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Purchasing Power’s AI-Powered Virtual Agent Wins Top Honor for Excellence in Self-Service

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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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The Definitive Guide: IVA vs IVR and What’s Right for Your Contact Center

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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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Conversational AI: Trends to Watch in 2023

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Since 2002, SmartAction has helped 100+ industry-leading brands streamline their contact centers and take their customer experience to the next level through AI voice, text, and chat. These are a few value points that will drive the CAI market in 2023.

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Conversational AI 101: NLU and IVR for Beginners

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The ability of conversational AI technology to detect and understand speech are two of the biggest challenges faced by the Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). How Virtual Agents Help the Live Agent Workforce. How exactly does the real – life relationship between virtual and live agents play out?

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SmartAction Sees Record Growth Against Backdrop of Achieving Profitability

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Leading provider of AI-powered Virtual Agents for omnichannel self-service posts its largest growth in sales bookings for the year. As the global intelligent virtual agent market is expected to reach $11.3b SmartAction’s 2019 Momentum Highlights. About SmartAction.

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Adding a Chatbot: Trust a Pro or Build it Yourself?

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TechStyle Fashion Group group used virtual agents in voice and chat rather than allocating internal staff and resources to creating and maintaining their own conversational chatbot. The ROI is Undeniable When You Choose a Pro to Build your Chatbot. Hundreds of businesses choose SmartAction when it comes to voice and chat automation.

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SmartAction Names Former Convergys CEO, David Dougherty, to Board of Directors

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The former Convergys Chief Executive Officer becomes the latest addition to SmartAction’s Board of Directors to assist in the growth of its top-rated AI-powered virtual agent solution for contact centers.