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Making the Case for an Intelligent Virtual Agent

DMG Consulting

Making the Case for an Intelligent Virtual Agent. The challenge is that many companies successfully using interactive voice response (IVR) solutions to displace a large percentage of contact center calls don’t yet appreciate the greater potential value of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs).

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Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR?

Fonolo

FREE WEBINAR: Is Your Chatbot Really Just an IVR? With their narrow conversation flows and questions that often don’t lead to an answer – or an agent – chatbots don’t always seem all that revolutionary. You wouldn’t be the first customer service professional to ask themselves if a chatbot is really any different than an IVR.

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10 Platforms With In-Built Smart IVR Systems

JustCall

Interactive Voice Response, or IVR, is necessary for every contact center. It serves as a round-the-clock virtual receptionist. The IVR is configured to lead the user to a self-help guide that answers their query, a human agent who can solve their problem, or a pre-recorded voice message.

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The Impact of and Opportunity for Virtual Agents on Call Center Outsourcers

Xaqt

All the while, Virtual Agents and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) threaten to eliminate much of the human capabilities that outsources have built their business on. Amazon, Google, Microsoft) and well-funded start-ups are selling the value proposition of bots, virtual agents and AI to their enterprise customers.

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Multimodal User Experience Design Best Practices

Uniphore

Unsurprisingly, sales of these multimodal assistants grew 30% in 2020, while voice-only assistants saw a 3% decline. Multimodal Virtual Agents allow customers to tap, text and talk to get more done , with little effort. How to build a smarter IVR with a multimodal user expereience. View Webinar.

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2023 Trends: AI for Better Agent & Customer Experiences

Upstream Works

AI applications will access the relevant pieces from a customer’s history – chat threads, previous orders, unresolved issues – and pull them up on the virtual agent desktop so everything is in one place. Virtual Agent. This is another form of automation.

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Beyond the AI Customer Service Hype: Practical Applications for Real Results

UJET

Predictive Routing Connects Customers to the Right Agent Faster. Without AI, customers often spend extra time navigating generic IVR (interactive voice response) menus. And when they aren’t connected to the right agent the first time, your agents have to spend valuable time redirecting calls.