Mindtouch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The terms artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbot are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. This is due, in part, to the growing number online customer self-service experiences powered by one or both of these technologies. How often do we hear the terms chatbot and AI misused, or used interchangeably? Enter the chatbot.

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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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ShepHyken

JANUARY 18, 2021

Chatbots vs Knowledge Bases: Which One Is Better? Userlane) A brief comparison between two customer self-service solutions for B2B businesses in terms of the functional and emotional experience they provide and their cost-saving potential. My Comment: Chatbots versus knowledge base support. by Tracey Ruff.

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ShepHyken

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Goal: Adopt Chatbots. Customer-centric organizations do not invest in chatbots for the sake of “keeping up with the Joneses.” As an example, evaluate abandonment within your web self-service channels. See why 550+ industry executives are joining us: view more event information. It Had Better Be!

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of the best strategies to achieve that is tracking and keeping up with emerging industry trends. What is Customer Experience in the Financial Industry? CX is becoming increasingly important to the financial industry and all businesses as the differentiating factor. Doing this sends a message that you value your customer.

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Hodusoft

JUNE 1, 2023

HoduSoft Now Provides an AI Chatbot Feature with Its Contact Center Software In today’s swiftly evolving digital landscape, businesses are continuously striving to improve customer experiences and streamline their operations. What is an AI Chatbot Feature?

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Conversational chatbots are one of the top market disruptors in call center automation. However, in recent years their use has declined as businesses have learned how difficult it is to properly maintain a chatbot that actually helps customers to accomplish their goals. Why is it So Hard to Implement and Maintain a Chatbot?

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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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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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ShepHyken

JANUARY 27, 2017

This week on our Friends on Friday guest blog post my colleague, Shital Shah, writes about how with the right combination of technology and human touch, customer service doesn’t have to be difficult. She shares four excellent solutions to help manage your customer service more effectively. Shep Hyken.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 25, 2021

During the past year, more customers have turned to digital channels and automated self-service for support. Usage of virtual agents and chatbots exploded with record-breaking levels of traffic. The truth is this technology has been used in areas such as website self-service for over two decades.

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JivoChat

JULY 14, 2021

If your customers are always calling, you need to work on your level of self-customer service. 77% of people view organizations more positively if the company offers self-service options for customers. What Is Self-Customer Service? Why Is Self-Customer Service Important?

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

When customers use your chatbot to self-serve, what kind of experience do you deliver? Does your chatbot need questions asked a particular way to return the correct response? Are users repeatedly told by your chatbot to try rephrasing an input that doesn’t have a direct match in the system?

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bold360 Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Customer self-service (CSS) is a win-win for all involved in today’s uncertain business landscape, one where remote work and digital-first interactions have become the “new normal.”. Customers increasingly prefer using self-service tools: CEB (now Gartner) reports that 81% of consumers try to self-serve before calling a contact center.

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Enghouse Interactive

OCTOBER 21, 2020

AI Makes It Possible (Blog Series). Blog #4 of 4 The MORE you know. As an industry, we’ve overlooked the most important aspect in delivering a positive customer experience (CX) … of making the employee experience (EE) a positive one as well. Key Learnings from Kate Leggett and Steve Nattress. The more YOU KNOW. .

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AnomalySquared

AUGUST 18, 2023

In the rapidly evolving landscape of e-commerce, businesses are often tempted to focus solely on digital channels and self-service solutions to cater to their customers' needs. Despite the prevalence of live chat and chatbots, call centers remain an essential component of the e-commerce industry.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For as long as virtual agents and chatbots have been used by companies to provide customer self-service, they have been criticised for removing the human touch from interactions and taking away the opportunity to build an emotional connection with customers. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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Nicereply

APRIL 13, 2022

Some people think AI may harm industries since it could take over human tasks. Artificial intelligence applications already impact healthcare, telecom industries, and even software development. It’s time for AI to continue evolving and boosting the customer service experience. Chatbots are good and help with inquiries.

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COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the customer experience (CX) industry, offering businesses new opportunities to enhance their operations. This blog article discusses the importance of employing multiple types of AI, implementing effective controls and guardrails, and adapting specific roles within the CX organization.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 8, 2021

This is most certainly true when it comes to creating chatbots for customer self-service, and too often organisations fall into the DIY trap. Some companies delegate their project solely to an inexperienced internal team because they underestimate the amount of expertise needed to build and deploy a working chatbot.

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Aspect

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Thanks to continual innovations, self-service has moved beyond press 1 call routing to seamless interactions like Visual IVR, Facebook Messenger, automated chatbots and disposable web apps. Imagine a scenario where my son could text a registration chatbot and ask about the prerequisite for the class he wants to take.

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Aspect

JUNE 20, 2018

The evolution of customer self-service. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology are now being adopted by businesses and service-based organisations to create an automated consumer experience that is driving the evolution of customer self-service.

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Mindtouch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For the modern enterprise, self-service has become an indispensable part of many strategic objectives, especially when it comes to delivering customer service excellence. 91% of organizations identify web self-service as a relevant investment focus. The self-service statistics and trends you need to know.

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Creative Virtual

APRIL 2, 2020

Businesses and brands of all sizes and across industries face new challenges as offices and physical locations close. 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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TechSee

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s no secret that truck rolls are a necessary evil for the service industry. Absolutely, your customers aren’t happy to wait for service. But even though a large proportion of truck rolls are non-value-added activities and a tremendous waste of resources, these dispatches remain a fact of life for service organizations.

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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. This blog will focus on how it helps enhance agent productivity.

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bold360 Blog

APRIL 20, 2021

The Hidden Potential of Self-Service Tools. Self-service tools give businesses data-driven insights from every customer interaction, creating a self-perpetuating feedback loop to optimize CX. CX optimization can begin simply through monitoring what users are looking for when they’re engaging with your chatbot.

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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. Watch for our next blog in this series, coming October 21st: Constant Learning Improves AI Recommendations. Understanding Why Transforms the Customer Experience. It’s doable.

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CCNG

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Whether the interaction in question is a phone or chat conversation with an agent, accessing self-service content or using an automated channel such as a chatbot, a CSAT survey asks customers to rate the experience in question on a three-point, five-point, seven-point or ten-point scale. However, NPS also has limitations.

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Inbenta

DECEMBER 14, 2021

They’re turning to online channels for self-service insurance information and support — instantly, seamlessly, and at any time. And chatbots that harness artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) present a huge opportunity. Chatbot use cases for policyholders. Discover: Answer frequent questions.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The insight and intel our Guide to Selecting a Virtual Agent or Chatbot Vendor: Forget the Technology & Focus on Experience contains spans the width and breadth of the company: sales, marketing, technical and not least the operations team, some of who contributed by submitting their hottest and most relevant tips.

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TeamSupport

JUNE 20, 2023

This challenge, where businesses are grappling with reduced staff, lower productivity due to overworked customer service agents, and higher churn rates from poor customer experiences, is quickly becoming the industry norm - but it doesn’t have to. In total, if more businesses implemented chatbots, customer support teams could save 2.5

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Aspect

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Earlier this year, Florence was nothing more than a hobbyist’s development project, and the chatbot was used as a simple symptom checker. This example is just one of many in which chatbots are coming to the rescue in the healthcare industry, and the timing couldn’t be better.

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Comm100

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It’s all the product of the on-demand economy, which has come to dominate across industries and has forced organizations to rethink the way they do business and provide customer service. It heavily utilizes digital technology products and services to cater directly to customer needs. Tech industry developments for new demand.

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VocalCom

JUNE 25, 2018

When the idea of artificial intelligence for customer service was first introduced, many people were skeptical. The idea of chatbots assisting or possibly replacing human agents was exciting, but was it feasible? Would customers actually receive better service? Chatbots can be integrated with popular messaging apps.

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Aspect

JUNE 26, 2018

With convenience being king for consumers in the omni-channel world that we live in, the appetite for automated customer self-service is greater than ever before. A survey we conducted recently showed that 92% of businesses feel that NLP has an important role to play in automated self-service.

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Revation Systems

JUNE 18, 2018

Advancements such as artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots, specifically, have had significant effects in this area across all industries. The future of customer experience is certain to result in the decline of, and a shift in focus for, human agents as AI and chatbots become more cost-effective and solid in performance.

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