Upstream Works

JUNE 9, 2022

By: Rob McDougall, CEO, Upstream Works Software. That statement really stuck with me because I remember when that moment happened at Upstream Works. It did too much, it provided too many complex tools, and it had too many processes to follow. There were too many different customer needs and too many inconsistencies.

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COPC

JUNE 9, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the customer experience (CX) industry, offering businesses new opportunities to enhance their operations. By embracing these strategies, your business can maximize the benefits of AI and thrive in the rapidly evolving CX landscape. Nexcom A/S and COPC Inc.

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Calltools

APRIL 3, 2024

Technology and customer expectations have changed a lot over the last few years. Focus on Customer Care All of the contact center trends you adopt should ultimately improve customer care. With reliable generative AI helping customers, you can handle more calls quickly to keep hold times low.

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Solvvy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Customers want accuracy, speed, and convenience when they’ve got an issue that needs to be resolved. In fact, research shows that when brands provide customers with accurate answers and resolutions in real-time, customers are 30% more likely to make a purchase with the brand. . We live in a new era of expectations.

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COPC

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

BACKGROUND The COPC Standards Committee is a group of industry leaders composed of the largest buyers and providers of customer experience (CX) operational services, including contact center support. Lastly, it announces the establishment of subcommittees dedicated to continuously evaluating AI utilization.

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Expivia

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

But with Auto QA fueled by AI and cutting-edge prompting techniques, we’re witnessing a revolution in real-time evaluation. In this blog, we embark on a journey through practical QA scenarios, illuminating how Auto QA, enhanced with advanced prompting , is reshaping the assessment landscape.

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Global Response

MARCH 27, 2024

An effective call center script balances consistent service quality with personalized customer interactions. It should enable agents to respond to the unique aspects of each call while maintaining a high standard of service. Today, we’ll explore several techniques for creating effective customer service scripts.

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ShepHyken

AUGUST 31, 2018

This week we feature an article by Yura Filimonov who shares some of the many ways we can use AI to provide customer support. – Shep Hyken. The hype around AI is high, but it may seem unclear to businesses, whether they’ll benefit from it themselves. Always there for customers. Proactive support.

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Interactions

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Getting stuck in a loop or being misunderstood by an automated customer care system brings out the worst in humanity. Thankfully, customer service tools have advanced in recent years, and AI is accelerating the change. However, not all AI virtual assistants are created equal. We play nice with others.

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AWS Machine Learning

JANUARY 26, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications built around large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the potential to create and accelerate economic value for businesses. Many customers are looking for guidance on how to manage security, privacy, and compliance as they develop generative AI applications.

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Playvox

JANUARY 25, 2024

Does your contact center “talk the customer talk” but sometimes gets stuck when it comes to matching up customer expectations with service and support delivery by your agents? This guide will explore the whats, hows, and whys of workforce optimization. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

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Global Response

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Customer service outsourcing is a huge industry, resulting in approximately $525 billion dollars of spend every year, in fact. But if you’re not outsourcing your customer service yet, it may seem like a big project that’s not necessarily worth the investment. What is Customer Service Outsourcing?

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AWS Machine Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Amazon Bedrock provides a broad range of models from Amazon and third-party providers, including Anthropic, AI21, Meta, Cohere, and Stability AI, and covers a wide range of use cases, including text and image generation, embedding, chat, high-level agents with reasoning and orchestration, and more.

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TechSee

AUGUST 14, 2023

TechSee’s Annual Influencer List For a second year, everyone at TechSee is proud and excited to share our annual list of influential leaders in the space of digital customer service. Their knowledge and impact is constantly reshaping the service industry. If you missed the 2022 list, you can check it out here.

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Interactions

AUGUST 12, 2022

Similar to my required reading during the years I was in school, Conversational AI is complicated and can require some brushing up of details. Similar to my required reading during the years I was in school, Conversational AI is complicated and can require some brushing up of details. See a visual on how it works here.

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Callminer

DECEMBER 17, 2019

However, the world’s call centers are arguably the most public examples of companies’ outsourcing efforts, facing customer directly in one-on-one interactions. Of course not all call centers are outsourced, nor are all call centers purely customer-facing operations. Better Agent Performance. Facilitating Cooperation.

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NobelBiz

MARCH 26, 2024

While there’s no one-size-fits-all solution to address all operational and customer-related challenges for businesses, Customer Experience Automation (CXA) has emerged as a compelling strategy for a lot of businesses these days. Table of Contents What Is Customer Experience Automation (CXA)?

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Interactions

MAY 6, 2021

Which is better: machines or humans? When it comes to customer service, there are strong opinions for each. . On one hand, automated systems can handle an unlimited number of customers at once, resulting in less time wasted and lower operational costs. But that’s not the only way that humans and AI can join forces.

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Quiq

MARCH 16, 2023

Movies may have twisted our expectations of artificial intelligence—either giving us extremely high expectations or making us think it’s ready to wipe out humanity. In fact, you’re already using AI in your daily life—but it’s so ingrained in your technology you probably don’t even notice. What is conversational AI?

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AWS Machine Learning

APRIL 18, 2024

Check out the following demo to see how it works. In this post, we show you how to use LMA with Amazon Transcribe , Amazon Bedrock , and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock. Everything you need is provided as open source in our GitHub repo. When you’re done, you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it!

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CSM Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Ryan Welsh, Founder and CEO of Kyndi , recently compiled a list of trends that he believes will help customer service professionals practically deploy GenAI and make it effective for users. As a result, organizations are under pressure from customers, executives, and boards to “do something,” but what?

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Solvvy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Since Zoom acquired Solvvy earlier this year, many people have asked me why Zoom, a company that is the gold standard for team collaboration and meetings, would look to bring Solvvy’s advanced conversational AI technology and team into its portfolio. But Zoom Virtual Agent goes beyond understanding to resolution.

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SmartAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Intelligent virtual agents are zeros and ones that make up a human’s approach to simulate humanity as best as possible. While artificial intelligence isn’t human, its unique DNA sequentially makes up a superb customer experience in a contact center solution. Two different functions work to bring an experience.

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Quiq

MARCH 6, 2023

Chatbots have come a long way and are getting better at understanding and mimicking human interactions. According to Zendesk’s CX Trends 2023 report, 65% of leaders believe the AI/bots they use are becoming more natural and human-like. It turns out customers agree. Here are some ways to make your chatbot sound more human.

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COPC

APRIL 1, 2022

Customer experience management platforms Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like Nexcom’s RevealCX Boost (1) offer customer experience departments innovative ways of efficiently collecting data. How can we design a function that minimizes the possibility of AI delivering the wrong results? .

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Netomi

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Companies of all sizes are adopting AI to automate resolution of the 265 billion customer support requests made every year. A customer support chatbot serves as the first line of defense to respond to customers and help resolve a customer’s questions before looping in a human. What is Zendesk Answer Bot?

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CSM Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Artificial Intelligence is on the rise and yet, believe it or not, tomorrow’s contact centre will need more — not fewer — agents. Dave Hoekstra, Product Evangelist, at Calabrio explains why and shares their top tips to activate the agent of the future. As a result, agent skillsets are changing too. of interactions today.

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Comm100

JULY 4, 2023

If you’re reading this blog, you’ve likely come to the realization that your customer service & support operations could benefit from chatbots and automation – welcome to the club! The adoption of bots is skyrocketing as their benefits for both customers and organizations become increasingly clear.

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TechSee

JUNE 25, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) – the science that deals with the creation of human-like learning and reasoning capabilities – has been catapulted into the spotlight in recent years. It seems like every company in every industry wants to harness the power of AI to enhance operations and positively impact the lives of their customers.

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AWS Machine Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The applications also extend into retail, where they can enhance customer experiences through dynamic chatbots and AI assistants, and into digital marketing, where they can organize customer feedback and recommend products based on descriptions and purchase behaviors.

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CSM Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Today, as the CEO, I’m proud to lead a company that manages more than 500 enterprise brands globally, helping some of the world’s largest companies deliver exceptional customer experiences. How did we get here? When I came on board, Sabio was still a small UK-based operation.

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Netomi

AUGUST 10, 2022

In our customer case studies , we frequently talk about milestones such as our customers reaching deflection rates of X%, yet what do these terms really mean? As you progress with your conversational AI journey, which key customer experience metrics can you see improve with AI? Deflection Rate.

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JustCall

MARCH 7, 2023

The primary goal of contact center businesses revolves around improving customer experience. Put them together, and you get a match made in heaven. Empowering your contact center business with automated solutions can take your customer interactions to new heights of success. What is Contact Center Automation?

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bold360 Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Today’s customer expects quick responses across all channels, especially during an uncertain time of global pandemic and economic recession. Many customers justifiably don’t want to spend their valuable time waiting on the phone or writing an email that might not get a response for days. Live Chat and Chatbots: They Work Best Together.

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Vonage

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The phone is often the medium that matters in moments of truth, whether it’s a service call or an inside sales call making the first contact. To the customer, the ideal interaction often feels like a conversation – just the customer and the company representative, talking through the issues together, person to person.

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TeamSupport

APRIL 15, 2021

Customers are often in need of assistance and expect smooth interactions with the company. Hence, leading businesses are focused on using technology to humanize their labels and develop service models to withstand this ever-changing business environment. Enhanced Customer Support. Here’s how: 1.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Who is Better at Making Customers Happy? Whether your company uses CSAT, NPS, CES, or some other metric to measure customer satisfaction, one thing is certain — customer satisfaction plays a critical role to a company’s financial success. Customer Wait Time. How long are most customers willing to wait?

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