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A History of Customer Support Technology

TeamSupport

Here’s a look back at how customer support technologies evolved over the last century, and a peak at where they’re going next. By the early 1970s, more call-routing systems were beginning to include ACD technology, ushering in the development of large-scale call centers. Ever wonder what customer service looked like 50 or 60 years ago?

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Helping AI Help Agents: A Better Way to Use AI Applications in the Contact Center

Upstream Works

It was 2006 and it was way ahead of its time – providing omnichannel agent desktop capabilities long before the concept of “omnichannel” was formed. To use technology to help simplify, streamline and improve the agent experience and, by extension, the customer experience.

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Prepare for the Chatbots – an example of Digital Customer Experience Innovation by Elena Lockett

ijgolding

Chatbots – computer programs that mimic conversations with users by using artificial intelligence (AI) – are the latest technology trend to hit the webchat world. Now, these chatbots weren’t just created so we could have more ‘people’ to talk to – they have a purpose. How long have Chatbots been around?

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5 Ways to Apply AI and Win Back Business

CSM Magazine

Facilitating customer self-service using automated contact channels, such as IVR and chatbots is a recognised method of reducing strain on contact centers during spikes in demand. Deploying a range of chatbots, each suited to a specific task, can greatly enhance the customer experience and deliver substantial benefits to the business.

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How to Stay Close to Customers While Working From Home

CSM Magazine

The webinar participants were asked whether insurers were using technology such as chatbots and conversational AI to triage customer enquiries coming into the contact centre, so that routine enquiries could be answered via a digital assistant, allowing contact centre colleagues to focus on the most critical calls.

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There’s No I in Team, but What About AI?

CSM Magazine

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), spurred on by technology giants such as Alphabet, Amazon and IBM, are making AI-based technology much more accessible to customer service departments in every sector. Customer service departments are still rooted in voice-centric service infrastructure, but this is about to change.

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Advanced RAG patterns on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning

answer = wrapper_store_faiss.query(question=PROMPT.format(query=query), llm=llm) print(answer) AWS, or Amazon Web Services, has evolved significantly since its initial launch in 2006. AWS has also made significant investments in long-term inventions that have changed what's possible in technology infrastructure.