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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

Xaqt

The offshore business process outsourcing industry is likely to be the hardest hit. Even before the global pandemic, Contact Center and Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs) were facing new headwinds and competitive pressures. "I do expect cognitive and robotic automation projects to lead to some job loss. The large cloud providers (ie.

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8 Ways to Turn Your Contact Center from Cost to Profit

Transparent BPO

As such, they don’t emphasize technology upgrades or process improvements for in-house centers and, when outsourcing, settle for the least expensive options. One way to curb rising costs is to outsource to vendors that specialize in customer service. How to go about it is the question, of course. With unemployment in the U.S.

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CrmXchange Grills SmartAction on Top 10 Conversational AI Questions

SmartAction

They are the high volume, repetitive interactions that your live agents deem a nuisance because they really aren’t doing any interesting problem solving but merely following a call flow, gathering information, then taking some sort of action. Complex calls are traditionally handled by agents.

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SmartAction Executive Interview

SmartAction

They are the high volume, repetitive interactions that your live agents deem a nuisance because they really aren’t doing any interesting problem solving but merely following a call flow, gathering information, then taking some sort of action. Complex calls are traditionally handled by agents.

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How To Manage The Average Handling Time (AHT) For Contact Centers?

NobelBiz

The average call handling time (AHT) is also one of the oldest and most important key performance indicators (KPI) for contact center performances. It is much more critical in determining the economic model of a partnership when outsourcing call center activities. What are the benefits of managing and monitoring the AHT?