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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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Leading provider of AI-powered Virtual Agents for omnichannel self-service posts its largest growth in sales bookings for the year. As the global intelligent virtual agent market is expected to reach $11.3b SmartAction’s 2019 Momentum Highlights. About SmartAction. Related Links www.smartaction.ai

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The collaboration will utilise the technologies of both companies to provide customers with self-service solutions capable of enhancing customer experience, sales and support services. The partnership is already creating interest in the marketplace, with the companies currently collaborating on several projects. About Spitch.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2022

Intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) represent the future of omnichannel self-service, a new standard of voice and digital self-service in a channel-optimized format. Real-time analytics encompasses a highly diverse group of technologies and applications. Final Thoughts.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The collaboration will utilise the technologies of both companies to provide customers with self-service solutions capable of enhancing customer experience, sales and support services. The partnership is already creating interest in the marketplace, with the companies currently collaborating on several projects. About Spitch.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 13, 2022

For years automated self-service tools like chatbots and virtual agents have been criticised as being a cold and impersonal way of supporting customers. Many companies have found their virtual agent solutions to be a lifesaver for both their customers and their business over that time.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This three-part blog series explores the business value of using a chatbot or virtual agent to provide easy-to-use self-service, starting with supporting customers. They used their existing virtual agent implementations both to analyse customer needs and deliver 24/7 support for better customer service.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Call centers must adapt to changing client demands for self-service by giving their chatbots new features and capabilities. TechStyle Fashion Group group used virtual agents in voice and chat rather than allocating internal staff and resources to creating and maintaining their own conversational chatbot.

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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 5, 2020

Creative Virtual’s V-Person virtual agents and chatbots certainly experienced this trend, setting a record-breaking spike in usage during the first half of 2020. An additional 33% saw “some trend’ of this happening.

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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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Creative Virtual

AUGUST 20, 2020

At Creative Virtual, the team has been working hard to help our customers with their challenges related to delivering quality customer and employee self-service as information and needs change quickly. To help relieve pressure from live agents, they began to proactively direct customers to self-serve through their virtual agent.

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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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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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Nicereply

JANUARY 4, 2023

Let’s go into 5 ways you can provide and maintain excellent customer service and reduce your support expenses at the same time. Get the most out of self-service and AI solutions. Pandemic-driven self-service and AI adoption continue to grow. For basic issues, most consumers would prefer self-service options.

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DMG Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2017

In this age of digital transformation, customers and prospects must be able to easily access an enterprise from any channel – phone, self-service (websites, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, intelligent virtual agents (IVAs)), email, chat, co-browse, SMS, social media and video.

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NICE inContact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The study analyzed the impact of moving to the cloud for several companies, including fashion retailer TechStyle Fashion Group. Founded in 2010, as TechStyle Fashion Group expanded and added new brands to its portfolio, customer service infrastructures were siloed – no overarching system supported synergy between brands.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The good news for you is that there is a better way: outsourcing all your voice and chat automation needs to cloud-based virtual agents powered by conversational AI and designed by CX experts. Building Customer Loyalty through Low-Effort Automated Customer Service. Why Choose SmartAction?

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Inbenta

JUNE 2, 2021

In multinationals, where teams can often be dispersed over numerous countries and time zones, there is also an increased need for HR teams or proficient self-service capabilities to be available 24/7 to assist whenever an employee may need their help. Benefits of HR automation.

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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. You can read the full article here.

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Creative Virtual

JANUARY 7, 2020

Those lyrics popped into my head as I contemplated the sixteen years I’ve spent growing Creative Virtual since founding the company in London’s East End. I’m most proud of building a successful, world-leading company over a sustained period of time with an amazing group of people and keeping our independence along the way.

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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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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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Playvox

JANUARY 13, 2022

The second group of megatrends is technology related. This includes contact centers, which quickly implemented new technology to support remote agents and provide new ways for customers to get help. Getting Technology Right. The pandemic caused most businesses to accelerate the implementation of digital solutions.

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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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SmartAction

OCTOBER 30, 2018

As customer expectations for self-service continue to evolve, call centers must keep up by adding new functions and capabilities to their chatbots. Rather than dedicate an internal team of resources to build and maintain their conversational chatbot, TechStyle Fashion Group uses virtual agents in both voice and chat.

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Verint

MAY 1, 2018

A study published in 2017 investigated the presence and effects of relational language on intelligent virtual agents (IVAs). Data from large-scale, real-world enterprise IVA implementations revealed that people are increasingly relating to chatbots as they would human agents. Omnichannel Service: How do YOU Rate?

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DMG Consulting

APRIL 16, 2019

Enterprises are leveraging interaction analytics to replace outdated methods (surveying, focus groups, etc.) Self-service solutions will eliminate the need for live agents in the next 10 years (0.1). As the quality and effectiveness of self-service solutions improve, the number of contact center seats will decline.

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SmartAction

MAY 9, 2019

This is the fourth of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. Gartner predicts that customers soon will prefer using speech-driven interfaces to other forms of self-service when given a choice. Read Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 first! Building in Silos.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Our virtual agents consistently outperform live agents on CSAT scores simply because they just need to be trained once to deliver a perfectly trained agent experience. What are the types of applications/calls that make the best use of AI self-service? There are often good reasons for live agent transfers.

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ProProfs Blog

JUNE 14, 2019

Great Customer Service Statistics. Customer Service Stats for Social Media. Rise of the Automation Industry & Self-Service. Build a Delightful Customer Experience With These Customer Service Statistics. Temkin Group. Feeling unappreciated is the #1 reason customers switch away from products and services.

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Balto

MARCH 29, 2023

The AI puts that company’s query at the top of the queue and routes it to the most suitable agent with an Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) system so that they can get support quickly. For example, using AI to provide self-service channels for your customers, such as AI chatbots, can help you significantly cut labor costs.

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DMG Consulting

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It means that customers who were verified in a self-service solution must be “re-verified” if they transfer to a live agent. Or if a customer is transferred from one agent who verified them, they must go through the verification process again when they speak to a second agent.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 22, 2020

For example, those with existing virtual agents or chatbots were able to relieve pressure from their contact centre by proactively encouraging customers to self-serve. Branded virtual agents around the world saw a massive spike in usage during the first half of the year, further proof of the importance of digital customer care.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Our virtual agents consistently outperform live agents on CSAT scores simply because they just need to be trained once to deliver a perfectly trained agent experience. What are the types of applications/calls that make the best use of AI self-service? There are often good reasons for live agent transfers.

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Fonolo

APRIL 4, 2023

Nearly that many again have used a virtual agent or chatbot on their smartphone. Source: Microsoft 30% of consumers say not reaching a real human is the most frustrating part of a bad customer service experience. Source: Microsoft 77% of consumers report having used a self-service support portal.

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