JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

The primary goal of contact center businesses revolves around improving customer experience. Empowering your contact center business with automated solutions can take your customer interactions to new heights of success. You’ll also learn how to deploy automation successfully in your business.

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SmartAction

JUNE 27, 2023

Embrace automation for contact center success in 2023! Are you ready to take your contact center to the next level? So, why are some contact centers still hesitant to implement AI? Let’s address the common objections and show you how to overcome them with conversational AI and virtual agents.

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This blog post is co-written with Bruno Mateus, Jonathan Diedrich and Crispim Tribuna at Talkdesk. Contact centers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to build a personalized customer experience and deliver effective self-service support through conversational bots.

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Avaya

MARCH 28, 2017

I recently attended Jeff Pulver’s 2017 MoNage conference to get the latest views on chatbot usage and expectations for serving customers. Jeff says that “as chatbots get better and better, there may be less of a need to visit a business website.” Chatbots enable a customer to answer questions via text. He probably is right.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

The hybrid work model in contact centers is a mix of on-premises and remote work. The on-premise workers are located at the same facility as the contact center, while the remote workers are located outside the facility, usually at or other locations scattered throughout the globe. What Is Hybrid Work?

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Hodusoft

JANUARY 3, 2024

Everything You Need to Know About Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) The introduction of Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) heralded the beginning of a new era. Benefits of CCaaS Key Features of CCaaS How to select the right CCaaS software for your business? CCaaS is the acronym for Contact Center as a Service.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 13, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #2 of 4: Seeking th e Root Cause and Affecting the Right Outcome. As a result, humans inherently know how to, directly/indirectly and inferentially assess every situation, either cognitively or sub-consciously. Understanding Why Transforms the Customer Experience.

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Babelforce

JULY 15, 2021

Most of the time you can set up knowledge bases and chatbots in a matter of days or weeks. What are contact centers using for self-service right now? You’ll need to create in-depth documentation about how to use your product. 3 Chatbots. Chatbots are a great way to deflect support tickets.

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Balto

AUGUST 3, 2022

As the global economy shows signs of recession, the Conversation Excellence Lab wanted to understand how executives are planning to shift their contact center budgets, and how they view the future of the contact center as a whole. There are a lot of reasons to invest in your contact center.

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USAN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Amazon Connect, the omnichannel cloud contact center platform from Amazon Web Services, helps companies optimize their CX by delivering seamless support through the power of technology. In this post, we’ll examine one of the platform’s specific capabilities: chatbot technology. How to Use Chatbots for Customer Service.

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Cisco - Contact Center

MAY 14, 2019

AI is shaping the future of customer experiences and the contact center. This week I will be speaking at UC Expo about the role that artificial intelligence is playing in advancing contact center productivity and efficiency, and in particular how this is benefiting the agent and customer experience. AI = chatbots.

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Expivia

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is when contact center outsourcing comes into play. Contact center outsourcing can take the weight of customer management off your shoulders. But, we’re getting ahead of ourselves… If you decide to outsource your contact center needs, you need to do it right. What Is Contact Center Outsourcing?

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Aspect

JANUARY 10, 2018

Here are five suggestions to improve your contact center technology in 2018. Build a chatbot: Chatbots offer businesses with limited resources an incredible ROI. Customer Service Chatbots can support both sales and service inquiries, and continue to increase in popularity among tech-savvy consumers today.

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Aspect

JANUARY 10, 2018

Build a chatbot: Chatbots offer businesses with limited resources an incredible ROI. Chatbots can support both sales and service inquiries, and continue to increase in popularity among tech-savvy consumers today. Get started today by checking out the year’s most innovative contact center solutions.

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Quiq

JULY 22, 2022

Based on which pages they spend time on, you can craft unique messaging (using live agents or chatbots) to target where they are in their customer journey. According to Salesforce’s State of the Connected Customer report , 83% of customers expect to interact with someone immediately when contacting a business. With a chatbot.

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 14, 2022

5 Ways to leverage eCommerce Contact Center Software to improve CX. The e-commerce contact center has been realized as one of the most powerful tools in this battle. Curious to know how you can do it? What does an e-commerce contact center do? trillion USD by 2026. Promotion, etc.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction. Contact centers are now considered more than just service centers. Omnichannel Interaction Data is Siloed or Nonexistent.

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NICE inContact

JUNE 20, 2019

Traditionally quality management in the contact center has been focused on evaluating agent-assisted interactions — mainly phone. We already discussed the gap between the number of digital channels for CX that are supported in the contact center and the number of channels that are evaluated as part of a business’ QM programs.

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Avaya

JUNE 13, 2019

Research from Vanson Bourne shows that chatbot technology is the predominant form of AI for nearly 60% of companies today. Consider the contact center, where 94% of companies agree that effective AI helps improve performance but 70% feel they’re missing the mark. Let’s break this down further…. across other areas of business.

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teleopti

AUGUST 13, 2019

Statistically, the majority of contact centers still use manual processes to adjust their intraday workforce scheduling but why play a constant game of catch-up? It’s a real game-changer for contact centers everywhere. The latest Chatbots using Artificial Intelligence (AI), are reinventing WFM and intraday planning.

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Balto

MAY 22, 2023

Guest post by Jeremy Watkin If you are a contact center or customer service leader and are reading this article, I have a hypothetical question for you. I’m adding $100,000 to your annual budget,” how would you spend that money? I’m adding $100,000 to your annual budget,” how would you spend that money?

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NobelBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI revolutionizes call centers by enabling smarter interactions and predictive insights. Chatbots : AI-powered chatbots handle routine queries, providing quick and accurate responses. Performance Metrics and KPIs: Monitoring call center performance is essential. RELATED ARTICLE What is IVR?

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SharpenCX

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As you prepare for the new year, you’re setting goals and thinking through how to get ahead of your competitors. The Secret to Unlocking Service Excellence Is Data : From this Contact Center Pipeline post, learn how to use the data in your call center to deliver a personalized customer experience and become an example of quality service.

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Nuance

AUGUST 8, 2019

To meet these expectations, organizations need a future-proof contact center designed to deliver intelligent engagements—but it takes hard work to get it […] The post Contact center transformation pitfalls (and how to avoid them) appeared first on What’s next. This is a summary.

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Fonolo

APRIL 2, 2019

One of our goals with the Fonolo blog is to expose our readers to a broad range of voices on a broad range of topics. Key quote: “The Contact Center is going to change more in the next five years than in the last 25.” See our related post: “ AI is Not Reducing Call Center Agent Employment.”. Read more on their blog post.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

Customer Experience Automation can encompass a range of technologies such as AI and Machine Learning, Chatbots and IVR Systems, Data Analytics and Insights. Interactive Voice Response (IVR) At the core of intelligent contact center automation lies a well-calibrated IVR system.

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Avaya

APRIL 10, 2019

This blog is authored by Robin Gareiss, President and Founder, of Nemertes Research. Virtual agents/chatbots – Computer-aided, virtual robots that address basic questions and functions to free human agents to handle more complex ones. AI is finding a comfortable home in the contact center.

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Avaya

JULY 14, 2016

2016 is shaping up to be the year of the Chatbot. From Jarvis, Mark Zuckerberg’s Iron Man-inspired assistant, to Microsoft’s rather unfortunate Tay experience, chatbots have been making the news this year—not least in how they are playing an ever bigger role in customer service. Meeting that expectation is no longer optional.

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Outsource Consultants

MAY 30, 2018

If they communicate with an agent on social media, they expect to be able to call the contact center and pick up right where they left off without needing to explain their issue(s). If a contact center can’t provide this fluidity and deliver customer satisfaction instantly, they’ll lose loyalty for their clients.

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Avaya

AUGUST 12, 2019

Are organizations attempting to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the contact center? In fact, the majority (58%) of executives believe that chatbots are the only form of AI that their organization is currently using effectively. Yes, without a doubt. What exactly does this mean?

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Aspect

OCTOBER 16, 2017

I won’t go into details on why this phrase drives me crazy but I think it does make for a good contact center illustration. Less than half of agents indicated they are optimistic about opportunities for advancement in the contact center where they work. Customer support chatbots to the rescue. More sales?

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Aspect

AUGUST 30, 2017

With the strides being made with machine learning and artificial intelligence today, it should come as no surprise that the market for chatbots and automated messaging services is surging to all-time highs. But if you ask contact center agents themselves, you’ll hear an entirely different story.

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Call Experts

JANUARY 15, 2020

Also, these automations will power real-time messaging and reporting, voice assistants, chatbots, deep learning, predictive intelligence, and machine learning. Use of voice assistants and chatbots to conduct HR service more naturally and effectively with real-time reporting. Using Chatbots for interactive onboarding.

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Fonolo

AUGUST 1, 2018

Google made a major announcement at their “Cloud Next” event with the launch of Contact Center AI. It was the second time this month that the contact center world was rocked by a Google announcement. Self-serve (in the form of text-based chatbots usually). That seems a bit hand-wavy.

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Aspect

JUNE 22, 2017

As it’s their business practice, they’re late to the game, but they’ve become the most valued company in history by letting others be first, then come in and rethink how to “do it right”. Contact Prequalification and Authentication. This is a big difference to how, e.g., Facebook chose to treat identity on Messenger.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 21, 2022

When we do need or prefer to make a phone call to speak with someone, a bad experience is made worse by the knowledge that there are ways to make support calls less painful which many contact centers aren’t utilizing. completely replace human contact center agents. Do you intelligently route customers to the right agent?

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Transparent BPO

AUGUST 20, 2019

If you were to ask many business executives, they would say their customer service contact center is a necessary expense that does not contribute to the bottom line. As such, they don’t emphasize technology upgrades or process improvements for in-house centers and, when outsourcing, settle for the least expensive options.

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