Enghouse Interactive

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Trends and Realities of Successful Organizations (Blog Series). Contact centers, using AI and UCaaS, drive better customer service perceptions, agent performance and improve overall outcomes . Blog #3 of 4: Customer-facing agents. Chatbots for Customers (31.0% Chatbots simplify and optimize issue resolution.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2018

The most obvious way to provide proactive support is to help people searching for an answer in a knowledge base or not completing the order quickly – they’ll likely receive an email or a chat message to help them complete the purchase, using similar methods that have worked for customers in the past. Proactive support.

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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. What is Contact Center Automation?

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Hodusoft

OCTOBER 19, 2023

10 Effective Ways to Reduce Costs in Your BPO Contact Center Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contact centers play a vital role in today’s modern businesses. They help manage customer interactions by serving as the initial point of contact. million in 2022 to US$34, 570.73 from 2023 to 2028.

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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. A typical example would be to use that extracted insight to interface with an associated knowledge base and then recommend a process, script, or document to help deal with the situation or need at hand.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #4 of 4 The MORE you know. That self-service will be their first point of contact and they are willing to deal with digital assistants (chatbots, knowledge bases, voice authentication, etc.) Key Learnings from Kate Leggett and Steve Nattress. The more YOU KNOW. .

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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. Full disclosure, $100,000 is a lot for my small contact center. I’m sure you’ve heard things like “We’re sorry to see that person leave your contact center.

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Enghouse Interactive

JULY 7, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). Blog #2 Microsoft Teams Drives Agent Productivity. In our first blog, we explored how Microsoft Teams, when integrated into a Contact Center, helps provide a better experience for the end-customer. Self-Service Helps Agents Too.

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Customer Service Life

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The text of this article originally appeared on the ICMI blog on December 5, 2018. I’ve heard this spoken of chatbots, in particular, this year. Statements like, “Chatbots will automate X% of your customer interactions” and “Your competition is working on a chatbot as we speak” have been uttered in my presence.

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Calltools

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Some common self-service options include: A searchable knowledge-base An IVR system An AI chatbot A frequently asked questions (FAQ) page A community forum Let’s explore these options in detail. Searchable Knowledge-Base The most widely used customer self-service option is a searchable knowledge-base.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 18, 2023

Optimizing team productivity is the key to achieving this goal, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the steps necessary to unlock your call center’s full potential. What is hyper efficiency in a contact center? This technology is a component that takes calls and assigns them to the appropriate agent.

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Mindtouch

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Why do organizations deploy customer service chatbots ? Doing so can help organizations simultaneously take down another important objective: scaling contact center operations and, by extension, controlling costs. Chatbots Magazine , for instance, estimates that chatbots can save 30% in customer support service costs.

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AWS Machine Learning

AUGUST 30, 2023

Powered by Amazon Lex , the QnABot on AWS solution is an open-source, multi-channel, multi-language conversational chatbot. This includes automatically generating accurate answers from existing company documents and knowledge bases, and making their self-service chatbots more conversational.

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Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In Part 1 of this two-part blog, we noted that in 2019 the overarching trend indicates a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate contact center goal of fostering meaningful connections with consumers. Self-service tools include FAQs, virtual assistants, and chatbots and video tutorials.

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Customer Service Life

JUNE 26, 2017

Ruth McCullen and Jeremy Watkin had the pleasure of having Virginia from Kingman Ink draw as we helped contact center leaders tell better stories. This article was originally published on the FCR blog on June 9, 2017. I had a fantastic time at the 2017 Contact Center Expo and Conference in Orlando, Florida.

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Mindtouch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The terms artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbot are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. How often do we hear the terms chatbot and AI misused, or used interchangeably? To help clear the air, here’s a closer look at chatbots and AI and their close ties to customer self-service. Enter the chatbot. What is a chatbot?

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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).

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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. Is the contact center a drain on resources, a necessary expense to manage customer needs?

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bold360 Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2020

For example, a customer may interact with an AI-powered chatbot before, or even instead of, speaking to a live agent. Call & Contact Routing. Today’s customers typically prefer digital engagement channels like chatbots for faster issue resolution. Increased First Contact Resolution (FCR). Automated & AI Routing.

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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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Noble Systems

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In Part 1 of this two-part blog, we noted that in 2019 the overarching trend indicates a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate contact center goal of fostering meaningful connections with consumers. Self-service tools include FAQs, virtual assistants, and chatbots and video tutorials.

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Aspect

AUGUST 7, 2017

If you’re in customer service and support, you’ve no doubt been told that chatbots and the A.I. Several analysts predict near total replacement of live agents with chatbots. Gartner for example, predicts the use of virtual customer assistants (chatbots) will jump by 1,000% by 2020. But how do the agents feel about this?

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Aspect

AUGUST 7, 2017

If you’re in customer service and support, you’ve no doubt been told that chatbots and the A.I. Several analysts predict near total replacement of live agents with chatbots. Gartner for example, predicts the use of virtual customer assistants (chatbots) will jump by 1,000% by 2020. But how do the agents feel about this?

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Enghouse Interactive

JUNE 17, 2020

Transform the Contact Center with Microsoft Teams (blog series). Blog #1 Enhancing the Customer Experience. This new reality presents the contact center industry with an excellent opportunity to integrate with Teams and provide seamless company-wide collaboration capabilities across their customer’s organizations.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying.

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bold360 Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Customers increasingly prefer using self-service tools: CEB (now Gartner) reports that 81% of consumers try to self-serve before calling a contact center. CSS Tools Go Beyond the Chatbot. Similar to conversational chatbots, dynamic search bars leverage NLP technology to understand the customer’s unstructured search terms.

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Noble Systems

JANUARY 30, 2019

Many of the 2019 trends indicate a “back to basics” approach with an emphasis on the ultimate goal for contact centers — to foster meaningful connections with consumers. After researching several articles, white papers and ebooks on the topic, this blog’s intention is to bring clarity to what the experts are saying.

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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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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

Customer-facing AI technologies are especially relevant to assisting in customer identification, call classification/routing, chatbots and predictive personalization. This is likely one reason why Oracle found that 80% of sales and marketing leaders say they currently use or plan to deploy chatbots in the near future. Biometrics.

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Uniphore

JULY 21, 2021

Why are so many knowledge bases inefficient to use when contact centers invest so much money in them? How can organizations more effectively direct customers to the knowledge they’re looking for? See where your contact center makes its mark or could use a little improvement.

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Comm100

AUGUST 20, 2019

If you’re in the contact center space, chances are you already have a customer experience strategy. However, while many contact centers are able to pick out various aspects of the customer experience, which could be improved, turning these thoughts into a successful process which guarantees results is often trickier.

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Avaya

JULY 24, 2019

Brands are built on the great experiences that employees deliver to customers, starting with the contact center. A recent study from Customer Contact Week shows the following to have the biggest impact on the agent experience: Empowerment to offer custom/unique resolutions to customers (23%). But what does this look like?

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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. Below we have highlighted ten keys to improving HR performance: Best-in-class employee service centers that can work on a global level. Get a robust knowledge base.

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Hodusoft

JULY 19, 2023

Choosing the right inbound call center software can help businesses in improving customer satisfaction, reducing wait times, and increasing operational efficiency. In this blog, we will explore everything related to inbound call center software. We are going the cover the following points- What is inbound call center software?

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Aspect

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

of contact center leaders polled by Strategic Contact cited poor cross-departmental collaboration. Contact center employees sometimes find themselves blindsided by decisions made elsewhere in the organization regarding products, promotions, pricing, policies and public pronouncements.

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Eptica

AUGUST 1, 2018

Author: Joanna Allouche - Consultant Optimizing CX with Eptica When it comes to the contact center, there is a clear link between happy agents and overall performance. Knowledge to empower agents Eptica’s platform is built around a centralized, AI-powered knowledge base. Published on: August 01, 2018.

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Blueship Call Center

JULY 7, 2023

Chatbots and Virtual Assistants The usage of chatbots and virtual assistants is one of the most significant ways technology is revolutionising customer service. Virtual assistants and chatbots may also free up human agents to concentrate on more complicated inquiries, leading to quicker response times and more customer satisfaction.

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