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Rebooting Your Workforce Management Strategy

Contact Center Pipeline

Our workforce management (WFM) landscape is changing at breakneck speed. 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). This presents entirely new challenges and opportunity for workforce managers.

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Reduce call hold time and improve customer experience with self-service virtual agents using Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex

AWS Machine Learning

The key to making this approach practical is to augment human agents with scalable, AI-powered virtual agents that can address callers’ needs for at least some of the incoming calls. per contact—a virtual agent can potentially save $7.91 (98%) for every call it successfully handles.

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DMG Consulting Releases 2019-2020 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report

DMG Consulting

DMG Consulting Releases 2019-2020 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2019-2020 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2019-2020 Intelligent Virtual Agent Product and Market Report. When: Today, 23 May 2019.

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DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report

DMG Consulting

DMG Consulting Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. What: Releases 2020 – 2021 Workforce Management Product and Market Report. When: Today, 8 April 2020.

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Implementing Virtual Agents: Where to Start, and How to Finish

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Aarde Cosseboom, Director of GMS Technology and Product, TechStyle Fashion Group

The answer may surprise you - 75% of customers think that calling is the most effective way to get a response from you, which means your agents are spending potential 30 hours/week on repetitive calls instead of more complex issues that do require human judgment and critical thinking. April 15th, 2020 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EDT, 7:00 PM GMT

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Cisco Receives 2020 Contact Center Technology Award from CUSTOMER Magazine

Cisco - Contact Center

I’m excited to announce that Webex Contact Center was among the 2020 Contact Center Technology Award winners, presented by CUSTOMER Magazine this month. It provided all the right metrics to report to the management team.”. Cisco Webex Contact Center CCaaS honored for improving customer service technology and customer experience.

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Managing Through COVID-19: A Roundup of Tips, Tools and Tech for Contact Centers

Contact Center Pipeline

We are finally at the end of a turbulent 2020. It has been quite a journey—with many more months of market uncertainty and workplace challenges ahead. Over the past eight months, like many of our readers, we have been forced to pivot our editorial coverage to focus on the impacts of COVID-19 on the contact […].

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The Post-Covid CX Powered by AI

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Aarde Cosseboom, Director of GMS Technology and Product, TechStyle Fashion Group

Adapting to a post-COVID world means recession-proofing your contact center with AI that reduces reliance on live agents with virtual agents that are always on, perfectly trained, and at a fraction of the cost. Also joining is SmartAction, who manages the AI-powered CX for more than 100 brands.