SmartAction

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Personalization and Relevance Creating a personal touch in your order management virtual agent can significantly enhance customer experience and engagement. This might mean providing voice updates for visually impaired customers or ensuring your website’s chatbot is compatible with screen readers.

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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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NobelBiz

JANUARY 10, 2021

For some time now, Chatbots have become famous in contact centers. It is an artificial intelligence tool that can be described as a virtual agent. As a result, a Chatbot is presented as a real solution for improving customer experience in a call center. How does a Chatbot Revolutionize Customer Experience?

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Underpinned by state-of-the-art technology, you can now have a conversation with virtual agents who will understand customer needs and address them quickly. AI-Powered Chatbots AI-driven chatbots have evolved into sophisticated virtual assistants.

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Inbenta

APRIL 14, 2020

To achieve this, you need to be present everywhere, at all times and with a constant quality of response. 4 chatbot use cases within the customer journey. A chatbot as an intelligence tool. What better way to do this than with an AI chatbot? A chatbot as a sales consultant. A proactive chatbot.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Use AI-based virtual assistants – Millennials are very open to communication with virtual entities – chatbots – including voice-based assistants and visual virtual technician. According to a Retale poll, 86% of Millennials said that brands should use chatbots to promote products and services.

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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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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In the second part of this series, we describe how to use the Amazon Lex chatbot UI with Talkdesk CX Cloud to allow customers to transition from a chatbot conversation to a live agent within the same chat window. These virtual agents can automate routine tasks as well as seamlessly elevate complex interactions to a live agent.

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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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Lumoa

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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? ”. Another great idea to explore is offering a digital sales agent that is voice-enabled. Lack of human empathy.

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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 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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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

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 8, 2022

Being recognised as the best in conversational AI made our Founder & CEO, Chris Ezekiel, contemplate what makes a virtual agent or chatbot a true conversational AI solution and share his insights in a blog post. How Creative Virtual’s Gluon Software is Next Level for Chatbot Tech – Wharf Life interview.

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Balto

JULY 5, 2023

Here’s the truth: The march of progress means at some point, human agents will likely be mostly replaced and automated by AI. You can prepare your contact center for an AI-powered future by implementing new strategies in the present. When customers got on calls and heard a robotic voice say “Hello, I am an AI agent, how can I help you?”

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 4, 2021

When it comes to creating positive service experiences with chatbots, there is no substitute for having hands-on experience with building, integrating, installing, maintaining, and expanding these self-service tools. The post A Stamp of Approval for Customer Service Week appeared first on Creative Virtual.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The day was packed with presentations from experts in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, aimed at advising participants who were looking to find out more about this ever-growing technology. Liam was due to present at 10 am on the “Evolution of Customer Experience”. I could tell how much he was looking forward to it!

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Modern contact centers are made up of a complex combination of humans and virtual assistants – using both natural and artificial intelligence – operating over multiple channels and using a wide range of tools to solve customers’ issues. A coffee machine manufacturer may present images of six different models on their Contact Us page.

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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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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. Conversational AI, with its specific intents and data-driven capabilities, empowers virtual agents with readily available customer information, ensuring personalized interactions.

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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

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

JUNE 13, 2019

Over the years, we’ve developed an expertise in creating, implementing and maintaining chatbot, virtual agent and live chat solutions for major financial organisations. Through a series of live demonstrations, I’ll show best practices for implementing chatbots, virtual agents and live chat.

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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

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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Creative Virtual

JULY 10, 2019

Our Founder & CEO, Chris Ezekiel’s opening keynote – Taking Your CX into the Future with Conversational AI – got the day started with a look at AI-enhanced chatbots, virtual agents and live chat. 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

JANUARY 24, 2019

Creative Virtual Founder & CEO, Chris Ezekiel, will draw on his experience in the industry to present on Conversational AI for Employee Engagement. His session will include live demonstrations of current implementations so attendees can experience first-hand how this technology can have a positive impact on the digital workplace.

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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

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

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. Creative Virtual will once again be supporting our partner company Continuous Technologies at the annual conference.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 25, 2018

One major theme that came up repeatedly during presentations and my discussions with other attendees was that the truth about artificial intelligence (AI) is now been revealed after all the hype, myths and unrealistic claims. It was a day of great presentations and insightful discussions, and I especially enjoyed the salmon at lunch!

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Like many industry events this year, the annual HKCCA (Hong Kong Customer Contact Association) Symposium went virtual on 5 November. Our partner Continuous Technologies (CTINT) was once again an event sponsor and graciously invited me to present on the Symposium theme of Future Fit. I hope to see you all in person again next year!

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Creative Virtual

JULY 27, 2022

Chatbots and virtual agents can answer your most common questions that don’t require engagement with a human, so your agents no longer have to answer the same basic queries over and over. The tool can provide ‘next-best-action’ prompts to assist with up-selling and cross-selling.

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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

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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