Fonolo

OCTOBER 5, 2023

FREE WEBINAR: Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR? With their narrow conversation flows and questions that often don’t lead to an answer – or an agent – chatbots don’t always seem all that revolutionary. You wouldn’t be the first customer service professional to ask themselves if a chatbot is really any different than an IVR.

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JustCall

AUGUST 8, 2023

Contact centers are a great example of how technology can be used to make jobs more efficient. Previously, contact center agents had to physically dial multiple numbers every day. But now, they can easily find customer details on a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system and call them with a click.

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JustCall

MARCH 23, 2023

Interactive Voice Response, or IVR, is necessary for every contact center. It serves as a round-the-clock virtual receptionist. The IVR is configured to lead the user to a self-help guide that answers their query, a human agent who can solve their problem, or a pre-recorded voice message.

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Xaqt

JUNE 1, 2020

Even before the global pandemic, Contact Center and Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs) were facing new headwinds and competitive pressures. Even before the global pandemic, Contact Center and Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs) were facing new headwinds and competitive pressures. The large cloud providers (ie.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

The primary goal of contact center businesses revolves around improving customer experience. On the other hand, automation focuses on optimizing business processes and improving interactions. Empowering your contact center business with automated solutions can take your customer interactions to new heights of success.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The healthcare landscape underwent a profound transformation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, reshaping the traditional roles of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems and contact centers. In some cases, call volumes surged by over 600% compared to typical levels.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 11, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) via call center automation. When it comes to the contact center specifically, companies are still focused on improving the CX while aiming to reduce costs. Agent turnover. Business Challenges. Collections).

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OctopusTech

JUNE 8, 2022

Due to this, a lot of regular tasks and activities are handled by automation software and not by call center representatives so that they could focus only on complicated and challenging issues. Call center automation simplifies the process of businesses and increases efficiency in customer service.

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Balto

MARCH 29, 2023

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in your contact center can help you solve even the most challenging customer experience problems. And with customers having higher service level expectations than ever, deploying AI solutions into your existing contact center systems is vital for business success.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

This is how important customer experience is, especially in the context of contact centers. While your call agents strive for favorable first-call resolution metrics, your business should focus on providing them with the right customer contact center software that lets them do their job well.

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3CLogic

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The ServiceNow Healthcare platform gives control to the patients and improves their experience by offering digital self-service options for common requests and virtual agent experiences that further enhance the self-service options available to patients. Improved Patient Care Experiences.

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OctopusTech

AUGUST 10, 2022

Call center technologies are developing rapidly in this ever-growing digital era. Various call center technology trends such as Artificial intelligence, virtual agents, and cloud communications are all part of the future of call centers. What is call center technology?

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 15, 2021

How does conversational AI automation for the contact center fit into solving the issue of not having enough workers for all the demand? Traditional IVRs aren’t cutting it anymore as the bodies needed to fill in aren’t there to take the calls. With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated.

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3CLogic

AUGUST 18, 2020

Whether an enterprise is simply in need of basic functionality or is ready to take the leap to a fully hosted cloud contact center platform, here are a few deployment options to consider: Connector. However, enterprises continue to remain dependent on their existing call center platform (IVR, queue management, reporting, etc.)

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REVE Chat Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Contact center trends provide businesses a futuristic view of how digital transformation and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) would help their call centers to deliver an optimal customer service experience. Key challenges faced by the contact centers .

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In the heart of the city stood a bustling contact center, a hub of endless calls and queries. This was where Alex, a visionary contact center manager, worked tirelessly to improve efficiency and customer satisfaction. The once overburdened agents found themselves focusing on more complex, engaging tasks.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2022

What’s more, consumers believe they have the right to interact with an organization in multiple channels and, when appropriate, to pivot between channels, such as when an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) needs to send information to a consumer’s cell phone via SMS during a phone conversation. IVAs Are Good for Agents and CX.

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Uniphore

JUNE 10, 2021

We also learned just how important contact centers are to our everyday lives. When the whole world went remote, people started calling in in record numbers, forcing businesses to reassess their customer service game. At Jacada, we recognized the challenges of overwhelmed—and often understaffed—contact centers early on.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 28, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) in the contact center. From IVR to chatbot and other self-service automation, none exhibit the cognitive capabilities of today’s purpose-driven, practical AI solutions for the contact center.

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3CLogic

APRIL 20, 2021

The numbers don’t lie: today’s contact centers are expected to resolve issues fast. 80% of calls, according to data from Cloudtalk, are expected to be answered within 20-30 seconds and the average call duration is four minutes. The question is no longer should I adopt voice self-service for my contact center?

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SmartAction

JANUARY 11, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas, January 10, 2024 SmartAction, a leading provider of AI-powered virtual agents for customer-obsessed brands , is proud to announce a comprehensive brand refresh and the launch of its innovative NOVA (Natural Omnichannel Virtual Agent) agent design platform.

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Cisco - Contact Center

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Transforming the Customer and Agent Experience with Artificial Intelligent Contact Center Integration. I recently delivered a session at Cisco LIVE Barcelona end of January that offered a view of the new Cisco architecture underlying the integration of Contact Centers with artificial intelligence (AI). Conclusion.

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Uniphore

AUGUST 12, 2021

Today’s most popular assistants offer a multimodal experience — the ability to interact on multiple channels — and are a major leap from the voice-only assistants that dominated the market just a few years ago. Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline.

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SmartAction

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Frost & Sullivan awards Purchasing Power ® for their AI-Powered Virtual Agent created in partnership with SmartAction ® to enable conversational self-service for their customers. SmartAction uses proprietary conversational AI to automate conversations that used to be handled by call center agents over phone, chat, and text.

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SmartAction

AUGUST 14, 2019

The first hold onto their existing IVR and merely transfer routine conversations to AI-powered virtual agents while transferring the rest to live agents. But as customers are becoming leery of touchtone and difficult or lengthy menus, more organizations are implementing virtual agents as: 1.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Electrolux, the 2nd largest home appliance manufacturer in the world who sells under a variety of brand names worldwide like Frigidaire and AEG, made the transformation to AI-powered virtual agents six months ago to automate more in their contact center. 14% of callers request a live agent transfer.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2022

IVAs: Using AI to Serve Customers and Contact Centers. Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) represent the future of omnichannel self-service, a new standard of voice and digital self-service in a channel-optimized format. NLP enables computers to understand the meaning without a predefined syntax for the content.

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Upstream Works

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Over the course of 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) became mainstream for contact centers. As with cloud adoption, the promise of AI has become compelling enough that contact center leaders are no longer wondering if it has a place in their plans. Workflow automation is an important contact center use case for AI.

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Stafford Communications

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How Call Center Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Industry. Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a major impact in many industries, including call centers. While many fear that AI will soon replace live agents on the other end of the phone, nothing can substitute the human touch a live agent can provide.

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Stafford Communications

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How Call Center Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Industry Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a major impact in many industries, including call centers. While many fear that AI will soon replace live agents on the other end of the phone, nothing can substitute the human touch a live agent can provide.

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NICE inContact

JANUARY 16, 2019

Another cost-effective alternative exists – and it simply involves supplementing existing IVRs with AI-powered virtual agents with natural language capabilities. Instead of relying on agents to make a few calls at a time, hundreds of thousands of calls can be placed in minutes.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2018

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technology coupled with consumer preference for digital channels, is driving interest in and adoption of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) and a related technology, robotic process automation (RPA). Contact Center Application. Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs).

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Xaqt

JUNE 3, 2020

While there is both hype and promise surrounding the potential of AI assisting humans in the Contact Center, I believe the inverse is actually the most effective starting point. Whereby humans assist and train AI Digital Agents to improve their interactions with, humans. What is Human-Assisted AI (Human-in-the-Loop)?

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CSM Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Conversational AI (aka intelligent chatbots or virtual agents) combines artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to streamline customer interactions across channels. Simplifying the creation and maintenance of virtual agents across the enterprise is critical. Essentially, it is what makes a Virtual Agent smart.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2017

In this age of digital transformation, customers and prospects must be able to easily access an enterprise from any channel – phone, self-service (websites, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, intelligent virtual agents (IVAs)), email, chat, co-browse, SMS, social media and video.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Whether it was feedback from Contact Center Directors, IT Managers, or C-level executives, every piece of feedback was a precious gem, helping us sculpt a better version of ourselves. If you want to build an efficient and effective contact center, we can help. Over the past few years, we’ve listened.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Cloud-based AI automation that seamlessly integrates with your call center can provide a much more simplified, low-effort process for your customers when they call. The four ways call centers are using AI agents are: Natural language front door instead of lengthy phone tree menus.

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