touch when engaging with businesses. The Power of Voice Communication Customers seek a personal touch when engaging with businesses.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 26, 2023

We’ve been having lots of discussions with our customers and partners, as well as internally, about how this can deliver value to businesses using our V-Person solutions. Using it as a generative tool means you can’t steer in detail what it’s going to say. What kind of AI is ChatGPT and how is that different from how V-Person works?

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I don’t need to tell you that not everything went as planned, but there were still some bright spots for us and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. Creative Virtual started 2020 celebrating the company’s Sweet Sixteen. 2020 was a record-breaking year for use of our virtual agent and chatbot implementations.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 8, 2021

When it comes to transactional tools, there is a lot of talk about the Human Machine Interface (or HMI), the look and feel, and other technicalities. They interact with virtual agents and chatbots in a technical sense, but they certainly do not converse with them. Or will it be: “What a nice person!”?

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JustCall

AUGUST 8, 2023

This ensures that customers are directed to the most suitable agent or department. Virtual Agents AI chatbots can understand and respond to customer queries in real time. Predictive Call Routing Predictive call routing happens when the AI algorithm matches customers to specific agents.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 6, 2020

” Indeed this is true, and all of us in our businesses and in our personal lives can feel the effects of how services of all kinds have altered in ways ranging from barely discernible to completely different (filling out forms, having temperatures taken, tape and measurements of distance being assessed amidst a lot of Perspex dividers).

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

When it comes to customer service, businesses have a variety of tools at their disposal to make the process as smooth and efficient as possible. Two popular options are Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Pro Con • Typically faster and more efficient than human agents. Higher containment.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 13, 2022

For years automated self-service tools like chatbots and virtual agents have been criticised as being a cold and impersonal way of supporting customers. Many companies have found their virtual agent solutions to be a lifesaver for both their customers and their business over that time.

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