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Virtual Agents in 2020: Usage Spikes and the Banking Sector

Creative Virtual

Back in April I took a look at the impressive spike in virtual agent traffic starting in late February and early March that surpassed anything Creative Virtual had seen in over 16 years of being in the industry. This is mostly due to a sustained increase of traffic through the rest of April and much of May.

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Provide live agent assistance for your chatbot users with Amazon Lex and Talkdesk cloud contact center

AWS Machine Learning

The integration of Amazon Lex with Talkdesk cloud contact center is inspired by WaFd Bank (WaFd)’s digital innovation journey to enhance customer experience. In this post, we are focusing on the chat channel to show how to use Amazon Lex and the Amazon Lex Web UI to enable live agents to interact with your customers in real time.

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Banking: 5 keys to supercharging your digital strategy

Talkdesk

Almost 17,500 US bank branches closed from the beginning of 2014 to the middle of June 2020. Bank branch closures create additional costs for local business owners, making it harder to manage cash flow, maintain productivity levels and contribute to the wider local economy. Impact on small businesses. Embrace the cloud.

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APAC Contact Centres Embracing AI and Virtual Agent Technologies

Creative Virtual

We had more enquiries this year than ever before about using virtual agent and chatbot technology internally to support contact centre agents, relationship managers and other employees. Another organisation is using our natural language processing (NLP) capabilities to enhance their agent desktop.

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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The State of Customer Self-Service Today

SmartAction

Underpinned by state-of-the-art technology, you can now have a conversation with virtual agents who will understand customer needs and address them quickly. AI-Powered Chatbots AI-driven chatbots have evolved into sophisticated virtual assistants.

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Create powerful self-service experiences with Amazon Lex on Talkdesk CX Cloud contact center

AWS Machine Learning

In the second part of this series, we describe how to use the Amazon Lex chatbot UI with Talkdesk CX Cloud to allow customers to transition from a chatbot conversation to a live agent within the same chat window. Dustin Hubbard, Chief Technology Officer at WaFd Bank.