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Preparing Your Contact Center for the Age of Virtual Agents

Taylor Reach Group

These past few months, we’ve watched contact centers turn to backup plans C and D as work schedules were impacted by stay-at-home orders or their agents’ refusal to go in because of the pandemic. Those who chose to make the contact center their temporary dwelling did so without the ability to take showers.

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Reduce call hold time and improve customer experience with self-service virtual agents using Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex

AWS Machine Learning

Government departments and businesses operate contact centers to connect with their communities, enabling citizens and customers to call to make appointments, request services, and sometimes just ask a question. These options are unsatisfying to callers who just want to ask an agent a question to get an answer quickly.

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2020 Contact Center Retrospective

DMG Consulting

2020 Contact Center Retrospective. But, despite all of the challenges, a lot of good things have happened, including in the world of contact centers. Surprisingly, contact centers were some of the most successful in getting their employees home and back in operation. Bottom Line.

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SmartAction Responds to Pandemic with a No-Fee Rapid Response AI Solution to Rescue Contact Centers from COVID-19 Hold Times

SmartAction

SmartAction is responding to the current crisis with a Rapid Response Virtual Agent that intercepts callers with a seamless channel switching experience to answer commonly asked questions and even screen callers to create an escalation path (e.g. How a Rapid Response Virtual Agent Works. For a live demo, visit [link].

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6 Killer Applications for Artificial Intelligence in the Customer Engagement Contact Center

If Artificial Intelligence for businesses is a red-hot topic in C-suites, AI for customer engagement and contact center customer service is white hot. This white paper covers specific areas in this domain that offer potential for transformational ROI, and a fast, zero-risk way to innovate with AI.

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Purchasing Power’s AI-Powered Virtual Agent Wins Top Honor for Excellence in Self-Service

SmartAction

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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2021: The Year of the Contact Center

DMG Consulting

2021: The Year of the Contact Center. Contact centers all over the world were forced to accelerate their digital transformation the moment the lockdown hit, as the alternative was not an option. Contact centers around the world have positioned themselves to come out of the pandemic stronger than they went in.