UJET

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Don’t worry, we’re not suggesting you double your workforce; we’re suggesting you give your agents a virtual sidekick. Virtual Agents are designed to be your human agents’ Pippen or Harrison or Gehrig (pick your sport). What, Exactly, Are Virtual Agents? Intelligence Is a Matter of Features.

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Dialer 360

JANUARY 19, 2022

With this, organizations have started to implement self-service possibilities that are empowered by Artificial intelligence. Virtual agents. Relationship between virtual agents and Artificial intelligence. Working procedure of virtual agents. This is supported by virtual agents.

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Creative Virtual

JUNE 10, 2020

Chatbots, smart help, virtual assistants, virtual agents, conversational AI – there are lots of names for this automated, self-service technology being used today. You want to ask: How can I ensure my chatbot or virtual agent is: Providing accurate and personalised information?

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DMG Consulting

JUNE 1, 2022

DMG Consulting Releases 2022 – 2023 AI-Enabled Self-Service for the Enterprise Report. Essential and impactful tools in the AI-based service revolution. Who: DMG Consulting LLC, a leading provider of contact center and back-office market research and consulting services . When: Today, 1 June 2022.

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Creative Virtual

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Every year this not-for-profit organisation holds the HKCCA Symposium and the HKCCA Award Presentation and Gala Ceremony as part of their mission of advancing the contact centre industry. This was the fifth year we have attended the event as a solution partner of CTINT and Chris Ezekiel, Founder & CEO, has presented on the event theme.

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TechSee

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I’ll help myself, thanks: Called the Do-It-Yourself Generation, Millennials love self-service. Support the DIY culture: Focus on consumer enablement and empowerment through self-service. Self-service platforms. AI-powered virtual agents. Personalization. Know your customer.

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Creative Virtual

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For as long as virtual agents and chatbots have been used by companies to provide customer self-service, they have been criticised for removing the human touch from interactions and taking away the opportunity to build an emotional connection with customers. By Mandy Reed, Global Head of Marketing.

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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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Creative Virtual

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Back in 2013, V-Person technology became the first virtual agent offering to implement personalization – a recognition acknowledged both by the Patricia Seybold Group in their 2014 technology review and by the analysts at Gartner when they named Creative Virtual a 2015 Cool Vendor in Smart Machines.

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DMG Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2019

IVA Is the Future of Voice Self-Service. For customers and, increasingly, employees, IVAs can automate routine tasks and can process and personalize the handling of interactions in most self-service channels. By Donna Fluss. View this document on the publisher’s website. Revolutionizing IVRs. Email Address *.

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SmartAction

JANUARY 11, 2019

AI-powered virtual agents present significant potential to improve the customer experience (CX) via call center automation. Greet every customer with a natural language “front door” – “How can I help you?” – and capture intent before routing calls and chats to live agents, AI-powered virtual agents, or other automation.

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SmartAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The jump from traditional “press zero” to cutting-edge AI solutions presents both a thrilling opportunity and a daunting challenge in the customer service world. Choosing a self-service provider is more than a technical decision—it’s a commitment to your customers’ satisfaction and trust.

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SmartAction

MAY 23, 2019

This is the fifth of a five-part blog series that outlines the Five Best Practices for AI Self-Service Without Compromise. Use this guide to automate your contact center and Customer Experience (CX) with AI self-service in voice, chat, and text. Best Practice #5: Human-Centric Design from a team of CX Experts.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 6, 2022

This has opened up new possibilities for delivering multilingual customer self-service. For example, this year I’ve been working on several conversational AI projects with businesses taking advantage of machine translation to provide customer service in multiple languages.

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SmartAction

JUNE 9, 2023

Some notable examples include: Chatbots : Chatbots are AI-powered virtual agents, built in-house or by third-party vendors , that engage in text-based conversations with users. Chatbots and virtual agents may provide irrelevant or inaccurate responses. They are widely used in customer support, providing 24/7 assistance.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Generic ‘Chat Now’: Virtual Agent or Live Chat? Customers are more comfortable with and increasingly seeking out digital self-service options. Younger generations not only prefer self-service options but are also coming to expect intuitive self-service.

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SmartAction

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Employment Situation: Present & Past. With easily scalable virtual agents, hold times are eliminated. to self-service for over 100 types of interactions, from the most common to the most nuanced. A live agent deals with anything handled outside of self-service.

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SmartAction

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Personalization : A staggering 72% of consumers expect customer service to recognize their identity and purchasing history. Conversational AI, with its specific intents and data-driven capabilities, empowers virtual agents with readily available customer information, ensuring personalized interactions.

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Cisco - Contact Center

AUGUST 3, 2020

Cisco Webex Contact Center CCaaS honored for improving customer service technology and customer experience. I’m excited to announce that Webex Contact Center was among the 2020 Contact Center Technology Award winners, presented by CUSTOMER Magazine this month. Award Winner Second Year in a Row. Award Info.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Long wait times have been fuelled by a sharp rise in calls combined with the unpredictability of available agents due to office closures and quarantines. She advocates for letting self-help tools, such as virtual agents and chatbots, share the burden being felt by contact centres. Her conclusion?

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SmartAction

APRIL 30, 2021

While there are many different facets to conversational AI, virtual agents, and the technology as a whole, one aspect to recognize when considering and implementing a solution is customer experience. When it comes to intelligent virtual agents (IVA) , this ideology is ever-present.

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DMG Consulting

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

What goals can AI help them achieve: Enhancing self-service? Boosting agent engagement? Increasing agent productivity? The Challenge At present, there are limited third-party resources (outside of the technology providers) with experience building AI-based solutions. Reducing operating expenses?

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EPIC Connections

OCTOBER 20, 2017

The shared award was presented to both EPIC Connections and SmartAction recognizing a collaborative effort to serve inContact customers and share their omnichannel insight. The award was presented during inContact’s DEVone Conference last week in Salt Lake City, Utah. www.smartaction.ai.

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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

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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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

JUNE 2, 2020

Newer channels, such as messaging apps, have entered the mix and preferences are shifting more and more towards digital self-service as a first choice. Yet even with these changes, customers still sometimes want or need to reach out to a human agent in the contact centre.

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Creative Virtual

MARCH 27, 2023

CCW sported a hybrid concept, with all talks and product presentations available through live streams (and recordings after the event). The two top topics – Agent Assist and Voice Bots After years (decades?) The handover/routing of calls from bots to agents is an important ingredient in the requirements.

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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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TechSee

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Customer self-service refers to customer-initiated interaction technologies that enable customers to access information and perform routine tasks without requiring the assistance of a live customer service representative. Drivers for customer self-service.

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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI solves this problem by routing customers to the ideal customer service solutions quickly. 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. AI Streamlines Agent Training.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 27, 2022

These solutions include both tools designed specifically to support agents as well as customer-facing tools that create easier digital self-service. Offering 24/7 intelligent self-service options to customers alleviates pressure on busy contact centres by reducing the number of incoming contacts.

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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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UJET

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

AI solves this problem by routing customers to the ideal customer service solutions quickly. 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. AI Streamlines Agent Training.

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Creative Virtual

JULY 10, 2019

Our Founder & CEO, Chris Ezekiel’s opening keynote – Taking Your CX into the Future with Conversational AI – got the day started with a look at AI-enhanced chatbots, virtual agents and live chat. We had a number of attendees stop by the Creative Virtual table to see more live examples of chatbots and virtual agents.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Here’s our annual blog post roundup of trends, tips and stats to help you consistently deliver a five-star customer service experience: Top Tips for Implementing a Chatbot or Virtual Agent in 2019 – These eight tips address the most important items organisations should consider when evaluating and deploying chatbot or virtual agent technology.

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Creative Virtual

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Creative Virtual is pleased to again be a sponsor of the event, co-located with the AI & Robotics Conference , on 31st October. Together the two conferences will offer six streams of sessions and three keynote presentations. One of the keynote speakers is Liam Ryan , Sales Director at Creative Virtual.

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