SmartAction

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In February 2020, 7 million jobs were open in the US, while the unemployment rate was 3.5%. Other factors include automation of routine jobs, the drug addiction crisis as overdose deaths jumped to 30% in 2020, and a lack of childcare infrastructure. With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated.

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ShepHyken

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Customer Service Week is October 5-9: Learn 5 Ways to Celebrate Your Virtual Agents When They Need it Most (Thanks, 2020) by Veronica Krieg. Sharpen Technologies) 2020 didn’t cancel National Customer Service Week. My Comment: Customer service week starts today, October 5, 2020! Follow on Twitter: @Hyken.

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Customer Service Virtual Agent Enterprise Contact Center 163

Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This is the seventh time I’ve done this annual year in review blog post, but never have I had to review a year that was like 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.

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Virtual Agent Chatbots Technology Personalization 52

DMG Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 – 2020 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. 12/11/2019. When: Today, 11 December 2019.

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2019

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 – 2020 Contact Center Analytics Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. Where: Available at the DMG Consulting online store.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Digital Customer Service Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Digital Customer Service Product and Market Report.

Consulting 62

Consulting Consulting Marketing Customer Service 62

DMG Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Interaction Analytics Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Interaction Analytics Product and Market Report.

Consulting 62

Consulting Consulting Analytics Marketing 62

DMG Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases Future Contact Center Outlook, 2025 – 2040. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases Future Contact Center Outlook, 2025 – 2040. When: Today, 3 March 2020.

Consulting 62

Consulting Consulting Contact Center Gamification 62

DMG Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report.

Consulting 62

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 29, 2021

2021: The Year of the Contact Center. Contact centers all over the world were forced to accelerate their digital transformation the moment the lockdown hit, as the alternative was not an option. Contact centers around the world have positioned themselves to come out of the pandemic stronger than they went in.

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Contact Center Interactive Voice Response Self service Enterprise 62

SmartAction

APRIL 1, 2020

SmartAction is responding to the current crisis with a Rapid Response Virtual Agent that intercepts callers with a seamless channel switching experience to answer commonly asked questions and even screen callers to create an escalation path (e.g. How a Rapid Response Virtual Agent Works. For a live demo, visit [link].

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Healthcare Government 56

Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Many organizations are now 100% work-from-home or have a workforce divided between brick-and-mortar and virtual agents (82% are WFH since July 2020—Gartner). Our workforce management (WFM) landscape is changing at breakneck speed. This presents entirely new challenges and opportunity for workforce managers.

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Cisco - Contact Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

” AI in the Contact Center. In a Customer Care (CC) environment, one of the primary objectives of any AI component is to support and assist agents in their work and potentially even replace some of them, so we should ask ourselves how far are we from such a goal today? CISCO and AI in Contact Centers.

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Contact Center Customer Care Engineering Telemarketing 81

Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline. The same holds true in the contact center. Multimodal Virtual Agents allow customers to tap, text and talk to get more done , with little effort. View Webinar.

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Best practices Virtual Agent Scripts Call flow 98

TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Why agents are embracing the change. Why Computer Vision AI is central to call center automation.

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Call Center Virtual Agent Self service Contact Center 124

SmartAction

JANUARY 16, 2020

It’s predicted that 50% of searches will be conducted through voice in 2020 (and 100% will be monitored by the Russian government). If you’ve experienced a bad Virtual Agent recently, chances are, it may have had nothing to do with the underlying technologies and everything to do with how it was designed. Conversational UX.

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Virtual Agent Self service Government Healthcare 53

DMG Consulting

MAY 21, 2020

VISION 2020. DMG’s crystal ball shows an amazing outlook for the world of service and contact centers. Displaced contact center employees can move into new functions, such as administering robotics and AI initiatives.). By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website.

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Contact Center Transportation Enterprise Self service 48

DMG Consulting

MARCH 9, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 – 2020 Workforce Optimization Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2019 – 2020 Workforce Optimization Product and Market Report. million.

Consulting 48

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SharpenCX

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

2020 didn’t cancel National Customer Service Week. So, act as a lead supporter and help them grow in areas of life beyond your contact center walls, too. Get 52 conversation starters to learn more about your agents. . I blinked in March and now somehow we’re finalizing our plans for Q4.

Virtual Agent 52

Virtual Agent Customer Service Scripts Coaching 52

TechSee

JANUARY 14, 2020

The global drive toward digital transformation has made its mark on contact center processes and operations, with Salesforce predicting last year that the use of AI by customer service teams would see a 143% increase by 2020. Redefining Contact Center Agents’ Careers. Specialization. Machine Supervisors.

Virtual Agent 109

Virtual Agent Self service Contact Center Call Center 109

DMG Consulting

MARCH 8, 2019

Innovation Enhances the Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Market. The past year was excellent for the cloud-based contact center infrastructure (CBCCI) market. The vast majority of the sales were to existing contact centers whose management made the decision to migrate to the cloud.

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Contact Center Marketing SaaS Virtual Agent 72

SmartAction

APRIL 9, 2020

SmartAction lends it recently-released Rapid Response Virtual Agent to the toll-free coronavirus hotline launched by NFL QB Jameis Winston and Dr. Scott Kelley to help families get rapid responses to common questions, triage callers, and provide guidance for medical treatment and/or a coronavirus test. About SmartAction.

Virtual Agent 84

Virtual Agent Contact Center Technology Customer Service 84

DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 13, 2021

DMG Consulting Releases 2021 – 2022 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2021 – 2022 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report.

Consulting 48

Consulting Consulting Contact Center Marketing 48

SmartAction

AUGUST 18, 2020

SmartAction announces the promotion of Gary Davis from President to Chief Executive Officer to accelerate its vision to make life less hard for contact center leaders with conversational AI that’s painless to deploy and frictionless to self-serve. . Media Contact Marlyn Arenas marlyn.arenas@smartaction.com. About SmartAction

Virtual Agent 91

Virtual Agent Entertainment Contact Center Self service 91

DMG Consulting

MARCH 31, 2019

DMG Consulting Releases 2019 – 2020 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases 2019 – 2020 Workforce Management Product and Market Report.

Consulting 48

Consulting Consulting Marketing Management 48

Interactions

JULY 2, 2020

Agencies work tirelessly to update day-to-day contact center operations to drive profitability despite a competitive industry landscape. 2020 has brought on a perfect storm for the collections space with more debt and high delinquency rates due to the pressure put on consumers from the economic effects of COVID-19. .

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Virtual Agent Contact Center Accountability Technology 77

TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

trillion in spending — in the United States by 2020. AI-powered virtual agents. Cloud-based CRMs, self-service portals, AI-powered virtual agents, visual engagement and personalization tools have emerged to help companies maintain a competitive advantage when it comes to Millennial generation customer service.

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Customer Service Self service Virtual Agent Chatbots 359

Altivon

MARCH 20, 2018

Chatbots, Omnichannel and Cloud are three top trends for contact centers. According to Gartner, by 2020 customers will manage 85% of their interactions without any human involvement. Through better web-based content, enhanced IVR, the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual agents and, yes, chatbots.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 22, 2020

(Trust us, we learned the hard way a few years ago when we first got into broadscale remote training for WAH agents!). Virtual Training: Moving from Just “Getting It Done” to “Doing It Well”. For most of us, the success measure for the big 2020 pivot was simply staying operational. Making Virtual Agent Training Work for You.

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Contact Center Virtual Agent Best practices Personalization 62

DMG Consulting

MARCH 31, 2019

DMG Consulting Releases 2018 – 2019 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Product and Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. in 2018, 23% in 2019 and 2020, and 21% in 2021 and 2022.

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Talkdesk

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Almost 17,500 US bank branches closed from the beginning of 2014 to the middle of June 2020. According to the Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) , which works with 50 of the world’s largest banks, there was a “200% jump in new mobile banking registrations” in early April 2020. . Invest in artificial intelligence.

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Banking Chatbots Virtual Agent Contact Center 119

Interactions

JULY 2, 2020

Agencies work tirelessly to update day-to-day contact center operations to drive profitability despite a competitive industry landscape. 2020 has brought on a perfect storm for the collections space with more debt and high delinquency rates due to the pressure put on consumers from the economic effects of COVID-19. .

Virtual Agent 62

Virtual Agent Contact Center Accountability Technology 62

DMG Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

During the first six months of the pandemic in 2020, companies closed their doors to their employees and the public in an attempt to keep people safe. The virtual economy was energized, and growth accelerated for companies that could move their activities and operations online. million during the same period in 2020.

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Enterprise Contact Center Employee engagement Virtual Agent 54

DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

DMG Consulting Releases 2017-2018 Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Market Report. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. in 2018, 23% in both 2019 and 2020, and 21% in 2021. “The 11/30/2017.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

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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Virtual Agent Self service Enterprise SaaS 56

Xaqt

JANUARY 15, 2021

Paul Stockford of Saddletree Research, a leading analyst firm in the Contact Center industry, published today a Research Brief covering Xaqt's AI powered Vaccination Communication and Scheduling automation platform. Please contact Chris Crosby at chris@xaqt.com for questions or further commentary.

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