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Preparing Your Contact Center for the Age of Virtual Agents

Taylor Reach Group

COVID-19 is making clear to US companies and other firms around the world the need for better cost management in the midst of uncertainty. 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.

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What Is an AI-powered Virtual Agent and What Can It Do?

SmartAction

These omnichannel solutions are known as AI-powered virtual agents. What is an AI-powered virtual agent? At the most basic level, an AI-powered virtual agent can do many things that a live agent can do. By doing so, companies upskill their live agents to do only what a human should do.

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Software as a Service vs. Managed Software as a Service

SmartAction

Software as a Service and Managed Software as a Service have their similarities, and that likeness is evident in their names. Yet the difference isn’t as simple as the additional word of “managed.” When it comes to configuring and managing the software, you are very much on your own. Scalability is simple.

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Giving Thanks for Operational Peace: The Unseen Heroes in BPO During the Holidays

Outsource Consultants

Specialization and Innovation: A New Era of Customer Support Gone are the days when outsourced call centers merely answered calls. Customers respond positively when the agent on the other end of the call gets their local context. It’s time to appreciate their role and also see if there’s room for growth.

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Implementing Virtual Agents: Where to Start, and How to Finish

Speaker: Brian Morin, CMO, SmartAction & Aarde Cosseboom, Director of GMS Technology and Product, TechStyle Fashion Group

The answer may surprise you - 75% of customers think that calling is the most effective way to get a response from you, which means your agents are spending potential 30 hours/week on repetitive calls instead of more complex issues that do require human judgment and critical thinking. Unsurprised? How TechStyle saved $1.1M

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Bilingual Customer Support: Where Live Agents and AI Coincide

BlueOcean

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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The opportunity for 3PL providers to transform shipper and carrier partnerships with AI

Netomi

of shippers now outsource their warehousing activities to 3PL providers 1 , 81% outsource domestic transportation 2 (which is the most common services outsourced 1 ), and 44% outsource freight forwarding 3. These virtual agents can also answer questions that arise during the process to increase conversion rates. .