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). Let’s break down the difference between IVR and IVA.

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Interactive Voice Response Contact Center Virtual Agent Self service 74

SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Asking Alexa to play your favorite podcast and have her quickly play it for you is made possible by the same type of technology that allows contact centers across the world to automate voice conversations. Conversational AI is making the contact center and customer service industries better than ever.

Interactive Voice Response 89

Interactive Voice Response Virtual Agent Contact Center Engineering 89

SmartAction

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s the next level of conversation – what AI industry leaders are calling “Complex Voice” interactions – that they aren’t able to engage. Nowhere is this new AI-fueled reality more evident than in the customer service experience. In fact, it’s the most rapidly evolved technology in the contact center today.

Virtual Agent 85

Virtual Agent Chatbots Self service Banking 85

SmartAction

OCTOBER 19, 2022

When there is an inconsistent experience, everyone gets frustrated because of the repetitive data collection by chatbots, IVR, and live agents. For instance, if a client switches from a conversation with an AI chatbot to a phone call, the IVR is unlikely to know that the user had just been conversing with the bot.

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Chatbots Virtual Agent Interactive Voice Response Self service 52

SmartAction

MARCH 7, 2023

Any business that wants to stay competitive, reduce operational costs, and take its customer service to the next level should take note. Perhaps most prominently, it helps companies provide a better customer service experience by providing greater – and faster – understanding of why a customer is reaching out and at what frequency.

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Multichannel Virtual Agent Self service Accountability 82

SmartAction

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Frost & Sullivan awards Purchasing Power ® for their AI-Powered Virtual Agent created in partnership with SmartAction ® to enable conversational self-service for their customers. SmartAction uses proprietary conversational AI to automate conversations that used to be handled by call center agents over phone, chat, and text.

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Virtual Agent Self service Interactive Voice Response Government 40

Vistio

JUNE 29, 2021

Peter Ryan is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in customer experience (CX) and business process outsourcing (BPO). You have a long career in analyzing and consulting on front office BPO ecosystems, including contact center outsourcers, CRM technology players, offshore development agencies, and industry associations.

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