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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

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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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2019 in Review: Conversational AI and Customer Experience Trends

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It’s not often that rapidly forward-moving industries like customer experience and Conversational AI look back on the past (to be honest, there’s really just no time), but If you did, you would find that customer experience was way different 10 years ago. . AI and Agents: Better Together.

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Contact Centers Can Thrive in the Worker Shortage

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The decline continued but stabilized around 2004 until the Great Recession of 2008 hit, which severely affected the labor participation rate. With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated. Customers are greeted with “How can I help you today?” It dropped to 63% until it normalized around 2013.

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CCaaS Trends: The Evolution of Cloud Contact Centres

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Source: Gartner These developments are in keeping with Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Customer Service and Support Technologies , which identified five solutions that would take customer experience in the future. So it’s no surprise CX leaders will continue to increase their investments in it this year.