Solvvy

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Chances are, the last time you called a customer support number, you interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot. If the company had a great AI chatbot, the interaction might have been so natural that it took a while to realize that you weren’t actually talking to a human. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Chatbots.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 8, 2019

Our customer, Transport for New South Wales, won an impressive three awards for their RITA chatbot during 2018! I couldn’t be more proud of what our team has achieved, and it was beyond what I had dreamt for Creative Virtual. In 2017 we were honoured with The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Every industry has best practices – guidelines, methods or techniques accepted as the most efficient and effective way to accomplish a desired result. Sometimes when something new comes along or starts to get industry attention, the hype can make it easy to confuse jumping on the bandwagon with following proven best practice.

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Expivia

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With a suite of tools ranging from Enlighten Actions to Autopilot and beyond, NICE CXone is setting a new standard for what businesses can expect from their customer service technology. This is the next generation in the Generative AI Chatbot.

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TechSee

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Designing Sophie: Generative AI for Service & CX We began working on Generative AI for service about seven years ago, as the shortcomings of chatbots and virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa became clear. These chatbots demanded a lot of effort from users and administrators.

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Uniphore

JULY 21, 2021

According to Gartner, customer service leaders should focus on these seven knowledge management best practices for improved customer service. While many companies just assume customers can find a solution by “Googling it,” the truth is that pages need to follow search engine optimization (SEO) best practices to be easily discovered.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 30, 2019

Everywhere I go, I hear stories from organisations that have started on chatbot projects which is exciting for the industry. Failing chatbot projects have also garnered negative press coverage for companies. million AUD on an IBM Watson chatbot project that never even reached the testing stage.

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Inbenta

APRIL 14, 2020

Nowadays, digital technology plays an increasingly important role in the lives of consumers. 4 chatbot use cases within the customer journey. A chatbot as an intelligence tool. What better way to do this than with an AI chatbot? A chatbot as a sales consultant. A proactive chatbot.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2018

They are missing a chatbot. Chatbots and virtual agents have become essential tools for providing 24/7 self-service to digital customers. Contact centers require a great deal of investment – from recruiting and training staff to putting the necessary tools in place for agents.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

It’s hard to find anyone involved with the chatbot and virtual agent industry who hasn’t heard the cautionary tale of Microsoft’s AI chatbot Tay. Described as a ‘machine learning project designed for human engagement,’ Tay ended up becoming an often-cited example of an AI chatbot gone wrong.

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SmartAction

JUNE 9, 2023

Let’s explore this growing technology by understanding what it truly is, reviewing some examples of its applications, diving into its inner workings, and highlighting the associated benefits and challenges businesses and contact centers should consider. Chatbots often answer FAQs, and guide users through various processes.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Conversational AI is a very hot and in-demand technology right now. This is why AIxOutlook, a part of Sceptertech Digital, are conducting their Best Practice Research. Another vital differentiator identified in the report is our approach to AI and the training of our chatbots and virtual agents.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 22, 2020

Today I’m proud to be sharing Creative Virtual’s introduction of the Neutrino release of V-Person , our innovative virtual agent and chatbot technology. When I first founded Creative Virtual in late 2003, chatbot and virtual agent technology was still very new in the customer service space.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 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. Creative Virtual started 2020 celebrating the company’s Sweet Sixteen. 2020 was a record-breaking year for use of our virtual agent and chatbot implementations.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 27, 2020

With physical offices and locations closed, many are struggling with the influx of customer questions to their contact centres – an issue that may be compounded by the sudden need to support agents working from home. The post A Successful Self-Service Strategy Requires Looking at the Bigger Picture appeared first on Creative Virtual.

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Call Design

AUGUST 9, 2021

Technology is always advancing so to remain competitive it is important for every organisation to regularly review the systems and processes in place to see how these can be improved. The advent of web interfaces, such as queries through chatbots or social media, means the focus is now on the entire business’ omnichannel experience.

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Balto

JULY 5, 2023

Here’s the truth: The march of progress means at some point, human agents will likely be mostly replaced and automated by AI. The Current State of AI Technology How often have we heard, “Once AI can do _, then it will be truly intelligent.” Scale processes and best practices to your agents to drive quality and consistency.

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bold360 Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

In a chat session, customers can get fast answers to their typed questions, help with their purchases, recommendations on products and services, and other assistance from customer service agents. Live Chat and Chatbots: They Work Best Together. This leaves more time for human agents to focus on complex, higher-value tasks.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 2, 2020

Advancements over the past several years in conversational AI technologies, including chatbots and virtual agents, have made them a go-to solution for providing cost-effective and easy-to-use support on digital channels.

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Balto

JUNE 20, 2023

This guide will help you understand what conversational AI is, how it works, and its benefits for contact centers, as well as the future of this technology and its challenges. Conversational AI is a technology that users can have a conversation with, almost as if they were having a human conversation. What is Conversational AI ?

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 7, 2020

We took a look at some of the benefits of using AI-enhanced chatbots and virtual agents to offer customer self-service. In Part 2, let’s explore how this technology can be deployed as an Agent Assist tool to support your contact centre agents.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 13, 2019

Over the years, we’ve developed an expertise in creating, implementing and maintaining chatbot, virtual agent and live chat solutions for major financial organisations. Through a series of live demonstrations, I’ll show best practices for implementing chatbots, virtual agents and live chat.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 11, 2019

2019 was another busy and exciting year for Creative Virtual and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. We continued our five-year-long celebration of our Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation 2017 as we also celebrated the 15th anniversary of Creative Virtual.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 24, 2019

He’ll outline the essential components for using conversational AI solutions to improve the employee experience, from best practices for implementing chatbots, virtual agents and live chat to using an orchestration platform for centralised, consistent information and delivery.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 6, 2018

There’s such a buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots today, and it’s certainly a space that has changed a lot since I founded Creative Virtual 15 years ago. The learnings we have gained over the years are an important differentiator for our company and positively influence how we develop and implement our technology.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Like many industry events this year, the annual HKCCA (Hong Kong Customer Contact Association) Symposium went virtual on 5 November. Our partner Continuous Technologies (CTINT) was once again an event sponsor and graciously invited me to present on the Symposium theme of Future Fit. By Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 25, 2019

Tickets for the UK’s biggest customer and user experience event are free and will give you access to several other co-located events, including the Call & Contact Centre Expo and the Marketing Technology Expo.

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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 22, 2019

I first started working in the world of virtual agents in 2000 and, even though the technology was very much in its infancy at the time, saw huge potential for innovation and growth in the industry. is the lack of understanding within organisations about deploying these solutions.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 18, 2018

When implemented properly, chatbots are a powerful tool to bring together the contact centre with self-service channels and navigate language and culture barriers to create conversational engagement with customers. Creative Virtual will once again be supporting our partner company Continuous Technologies at the annual conference.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 11, 2019

After this, Chris took over the platform and deciphered the real business benefits of chatbot solutions. He noted the strength of Creative Virtual’s chatbot technology through illustrations and highlighted best practices for using chatbots, virtual agents and live chat.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

This session will address the important discussions organizations must have around human involvement in automated solutions and the best ways to implement machine learning and chatbots. You can find more information about the conference and the full agenda on the C3 San Francisco event website.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In this webinar, part of CRMXchange’s Technology Innovation Showcase series, Creative Virtual’s Founder & CEO, Chris Ezekiel shares an inside look at bringing together AI and human input to provide quality self-service options, improve live chat and contact center performance, and increase customer satisfaction scores.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s been another exciting year not only for Creative Virtual as a company, but also for the virtual agent, chatbot and live chat industry, with lots of new developments and innovation. This was the fourth time a group of runners from Creative Virtual did a 10k in support of the RSPCA.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In order to improve engagement with their growing customer base of digital natives, they now offer 24/7 support with virtual agent Roger on their website as well as other channels, such as Google Home. When customers are escalated from virtual agent to human agent, a full history of their conversation should be passed over as well.

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Verint

MAY 1, 2018

From Here to ‘Her’: Evolving Chatbot Interactions to Meet the Relational Needs of Humans”. Ian Beaver and Cynthia Freeman, product experts from Next IT-Verint, will present “From Here to ‘Her’: Evolving Chatbot Interactions to Meet the Relational Needs of Humans” at 4:50 p.m. Discover best practices for sustaining compliance.

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JivoChat

JUNE 7, 2021

Understand the importance of customer interaction management, how you can improve customer interaction, technologies you can use, and much more. The interaction might come from a chatbot or live agent chat, welcome message, social media interaction, retention interaction, service call, or even another form. Source: JivoChat.

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SmartAction

APRIL 24, 2019

This is the second of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. This combination has led to the growing adoption of AI-powered virtual agents to automate conversations traditionally handed by live agents. Best Practice #2: Virtual agents need “guardrails”.

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