DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

2024: The Year for Contact Center AI November, 2023 2024 is fast approaching, and contact center executives and leaders are trying to figure out how to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into their operations. There are many other AI-based/enabled applications making large contributions to contact centers today.

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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. This is the second post of a two-part series.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Employment Situation: Present & Past. How does conversational AI automation for the contact center fit into solving the issue of not having enough workers for all the demand? With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated. A live agent deals with anything handled outside of self-service.

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Balto

JULY 5, 2023

The contact center is no different. 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. But we’re not there yet.

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Fonolo

MARCH 30, 2020

Managing a contact center team is a challenge at the best of times. If your contact center hasn’t been driven remote by the pandemic, it will likely feel the impact soon — so prepare to go remote now. Managing Remote Contact Center Agents. Set Clear Expectations with Your Virtual Support Team.

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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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Talkdesk

APRIL 23, 2020

However, many companies have not yet addressed the most basic weaknesses in their contact centers. The scalability and flexibility of a cloud contact center presents itself as the best solution, allowing companies to better align investment according to their growth.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 15, 2020

DMG Consulting Releases Future Contact Center Outlook, 2025 – 2040. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. What: Releases Future Contact Center Outlook, 2025 – 2040. When: Today, 3 March 2020.

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Contact Center Pipeline

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Many organizations are now 100% work-from-home or have a workforce divided between brick-and-mortar and virtual agents (82% are WFH since July 2020—Gartner). This presents entirely new challenges and opportunity for workforce managers. Our workforce management (WFM) landscape is changing at breakneck speed.

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

These recommendations are highly personalized, increasing the likelihood of conversion by presenting customers with options that resonate with their specific preferences and needs. Challenges and Considerations regarding implementation So what are some challenges contact centers may have in implementing AI?

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NobelBiz

APRIL 30, 2024

These recommendations are highly personalized, increasing the likelihood of conversion by presenting customers with options that resonate with their specific preferences and needs. Challenges and Considerations regarding implementation So what are some challenges contact centers may have in implementing AI?

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DMG Consulting

MARCH 8, 2019

Innovation Enhances the Cloud-Based Contact Center Infrastructure Market. The past year was excellent for the cloud-based contact center infrastructure (CBCCI) market. The vast majority of the sales were to existing contact centers whose management made the decision to migrate to the cloud.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

DMG Consulting Releases New Report on The State of Artificial Intelligence in Contact Centers. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services. What: Releases a Special Report on The State of Artificial Intelligence in Contact Centers .

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DMG Consulting

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The 3 Contact Center Applications That Pay for Themselves. Almost every year, contact center leaders are asked to reduce operating costs and improve productivity while enhancing the customer experience. If a solution or investment also contributes to agent engagement and retention, it’s even better.

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TechSee

MARCH 19, 2019

Hire some agents, train them, and use standard contact center KPIs to measure how well they perform. When a virtual agent fields a customer’s enquiry, collects all relevant details and passes it to a human agent for final approval, how should average handling time ( AHT ) be measured?

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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 Not Just a Contact Center Solution.

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DMG Consulting

JUNE 1, 2022

Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services . DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services , today released its 2022 – 2023 AI-Enabled Self-Service for the Enterprise report.

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SmartAction

JUNE 9, 2023

Let’s explore this growing technology by understanding what it truly is, reviewing some examples of its applications, diving into its inner workings, and highlighting the associated benefits and challenges businesses and contact centers should consider. Chatbots and virtual agents may provide irrelevant or inaccurate responses.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Self-service starts with a well-managed knowledge base that can understand the user’s query and present the right solution. AI-powered virtual agents. Most top-tier cloud CRM solutions include a self-service engine to manage the knowledge base and help customers solve problems on their own. Personalization. Know your customer.

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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. Rule N° 2: Data is Everything!

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EPIC Connections

OCTOBER 20, 2017

EPIC Connections, a global customer engagement and contact center consulting company, announced today that it received the Collaboration Award from NICE inContact, a leading provider of both cloud and on-premise enterprise software solutions. EPIC Connections is a global customer engagement and contact center consulting company.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A customer calling to ask about store hours, for instance, may be routed to a self-service option or Virtual Agent , while more complex queries will be routed to a human agent. So your agents’ time is spent resolving issues, and your customers get resolutions faster. Automation Reduces Repetitive Tasks for Agents.

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Pointillist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The pressure to reduce contact center costs is immense. But many contact center leaders struggle to achieve these outcomes while simultaneously improving customer satisfaction. Contact centers are now considered more than just service centers. Omnichannel Interaction Data is Siloed or Nonexistent.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

A customer calling to ask about store hours, for instance, may be routed to a self-service option or Virtual Agent , while more complex queries will be routed to a human agent. So your agents’ time is spent resolving issues, and your customers get resolutions faster. Automation Reduces Repetitive Tasks for Agents.

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BlueOcean

OCTOBER 4, 2023

If agents are frustrated, we can only imagine that the customers they’re speaking with are too. Finding Bilingual Support That Suits Your Customers Best We’re an onshore Canadian contact center outsourcer and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated (bilingual) customer care through strategic partnership. It’s our thing.

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Xaqt

JANUARY 15, 2021

Paul Stockford of Saddletree Research, a leading analyst firm in the Contact Center industry, published today a Research Brief covering Xaqt's AI powered Vaccination Communication and Scheduling automation platform. Please contact Chris Crosby at chris@xaqt.com for questions or further commentary.

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 13, 2022

Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services . Background: DMG Consulting LLC , a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services, today released its 2022 – 2023 Workforce Management for the Enterprise report.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Chatbots on their own lack the capacity to continuously update themselves to handle more client questions and inquiries in the many and varied ways they are presented by customers – they require regular maintenance and ongoing tuning. Unfortunately, this calls for a significant amount of time, effort, and supervision.

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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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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center, back-office and real-time analytics market research and consulting services. Although voice-based support is likely here to stay, it is becoming the contact method of last resort, though still preferred for highly emotional or time-sensitive issues.

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Noble Systems

APRIL 3, 2020

Some people new to the contact center industry might be wondering ‘what does IVR stand for’? IVR is an automated system generally used by contact centers that answers incoming calls and then provides a recorded message with options for the caller. A well-tuned IVR can provide a number of benefits for the call center.

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DMG Consulting

JUNE 30, 2021

Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services. DMG Consulting LLC , a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services, today released its 2021-2022 Robotic Process Automation Product and Market Report.

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Interactions

JULY 29, 2020

While digital channels are increasingly a growing means for consumers to reach their utility when service is required, the majority of customer care issues are still handled by contact center agents. Virtual agents can support an omnichannel approach to customer service.

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Taylor Reach Group

JUNE 13, 2017

Chat in the Contact Center - an Expert Panel Weighs in – Part 2/3. Recently, our expert panel of Contact Center Consultants had a discussion on the role of chat in the Call Center. Colin: We can’t lose sight of the fact that in most centers, chat is just one of a number of channels.

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SmartAction

MAY 23, 2019

Use this guide to automate your contact center and Customer Experience (CX) with AI self-service in voice, chat, and text. While conversational AI technology is amazing and transformative for the contact center, it is only a toolset. Step 4>> . . Best Practice #5: Human-Centric Design from a team of CX Experts.

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Lumoa

JUNE 23, 2021

In the past, contact centers could stay ahead of the curve as long as they ensured to utilize the right solutions and tools to service customers. According to a survey, CCaaS will grow to be the favored adoption model by 50% of contact centers by 2022.

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