UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport). What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents? Intelligence Is a Matter of Features.

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AWS Machine Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

Amazon Lex provides advanced conversational artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to enable self-service support for your organization’s contact center. The bots can answer FAQs, provide self-service experiences, or triage customer requests before transferring to a human agent.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I’ll help myself, thanks: Called the Do-It-Yourself Generation, Millennials love self-service. Support the DIY culture: Focus on consumer enablement and empowerment through self-service. According to a Retale poll, 86% of Millennials said that brands should use chatbots to promote products and services.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Every year this not-for-profit organisation holds the HKCCA Symposium and the HKCCA Award Presentation and Gala Ceremony as part of their mission of advancing the contact centre industry. This was the fifth year we have attended the event as a solution partner of CTINT and Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO, has presented on the event theme.

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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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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Back in 2013, V-Person technology became the first virtual agent offering to implement personalization – a recognition acknowledged both by the Patricia Seybold Group in their 2014 technology review and by the analysts at Gartner when they named Creative Virtual a 2015 Cool Vendor in Smart Machines.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Businesses who thrive at building robust, complete customer journeys harness the power of automation to build self-service solutions in their order management strategy. Personalization and Relevance Creating a personal touch in your order management virtual agent can significantly enhance customer experience and engagement.

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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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SmartAction

JUNE 9, 2023

Some notable examples include: Chatbots : Chatbots are AI-powered virtual agents, built in-house or by third-party vendors , that engage in text-based conversations with users. Chatbots often answer FAQs, and guide users through various processes. They are widely used in customer support, providing 24/7 assistance.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 3, 2022

And so, without further ado, here are some of the best customer service posts shared on the Creative Virtual Blog over the past year: Solving Common Conversational AI Project Issues – Conversational AI is widely recognised as an important technology in digital customer service and employee support strategies.

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Inbenta

OCTOBER 23, 2017

When it comes to chatbots, businesses want to know one thing. The million dollar question for a market which will be worth billions within a few years is – can my virtual agent answer my customers’ questions? In the context of chatbots, a decision tree essentially helps them find the exact answer to your question.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Speed, simplicity, and the ability to express their needs fluently without the hassles of navigating chatbots or sifting through help articles. Personalization : A staggering 72% of consumers expect customer service to recognize their identity and purchasing history.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2021

At the end of the day, customer service is all about people helping people – whether that’s designing self-service tools or answering calls in the contact centre. To help with that selection process, analyst group ISG evaluated 19 conversational AI vendors based on the depth of their service offerings and market presence.

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Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Conversational AI is a browser-based messaging service that connects customers with the platforms they use. To go further, modern chatbots are now pre-empting the moments when customers require their assistance. A simple message will do the trick, such as “ Hey, I’m [chatbot name], may I help you with your shopping today? ”.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Conversational chatbots were one of the leading marketing disruptors in call center automation last year, but fell in popularity as companies discovered the complexity of sustaining an efficient and successful chatbot. So what makes chatbots so difficult to implement and maintain?

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Long wait times have been fuelled by a sharp rise in calls combined with the unpredictability of available agents due to office closures and quarantines. She advocates for letting self-help tools, such as virtual agents and chatbots, share the burden being felt by contact centres. Her conclusion?

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 7, 2021

They also discussed the findings of ISG’s research and current successful virtual agent implementations. Here’s a recording of their full discussion: When ISG held their awards ceremony in October, Chris and Liam Ryan, Sales Director, were able to accept Creative Virtual’s trophy in person from Jan Erik.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 10, 2020

I don’t need to tell you that not everything went as planned, but there were still some bright spots for us and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. Creative Virtual started 2020 celebrating the company’s Sweet Sixteen. 2020 was a record-breaking year for use of our virtual agent and chatbot implementations.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 27, 2022

These solutions include both tools designed specifically to support agents as well as customer-facing tools that create easier digital self-service. Offering 24/7 intelligent self-service options to customers alleviates pressure on busy contact centres by reducing the number of incoming contacts.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 10, 2019

At the AI & CX Transforming Financial Services Directors’ Forum at the end of June, the expert speakers and panellists addressed some of the customer experience (CX) challenges the industry is facing. We had a number of attendees stop by the Creative Virtual table to see more live examples of chatbots and virtual agents.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Here’s our annual blog post roundup of trends, tips and stats to help you consistently deliver a five-star customer service experience: Top Tips for Implementing a Chatbot or Virtual Agent in 2019 – These eight tips address the most important items organisations should consider when evaluating and deploying chatbot or virtual agent technology.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Creative Virtual is pleased to again be a sponsor of the event, co-located with the AI & Robotics Conference , on 31st October. Together the two conferences will offer six streams of sessions and three keynote presentations. One of the keynote speakers is Liam Ryan , Sales Director at Creative Virtual.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 2, 2020

Newer channels, such as messaging apps, have entered the mix and preferences are shifting more and more towards digital self-service as a first choice. Yet even with these changes, customers still sometimes want or need to reach out to a human agent in the contact centre.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The explosion of media hype around artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots over the past few years – and the subsequent confusion in the customer experience (CX) space – is one of topics Creative Virtual discusses in our article for The Parliamentary Review.

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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

The denouement of Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for AI shows how AI-powered contact center technologies such as natural language processing (NLP), chatbots, and machine learning (ML) have recently begun to lose their magnetism, ending up in the Trough of Disillusionment.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 18, 2018

When implemented properly, chatbots are a powerful tool to bring together the contact centre with self-service channels and navigate language and culture barriers to create conversational engagement with customers. I look forward to seeing you there!

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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In the survey results published by HR.com at the end of 2018, 79% of Human Resources (HR) professionals responded that chatbots and virtual assistants will become an increasingly viable way for employees to get real-time answers to their HR-related questions. By Liam Ryan, Sales Director.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 11, 2019

Business Heads, Chief Executive Officers, Marketing Heads, Vice Presidents, Chief Operating Officers, and other dignitaries belonging to Book My Show, Edelweiss, Future Group, Indigo, GVK, and Craftsvilla presented their perspectives of the market and customers during the day.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 11, 2019

2019 was another busy and exciting year for Creative Virtual and the chatbot, virtual agent and live chat industry. We continued our five-year-long celebration of our Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation 2017 as we also celebrated the 15th anniversary of Creative Virtual.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 25, 2019

Creative Virtual Founder & CEO, Chris Ezekiel will be presenting a seminar on Thursday at 14:00 in Theatre 16 , ‘Top Tips for Implementing Chatbots and Virtual Agents in 2019’.

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Creative Virtual

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s been another exciting year not only for Creative Virtual as a company, but also for the virtual agent, chatbot and live chat industry, with lots of new developments and innovation. This was the fourth time a group of runners from Creative Virtual did a 10k in support of the RSPCA.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 7, 2020

I’ve built Creative Virtual based on long term relationships, and we see all of our customers and resellers as partners in our journey to deliver the best possible customer experience tools. Our experience and expertise mean we can guide organisations in developing and implementing their chatbot, virtual agent and live chat roadmaps.

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GetFeedback

APRIL 17, 2019

Others consider their situation to be too difficult, sensitive or nontrivial for your service reps to help. Creating a self-service customer portal helps to avoid such situations. Before thinking about contacting your customer service, people will have an opportunity to look through knowledge articles on your portal.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Customer self-service refers to customer-initiated interaction technologies that enable customers to access information and perform routine tasks without requiring the assistance of a live customer service representative. Drivers for customer self-service.

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In any case, these three applications can make major contributions to enterprises, customers, and agents, and should be considered by all contact centers as they begin to plan their 2018 budgets. Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs). The acquired knowledge is assimilated and leveraged in future interactions.

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JustCall

MARCH 9, 2023

Some of its key features are: AI-based self-service Omnichannel and workforce engagement Collaboration tools Customer experience analytics Pros: The power of AI can be utilized to enhance service levels of various aspects of call centers, including training, analytics, fraud detection, agent assistance, etc.

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TechSee

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This year’s MWC promises to be a huge event, with 2,300+ exhibitors presenting the latest and greatest in mobile technology to 108,000+ attendees from 208 countries. That’s quite a lot of new ideas, apps, presentations and giveaways to sift through. Virtual Customer Assistants. Virtual agent exhibitors at MWC 2018: Nuance.

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